                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CREDIT CARD THEFT (§ 18.2-192)

1. A person is guilty of credit card or credit card number theft when:

   a. He takes, obtains or withholds a credit card or credit card number from the
   person, possession, custody or control of another without the
   cardholder&#8217;s consent or who, with knowledge that it has been so taken,
   obtained or withheld, receives the credit card or credit card number with
   intent to use it or sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the
   issuer or the cardholder; or

   b. He receives a credit card or credit card number that he knows to have been
   lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the identity or address of
   the cardholder, and who retains possession with intent to use, to sell or to
   transfer the credit card or credit card number to a person other than the
   issuer or the cardholder; or

   c. He, not being the issuer, sells a credit card or credit card number or buys
   a credit card or credit card number from a person other than the issuer; or

   d. He, not being the issuer, during any twelve-month period, receives credit
   cards or credit card numbers issued in the names of two or more persons which
   he has reason to know were taken or retained under circumstances which
   constitute a violation of &#xA7; 18.2-194 and subdivision (1) (c) of this
   section.

2. Credit card or credit card number theft is grand larceny and is punishable as
provided in &#xA7; 18.2-95.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-125.3; 1968, c. 480; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1976, c. 318;
1985, c. 266.