Rhode Island General Laws 3-8-6.2. Unlawful use of identification cards
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person:
(1) To display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in his or her possession any cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, or fraudulently altered official Rhode Island identification card;
(2) To lend his or her Rhode Island identification card to any other person or knowingly permit the use of the card by another person;
(3) To display or represent as one’s own the Rhode Island identification card of another;
(4) To fail or refuse to surrender to the division of motor vehicles upon lawful demand any Rhode Island identification card which has been suspended, revoked, or cancelled;
(5) To use a false or fictitious name in any application for a Rhode Island identification card or to knowingly make a false statement or to knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application;
(6) To knowingly permit any unlawful use of his or her Rhode Island identification card; and
(7) To aid or assist another to fraudulently obtain a Rhode Island identification card.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 3-8-6.2
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
(b) Any violation of subdivisions (a)(1) through (a)(7) of this section is punishable as a misdemeanor.
History of Section.
P.L. 1989, ch. 233, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 283, § 1.