§ 17-10-122 — Inducing breach of marketing contract or spreading false reports of finances or management; penalty

Any person who, or any corporation whose officers or employees
knowingly induces or attempts to induce any member or
stockholder of an association organized hereunder to breach his
marketing contract with the association, or who maliciously and
knowingly spreads false reports about the finances or management
thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine
of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and not more
than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), for each such offense and
shall be liable to the association aggrieved in a civil suit in
the penal sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each such
offense; provided, that this section shall not apply to a bona
fide creditor of such association, or the agent or attorney of
any such bona fide creditor, endeavoring to make collections of
the indebtedness.