TITLE 11
Criminal Offenses
CHAPTER 11-49
Credit Card Crime Act
SECTION 11-49-3
§ 11-49-3 Theft Obtaining credit
card through fraudulent means.
(a) Theft by taking or retaining possession of card taken. A person who
takes a credit card from the person, possession, custody, or control of another
without the cardholder's consent, or who, with knowledge that it has been so
taken, receives the credit card with intent to use it, to sell it, or to
transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder, is guilty of
credit card theft and is subject to the penalties set forth in §
11-49-10(a). Taking a credit card without consent includes obtaining it by
conduct defined or known as statutory larceny, common law larceny by
trespassory taking, common law larceny by trick or embezzlement, or obtaining
property by false pretense, false promise, or extortion.
(b) Theft of credit card lost, mislaid or delivered by
mistake. A person who receives a credit card that he or she knows to have
been lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the identity or address
of the cardholder and who retains possession with intent to use it, to sell it,
or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder, is
guilty of credit card theft and is subject to the penalties set forth in §
11-49-10(a).
(c) Purchase or sale of credit card of another. A
person other than the issuer who sells a credit card, or a person who buys a
credit card from a person other than the issuer, violates this subsection and
is subject to the penalties set forth in § 11-49-10(a).
(d) Obtaining control of credit card as security for
debt. A person who, with intent to defraud the issuer, a person or
organization providing money, goods, services, or anything else of value, or
any other person, obtains control over a credit card as security for debt
violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in §
11-49-10(a).
(e) Dealing in credit cards of another. A person other
than the issuer who during any twelve (12) month period receives two (2) or
more credit cards issued in the name or names of different cardholders, which
he or she has reason to know were taken or retained under circumstances which
constitute credit card theft or a violation of this law, violates this
subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in § 11-49-10(b).
(f) Forgery of credit card. A person who, with intent
to defraud a purported issuer or a person or organization providing money,
goods, services, or anything else of value or any other person, falsely makes
or embosses a purported credit card or utters a credit card is guilty of credit
card forgery and is subject to the penalties set forth in § 11-49-10(b). A
person other than the purported issuer who possesses two (2) or more credit
cards which are falsely made or falsely embossed is presumed to have violated
this subsection. A person falsely makes a credit card when he or she makes or
draws in whole or in part a device or instrument which purports to be the
credit card of a named issuer but which is not a credit card of the named
issuer because the issuer did not authorize the making or drawing, or alters a
credit card which was validly issued. A person falsely embosses a credit card
when, without the authorization of the named issuer, he or she completes a
credit card by adding any of the matter, other than the signature of the
cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the credit card before it can
be used by a cardholder.
(g) Signing credit card of another. A person other
than the cardholder or a person authorized by the cardholder who, with intent
to defraud the issuer or a person or organization providing money, goods,
services, or anything else of value or any other person, signs a credit card
violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in §
11-49-10(a).
History of Section.
(P.L. 1969, ch. 129, § 2.)