KRS 434.310: Spreading false rumors regarding solvency of financial institutions.

Any person who willfully and maliciously makes, circulates or transmits to others any

false statement, rumor or suggestion, written, printed or by word of mouth, which is

directly or by inference derogatory to the financial condition or affects the solvenc y of

any bank or trust company doing business in the state, any foreign or domestic insurance

company or any savings and loan association doing business in this state, or who

counsels, aids, procures, or induces another to start, transmit or circulate any such

statement or rumor shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than

one thousand dollars ($1,000), or imprisoned for not less than twenty (20) nor more than

one hundred (100) days, or both.