205.790 - Possession of incomplete credit cards or debit cards or equipment to produce cards.

205.790  Possession of incomplete credit cards or debit cards or equipment to produce cards.

      1.  A person, except the cardholder, who possesses two or more incomplete credit cards or debit cards with the intent to complete them without the consent of the issuer, or a person who, with knowledge of its character, possesses machinery, plates or any other contrivance designed to produce instruments which purport 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 a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

      2.  As used in this section, a credit card or debit card is “incomplete” if part of the matter, except the signature of the cardholder, required by an issuer to appear on the credit card or debit card has not yet been stamped, embossed, imprinted or written on the credit card or debit card.

      (Added to NRS by 1971, 362; A 1985, 1459; 1995, 1234; 1999, 50)