{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-45-2-1716","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 45-2-1716","heading":"Appropriation of property, false entries, or refusal to make reports","body":"(a) Any director, officer, or employee of any bank commits a Class C misdemeanor who: (1) Knowingly receives or possesses any of the bank's property, otherwise than in payment for a just demand, or with intent to defraud, and omits to make, or causes the omission of, a full and true entry thereof in its books and accounts; (2) Concurs in omitting to make any material entry in its books or accounts; or (3) Knowingly by letterhead, newspaper advertisement, or otherwise represents its capital stock to be in excess of the actual capital paid in, or knowingly concurs in making or publishing any written report, exhibit, or statement of its affairs or pecuniary conditions, making any material statement that is false and by which the bank is made to appear in better condition than it really is, or knowingly omits or concurs in omitting any statement required by law. (b) This section shall not be construed to conflict with § 39-14-103 . Acts 1969, ch. 36, § 1 (3.615); T.C.A., § 45-1116; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113; 1996, ch. 675, § 46.\n(a) Any director, officer, or employee of any bank commits a Class C misdemeanor who: (1) Knowingly receives or possesses any of the bank's property, otherwise than in payment for a just demand, or with intent to defraud, and omits to make, or causes the omission of, a full and true entry thereof in its books and accounts; (2) Concurs in omitting to make any material entry in its books or accounts; or (3) Knowingly by letterhead, newspaper advertisement, or otherwise represents its capital stock to be in excess of the actual capital paid in, or knowingly concurs in making or publishing any written report, exhibit, or statement of its affairs or pecuniary conditions, making any material statement that is false and by which the bank is made to appear in better condition than it really is, or knowingly omits or concurs in omitting any statement required by law.\n(1) Knowingly receives or possesses any of the bank's property, otherwise than in payment for a just demand, or with intent to defraud, and omits to make, or causes the omission of, a full and true entry thereof in its books and accounts;\n(2) Concurs in omitting to make any material entry in its books or accounts; or\n(3) Knowingly by letterhead, newspaper advertisement, or otherwise represents its capital stock to be in excess of the actual capital paid in, or knowingly concurs in making or publishing any written report, exhibit, or statement of its affairs or pecuniary conditions, making any material statement that is false and by which the bank is made to appear in better condition than it really is, or knowingly omits or concurs in omitting any statement required by law.\n(b) This section shall not be construed to conflict with § 39-14-103 .","path":["TN Code","Title 45","Chapter 2"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"1ad892195a48aa5848e0d61de2d6de1e91537a0c9e0d27e57c13745516926375","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-45-2-1715","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-45-2-1717","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}