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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 849

else of value on credit.

(3) "Issuer" means the business organization or
financial institution which issues a credit card or its duly
authorized agent.

(4) "Receives" or "receiving" means acquiring
possession or control of a credit card.

(b) A person who makes or causes to be made, either
directly or indirectly, any false statement in writing,
knowing it to be false and with intent that it be relied on,
respecting his identity or that of any other person, firm or
corporation, for the purpose of procuring the issuance of a
credit card, violates this section and is subject to the
penalties set forth in (h) (1) of this section.

(c) (1) A person who takes a credit card from a
person, or from the possession, custody or control of
another without the cardholder's consent or who, with
knowledge that it has been so taken, receives the credit
card with intent to use it or to sell it or to transfer it
to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder is
guilty of credit card theft and is subject to the penalties
set forth in (h) (1) of this section.

(2)    A person who receives a credit card that he
knows to have been lost, mislaid, or delivered under a
mistake as to the identity or address of the cardholder, and
who retains possession with intent to use it or to sell it
or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the
cardholder is guilty of a credit card theft and is subject
to the penalties set forth in (h) (1) of this section.

(3)    A person other than the issuer who sells a
credit card or a person who buys a credit card from a person
other than the issuer violates this section and is subject
to the penalties set forth in (h) (1) of this section.

(4)    A person, other than the issuer who
receives a credit card which he knows was taken or retained
under circumstances which constitute credit card theft or a
violation of (b) or (c) (3) above violates this subsection
and is subject to the penalties set forth in (h) (1) of this
section.

(5)    A person who, with intent to defraud a
purported issuer, a person or organization providing money,
goods, services or anything else of value, or any other
person, falsely makes or falsely embosses a purported credit
card, or utters such a credit card or possesses such a
credit card with knowledge that such credit card has been
falsely made or falsely embossed is guilty of credit card
forgery and is subject to the penalties set forth in (h) (2)
of this section. A person "falsely makes" a credit card
when he makes or draws, in whole or in part, a device or
instrument which purports to be the credit card of a named
issuer but which is not such a credit card because the