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Cal. Penal Code § 484e (2026)

Larceny

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(a)Every person who, with intent to defraud, sells, transfers, or conveys, an access card, without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, is guilty of grand theft.

(b)Every person, other than the issuer, who within any consecutive 12-month period, acquires access cards issued in the names of four or more persons which he or she has reason to know were taken or retained under circumstances which constitute a violation of subdivision (a), (c), or (d) is guilty of grand theft.

(c)Every person who, with the intent to defraud, acquires or retains possession of an access card without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, with intent to use, sell, or transfer it to a person other than the cardholder or issuer is guilty of petty theft.

(d)Every person who acquires or retains possession of access card account information with respect to an access card validly issued to another person, without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, with the intent to use it fraudulently, is guilty of grand theft.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 43 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1971–2025 · leading case: People v. Molina, 15 Cal. Rptr. 3d 493 (Cal. Ct. App. 2004).
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People v. Molina, 15 Cal. Rptr. 3d 493 (Cal. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 9× “Statutory Scheme Penal Code section 484e, subdivision (d) provides: “Every person who acquires or retains possession of access card account information with respect to an access card validly issued to another person, without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, with the intent…”
People v. Page, 406 P.3d 319 (Cal. 2017). “2, subdivision (a), added by Proposition 47, which provides in pertinent part: "Notwithstanding [Penal Code] Section 487 or any other provision of law defining grand theft, obtaining any property by theft where the value of the money, labor, real or personal property taken does…”
People v. SHABTAY, 42 Cal. Rptr. 3d 227 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006). · cites it 4× “Penal Code section 484e, subdivision (b) [1] defines an offense of grand theft where a person "within any consecutive 12-month period, acquires access cards issued in the names of four or more persons which he or she has reason to know were taken or retained" with the intent to…”
People v. Romanowski, 391 P.3d 633 (Cal. 2017). “The first statutory scheme is the one Romanowski was convicted of violating: Penal Code section 484e, subdivision (d).”
People v. Butler, 43 Cal. App. 4th 1224 (Cal. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 2× “Procedural History Defendant Andre Maurice Butler (defendant) was convicted of two felony counts of receipt of an access card with the intent to defraud (Pen. Code, § 484e, subd. (c)) and two misdemeanor counts of possession of an instrument with the intent to avoid a lawful…”
Hudson v. Superior Court of Riverside Cnty., 7 Cal. App. 5th 999 (Cal. Ct. App. 2017). “(b)(1)) and theft of access cards (Pen. Code, § 484e, subd. (c)), found ‘“exactly the type of ‘contrary legislative intent’ ” as was present in Jenkins because an uncodified section of the act that created Penal Code section 484e stated: “ ‘This act shall not be construed to…”
People v. Garrett, 248 Cal. App. 4th 82 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016). “(Pen. Code, §§ 484e, subd. (c), 484g.) We thus conclude defendant’s intended conduct constituted theft, and hence he entered the Quik Stop with the intent to commit “larceny” within the meaning of Section 459.”
People v. Sanders, 231 Cal. Rptr. 3d 477 (Cal. Ct. App. 2018). “2, subdivision (a), added by Proposition 47, which provides in pertinent part: 'Notwithstanding [Penal Code] Section 487 or any other provision of law defining grand theft, obtaining any property by theft where the value of the money, labor, real or personal property taken does…”
People v. Whitmer, 230 Cal. App. 4th 906 (Cal. Ct. App. 2014). “Code, § 532a), and 14 counts of theft of access cards or account information (Pen. Code, § 484e, subd. (d)). 1 Accompanying the charges was an allegation that appellant took, damaged, or destroyed property valued at more than $200,000 (§ 12022.”
People v. David H., 131 Cal. Rptr. 2d 330 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003). “2 (Pen. Code, §§ 484e, subd. (c), 490.) The November 2000 petition also included two counts.”
People v. Thompson, 196 Cal. Rptr. 3d 643 (Cal. Ct. App. 2015). “3d 493 [" Penal Code section 484e, subdivision (d) makes it grand theft to acquire account information with respect to an access card validly issued to another with the intent to defraud"].”
People v. Steffens, 62 Cal. App. 4th 1273 (Cal. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 2× “Code, § 484g, cl. (a)) (the use count), being under the influence of methamphetamine (Health & Saf.”
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Cal. Penal Code § 484e(b): 1 case
Alibutod v. Ashcroft, 70 F. App'x 424 (9th Cir. 2003).
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