North Carolina § 10B-146 - Wrongful manufacture, distribution, or possession of software or hardware.

§ 10B-146. Wrongful manufacture, distribution, or possession of software or hardware.

Any person who knowingly creates, manufactures, or distributes software for the purpose of allowing a person to act as an electronic notary without being commissioned and registered in accordance with this act shall be guilty of a Class G felony. Any person who wrongfully obtains, conceals, damages, or destroys the certificate, disk, coding, card, program, software, file, or hardware enabling an electronic notary to affix an official electronic signature is guilty of a Class I felony. History (2005-391, s. 4.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2005-391, s. 4, enacted this section as G.S. 10B-57. It has been renumbered as this section at the direction of the Revisor of Statutes. Session Laws 2005-391, s. 12, provides: "This act shall not affect any civil or criminal litigation pending on December 1, 2005. Any act committed prior to December 1, 2005 which violated any provision of the statutes repealed or amended by this act shall be subject to enforcement, prosecution, conviction, and punishment as if this act had not been enacted. Any claim arising under any provisions of the statutes repealed or amended by this act prior to December 1, 2005 shall remain valid as if this act had not been enacted." Session Laws 2005-391, s. 13, provides in part: "G.S. 10B-60 and G.S. 10B-146 apply to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2005, without regard to whether a commission was issued under Chapter 10A or Chapter 10B of the General Statutes." §§ 10B-147 through 10B-199: Reserved for future codification purposes.