Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 4 - BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LAW (§§ 4-1-101 — 4-119-105) › Subtitle 7 - CONSUMER PROTECTION (§§ 4-86-101 — 4-119-105) › Chapter 107 - CREDIT CARDS (§§ 4-107-201 — 4-107-307) › Subchapter 3 - UNAUTHORIZED USE OF CREDIT CARDS (§§ 4-107-301 — 4-107-307) › Section 4-107-302 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter:
(1)
"Authorized user" means a person granted express, implied, or apparent authority to use a cardholder's credit card or credit card number;
(2)
"Cardholder" means the named credit card account member and co-applicant who applies for or accepts the terms and conditions of a credit card account;
(3)
"Charges" means purchases, cash advances, annual membership fees, delinquent payment fees, insufficient fund fees, over-the-limit credit fees, or other amounts incurred through the use of the credit card;
(4)
"Credit card" means an instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, charge card, credit plate, courtesy card, identification card, or by any other name, that:
(A)
Is issued by a credit card issuer with or without a fee;
(B)
Has an assigned account number; and
(C)
Is for the use of the cardholder to obtain money, goods, services, or anything of monetary value, on credit, in possession, or in consideration of an undertaking or guaranty by the credit card issuer of the payment of a check drawn by the cardholder on a promise to pay, in part or in full, at a future time whether or not any part of the indebtedness that is represented by the promise to make a deferred payment is secured or unsecured;
(5)
"Credit card account" means a line of credit offered by a credit card issuer to a cardholder for the use of a credit card;
(6)
"Credit card agreement" means the terms and conditions governing the use of the credit card account;
(7)
"Credit card issuer" means a person who issues a credit card or the agent of a person with respect to a credit card;
(8)
"Creditor" means a person, business, financial institution, or commercial enterprise that owns the credit card account;
(9)
"Data" means the information maintained on the cardholder's account by the original creditor, credit card issuer, or succeeding creditor in the regular course of business and transferred as part of an assignment or sales agreement to the present creditor or owner of the account electronically or otherwise from which information the present creditor or owner has compiled;
(10)
"Financial institution" means:
(A)
A banking institution that may issue credit cards under any state or federal law;
(B)
A banking subsidiary owned by a bank holding company as defined in
12 U.S.C. § 1841
or by a savings and loan holding company as defined in
12 U.S.C. § 1467a(a)(1)(D)
; or
(C)
Any federally regulated banking institution;
(11)
"Interest" means a payment to compensate a creditor or prospective creditor for making an extension of credit, making available a line of credit, or for a borrower's default or breach of a condition on which credit was extended; and
(12)
"Terms and conditions" means the general and special arrangements, provisions, requirements, rules, specifications, and standards that form an integral part of a credit card agreement between the credit card issuer and the cardholder.
Amended by Act 2013, No. 1495,§ 1, eff. 8/16/2013.
Acts 2003, No. 274, § 1.