2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
Chapter 14 - FINANCIAL TRANSACTION CARD CRIME ACT
Section 16-14-70 - Criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices.

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

(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;

(2) he possesses, with knowledge of its character, 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 it.

A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than three thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 427, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 184, Section 98; 1995 Act No. 7, Part I Section 12.