1997 Florida Code
TITLE XLVI CRIMES
Chapter 817 Fraudulent Practices
PART I FALSE PRETENSES AND FRAUDS, GENERALLY (ss. 817.02-817.567)
817.20 Issuing stock or obligation of corporation beyond authorized amount.
817.20 Issuing stock or obligation of corporation beyond authorized amount.--Any officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation, or any other person, who issues, or signs with intent to issue, any certificate of stock in a corporation, or who issues, signs or endorses with intent to issue any bond, note, bill or other obligation or security in the name of such corporation, beyond the amount authorized by law, or limited by the legal votes of such corporation or its proper officers; or negotiates, transfers or disposes of such certificate, with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
History.--s. 45, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2469; GS 3330; RGS 5170; CGL 7273; s. 854, ch. 71-136.
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