PRINTER'S NO. 2837
No. 2148 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY FARMER, BURD, TANGRETTI, LANGTRY, PISTELLA,
E. Z. TAYLOR, PESCI, JACKSON, J. TAYLOR, ALLEN, HERSHEY,
BRANDT, YANDRISEVITS, TRELLO, MICHLOVIC, GLADECK AND GANNON,
DECEMBER 5, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, DECEMBER 5, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, prohibiting a person who accepts
3 credit cards from requiring the cardholder to provide
4 personal identification information.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 7326. Requiring personal identification information in
10 connection with credit card transaction.
11 (a) Offense.--A person who accepts credit cards for the
12 transaction of business commits a summary offense if he requires
13 the credit cardholder to write on the credit card transaction
14 form, or causes to be written on the credit card transaction
15 form, any personal identification information not required by
16 the credit card issuer to complete the transaction, including,
17 but not limited to, the credit cardholder's address and
18 telephone number.
1 (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply where:
2 (1) personal identification information is required for
3 shipping, delivery or installation of merchandise;
4 (2) the transaction involves special order merchandise;
5 (3) authorization from the credit card issuer concerning
6 the availability of credit is not required by the issuer to
7 complete the credit card transaction; or
8 (4) the person who accepts the credit card processes
9 credit card transactions by mailing transaction forms to a
10 designated bankcard center for settlement.
11 (c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "credit
12 card" means a writing, number or other evidence of an
13 undertaking to pay for property or services delivered or
14 rendered to or upon the order of a designated person or bearer.
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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