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214 or others, any false statement, rumor or suggestion, written, printed, or by word of mouth, which directly or by inference derogatory to the financial condition or affects the solvency or financial standing of any annuity, safe deposit, surety, or trust company, now existing under the laws of this state or hereafter organized, or who shall counsel, aid, procure or induce another to start, transmit or circulate false statement, or rumor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and in addition thereto shall be liable in damages to such corporation, or the receiver thereof, to be recovered in a civil action brought for that purpose.

Approved March 11, 1931.

An Act to constitute the operation or the attempt to operate any automatic vending machine, coin-box telephone, slot machine, or other like receptable by means of a slug, token, device, or trick, or the manufacture and disposition of any such slug or device, a misdemeanor.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. Any person who shall operate, or cause to be operated, or who shall attempt to operate, or attempt to cause to be operated any automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, by means of a slug or any false, counterfeited, mutilated, sweated or foreign coin, or by any means, method, trick or device whatsoever not lawfully authorized by the owner, lessee or licensee of such machine, coin-box telephone or receptacle, or who shall take, obtain or receive from or in connection with any automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, any goods, wares, merchandise, gas, electric current, article of value, or the use or enjoyment of any telephone or telegraph facilities or service, or of any musical instrument, phonograph or other property, without depositing in and surrendering to such machine, coin-box telephone or receptacle lawful coin of the United States of America to the amount required therefor by the owner, lessee or licensee of such machine, coin-box telephone or receptacle, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.