Oklahoma Code § 21-1550.21

Title 21. Crimes And Punishments: Definitions
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As used in this act:
1.  "Cardholder" means the person or organization named on the
face of a credit card or a debit card to whom or for whose benefit
the credit card or debit card is issued;
2.  "Credit card" means any instrument or device, whether known
as a credit card, credit plate, charge plate or by any other name,
issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the
cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of
value on credit and all such credit cards lawfully issued shall be
considered the property of the cardholder or the issuer for all
purposes;
3.  "Debit card" means any instrument or device, whether known
as a debit card or by any other name, issued with or without fee by
an issuer for the use of the cardholder in depositing, obtaining or
transferring funds from a consumer banking electronic facility;
4.  "Issuer" means any person, firm, corporation, financial
institution or its duly authorized agent which issues a credit card
or a debit card;
5.  "Receives" or "receiving" means acquiring possession or
control or accepting as security for a loan;
6.  "Reencoder" means an electronic device that places encoded
information from the computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or
other storage mechanism of a credit card or debit card onto the
computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage mechanism
of a different card;
7.  "Revoked card" means a credit card or a debit card which is
no longer valid because permission to use it has been suspended or
terminated by the issuer;
8.  "Scanning device" means a scanner, reader or any other
electronic device that may be used to access, read, scan, obtain,
memorize or store, temporarily or permanently, information encoded
on the computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage
mechanism of a credit card or debit card or from another device that
directly reads the information from a credit card or debit card; and
9.  "Skimming device" means a self-contained device that:
a. is designed to read and store in the internal memory
of the device information encoded on the computer

chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage
mechanism of a credit card or debit card or from
another device that directly reads the information
from a credit card or debit card, and
b. is incapable of processing the credit card or debit
card information for the purpose of obtaining,
purchasing or receiving goods, services, money or
anything else of value from a person or organization.
Added by Laws 1970, c. 258, § 1, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970.
Amended by Laws 1971, c. 307, § 1, emerg. eff. June 19, 1971; Laws
1981, c. 86, § 3, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981; Laws 2019, c. 347, §
1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.

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