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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="8-613" title_number="8" title_name="Fraud and Related Crimes" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Counterfeiting and Related Crimes">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Service” includes the use of telephone or telegraph facilities, gas, electricity, or a musical instrument, phonograph, or other property.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Vending machine” includes a slot machine, pay telephone, or other receptacle designed to receive United States currency in connection with the sale or use of property or of a service.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>operate, cause to be operated, or attempt to operate or cause to be operated a vending machine by a means not lawfully authorized by the owner, lessee, or licensee of the vending machine, including by means of a slug or by counterfeit, mutilated, sweated, or foreign currency;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>take, obtain, or receive from or in connection with a vending machine any property or service, without depositing into the vending machine United States currency in the amount required by the owner, lessee, or licensee of the vending machine; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>manufacture for sale, sell, or give away a slug or device that is intended to be deposited in a vending machine if the person:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>intends to defraud the owner, lessee, licensee, or other person entitled to the contents of the vending machine; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>knows that the slug or device is intended for unlawful use.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $500 or both.</text>
  </level>
</section>
