Existing law makes it a crime for a person: (1) under false representations of his or her own wealth, or mercantile correspondence and connections, to obtain credit and defraud any person of money, goods, chattels or any valuable thing; or (2) to cause or procure another to falsely report his or her wealth or mercantile character and, thus, obtain credit and fraudulently possess goods, wares or merchandise or other valuable things. (NRS 205.370) This bill provides that in any prosecution of such a crime, 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. This bill further provides that it is no defense that a person did not commit all of the acts constituting the crime within this State or within a single city, county or local jurisdiction of this State.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 205.370
As Enrolled: 205.370
BDR: 205.370