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Current as of January 01, 2021 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
1. A person who, by false representations of his or her own wealth, or mercantile correspondence and connections, obtains a credit thereby and defrauds any person of money, goods, chattels or any valuable thing, or if a person causes or procures another to report falsely of his or her wealth or mercantile character, and by thus imposing upon any person obtains credit and thereby fraudulently gets into the possession of goods, wares or merchandise, or other valuable thing, is a swindler, and must be sentenced to return the property fraudulently obtained, if it can be done, or to pay restitution and shall be punished:
(a) Where the amount of money or the value of the chattels, goods, wares or merchandise, or other valuable thing so obtained is $1,200 or more, for a category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130.
(b) Otherwise, for a misdemeanor.
2. In any prosecution for a violation of this section, the State is not required to establish that all of the acts constituting the crime occurred in this State or within a single city, county or local jurisdiction of this State, and it is no defense that not all of the acts constituting the crime occurred in this State or within a single city, county or local jurisdiction of this State.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Nevada Revised Statutes Title 15. Crimes and Punishments § 205.370. Swindling; credit by false representations; defenses not available - last updated January 01, 2021 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nv/title-15-crimes-and-punishments/nv-rev-st-205-370/
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