HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(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 the 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 SUBSECTION (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 SUBSECTION (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
SUBSECTION (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 SUBSECTION (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 SUBSECTION (b) OF THIS SECTION or PARAGRAPH [(c)](3) [above]
OF THIS SUBSECTION violates this subsection and is subject to the
penalties set forth in SUBSECTION (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 SUBSECTION (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 issuer did
not authorize the making or drawing, or alters a credit card
which was validly issued. A person "falsely embosses" a credit
card when, without the authorization of the named issuer, he
completes a credit card by adding any of the matter, other than
the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to
appear on the credit card before it can be used by a cardholder.