KANSAS STATUTES AND CODES

21-3736. Warehouse receipt fraud.

21-3736

Chapter 21.--CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS PART II.--PROHIBITED CONDUCT Article 37.--CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY

21-3736. Warehouse receipt fraud.(a) Warehouse receipt fraud is making, drawing, issuing or delivering orcausing or directing the making, drawing, issuing or delivering by awarehouseman, or any officer, agent or employee of a warehouseman, of:

(1) A negotiable receipt for goods with knowledge that the goodsfor which the receipt is issued have not actually been receivedby the warehouseman, or are not under the warehouseman's actual controlat the time of issuing the receipt; or

(2) a negotiable receipt for goods with knowledge that the receipt contains afalse statement; or

(3) a duplicate or additional negotiable receipt for goods withknowledge that a former negotiable receipt for the same goods or any partthereof is outstanding and uncanceled, without plainly placing on the facethereof the word "duplicate," except in the case of a lost, stolen ordestroyed receipt after proceedings as provided in K.S.A. 34-257 or subsection(a) ofK.S.A. 2009 Supp.84-7-601, and amendments thereto.

(b) Warehouse receipt fraud is a severity level 10, nonperson felony.

History: L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3736;L. 1983, ch. 135, § 1;L. 1992, ch. 239, § 130;L. 1993, ch. 291, § 86;L. 2007, ch. 90, § 45; July 1, 2008.