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2025 Texas Statutes
Finance Code
Title 3 - Financial Institutions and Businesses
Subtitle B - Savings and Loan Associations
Chapter 89 - Miscellaneous Provisions Applicable to Savings and Loan Associations
Subchapter C. Offenses and Penalties
Section 89.101. Criminal Slander

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TX Fin Code § 89.101 (2025)
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Sec. 89.101. CRIMINAL SLANDER. (a) A person commits an offense if the person:

(1) knowingly makes, utters, circulates, or transmits to another person a statement that is untrue and derogatory to the financial condition of an association; or

(2) with intent to injure an association counsels, aids, procures, or induces another person to originate, make, utter, transmit, or circulate a statement or rumor that is untrue and derogatory to the financial condition of the association.

(b) An offense under Subsection (a) is a state jail felony.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1008, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Amended by:

Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 25.062, eff. September 1, 2009.

Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 464 (S.B. 1008), Sec. 8, eff. September 1, 2013.

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