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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 255

(6) A person other than the cardholder or a person
authorized by him who, with intent to defraud the issuer, or a
person or organization providing money, goods, services or
anything else of value, or any other person, signs a credit card
is guilty of credit card forgery and is subject to the penalties
set forth in SUBSECTION (h)(2) of this section.

(d)  A person, who, with intent to defraud the issuer, a
person or organization providing money, goods, services or
anything else of value, or any other person, (i) uses for the
purpose of obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of
value a credit card obtained or retained in violation of
SUBSECTION (c) of this section or a credit card which he knows is
forged; or (ii) obtains money, goods, services or anything else
of value by representing without the consent of the cardholder
that he is the holder of a specified card or by representing that
he is the holder of a card and such card has not in fact been
issued, violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties
set forth in SUBSECTION (h)(1) of this section, if the value of
all money, goods, services and other things of value obtained in
violation of this subsection does not exceed $300; and subject to
the penalties set forth in SUBSECTION (h)(2) of this section if
such value exceeds $300.

(e)  (1) 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
employees of such person, who, with intent to defraud the issuer
or the cardholder, furnishes money, goods, services or anything
else of value upon presentation of a credit card obtained or
retained in violation of SUBSECTION (c) of this section or a
credit card which he knows is forged violates this subsection and
is subject to the penalties set forth in SUBSECTION (h)(1) of
this section, if the value of all money, goods, services and
other things of value furnished in violation of this subsection
does not exceed $300 and is subject to the penalties set forth in
SUBSECTION (h)(2) of this section if such value exceeds $300.

(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 subsection and is
subject to the penalties set forth in SUBSECTION (h)(1) of this
section, if the difference between the value of all money, goods,
services and anything else of value actually furnished and the
value represented to the issuer to have been furnished does not
exceed $300, and is subject to the penalties set forth in
SUBSECTION (h)(2) of this section if such difference exceeds
$300.

(f)  A person other than the cardholder possessing an
incomplete credit card, with intent to complete it without the