§ 19-9-25 - Fraudulent checks – Large amounts. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 19-9-25

   § 19-9-25  Fraudulent checks – Largeamounts. – (a) Any person who purchases any goods, materials, or services, pays for thatpurchase by check, draft, or order for payment of money, and takes possessionof the item, and who subsequently orders payment stopped on the check, draft,or order for payment, or who, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters, ordelivers any check, draft, or order for the payment of money, in an amountexceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), upon any regulated institution orother depository, knowing at the time of making, drawing, uttering, ordelivering that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds in, or creditwith, that regulated institution or other depository for the payment of thecheck, draft, or order, in full, upon its presentation, shall, upon conviction,be fined not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) or be imprisoned not morethan two (2) years, or may be subjected to both fine and imprisonment.

   (b) With regard to the purchase of any goods or materials itshall not be in violation of this section if goods or materials are returned tothe vendor within three (3) business days of the filing of the stop paymentorder.

   (c) The word "credit" means an arrangement or understandingwith the regulated institution or other depository for the payment of thecheck, draft, or order.

   (d) Any person violating any of these provisions may beprosecuted and proceeded against in any judicial district or in any county inwhich the offense was committed, or in which the check, draft, or order wasuttered or delivered.