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and is subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(H)(2) of this section if
such value exceeds $500.

(2) A person who is authorized by an issuer to furnish money,
goods, services or anything else of value upon presentation of a credit
card by the cardholder, or any agent or employee of such person, who,
with intent to defraud the issuer or cardholder, fails to furnish
money, goods, services or anything else of value which he represents
in writing to the issuer that he has furnished violates this subsec-
tion and is subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(H)(1) of this sec-
tion, if the difference between the value of all money, goods, services
and anything else of value actually furnished and the value repre-
sented to the issuer to have been furnished does not exceed $500, and
is subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(H)(2) of this section if
such difference exceeds $500.

(g) (F) A person other than the cardholder possessing an incom-
plete credit card, with intent to complete it without the consent of
the issuer or a person possessing, with knowledge of its character,
machinery, plates or any other contrivance designed to reproduce
instruments purporting to be the credit cards of an issuer who has not
consented to the preparation of such credit cards, violates this sub-
section and is subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(H)(2) of this
section. A credit card is "incomplete" if part of the matter other
than the name of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear
on the credit card, before it can be used by a cardholder, has not yet
been stamped, embossed, imprinted or written on it.

(G) A person who receives money, goods, services or any-
thing else of value obtained in violation of (d) of this section, know-
ing or believing that it was so obtained violates this subsection and is
subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(H)(i)(1) of this section if the
value of all money, goods, services and other things of value ob-
tained in violation of this subsection does not exceed $500; and is
subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(H)(2) of this section, if such
value exceeds $500.

(i) In any prosecution for violation of this section, the State is

not required to establish and it is not defense:

    (1) that a person other than the defendant who violated this

section has not been convicted, apprehended or identified; or

(2) that some of the acts necessary to prove the crime did not

occur in this State or were not a crime or elements of a crime where

State.

(j)(H)(1) A person who is subject to the penalties of this sub-
section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined m a sum not to
exceed $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(2) A person who is subject to the penalties of this subsection
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in a sum not to exceed
$3,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

(k) (I) This section shall not be construed to preclude the ap-
plicability of any other provision of the criminal law of this State
which presently applies or may in the future apply to any transaction
which violates this section, unless such provision is inconsistent with
the terms of this section.

(h)