Deception
Sec. 3. (a) A person who:
(1) being an officer, manager, or other person participating in
the direction of a credit institution, knowingly or intentionally
receives or permits the receipt of a deposit or other investment,
knowing that the institution is insolvent;
(2) knowingly or intentionally makes a false or misleading
written statement with intent to obtain property, employment,
or an educational opportunity;
(3) misapplies entrusted property, property of a governmental
entity, or property of a credit institution in a manner that the
person knows is unlawful or that the person knows involves
substantial risk of loss or detriment to either the owner of the
property or to a person for whose benefit the property was
entrusted;
(4) knowingly or intentionally, in the regular course of business,
either:
(A) uses or possesses for use a false weight or measure or
other device for falsely determining or recording the quality
or quantity of any commodity; or
(B) sells, offers, or displays for sale or delivers less than the
represented quality or quantity of any commodity;
(5) with intent to defraud another person furnishing electricity,
gas, water, telecommunication, or any other utility service,
avoids a lawful charge for that service by scheme or device or
by tampering with facilities or equipment of the person
furnishing the service;
(6) with intent to defraud, misrepresents the identity of the
person or another person or the identity or quality of property;
(7) with intent to defraud an owner of a coin machine, deposits
a slug in that machine;
(8) with intent to enable the person or another person to deposit
a slug in a coin machine, makes, possesses, or disposes of a
slug;
(9) disseminates to the public an advertisement that the person
knows is false, misleading, or deceptive, with intent to promote
the purchase or sale of property or the acceptance of
employment;
(10) with intent to defraud, misrepresents a person as being a
physician licensed under IC 25-22.5; or
(11) knowingly and intentionally defrauds another person
furnishing cable TV service by avoiding paying compensation
for that service by any scheme or device or by tampering with
facilities or equipment of the person furnishing the service;
commits deception, a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) In determining whether an advertisement is false, misleading,
or deceptive under subsection (a)(9), there shall be considered,
among other things, not only representations contained or suggested
in the advertisement, by whatever means, including device or sound,
but also the extent to which the advertisement fails to reveal material
facts in the light of the representations.
As added by Acts 1976, P.L.148, SEC.3. Amended by Acts 1977,
P.L.340, SEC.51; Acts 1978, P.L.144, SEC.5; P.L.182-1984, SEC.4;
P.L.237-1989, SEC.2; P.L.247-1993, SEC.2; P.L.222-1996, SEC.1.
Last modified: May 24, 2006