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609.821.1(e)

Statute ID: 15962

Statute Function ID: 33881

Financial Transaction Card Fraud-Define Public Assistance Benefit

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Statute Number:

609.821.1(e)

Enactment Date:

May 22, 2015

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 2015

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Financial Transaction Card Fraud-Define Public Assistance Benefit

Statute ID:

15962

Created:

Jul 31, 2015 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jul 31, 2015 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

Amended 2015 c78 art 4 s 60; definitions; New (f)

Summary Text:

Financial Transaction Card Fraud-Define Public Assistance Benefit

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/821.html

Legislative Session:

2015 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jul 31, 2015

For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given them:
 
(a) "Financial transaction card" means any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, credit plate, charge plate, courtesy card, bank services card, banking card, check guarantee card, debit card, electronic benefit system (EBS) card, electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card, assistance transaction card, or by any other name, issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining credit, money, goods, services, public assistance benefits, or anything else of value, and includes the account or identification number or symbol of a financial transaction card.

(b) "Cardholder" means a person in whose name a card is issued.

(c) "Issuer" means a person, firm, or governmental agency, or a duly authorized agent or designee, that issues a financial transaction card.

(d) "Property" includes money, goods, services, public assistance benefit, or anything else of value.

(e) "Public assistance benefit" means any money, goods or services, or anything else of value, issued under chapters 256, 256B, 256D, or section 393.07, subdivision 10.

(f) "Trafficking of SNAP benefits" means:

(1) the buying, selling, stealing, or otherwise effecting an exchange of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits issued and accessed via an electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card, card number and personal identification number (PIN), or manual voucher and signature, for cash or consideration other than eligible food, either directly, indirectly, in complicity or collusion with others, or acting alone;

(2) the exchange of one of the following for SNAP benefits: firearms, ammunition, explosives, or controlled substances as defined in United States Code, title 21, section 802;

(3) purchasing a product with SNAP benefits that has a container requiring a return deposit with the intent of obtaining cash by discarding the product and returning the container for the deposit amount, intentionally discarding the product, and intentionally returning the container for the deposit amount;

(4) purchasing a product with SNAP benefits with the intent of obtaining cash or consideration other than eligible food by reselling the product, and intentionally reselling the product purchased with SNAP benefits in exchange for cash or consideration other than eligible food;

(5) intentionally purchasing products originally purchased with SNAP benefits in exchange for cash or consideration other than eligible food; or

(6) attempting to buy, sell, steal, or otherwise effect an exchange of SNAP benefits issued and accessed via an EBT card, card number and PIN number, or manual voucher and signature, for cash or consideration other than eligible food, either directly, indirectly, in complicity or collusion with others, or acting alone.