| Chapter 025 |
| 2025 -- H 5637 Enacted 06/10/2025 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CREDIT CARD CRIME ACT |
Introduced By: Representatives Ackerman, Kennedy, Fellela, Fogarty, Serpa, Speakman, Kazarian, Edwards, Corvese, and McNamara |
| Date Introduced: February 26, 2025 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 11-49-4 of the General Laws in Chapter 11-49 entitled "Credit Card |
| Crime Act" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 11-49-4. Fraudulent use of credit cards Fraudulent use of credit or debit cards. |
| 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 or debit card obtained or |
| retained in violation of this law or a credit card or debit card which he or she knowsthey know 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 isthey are the holder of a |
| specified card or by representing that he or she isthey are 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 (6) 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 (6) 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 herthem at the address set |
| forth on the credit card or debit card or at his or hertheir 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. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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