Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 9. FORGERY AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICES · Article 3. ILLEGAL USE OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTION CARDS

16-9-34. Criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
A person commits the offense of criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices when:#
1. (1)
  He is a person other than the cardholder and possesses two or more incomplete financial transaction cards with intent to complete them without the consent of the issuer; or#
2. (2)
  With knowledge of its character, he possesses machinery, plates, or any other contrivance designed to reproduce instruments purporting to be financial transaction cards of an issuer who has not consented to the preparation of such financial transaction cards.#
(b)
A financial transaction card is incomplete if part of the matter, other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the financial transaction card before it can be used by a cardholder has not yet been stamped, embossed, imprinted, encoded, or written upon.#
(c)
Conviction of the offense of criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices is punishable as provided in subsection (b) of Code Section 16-9-38.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1933, § 26-1705.5, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 128, § 1; Code 1933, § 26-1705.4, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1083, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 16.

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Text read from t16-ch7-11-(v14a)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V14A, 2018 edition, pages 522 to 523; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 5985d65f23ef.