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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="12-1201" title_number="12" title_name="Miscellaneous Institutions and Activities" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Virtual Currency Kiosks">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Experienced user” means a person that is not a new user.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“New user” means a person that is transacting with a virtual currency kiosk operator:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>For the first time; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Anytime in the 72 hours immediately following the person’s first transaction with the virtual currency kiosk operator.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Virtual currency” means a digital representation of value that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is used as a medium of exchange, unit of account, or store of value; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is not currency, as defined in § 12–802 of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Virtual currency” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A digital representation of value that can be redeemed for:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Goods, services, discounts, or purchases solely as part of a customer affinity or rewards program with the issuing merchant or other designated merchants, or both; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Digital units in another customer affinity or rewards program that may not directly or indirectly be converted into, redeemed, or exchanged for money, monetary value, bank credit, or virtual currency; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A digital representation of value issued by or on behalf of a publisher that:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Is used solely within an online game, game platform, or family of games sold by the same publisher or offered on the same game platform;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Has no market or application outside of the online game, game platform, or family of games;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>May not directly or indirectly be converted into, redeemed, or exchanged for money, monetary value, bank credit, or virtual currency; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>May or may not be redeemable for real–world goods, services, discounts, or purchases.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Virtual currency kiosk” means a stand–alone automated platform through which a consumer may deposit or receive cash or use a credit or debit card to obtain virtual currency services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Virtual currency kiosk operator” or “operator” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person who owns or operates a virtual currency kiosk in the State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person who installs or operates software that enables a stand–alone automated device to provide virtual currency services in the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Virtual currency service” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The conversion of a virtual currency to another form of virtual currency; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The purchase, sale, exchange, swap, or transfer of virtual currency by any means.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Virtual currency service” includes any other activity that the Commissioner identifies as a virtual currency service by regulation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Virtual currency service” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Money transmission, as defined in § 12–401(p) of this title; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Accepting or dispensing cash in connection with a credit, deposit, or convenience account.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
