§ 506

Embezzlement by trustees, agents, and contractors

See penalty details+ Property Crimes Title 13, Ch. 6 · Embezzlement

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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 contractor 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.

History: Amended by Stats. 1919, Ch. 518.

Simplified explanation

Trustees, agents, executors, collectors and others entrusted with property who fraudulently take or hide it, and contractors who divert money paid to them, are guilty of embezzlement; no punishment is stated here.