{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-434.630","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 434.630","heading":"False making or embossing of credit or debit card -- Possession of two or","body":"more falsely made or embossed cards -- Definitions.\n(1) A person who, with intent to defraud a purported issuer, a participating party, a\nperson or organization providing money,  goods, services, or anything else of value,\nor any other person, falsely makes or falsely embosses a purported credit or debit\ncard, or utters such a credit or debit card or possesses such a credit or debit card\nwith knowledge that such credit or debit ca rd has been falsely made or falsely\nembossed is guilty of a Class D felony.\n(2) A person other than the purported issuer who possesses two (2) or more credit or\ndebit cards which are falsely made or falsely embossed is presumed to possess the\nsame with kno wledge that they have been falsely embossed or falsely made and\nwith the intent to defraud.\n(3) A person \"falsely makes\" a credit or debit card when he makes or draws, in whole\nor in part, a device or instrument which purports to be the credit or debit car d of a\nnamed issuer but which is not such a credit or debit card because the issuer did not\nauthorize the making or drawing, or alters a credit or debit card which was validly\nissued. A person \"falsely embosses\" a credit or debit card when, without the\nauthorization of the named issuer, he completes a credit or debit card by adding any\nof the matter, other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to\nappear on the credit or debit card before it can be used by a cardholder.","path":["KRS Chapter 434"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=18900","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:59:49Z","sha256":"9ce595473460fe3f0c8f959d06a6fa9d4f232b89a37cee29849a089060aa05ec","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-434.620","next":"us-ky/krs-434.635"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}