(a) Any association or savings and loan holding company which knowingly violates any provisions of Sections 34-28-310 through 34-28-390, or any regulation or order issued by the Board pursuant to these sections is guilty of a misdemeanor and must, upon conviction, be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each day during which the violation continues. Any individual who wilfully participates in a violation of these sections, or any regulation or order of the Board issued pursuant to the provisions of these sections is guilty of a misdemeanor and must, upon conviction, be fined not more than five thousand dollars. Any officer, director, agent, or employee of an association, service corporation, or savings and loan holding company who makes any false entry in any book, report, record, or statement of an association, service corporation, or savings and loan holding company with the intent to deceive, or who with like intent wilfully omits to make a true entry of any material pertaining to the business of the association, service corporation, or savings and loan holding company in any book, report, record, or statement of the association, service corporation, or savings and loan holding company made or kept by him or under his direction, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(b) In the event any association or savings and loan holding company consummates an acquisition that is prohibited by these sections, the Board shall require the association or savings and loan holding company to divest itself within two years of its direct or indirect ownership or control of all South Carolina associations or South Carolina savings and loan holding companies. In addition, the Board has the power to enforce any other requirements or prohibitions in these sections by requiring divestitures of nonconforming associations and savings and loan holding companies or through the exercise of other remedies as are provided in this title or otherwise by law, including but not limited to injunctive or other judicial actions.

HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 124, Section 1.