Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
(a) Every person who, with intent to defraud, sells, transfers, or conveys, an access card, without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, is guilty of grand theft.
(b) Every person, other than the issuer, who within any consecutive 12-month period, acquires access cards issued in the names of four or more persons which he or she were taken or retained under circumstances which constitute a violation of subdivision (a), (c), or (d) is guilty of grand theft.
(c) Every person who, with the intent to defraud, acquires or retains possession of an access card without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, with intent to use, sell, or transfer it to a person other than the cardholder or issuer is guilty of petty theft.
(d) Every person who acquires or retains possession of access card account information with respect to an access card validly issued to another person, without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, with the intent to use it fraudulently, is guilty of grand theft.
History: Repealed and added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 468, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1999.
Simplified explanation
Selling or transferring someone's access card without consent, acquiring cards in four or more names in a year, or taking card account information to use fraudulently is grand theft; holding a card to misuse it is petty theft.