§ 8-214. Prohibited--Unauthorized use or disclosure
West's Annotated Code of MarylandCriminal LawEffective: April 13, 2021
Effective: April 13, 2021
MD Code, Criminal Law, § 8-214
Formerly cited as MD Coml § 14-1402
§ 8-214. Prohibited--Unauthorized use or disclosure
(a) A person may not use or disclose any credit card number or other payment device number or holder's signature unless:
(4) the disclosure is in connection with an authorization, processing, billing, collection, chargeback, insurance collection, fraud prevention, or credit card or payment device recovery that relates to the credit card number or payment device number, an account accessed by the credit card number or payment account number, a debt for which the holder or a person authorized by the holder gave the credit card number or payment device number for purposes of identification, or a debt or obligation arising, alone or in conjunction with another means of payment, from the use of the credit card number or payment device number;
(7) subject to subsection (d) of this section, whether or not the person is a consumer reporting agency and whether or not the disclosure is a consumer report, the disclosure is made under a circumstance specified in the credit reporting provisions of § 14-1202(a)(3)(i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of the Commercial Law Article; or
(b) A disclosure for marketing purposes may not be made if the holder of an active credit card number or payment device number has prohibited the issuer in writing at the issuer's address from using the card or number for marketing purposes.
(c)(1) Notwithstanding subsection (a)(5)(iii) of this section, a disclosure for marketing purposes may not be made if the holder of an active credit card number or payment device number, other than an encoded credit card number or encoded payment device number, has notified the issuer in writing at an address specified by the issuer, that disclosure for marketing purposes is not allowed.
(d) Notwithstanding subsection (a)(7) of this section, and except as provided in § 14-1202(a)(3)(i) of the Commercial Law Article, a person may not furnish a report containing a credit card number or payment device number before receiving an individual written, electronic, or other tangible record of a certification from the requestor:
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Added by Acts 2002, c. 26, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 2002. Amended by Acts 2021, c. 109, § 5.
Formerly Commercial Law, § 14-1402.
MD Code, Criminal Law, § 8-214, MD CRIM LAW § 8-214
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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