§ 6-08-15 — Slander or libel of bank or credit union - Safe deposit, annuity, surety, or trust company - Aiding or abetting - Penalty - Liability for damages

trust company - Aiding or abetting - Penalty - Liability for damages.
Any person who willfully and maliciously makes, circulates, or transmits to another or to
others, any false statement, rumor, or suggestion, written, printed, or by word of mouth, which
directly or by inference is derogatory to the financial condition, or which affects the solvency or
financial standing, of any state or national bank, of any state or federal credit union, or of any
annuity, safe deposit, surety, or trust company authorized to do business in this state, or who
counsels, aids, procures, or induces another to start, transmit, or circulate any such false
statement or rumor, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor, and in addition thereto is liable in
damages to such association, or corporation, or the receiver thereof, to be recovered in a civil
action brought for that purpose.