2 1 2 3 DEFINITIONS SEC. 102. (a) CARDHOLDER.-"Cardholder" means the person or organization named on the face of a credit card to 4 whom or for whose benefit the credit card is issued by an 5 issuer. 6 (b) CREDIT CARD.-"Credit card" means any instru 7 8 ment or device, whether known as a credit card, credit plate, or by any other name, issued with or without fee by an issuer 9 for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, serv10 ices or anything else of value on credit. 11 12 13 14 (c) EXPIRED CREDIT CARD.-"Expired credit card" means a credit card which is no longer valid because the term shown on it has elapsed. (d) ISSUER. "Issuer" means the business organiza15 tion or financial institution or its duly authorized agent which 16 issues a credit card. 17 (e) REVOKED CREDIT CARD.-"Revoked credit card" 18 means a credit card which is no longer valid because permis19 sion to use it has been suspended or terminated by the issuer. (f) INCOMPLETE CREDIT CARD.-A credit card is "in 21 20 222 complete" if part of the matter other than the signature of 22 the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the 23 credit card before it can be used by a cardholder, has not yet been stamped, embossed, imprinted or written on the credit 25 card. 1 2 3 PURCHASE OF CREDIT CARD OF ANOTHER SEC. 103. A person who buys or rents a credit card 3 from a person other than the issuer shall be fined not more 4 than $500 or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or 5 both. 6 7 OBTAINING CONTROL OF CREDIT CARD AS SECURITY FOR DEBT 8 SEC. 104. A person who obtains possession or exerts 9 control over a credit card as security for a debt shall be fined 10 not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. 11 12 13 ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF CREDIT CARD OF ANOTHER SEC. 105. (a) A person who possesses a credit card 14 without the consent of the cardholder or the issuer shall be 15 fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one 16 year, or both. 17 (b) A person who possesses a credit card issued to an 18 other with intent to use the same to defraud the issuer, card19 holder, or any other person shall be fined not more than 20 $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. A 21 person in possession of two or more credit cards issued to 22 two or more persons other than himself without the consent 23 of the issuer or the cardholder shall be presumed to have 24 violated this subsection. 1 2 4 FRAUDULENT USE OF REVOKED OR EXPIRED CREDIT CARD 3 SEC. 106. A person who, with intent to defraud the 4 issuer, a person or organization providing money, goods, 5 services or anything else of value, or any other person, uses 6 for the purpose of obtaining money, goods, services or any7 thing else of value a credit card which he knows is expired 8 or revoked shall, if the value of all money, goods, services 9 and other things of value obtained in violation of this section 10 does not exceed $500 in any six-month period, be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, 11 12 or both, and shall, if such value does exceed $500 in any 13 six-month period, be fined not more than $5,000 or impris14 oned for not more than five years, or both. Knowledge by 15 the cardholder of revocation shall be presumed upon return 16 of a requested receipt. 17 18 FRAUDULENT TRANSFER OF CREDIT CARD SEC. 107. A person other than the issuer who, without 19 the consent of the cardholder, sells, exchanges, transfers, or 20 delivers a credit card issued to another, or a person other 21 than the issuer who sells, exchanges, transfers, or delivers an 22 incomplete credit card, or a counterfeit, forged, or falsely 23 made or altered credit card, shall be fined not more than 24 $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. 1 2 5 FRAUD BY PERSON AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE GOODS OR SERVICES 3 SEC. 108. A person who is authorized by an issuer to 4 furnish money, goods, services, or anything else of value upon 5 presentation of a credit card by the cardholder, or any agent 6 or employee of such person, who, with intent to defraud the 7 issuer or the cardholder, furnishes money, goods, services, or anything else of value upon presentation of a credit card 9 which he knows or reasonably should know is expired or re10 voked shall if the value of all money, goods, services, and 11 other things of value furnished in violation of this section does 12 not exceed $500 in any six-month period be fined not more 13 than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, 14 or both, and shall if such value exceeds $500 in any six15 month period be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned 16 for not more than five years, or both. 17 18 19 POSSESSION OF MACHINERY, PLATES, OR OTHER DEVICES, OR COUNTERFEIT, OR INCOMPLETE CREDIT CARDS SEC. 109. A person, other than the cardholder, possess20 ing an incomplete credit card with intent to complete it with21 out the consent of the issuer, or a person possessing, with 22 knowledge of its character, a counterfeit, forged, or falsely 23 made or altered credit card, or machinery, plates, or any 24 other device designed to reproduce instruments purporting 6 1 to be credit cards of an issuer who has not consented to the 2 preparation of such credit cards, shall be fined not more than 3 $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. .5 SEC. 110. In any prosecution for violation of this title, 6 the Government is not required to establish and it is no de7 fense that some of the acts constituting the crime did not occur in the District of Columbia or were not a crime or ele9 ment of a crime where they did occur. 8 10 11 TITLE NOT EXCLUSIVE SEC. 111. This title shall not be construed to preclude 12 the applicability of any other provision of the criminal law 13 which presently applies or may in the future apply to any 14 transaction which violates this title, unless such provision is 15 clearly inconsistent with the terms of this title. 16 17 SEVERABILITY SEC. 112. If any provision of this title or its application 18 to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity 19 shall not affect other provisions or applications of the title 20 which can be given effect without the invalid provision or 21 application, and to this end the provisions of this title are 22 declared to be severable. 23 TITLE II-LICENSING SECONDHAND DEALERS 24 SEC. 201. The last sentence of subparagraph (c) of para 25 graph 39 of section 77of the Act entitled "An Act making |