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Tex. Finance Code § 199.001: SLANDER OR LIBEL OF STATE TRUST COMPANY.
Where this section sits in the code
- FINANCE CODE
- TITLE 3. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND BUSINESSES
- SUBTITLE F. TRUST COMPANIES
- CHAPTER 199. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
(a) A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) knowingly makes, circulates, or transmits to another person an untrue statement that is derogatory to the financial condition of a state trust company located in this state; or
(2) intentionally, to injure the state trust company, counsels, aids, procures, or induces another person to knowingly make, circulate, or transmit to another person an untrue statement that is derogatory to the financial condition of a state trust company located in this state.
(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 7.16(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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