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Ch. 535
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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(2) "Credit card" means an instrument or device,
whether known as a credit card, credit plate, or by any other
name, issued by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in
obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value on
credit. It includes a debit or access card or other device other
than a check, draft or similar paper instrument used by the
cardholder to effect a transfer of funds that is initiated
through an electronic terminal, telephone, or computer, or
magnetic tape ordering, instructing or authorizing a financial
institution to debit or credit an account.
(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.
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