A. A person, with intent to defraud:

1. A purported issuer;

2. A person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value; or

3. Any other person,

who falsely makes or falsely embosses a purported credit card or debit card or utters such a credit card or debit card is guilty of forgery in the third degree and is subject to the penalties set forth in subsection A of Section 1550.33 of this title.

B. A person other than the purported issuer who possesses any credit card or debit card which is falsely made or falsely embossed is presumed to have violated this section.

C. A person "falsely makes" a credit card or debit card when the person makes or draws, in whole or in part, a device or instrument which purports to be the credit card or debit card of a named issuer but which is not such a credit card or debit card because the issuer did not authorize the making or drawing, or when the person alters a credit card or debit card which was validly issued.

D. A person "falsely embosses" a credit card or debit card when, without the authorization of the named issuer, the person completes a credit card or debit card by adding any of the matter, other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the credit card or debit card before it can be used by a cardholder.

Added by Laws 1970, c. 258, § 7, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 307, § 5, emerg. eff. June 19, 1971; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 9, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981; Laws 2016, c. 221, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.