§ 5-594.7. Prohibited acts; penalties

   (a) False statements or reports -- Applications or documents. -- A person may not knowingly make or cause any false statement or report to be made in any application or in any document furnished to the State Department of Education under this part.

(b) False statements or reports -- To influence action of State Department of Education. -- A person may not knowingly make or cause any false statement or report to be made for the purpose of influencing the action of the State Department of Education on an application for a direct incentive grant or for the purpose of influencing any action of the State Department of Education affecting a direct incentive grant whether or not such a grant may have already been awarded.

(c) Penalties. -- Any person or any aider or abettor who violates any provision of this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $ 1,000 or imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding 1 year or both.

HISTORY: 2002, ch. 256; 2006, ch. 463.