Cal. FIN § 1339
This is the official text of Cal. FIN § 1339, part of California’s Financial Code — regulates banks, credit unions, lenders, and other financial institutions.
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Official statutory text
Any officer, director, trustee, employee, or agent of any bank, who willfully makes a false or untrue entry in any book or record or in any report, tag, or statement of the business, affairs, or condition or in connection with any transaction of the bank, with intent to deceive any officer, director or trustee thereof, or any agent or examiner, private or official, employed or lawfully appointed to examine into its condition or into any of its affairs or transactions, or any public officer, office, or board to which the bank is required by law to report, or which has authority by law to examine into its affairs or transactions, or into any of its affairs or transactions, or who, with like intent, willfully omits to make a new entry of any matter particularly pertaining to the business, property, condition, affairs, transactions, assets, or accounts of the bank in any book, record, report, statement, or tag of the bank, or who with like intent alters, abstracts, conceals, or destroys any book, record, report, statement, or tag of the bank made, written, or kept, or required to be made, written, or kept by him or her or under his or her direction, is guilty of a felony.
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