§ 11-49-4 Fraudulent use of credit cards.
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A person 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, uses, for the purpose of obtaining money, goods, services, or anything
else of value, a credit card obtained or retained in violation of this law or a
credit card which he or she knows is forged, expired, or revoked, or who
obtains money, goods, services, or anything else of value by representing,
without the consent of the cardholder, that he or she is the holder of a
specified card or by representing that he or she is the holder of a card and
the card has not in fact been issued, violates this section and is subject to
the penalties set forth in § 11-49-10(a), if the value of all moneys,
goods, services, and other things of value obtained in violation of this
subsection does not exceed one hundred dollars ($100) in any six (6) month
period. The violator is subject to the penalties set forth in §
11-49-10(b) if the value does exceed one hundred dollars ($100) in any six (6)
month period. Knowledge of revocation shall be presumed to have been received
by a cardholder four (4) days after it has been mailed to him or her at the
address set forth on the credit card or at his or her last known address by
registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and, if the address is
more than five hundred (500) miles from the place of mailing, by air mail. If
the address is located outside the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, the Canal Zone or Canada, notice shall be presumed to have been
received ten (10) days after mailing by registered or certified mail.
(P.L. 1969, ch. 129, § 2.)