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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-4901" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="49" subtitle_name="Gift Card Fraud">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Closed–loop gift card” means a card, code, or device that is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Issued to a consumer on a prepaid basis primarily for personal, family, or household purposes in a specified amount, regardless of whether that amount may be increased or reloaded in exchange for payment; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Redeemable on presentation by a consumer at a single merchant or a group of affiliated merchants.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Division” has the meaning stated in § 13–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Merchant” has the meaning stated in § 13–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Open–loop gift card” means a card, code, or device that is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Issued to a consumer on a prepaid basis primarily for personal, family, or household purposes in a specified amount, regardless of whether that amount may be increased or reloaded in exchange for payment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Payment card network branded; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Redeemable on presentation at multiple unaffiliated merchants for goods or services within the payment card network; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Usable at an automated teller machine.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Third–party gift card reseller” means a merchant who, without authorization from or affiliation with the business entity issuing an open– or a closed–loop gift card, is engaged in the business of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Buying open– or closed–loop gift cards on behalf of consumers; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Reselling open– or closed–loop gift cards to consumers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
