imprisonment. [New section added May 27, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 1302.]

§ 499a. Stealing electricity misdemeanor. Every person who shall willfully, and knowingly with intent to injure or defraud, make or cause to be made any connection in any manner whatsoever with any electric wire or electric appliance of any character whatsoever operated by any person, persons or corporation authorized to generate, transmit and sell electric current, or who shall so willfully and knowingly with intent to injure or defraud, use or cause to be used any such connection in such manner as to supply any electric current for heat or light or power to any electric lamp, or apparatus or device, by or at which electric current for heat or light or power is consumed or otherwise used or wasted, without passing through a meter for the measuring and registering of the quantity passing through such electric wire or apparatus, or who shall, knowingly and with like intent injure, alter or procure to be injured or altered any electric meter, or obstruct its working, or procure the same to be tampered with or injured, or use or cause to be used any electric meter, or appliance so tampered with or injured, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. [Amendment approved April 20, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 150.]

§ 504a. Fraudulent removal of leased property embezzlement. Every person who shall fraudulently remove, conceal or dispose of any goods, chattels or effects, leased or let to him by any instrument in writing, or any personal property or effects of another in his possession, under a contract of purchase not yet fulfilled, and any person in possession of such goods, chattels, or effects knowing them to be subject to such lease or contract of purchase who shall so remove, conceal or dispose of the same with intent to injure or defraud the lessor or owner thereof, is guilty of embezzlement. [New section added May 5, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 273.]

§ 506. When contractor, etc., guilty of embezzlement. Every trustee, banker, merchant, broker, attorney, agent, assignee in trust, executor, administrator, or collector, or person otherwise intrusted with or having in his control property for the use of any other person, who fraudulently appropriates it to any use or purpose not in the due and lawful execution of his trust, or secretes it with a fraudulent intent to appropriate it to such use or purpose, and any con

tractor who appropriates money paid to him for any use or purpose, other than for that which he received it, is guilty of embezzlement, and the payment of laborers and materialmen for work performed or material furnished in the performance of any contract is hereby declared to be the use and purpose to which the contract price of such contract, or any part thereof, received by the contractor shall be applied. [Amendment approved May 27, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 1090.]

§ 506a. Collector defined. Any person who, acting as collector, or acting in any capacity in or about a business conducted for the collection of accounts or debts owing by another person, and who violates the provisions of section five hundred six of the Penal Code, shall be deemed to be an agent or person as defined in said section five hundred six of the Penal Code, and subject for a violation of the provisions of said section five hundred six of the Penal Code, to be prosecuted, tried, and punished in accordance therewith and with law; and the word collector herein set forth shall also include and be held to mean every such person who collects, or who has in his possession or under his control property or money for the use of any other person, whether in his own name and mixed with his own property or money, or otherwise, or whether he has any interest, direct or indirect, in or to such property or money, or any portion thereof, and who fraudulently appropriates to his own use, or the use of any person other than the true owner, or person entitled thereto, or secretes such property or money, or any portion thereof, or interest therein not his own, with a fraudulent intent to appropriate it to any use or purpose not in the due and lawful execution of his trust. [New section added May 24, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 931.]

§ 532a. False financial statements. Any person—

(1) Making false statement of financial condition. Who shall knowingly make or cause to be made, either directly or indirectly or through any agency whatsoever, any false statement in writing, with intent that it shall be relied upon, respecting the financial condition, or means or ability to pay, of himself, or any other person, firm or corporation, in whom he is interested, or for whom he is acting, for the purpose of procuring in any form whatsoever, either the delivery of personal property, the payment of cash, the making of a loan or credit, the extension of a credit, the execution of a contract of guaranty or suretyship, the dis

count of an account receivable, or the making, acceptance, discount, sale or indorsement of a bill of exchange, or promissory note, for the benefit of either himself or of such person, firm or corporation; or

(2) Benefiting by false statement. Who knowing that a false statement in writing has been made, respecting the financial condition or means or ability to pay, of himself, or such person, firm or corporation in which he is interested, or for whom he is acting, procures, upon the faith thereof, for the benefit either of himself, or of such person, firm or corporation, either or any of the things of benefit mentioned in the first subdivision of this section; or

(3) Reaffirming false statement. Penalty. Who knowing that a statement in writing has been made, respecting the financial condition or means or ability to pay of himself or such person, firm or corporation, in which he is interested, or for whom he is acting, represents on a later day in writing that such statement theretofore made, if then again made on said day, would be then true, when in fact, said statement if then made would be false, and procures upon the faith thereof, for the benefit either of himself or of such person, firm or corporation either or any of the things of benefit mentioned in the first subdivision of this section; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. [Amendment approved April 30, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 277.]

§ 537. Defrauding innkeepers, etc. Any person who obtains any food or accommodation at an hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding-house, lodging-house, or furnished apartment house without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor or manager thereof, or who obtains credit at an hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding-house, lodging-house, or furnished apartment house by the use of any false pretense, or who, after obtaining credit, food or accommodation at an hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding-house, lodging-house, or furnished apartment house absconds or surreptitiously removes his baggage therefrom without paying for his food or accommodations is guilty of a misdemeanor. [Amendment approved April 30, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 240.]

§ 537d. Removing automobile subject to lien misdemeanor. Any person who surreptitiously or by false pretenses obtains or removes from any garage or repair shop

any automobile or other personal property upon which the proprietor or manager thereof would be entitled to a lien, pursuant to the provisions of section three thousand fiftyone of the Civil Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [New section added May 7, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 291.]

§ 561. Frauds by bank officers, etc. An officer, director, agent, teller, clerk or employee of any bank, who, either,

1. Knowingly overdraws his account with such bank and thereby obtains the money, notes or funds of any such bank;

or

2. Asks for, receives, or consents or agrees to receive, any commission, emolument, gratuity or reward, or any promise of any commission, emolument, gratuity or reward, or any money, property or thing of value or of personal advantage for procuring or endeavoring to procure for any person, firm or corporation, any loan from, or the purchase or discount of any paper, note, draft, check or bill of exchange by any such bank, or for permitting any person, firm or corporation to withdraw any account with such bank. is guilty of a felony. [Amendment approved May 17, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 579.]

§ 561a. Any officer, director, trustee, employee or agent of any bank in this state, who abstracts or willfully misapplies any of the money, funds or property of such bank, or willfully misapplies its credit, is guilty of a felony. Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to repeal, amend or impair any existing provision of law prescribing a punishment for any such offense. [New section added May 17, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 579.]

§ 561b. Frauds by director of bank. Every director of a bank in this state who

1. In case of the fraudulent insolvency of such bank, shall have participated in such fraud; or

2. Willfully does any act as such director which is expressly forbidden by law or willfully omits to perform any duty imposed upon him as such director by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

The insolvency of a bank is deemed fraudulent unless its affairs appear upon investigation to have been administered clearly, legally and with the same care and diligence that agents receiving a compensation for their services are bound, by law, to observe. [New section added May 17, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 579.]

§ 561c. Guaranty in sum beyond legal amount. An officer or agent of any bank in this state, who makes or delivers any guaranty or indorsement on behalf of such bank, whereby it may become liable upon any of its discounted notes, bills or obligations, in a sum beyond the amount of loans and discounts which such bank may legally make, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [New section added May 17, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 580.]

§ 561d. Loan to director. Deposit with corporation to make loan. Concealing accounts or loans. A director of a bank, organized under the laws of this state, who concurs in any vote or act of the directors of such corporation, or any of them, by which it is intended to make a loan or discount to any director of such corporation, or upon paper upon which any such director is liable or responsible to an amount exceeding the amount allowed by the statutes; or

Any director, trustee, officer or employee of any such bank who makes or maintains, or attempts to make or maintain, a deposit of such bank's funds with any other corporation on condition, or with the understanding, express or implied, that the corporation receiving such deposit make a loan or advance, directly or indirectly, to any director, trustee, officer or employee of the corporation so making or maintaining or attempting to make or maintain such deposit; or

Any officer or employee of any such bank who intentionally conceals from the directors or trustees of such bank any discounts or loans made by it between the regular meetings of its board of directors or trustees, or the purchase of any securities or the sale of its securities during the same period, or knowingly fails to report to the board of directors or trustees when required to do so by law, all discounts or loans made by it and all securities purchased or sold by it between the regular meetings of its board of directors or trustees, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Nothing in this section shall render any loan made by the directors of any bank, in violation thereof, invalid. [New section added May 17, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 580.]

$563a. False entry. Any officer, director, trustee, employee or agent of any bank organized under the laws of this state, who makes a false or untrue entry in any book or any report, tag or statement, of the business, affairs or condition, in whole or in part, of such corporation, with intent to deceive any officer, director or trustee thereof, or any agent or examiner, private or official, employed or law