(a) A person other than the cardholder possessing one or more incomplete credit cards or debit cards, with intent to complete them without theconsent of the issuer, or a person possessing, with knowledge of its character, machinery, plates or any other contrivance designed to reproduce instruments purporting to be the credit cards or debit cards of an issuer who has not consented to the preparation of such credit cards or debit cards, is guilty of an offense and is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(b) of this title.
(b) A credit card or debit 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 or debit card before it can be used by a cardholder has not yet been stamped, embossed, imprinted or written on it.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 11, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 13, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981.