Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 14, § 70.2. Refund or access device application fraud

(1) Obtaining or attempting to obtain a refund for merchandise returned to a business establishment or a refund on a ticket or other document that is evidence of services purchased from a business establishment; or

(2) Obtaining or attempting to obtain an access device.

C. (1) Whoever commits the crime of refund fraud shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(2) Whoever commits the crime of access device application fraud when the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of twenty-five thousand dollars or more shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty years, or may be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, or both.

(3) Whoever commits the crime of access device application fraud when the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of five thousand dollars or more, but less than a value of twenty-five thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than ten years, or may be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both.

(4) Whoever commits the crime of access device application fraud when the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of one thousand dollars or more but less than a value of five thousand dollars shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or may be fined not more than three thousand dollars, or both.

(5) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to less than a value of one thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, or may be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both. If the offender in such cases has been convicted of theft two or more times previously, upon any subsequent conviction he shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than two years, or may be fined not more than two thousand dollars, or both.