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Statute:

Unlawful collection practices

ยง 190.50 Unlawful collection practices.

A person is guilty of unlawful collection practices when, with intent
to enforce a claim or judgment for money or property, he knowingly
sends, mails or delivers to another person a notice, document or other
instrument which has no judicial or official sanction and which in its
format or appearance, simulates a summons, complaint, court order or
process, or an insignia, seal or printed form of a federal, state or
local government or an instrumentality thereof, or is otherwise
calculated to induce a belief that such notice, document or instrument
has a judicial or official sanction.

Unlawful collection practices is a class B misdemeanor.

PEN 190.50 2014-09-22

Sections:

190. Other Frauds
190.00 Issuing a bad check; definitions of terms.
190.05 Issuing a bad check.
190.10 Issuing a bad check; presumptions.
190.15 Issuing a bad check; defenses.
190.20 False advertising.
190.23 False personation.
190.25 Criminal impersonation in the second degree.
190.26 Criminal impersonation in the first degree.
190.27 Criminal sale of a police uniform.
190.30 Unlawfully concealing a will.
190.35 Misconduct by corporate official.
190.40 Criminal usury in the second degree.
190.42 Criminal usury in the first degree.
190.45 Possession of usurious loan records.
190.50 Unlawful collection practices.
190.55 Making a false statement of credit terms.
190.60 Scheme to defraud in the second degree.
190.65 Scheme to defraud in the first degree.
190.70 Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling prescriptions.
190.72 Unauthorized radio transmission.
190.75 Criminal use of an access device in the second degree.
190.76 Criminal use of an access device in the first degree.
190.77 Offenses involving theft of identity; definitions.
190.78 Identity theft in the third degree.
190.79 Identity theft in the second degree.
190.80 Identity theft in the first degree.
190.80-a Aggravated identity theft.
190.81 Unlawful possession of personal identification information in the third degree.
190.82 Unlawful possession of personal identification information in the second degree.
190.83 Unlawful possession of personal identification information in the first degree.
190.84 Defenses.
190.85 Unlawful possession of a skimmer device in the second degree.
190.86 Unlawful possession of a skimmer device in the first degree.
190.87 Immigrant assistant services fraud in the second degree.
190.89 Immigrant assistant services fraud in the first degree.

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