§ 2006 -   False statement as to financial ability

§ 2006. False statement as to financial ability

A person shall not knowingly make to a person, company or corporation, or to a commercial agency, a false statement in writing signed by himself, herself or by his or her direction, with intent that it shall be relied upon, respecting his or her financial condition, or the financial ability to pay of himself, herself or other person, company or corporation in which he or she is financially interested or by which he is employed as manager, secretary or superintendent, for the purpose of procuring in any form the delivery of personal property, the payment of cash, the making of a loan or credit, the extension of a credit, the discount of an account receivable, or the making, acceptance, discount, sale or indorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, for the benefit of himself, herself or such other person, company or corporation.