Sec. 2913.49. (A) As used in this section,
"personal | 6 |
identifying information" includes, but is not limited to, the | 7 |
following: the name, address,
telephone number, driver's license, | 8 |
driver's license number,
commercial driver's license, commercial | 9 |
driver's license number,
state identification card, state | 10 |
identification card number,
social security card, social security | 11 |
number,
birth certificate, place of
employment, employee | 12 |
identification number,
mother's maiden
name, demand deposit | 13 |
account number, savings
account number,
money market account | 14 |
number, mutual fund account
number, other
financial account | 15 |
number, personal identification
number,
password, or credit card | 16 |
number of a living or dead
individual. | 17 |
(B) No person, without the express or implied consent of the | 18 |
other person, shall
use, or
obtain,or possess, orwith intent to | 19 |
use,
any
personal
identifying information of
any
living or dead | 20 |
individual
with the intent to fraudulently obtain credit, | 21 |
property, or services or avoid
the payment of a debt or any other | 22 |
legal obligationanother person to do either of the following or | 23 |
with intent to do either of the following: | 24 |
(F)(1) If the violation of division (B) of
this section | 47 |
occurs as part of a course of conduct involving
other violations | 48 |
of division (B) of this section or violations of,
attempts
to | 49 |
violate, conspiracies to violate, or complicity in violations of | 50 |
division
(C) of this section or section 2913.02, 2913.04, 2913.11, | 51 |
2913.21,
2913.31, 2913.42, 2913.43, or 2921.13 of the
Revised | 52 |
Code, the court, in determining
the degree of the offense pursuant | 53 |
to division
(E)(G) of this section, may
aggregate all credit, | 54 |
property, or services obtained or sought
to be obtained by the | 55 |
offender and all debts or other legal
obligations avoided or | 56 |
sought to be avoided by the offender in
the violations involved in | 57 |
that course of
conduct. The course of conduct may involve one | 58 |
victim or more than one
victim. | 59 |
(2) If the violation of division (C) of this section occurs | 60 |
as
part of a course of conduct involving other violations of | 61 |
division
(C)
of this section or violations of, attempts to | 62 |
violate, conspiracies to
violate, or complicity in violations of | 63 |
division (B) of this section
or section 2913.02,
2913.04, 2913.11, | 64 |
2913.21, 2913.31, 2913.42, 2913.43, or
2921.13 of the Revised | 65 |
Code, the court, in determining the
degree of the offense pursuant | 66 |
to division
(E)(G) of this section, may
aggregate all credit, | 67 |
property, or services obtained or sought to be
obtained by the | 68 |
person aided or abetted and all debts or other legal
obligations | 69 |
avoided or sought to be avoided by the person aided or abetted
in | 70 |
the violations involved in that course of conduct. The course of | 71 |
conduct may involve one victim or more than one victim. | 72 |
(E)(G) Whoever violates
this section is guilty of taking the | 73 |
identity of another.
Except as otherwise provided in this | 74 |
division, taking the
identity of another is a misdemeanor of the | 75 |
first degree. If
the value of the credit, property, services, | 76 |
debt, or other
legal obligation involved in the violation or | 77 |
course of conduct is five
hundred dollars or more and is
less than | 78 |
five thousand dollars, taking the identity of another
is a felony | 79 |
of the
fifthfourth degree. If the value of the credit,
property, | 80 |
services, debt, or other legal obligation involved in the | 81 |
violation
or course of conduct is
five thousand dollars or more | 82 |
and is less than one hundred
thousand dollars, taking the identity | 83 |
of another is a felony of
the
fourththird degree. If the value | 84 |
of the
credit, property,
services, debt, or other legal obligation | 85 |
involved in the violation or course
of conduct is one
hundred | 86 |
thousand dollars or more, taking the identity of another
is a | 87 |
felony of the
thirdsecond degree. | 88 |