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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 638:5: Fraudulent Use of Credit Card.

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  1. Title LXII: CRIMINAL CODE
  2. Chapter 638: FRAUD
  3. Forgery and Fraudulent Practices Generally

I. A person is guilty of fraudulent use of a credit card if he uses a credit card for the purpose of obtaining property or services with knowledge that:

(a) The card is stolen; or

(b) The card has been revoked or cancelled; or

(c) For any other reason his use of the card is unauthorized by either the issuer or the person to whom the credit card is issued.

II. "Credit card" means a writing or other evidence of an undertaking to pay for property or services delivered or rendered to or upon the order of a designated person or bearer.

III. (a) Fraudulent use of a credit card is:

(1) A class A felony if:

(A) Property or services are obtained which exceed the value of $1,500; or

(B) The defendant has 2 or more prior convictions under this section, the present and prior convictions were based on offenses committed within a 12-month period, and the aggregate amount of the property or services obtained by the defendant as part of those offenses exceeds $1,500;

(2) A class B felony if:

(A) Property or services are obtained which exceed the value of $1,000 but are not more than the value of $1,500; or

(B) The defendant has 2 or more prior convictions under this section, the present and prior convictions were based on offenses committed within a 12-month period, and the aggregate amount of the property or services obtained by the defendant as part of those offenses exceeds $1,000 but does not exceed $1,500; and

(3) A misdemeanor in all other cases.

(b) The value shall be determined according to the provisions of RSA 637:2, V.

Collected 2026-09-05T17:29:35Z. Source file · JSON

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