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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 288
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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 (3) 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.
(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.
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