201.09 Penalties.
(1) Any public service corporation, or any agent, director or officer of a public service corporation, who shall directly or indirectly, issue or cause to be issued, any securities for whose issuance a certificate is required contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or who shall apply the proceeds from the sale of the securities to any purpose other than that specified in the certificate of the commission, shall forfeit to the state not less than $500 nor more than $10,000 for each offense.
(2) Every director, president, secretary or other official or agent of any public service corporation, who shall practice fraud or knowingly make any false statement to secure a certificate of authority to issue any security, or issue under a certificate so obtained and with knowledge of such fraud, or false statement, or negotiate, or cause to be negotiated, any security, in violation of this chapter, is guilty of a Class I felony.
History: 1997 a. 140 s. 13; Stats. 1997 s. 200.09; 1997 a. 254, 283; 1999 a. 32; 1999 a. 150 s. 656; Stats. 1999 s. 201.09; 2001 a. 109.
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