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KRS 517.090

Issuing false financial statement

Effective: January 1, 1975 History: Created 1974 Ky

(1) A person is guilty of issuing a false financial statement when, with intent to defraud, he:

(a) Knowingly makes or utters a written instrument which purports to describe the financial condition or ability to pay of himself or of some other person and which is inaccurate in some material respect; or (b) Represents in writing that a written instrument purporting to describe a person's financial condition or ability to pay as of a prior date is accurate with respect to that person's financial condition or ability to pay, knowing the instrument to be materially inaccurate in that respect.

(2) Issuing a false financial statement is a Class A misdemeanor.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.