Georgia Statutes

§ 16-9-31 — Financial transaction card theft

Georgia § 16-9-31

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O.C.G.A. § 16-9-31 (2026).

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(a)A person commits the offense of financial transaction card theft when:
(1)He takes, obtains, or withholds a financial transaction card from the person, possession, custody, or control of another without the cardholder's consent; or who, with knowledge that it has been so taken, obtained, or withheld, receives the financial transaction card with intent to use it or to sell it or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder;
(2)He receives a financial transaction card that he knows to have been lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the identity or address of the cardholder and he retains possession with intent to use it or sell it or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder;
(3)He, not being the issuer, sells a financial tran

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