(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.