A. A person commits theft of a credit card or obtaining a credit card by fraudulent means if the person:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 13-2102

  • Cardholder: means any person who is either:

    (a) Named on the face of a credit card to whom or for whose benefit the credit card is issued by an issuer. See Arizona Laws 13-2101

  • Conduct: means an act or omission and its accompanying culpable mental state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Credit card: means :

    (a) Any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, charge card, credit plate, courtesy card or identification card or by any other name, that is issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value, either on credit or in possession or in consideration of an undertaking or guaranty by the issuer of the payment of a check drawn by the cardholder, on a promise to pay in part or in full therefor at a future time, whether or not all or any part of the indebtedness that is represented by the promise to make deferred payment is secured or unsecured. See Arizona Laws 13-2101

  • Felony: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Issuer: means any business organization, state agency or financial institution, or its duly authorized agent, that issues a credit card. See Arizona Laws 13-2101
  • Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Possession: means a voluntary act if the defendant knowingly exercised dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105

1. Controls a credit card without the cardholder‘s or issuer‘s consent through conduct prescribed in section 13-1802 or 13-1804; or

2. Sells, transfers or conveys a credit card with the intent to defraud; or

3. With intent to defraud, obtains possession, care, custody or control over a credit card as security for debt.

B. Theft of a credit card or obtaining a credit card by fraudulent means is a class 5 felony.