Section 40
SEC. 40. Inducing breach of marketing contract; spreading false reports about the finances or management thereof.—Any person who knowingly induces or attempts to induce any member of an association organized hereunder to breach his marketing contract with the association, or who maliciously and knowingly spreads false reports about the finances or management thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred pesos and not more than five hundred pesos for each such offense; and shall be liable for damages to the association aggrieved in a civil suit in the sum of not more than five hundred pesos for each such offense.