§792. Misdescriptions of assets; false entries

A.(1) No association by any system of accounting or any device of bookkeeping shall, either directly or indirectly, enter any of its assets upon its books in the name of any other person, partnership, association, or corporation or under any title or designation that is not truly descriptive of such assets.

(2) No officer or employee of any association shall knowingly make false entries in any of the books of the association or knowingly omit and neglect to make proper entries in the books of the association, or concerning any of its assets, for the purpose of deceiving the commissioner, the board of directors, or the public, concerning the true condition of the association, or concealing any crime that might have been committed in connection with the affairs of the association.

B.(1) No person in the course of his employment with or for an association, or in connection with any business or affairs in which an association is concerned, shall forge, counterfeit, or falsely make or alter, or shall procure to be made or assist in falsely making, altering, or counterfeiting any public or private record, any certificate or attestation of any public officer, in any manner wherein his certificate or attestation is receivable, and may be taken as legal proof, any charter, deed, will, testament, bond, letter of attorney, policy of insurance, bill of exchange, promissory note, order, acquittance, discharge for or upon the payment of money or delivery of goods, any acceptance of a bill of exchange, or any endorsement or assignment thereof, or promissory note for the payment of money, any receipt for money or goods, or for any note, bill, security, money, or goods.

(2) No such person shall, with intent to injure or defraud any person, alter or publish as true any such false, altered, forged, or counterfeited record, certificate, attestation, charter, deed, will, testament, bond, letter of attorney, policy of insurance, bill of exchange, promissory note, acceptance, assignment, order, acquittance, discharge, or receipt, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited.

C. In all cases where any officer or employee of any association has knowingly made false entries or has omitted to make correct entries as set forth in this Part, all of these charges may be embraced in one general indictment, giving each separate offense under a different count, so that at the trial of the case the entire evidence may be admitted concerning all of such cases.

D. Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars, or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than six months nor more than five years, or both.

Acts 1970, No. 234, §1. Acts 1983, No. 675, §1.