§ 49-31-37 — Obtaining telecommunications service without payment as theft.

Any person who obtains telecommunications service by the use of a false, revoked, counterfeit or nonexistent credit card, or who obtains telecommunications service by charging the price for such service to a false or nonexistent telephone number or to an existing telephone number without the authority of the holder thereof, or who, through the use of any scheme or device, obtains the transmission of a communication without payment of the lawful charges is guilty of theft.

Legislative History

SDC 1939, § 131.1832 as enacted by SL 1959, ch 38; SL 1969, ch 31; SL 1973, ch 285; SL 1983, ch 15, § 124; SL 1987, ch 345, § 72.