Louisiana § RS 6:420 - False entries or reports; failure to exhibit books; reporting of criminal violations

§ RS 6:420. False entries or reports; failure to exhibit books; reporting of criminal violations

A.  No director, officer, or employee of any state bank shall knowingly make false entries or knowingly omit and neglect to make proper entries in any of the books of the bank for the purpose of deceiving the commissioner, the board of directors, or the public concerning the true condition of the bank.

B.  No director, officer, or employee of any state bank shall knowingly concur in the making or publication of any false written report or false statement of its affairs or pecuniary condition or, having the custody and control of its books, refuse to exhibit or allow to be exhibited the books and records for inspection by the commissioner or any of his examiners.  No director shall knowingly make or cause to be made any false entry on its books with intent to deceive or, having the custody and control of its books, willfully refuse or neglect to make any proper entry in the books of the bank.

C.  No director, officer, or employee of any state bank shall knowingly fail or omit to file any report required by the provisions of this law.

D.  If requested by the commissioner, each state-chartered financial institution, trust company, and money transmission or sale of checks licensee shall provide the Office of Financial Institutions with information relating to any report of suspicious activity a state-chartered entity may be required by federal law or regulation to submit to any federal agency.  A state-chartered financial institution, trust company, or money transmission or sale of checks licensee shall incur no liability to its customer for compliance with the reporting requirements imposed herein or with the reporting requirements imposed by any federal law or regulation.

E.  The commissioner in his sole discretion may refer to the attorney general or the district attorney of the appropriate jurisdiction any suspicious activity reported pursuant to this Section for further proceedings.

F.  Any person who violates this Section shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars.

Acts 1984, No. 719, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985; Acts 1986, No. 4, §1; Acts 1997, No. 42, §1; Acts 2008, No. 345, §1, eff. June 21, 2008.