If any agent or person having charge or control of any property of a corporation, or any clerk, cashier, or other officer of a corporation, who has at the time the custody of the books of the company, or if any agent or person having custody of any evidence of debt due to a corporation, shall, on request of a public officer having in his hands for service an execution against the said corporation, willfully refuse to give to such officer the names of the directors and officers thereof, and a schedule of all its property, including debts due or to become due, or shall willfully refuse to give to such officer a certificate of the number of shares, or amount of interest held by such corporation in any other corporation, or shall willfully refuse to deliver to such officer any evidence of indebtedness due or to become due to such corporation, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-324.5
Violations of three preceding sections misdemeanor
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 197 N.C. App. 386 - INSULATION SYSTEMS, INC. v. Fisher (2009)
Most recently applied in 197 N.C. App. 386 - INSULATION SYSTEMS, INC. v. Fisher (June 2009)
1901, c. 2, ss. 67, 68, 70; Rev., s. 3690; C.S., s. 1205; 1955, c. 1371, s. 2; 1993, c. 539, s. 1; 1994, Ex
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