Overdrafts. A. Liability for violation of bank and trust laws. Any director, officer or other person who shall knowingly participate in any violation of the laws of this state, relative to banks and banking and trust companies, shall be liable for all damages which the corporation, its stockholders, depositors, creditors or owners of trust funds shall sustain in consequence of such violation; and upon proper showing that any director or directors knowingly assented to, participated in, acquiesced in after failure to make due inquiry, or caused a loan to be made in excess of the amounts prescribed in Article VIII of this Code such director or directors shall be individually liable for the amount of such loan and shall be required to eliminate the same from the assets of the bank upon the request of the Commissioner. B. Liability for overdrafts. Any bank officer or employee who shall knowingly, willfully and fraudulently, for the purpose of defrauding the bank, pay out of the funds of said bank upon the check, order or draft of any individual, firm, corporation or association, which has not on deposit with such bank a sum equal to such check, order or draft, shall be personally liable to such a bank for the amount so paid and such liability shall be covered by his official bond. C. After August 9, 1989, no claim or action seeking to recover money damages shall be brought by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Resolution Trust Corporation or other federal banking regulatory agency against any director or officer, including any former director or officer, of any insured financial depository institution as defined in the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 unless such claim or action arises out of the gross negligence, or willful or intentional misconduct of such officer or director during his term of office with such insured financial institution. Added by Laws 1965, c. 161, § 712. Amended by Laws 1977, c. 208, § 11, emerg. eff. June 14, 1977; Laws 1988, c. 166, § 7, emerg. eff. May 24, 1988; Laws 1992, c. 295, § 28, eff. July 1, 1992.
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