Idaho § 18-3123 - Forgery of a financial transaction card
Full text of Idaho Idaho Statutes § 18-3123 — Forgery of a financial transaction card, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 18-3123. Forgery of a financial transaction card
Any person who, with intent to defraud, counterfeits, falsely makes, embosses, or encodes magnetically or electronically any FTC, or who with intent to defraud, uses the financial transaction card account number or personal identification code of a card holder in the creation of a fictitious or counterfeit credit card sales draft, signs the name of another, or a fictitious name to an FTC, sales slip, sales draft, credit card sales draft, or any instrument for the payment of money which evidences an FTC transaction, shall be guilty of forgery and shall be punished under the current forgery statutes of the state of Idaho.
[18-3123, added 1981, ch. 164, sec. 2, p. 289; am. 1991, ch. 331, sec. 2, p. 857.]
Source: official Idaho text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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What does Idaho Statutes § 18-3123 cover?
Section 18-3123 ("Forgery of a financial transaction card") is part of the Idaho Statutes, the codified statutory law of Idaho. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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