§ 22001

Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.

Every director, officer, or agent of any joint stock association is guilty of a felony who knowingly concurs in making, publishing, or posting either generally or privately to the stockholders or other persons, any written report, exhibit, or statement of its affairs or pecuniary condition, or book or notice containing any material statement which is false, or any untrue or wilfully or fraudulently exaggerated report, prospectus, account, statement of operations, values, business, profits, expenditures, or prospects, or any other paper or document intended to produce or give, or having a tendency to produce or give, the shares of stock in such association a greater value or a less apparent or market value than they really possess.

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