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Idaho Code § 18-3122 (2026)

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The following words and phrases used in this chapter mean:

(1)  "Authorized credit card merchant" means a person or organization who is authorized by an issuer to furnish money, goods, services or anything of value upon presentation of a financial transaction card or a financial transaction card account number by a card holder, and to present valid credit card sales drafts to the issuer for payment.
(2)  "Automated banking device" means any machine which, when properly activated by a financial transaction card and/or a personal identification code, may be used for any of the purposes for which a financial transaction card may be used.
(3)  "Card holder" means any person or organization named on the face of a financial transaction card to whom, or for whose benefit, a financial transaction card is issued by an issuer.
(4)  "Credit card sales draft" means:
(a)  Any sales slip, draft, voucher or other written or electronic record of a sale of goods, services or anything else of value made or purported to be made to or at the request of a card holder with a financial transaction card, financial transaction card account number or personal identification code; or
(b)  Any evidence, however manifested, of any right or purported right to collect from a card holder funds due or purported to be due with respect to any sale or purported sale.
(5)  "Expired financial transaction card" means any financial transaction card which is no longer valid because the terms agreed to have been cancelled or have elapsed.
(6)  "Financial transaction card" or "FTC" means any instrument or device known as a credit card, credit plate, bank services card, banking card, check guarantee card, debit card, telephone credit card or by any other name issued by the issuer for the use of the card holder in obtaining money, goods, services, or anything else of value on credit, or in certifying or guaranteeing to a person or business the availability to the card holder of the funds on deposit that are equal to or greater than the amount necessary to honor a draft or check payable to the order of such a person or business; or any instrument or device used in providing the card holder access to a demand deposit account or a time deposit account for the purpose of making deposits of money or checks therein, or withdrawing funds in the form of money, money orders, or traveler’s checks or other representative of value therefrom or transferring funds from any demand account or time deposit account to any credit card account in full or partial satisfaction of any outstanding balance existing therein.
(7)  "Financial transaction card account number" means the account number assigned by an issuer to a financial transaction card to identify and account for transactions involving that financial transaction card.
(8)  "Issuer" means a business organization or financial institution or its duly authorized agent which issues a financial transaction card.
(9)  "Personal identification code" means any numerical and/or alphabetical code assigned to the card holder of a financial transaction card by the issuer to permit the authorized electronic use of that FTC.
(10) "Personal identifying information" means the name, address, telephone number, driver’s license number, social security number, place of employment, employee identification number, mother’s maiden name, checking account number, savings account number, financial transaction card number, or personal identification code of an individual person, or any other numbers or information which can be used to access a person’s financial resources.
(11) "Revoked financial transaction card" means an FTC which is no longer valid because permission to use it has been suspended or terminated by the issuer with actual notice having been made upon the card holder.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 2004–2020 · leading case: State v. Hickman, 191 P.3d 1098 (Idaho 2008).
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State v. Hickman, 191 P.3d 1098 (Idaho 2008). · cites it 28× “Financial transaction cards A person is guilty of grand theft when the property consists of a "financial transaction card or financial transaction card account number as those terms are defined in section 18-3122, Idaho Code...." I.C. § 18-2407(1)(b)(3).”
State v. Solway, 88 P.3d 784 (Idaho Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 2× “financial transaction card or financial transaction card account number as those terms are defined in section 18-3122, Idaho Code." . Although the State charged Solway with only two counts of grand theft by possession of a stolen credit card, the State placed three of…”
TEMEN v. State, 2009 WY 25 (Wyo. 2009). “, Idaho Code Ann. §§ 18-3122 through 18-3128 (financial transaction card) (Michie 2004 and Pocket Supp.”
State v. Mitchell (Idaho Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 6× “ing trial, the owner of the restaurant testified that the restaurant’s surveillance system captured footage of Mitchell holding his cellphone while also handling the victim’s credit card and that Mitchell took two times longer than average to process the victim’s 3 Idaho Code…”
State v. Vernon Craig Pelland, 367 P.3d 265 (Idaho Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 2× “Idaho Code Section 18-2407(l)(b)(3) states that a person is guilty of grand theft if the stolen property consists of a check, draft, order for the payment of money upon any bank; a check, draft, or order account number; a financial transaction card; or a financial transaction…”
— Idaho Code § 18-3122(3) — 1 case
State v. Hickman, 191 P.3d 1098 (Idaho 2008). “Financial transaction cards A person is guilty of grand theft when the property consists of a "financial transaction card or financial transaction card account number as those terms are defined in section 18-3122, Idaho Code...." I.C. § 18-2407(1)(b)(3).”
— Idaho Code § 18-3122(5) — 1 case
State v. Hickman, 191 P.3d 1098 (Idaho 2008). “Financial transaction cards A person is guilty of grand theft when the property consists of a "financial transaction card or financial transaction card account number as those terms are defined in section 18-3122, Idaho Code...." I.C. § 18-2407(1)(b)(3).”
— Idaho Code § 18-3122(6) — 2 cases
State v. Hickman, 191 P.3d 1098 (Idaho 2008). “Financial transaction cards A person is guilty of grand theft when the property consists of a "financial transaction card or financial transaction card account number as those terms are defined in section 18-3122, Idaho Code...." I.C. § 18-2407(1)(b)(3).”
State v. Mitchell (Idaho Ct. App. 2020). “ing trial, the owner of the restaurant testified that the restaurant’s surveillance system captured footage of Mitchell holding his cellphone while also handling the victim’s credit card and that Mitchell took two times longer than average to process the victim’s 3 Idaho Code…”
— Idaho Code § 18-3122(7) — 1 case
State v. Mitchell (Idaho Ct. App. 2020). “ing trial, the owner of the restaurant testified that the restaurant’s surveillance system captured footage of Mitchell holding his cellphone while also handling the victim’s credit card and that Mitchell took two times longer than average to process the victim’s 3 Idaho Code…”
— Idaho Code § 18-3122(8) — 1 case
State v. Hickman, 191 P.3d 1098 (Idaho 2008). “Financial transaction cards A person is guilty of grand theft when the property consists of a "financial transaction card or financial transaction card account number as those terms are defined in section 18-3122, Idaho Code...." I.C. § 18-2407(1)(b)(3).”
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