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Ch. 288
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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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(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] $500;
and subject to the penalties set forth in subsection (h)(2) of this section if such value
exceeds [$300] $500.
(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 employee 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] $500 and is subject to the penalties set forth in
subsection (h)(2) of this section if such value exceeds [$300] $500.
(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] $500, and is subject to the penalties set forth in subsection (h)(2) of this
section if such difference exceeds [$300] $500.
(f) A person other than the cardholder possessing an incomplete credit card,
with intent to complete it without the consent of the issuer or a person possessing,
with knowledge of its character, machinery, plates or any other contrivance designed
to reproduce instruments purporting to be the credit cards of an issuer who has not
consented to the preparation of such credit cards, violates this subsection and is
subject to the penalties set forth in subsection (h)(2) of this section. A credit card is
"incomplete" if part of the matter other than the name of the cardholder, which an
issuer requires to appear on the credit card, before it can be used by a cardholder, has
not yet been stamped, embossed, imprinted or written on it.
(g) A person who receives money, goods, services or anything else of value
obtained in violation of subsection (d) of this section, knowing or believing that it was
so obtained 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
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