Georgia Code Title 16. Crimes and Offenses § 16-9-30

(1) “Acquirer” means a business organization, government, financial institution, or an agent of a business organization, government, or financial institution that authorizes a merchant to accept payment by financial transaction card for money, goods, services, or anything else of value.

(2) “Automated banking device” means any machine which when properly activated by a financial transaction card and personal identification code may be used for any of the purposes for which a financial transaction card may be used.

(3) “Cardholder” means the person, government, or organization to whom or for whose benefit the financial transaction card is issued by an issuer.

(4) “Expired financial transaction card” means a financial transaction card which is no longer valid because the term for which it was issued has elapsed.

(5) “Financial transaction card” or “FTC” means any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, credit plate, bank services card, banking card, check guarantee card, debit card, or by any other name, issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder:

(5.1) “Financial transaction card account number” means a number, numerical code, alphabetical code, or alphanumeric code assigned by the issuer to a particular financial transaction card and which identifies the cardholder's account with the issuer.

(5.2) “Government” means:

(6) “Issuer” means the business organization or financial institution or its duly authorized agent which issues a financial transaction card.

(7) “Personal identification code” means a numeric or alphabetical code, signature, photograph, fingerprint, or any other means of electronic or mechanical confirmation used by the cardholder of a financial transaction card to permit authorized electronic use of that financial transaction card.

(8) “Presenting” means those actions taken by a cardholder or any person to introduce a financial transaction card into an automated banking device with or without utilization of a personal identification code or merely displaying or showing, with intent to defraud, a financial transaction card to the issuer or to any person or organization providing money, goods, services, or anything else of value or to any other entity.

(8.1) “Purchasing card,” “PCard,” or “P-Card” means a type of financial transaction card allowing persons, governments, or business organizations to use financial transaction infrastructure.

(9) “Receives” or “receiving” means acquiring possession of or control of or accepting a financial transaction card as security for a loan.

(10) “Revoked financial transaction card” means a financial transaction card which is no longer valid because permission to use it has been suspended or terminated by the issuer.