                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF CREDIT CARD FORGERY DEVICES (§ 18.2-196)

1. A person is guilty of criminal possession of credit card forgery devices
when:

   a. He is a person other than the cardholder and possesses two or more
   incomplete credit cards, with intent to complete them without the consent of
   the issuer; or

   b. He possesses, with knowledge of its character, machinery, plates or any
   other contrivance designed to reproduce instruments purporting to be credit
   cards of an issuer who has not consented to the preparation of such credit
   cards.

2. A credit card is incomplete if part of the matter, other than the signature
of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the credit card 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 is
punishable as a Class 6 felony.

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