73 - Misdemeanor to spread false reports about the finances or management thereof.

§  73.  Misdemeanor  to  spread  false  reports  about the finances or  management thereof. Any person who  maliciously  and  knowingly  spreads  false  reports  about  the  finances  or  management  or activity of any  cooperative corporation incorporated under or subject to this chapter or  organized under a similar statute of another  state,  and  operating  in  this  state under due authority, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be  subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than  one thousand dollars for each such offense; and shall be liable  to  the  corporation  aggrieved  in a civil suit in the penal sum of five hundred  dollars for each such offense.