18.2-196 - Criminal possession of credit card forgery devices. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-196. Criminal possession of credit card forgery devices.

(1) A person is guilty of criminal possession of credit card forgery deviceswhen:

(a) He is a person other than the cardholder and possesses two or moreincomplete credit cards, with intent to complete them without the consent ofthe issuer; or

(b) He possesses, with knowledge of its character, machinery, plates or anyother contrivance designed to reproduce instruments purporting to be creditcards of an issuer who has not consented to the preparation of such creditcards.

(2) A credit card is incomplete if part of the matter, other than thesignature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the creditcard before it can be used by a cardholder, has not yet been stamped,embossed, imprinted or written upon.

Conviction of criminal possession of credit card forgery devices ispunishable as a Class 6 felony.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-125.7; 1968, c. 480; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)