US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 24
                                    THEFT
    18-2415.  SCANNING -- REENCODING. (1) As used in this section, the term:
    (a)  "Scanning device" means a scanner, reader, or any other electronic
    device that is used to access, read, scan, obtain, memorize, or store,
    temporarily or permanently, information encoded on the magnetic strip or
    stripe of a payment card.
    (b)  "Reencoder" means an electronic device that places encoded
    information from the magnetic strip or stripe of a payment card onto the
    magnetic strip or stripe of a different payment card.
    (c)  "Financial transaction card" or "FTC" means any instrument or device
    known as a credit card, credit plate, bank services card, banking card,
    check guarantee  card, debit card, telephone credit card or by any other
    name issued by the issuer for the use of the card holder in obtaining
    money, goods, services, or anything else of value on credit, or in
    certifying or guaranteeing to a person or business the availability to the
    card holder of the funds on deposit that are equal to or greater than the
    amount necessary to honor a draft or check payable to the order of such a
    person or business; or any instrument or device used in providing the card
    holder access to a demand deposit account or a time deposit account for
    the purpose of making deposits of money or checks therein, or withdrawing
    funds in the form of money, money orders, or traveler's checks or other
    representative of value therefrom or transferring funds from any demand
    account or time deposit account to any credit card account in full or
    partial satisfaction of any outstanding balance existing therein.
    (d)  "Merchant" is defined as an owner or operator of any retail
    mercantile establishment or any agent, employee, lessee, consignee,
    officer, director, franchisee, or independent contractor of such owner or
    operator. A "merchant" means a person who receives from an authorized user
    of a payment card, or someone the person believes to be an authorized
    user, a payment card or information from a payment card, or what the
    person believes to be a payment card or information from a payment card,
    as the instrument for obtaining, purchasing or receiving goods, services,
    money or anything else of value from the person.
    (2)  It is a felony for a person to use or possess with intent to use:
    (a)  A scanning device to access, read, obtain, memorize, or store,
    temporarily or permanently, information encoded on the magnetic strip or
    stripe of a payment card without the permission of the authorized user of
    the payment card and with the intent to defraud the authorized user, the
    issuer of the authorized user's payment card, or a merchant.
    (b)  A reencoder to place information encoded on the magnetic strip or
    stripe of a payment card onto the magnetic strip or stripe of a different
    card without the permission of the authorized user of the card from which
    the information is being reencoded and with the intent to defraud the
    authorized user, the issuer of the authorized user's payment card, or a
    merchant.
    (3)  Any person who commits a violation pursuant to this section shall be
punished pursuant to the provisions of section 18-2408(2)(a), Idaho Code.