5 Del. C. § 928

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§ Â 928. Penalty for representing or holding oneself out as engaged in business of receiving deposits or of a trust company.

Official statutory text

(a) Any person, firm, or association of individuals or any agent or official of any corporation or other person who in any manner represents or holds out one’s self, whether by public advertisement, placard, handbill or otherwise, as engaged in the receipt of deposits of money as a savings fund, bank or trust company or any business substantially similar thereto within the boundaries of the State, or as engaged in the business of a trust company within the boundaries of the State, not being authorized under this Code or any other laws of this State to engage in such business or any business substantially similar thereto, shall be fined $1,000 per day in accordance with § 143 of this title, except that § 143(c) of this title shall not apply. In addition, any such person or agent or official of any such corporation, firm or association of individuals may be imprisoned not more than 1 year.

(b) When the name of any person or persons, firm, association or corporation appears in or on any handbill, placard, advertisement or other representation advertising or holding out such person, firm, association or corporation as engaged in the business of receiving deposits of money within the boundaries of the State, or as engaged in the business of a trust company within the boundaries of the State, it shall be prima facie evidence of its presence there by the authority and with the knowledge of such person, firm, association or corporation and of the officers and representatives in this State of the corporation or other person.

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