(a)  Any person subject to this code who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind:

(1)  With intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of that property or to appropriate it to his or her own use or the use of any person other than the owner, steals that property, is guilty of larceny; or

(2)  With intent temporarily to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of that property or to appropriate it to his or her own use or the use of any person other than the owner, is guilty of wrongful appropriation.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 30-13-118

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.

(b)  Any person found guilty of larceny or wrongful appropriation shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

History of Section.
G.L. 1956, § 30-13-118; P.L. 1962, ch. 82, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 511, art. 2, § 37.