§ 11-41-3. Embezzlement and fraudulent conversion.
Every official of a financial institution and every officer, agent, clerk, servant,
or other person to whom any money or other property shall be entrusted for any specific
purpose, and every person acting as executor, administrator, conservator, guardian,
receiver, assignee, custodian, or trustee appointed by order, decree or judgment of
court, or by deed, will or other instrument in writing, who shall embezzle or fraudulently
convert to his or her own use, or who shall take or secrete, with intent to embezzle
or fraudulently convert to his or her own use, any money or other property which shall
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§ 11-41-3. Embezzlement and fraudulent conversion.
Every official of a financial institution and every officer, agent, clerk, servant,
or other person to whom any money or other property shall be entrusted for any specific
purpose, and every person acting as executor, administrator, conservator, guardian,
receiver, assignee, custodian, or trustee appointed by order, decree or judgment of
court, or by deed, will or other instrument in writing, who shall embezzle or fraudulently
convert to his or her own use, or who shall take or secrete, with intent to embezzle
or fraudulently convert to his or her own use, any money or other property which shall
have come into his or her possession or shall be under his or her care or charge by
virtue of his or her employment or for that specific purpose or by virtue of his or
her acting as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, receiver, assignee,
custodian, or trustee, and every person who shall collect or receive money or property
from another for a commission to be retained out of the money or other property so
collected or received, and who shall fraudulently retain out of that money or property
so collected or received more than the amount of the commission, and shall embezzle
or fraudulently convert it to his or her own use, or shall take or secrete it with
intent to embezzle or fraudulently to convert the same to his or her own use, shall
be deemed guilty of larceny and shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars
($50,000) or three (3) times the value of the money or property thus embezzled or
converted, whichever is greater, or imprisoned not more than twenty (20) years, or
both, except that if the sum or value of the property embezzled is less than one hundred
dollars ($100), he or she shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000),
or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.