Any banker, officer, employee, director or agent of any state bank who shall knowingly or wilfully neglect to perform any duty required by law, where no other penalty is provided or who shall fail to conform to any lawful requirement made by the department of bank supervision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00 or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. And each officer or employee of the department of bank supervision who shall wilfully fail to perform any duty required by law, where no other penalty is prescribed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00 or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 81 - Banks and Financial Institutions
Chapter 5 - General Provisions Relating to Banks and Banking
§ 81-5-2. Private corporation laws; application to state banks
§ 81-5-3. Bank not to permit use of its name
§ 81-5-5. Local and regional banks for farm loans authorized
§ 81-5-7. Preservation of old records
§ 81-5-9. Banks shall become members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
§ 81-5-11. State banks may become members of Federal Reserve Bank
§ 81-5-13. Federal Reserve Act requirements must be observed
§ 81-5-15. Officers and employees of banks to furnish fidelity bond; insurance
§ 81-5-17. Bank stock; transfer and use as collateral
§ 81-5-19. Stock; record of transfer of to be kept
§ 81-5-21. Stock of other banks not to be owned
§ 81-5-23. Preferred stock; issuance authorized
§ 81-5-25. Investments in stock of small business investment companies
§ 81-5-27. Liability of stockholders
§ 81-5-29. Corporations may be formed to purchase, hold and own bank assets
§ 81-5-31. Voting trusts prohibited
§ 81-5-33. Powers in regard to trusts
§ 81-5-34. Accounts of administrators, executors, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries
§ 81-5-39. Banks may register securities held in fiduciary capacity in name of bank's nominee
§ 81-5-41. Foreign investors may engage in certain activities without qualifying
§ 81-5-45. Qualification and oath of directors; meetings; executive and auditing committee
§ 81-5-47. Directors may contract to sell stock while continuing to serve
§ 81-5-49. Interlocking directorates prohibited
§ 81-5-51. Loans to directors and executive officers
§ 81-5-53. Limitation of liability when dealing with agents, trustees, etc.
§ 81-5-56. Month and year checking account opened to be printed on face of checks
§ 81-5-57. Excess deposits; limit and penalty
§ 81-5-61. Safe deposit boxes; leasing to minors
§ 81-5-62. Accounts payable at death
§ 81-5-65. Accounts of deceased depositors to be reported; publicity of same
§ 81-5-67. Settlement of adverse claims to deposits
§ 81-5-75. Authorization for payment of dividend
§ 81-5-77. Limit of loans and extensions of credit to single borrower
§ 81-5-81. Effect of third-party deposits to induce making of unsound loans
§ 81-5-83. Limit of borrowing power of banks
§ 81-5-87. Holding of real estate by bank
§ 81-5-89. Limitations upon acceptances
§ 81-5-93. Clearinghouse associations authorized
§ 81-5-95. Powers of clearinghouse associations
§ 81-5-98. Drive-in teller windows and branch offices considered to be branch banks