The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES

Chapter 817
FRAUDULENT PRACTICES

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F.S. 817.05

817.05 False statements to merchants as to financial condition.—Any merchant in the state, before extending credit to any person applying for the same, may require such applicant to furnish a statement in writing showing the property owned and the salary being earned by said applicant, and if said statement, or any part thereof, is false, provided the same be made willfully, and signed by applicant in presence of two witnesses, and any person obtains credit from any merchant by reason of the merchant relying on and being deceived by said false statement, or any part thereof, then said person so obtaining credit or goods shall be deemed guilty of obtaining money or goods under false pretenses and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History.—s. 1, ch. 19487, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 7264(1); s. 844, ch. 71-136.

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Amendments to 817.05

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 817.05

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S817.05 - FRAUD-FALSE STATEMENT - TO MERCHANT REGARDING FINANCIAL CONDITION - M: F

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

UNITED STATES MODGLIN v. DJO GLOBAL INC. DJO LLC, DJO LLC, EBI, LP,, 114 F. Supp. 3d 993 (C.D. Cal. 2015)

. . . They were paid $817.05, $3,901.41, and $3,897.50 on the claims, respectively. . . .

UNITED STATES MODGLIN v. DJO GLOBAL INC. DJO LLC, DJO LLC, EBI, LP,, 48 F. Supp. 3d 1362 (C.D. Cal. 2014)

. . . They were paid $817.05, $3,901.41, and $3,897.50 on the claims, respectively. . . .

JENKINS, v. GOLF CHANNEL a k a, TGC,, 714 So. 2d 558 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1998)

. . . . § 817.03, § 817.05, § 817.15 (fraud), and/or Florida Statutes Chapter 895 (RICO); 9. . . .

MINOR, v. HEIMBACH,, 157 So. 2d 95 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1963)

. . . supplemental order of contempt”, sentencing him to jail for a period of 60 days “or until the sum of $817.05 . . . It appears that the sum of $817.05 is based upon an award in a workmen’s compensation case. . . .

WECOLINE PRODUCTS, v. CARMAN CO., 109 F.2d 736 (3d Cir. 1940)

. . . 1937, however, Wecoline sent Carman a statement setting forth charges for electric power totalling $6,-817.05 . . .