§ 14-113.14. Criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices. - North Carolina Statutes

§14‑113.14.  Criminal possession of financial transaction card forgerydevices.

(a)        A person is guiltyof criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices when:

(1)        He is a person otherthan the cardholder and possesses two or more incomplete financial transactioncards, with intent to complete them without the consent of the issuer; or

(2)        He possesses, withknowledge of its character, machinery, plates, or any other contrivancedesigned to reproduce instruments purporting to be financial transaction cardsof an issuer who has not consented to the preparation of such financialtransaction cards.

(b)        A financialtransaction card is incomplete if part of the matter other than the signatureof the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the financialtransaction card before it can be used by a cardholder, has not yet beenstamped, embossed, imprinted, encoded or written upon it.

Conviction of criminalpossession of financial transaction card forgery devices is punishable asprovided in G.S. 14‑113.17(b). (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979,c. 741, s. 1.)