South Dakota § 22-40-13 - Unauthorized use of reencoder on payment card--Felony.
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§ 22-40-13. Unauthorized use of reencoder on payment card--Felony.
A person is guilty of a Class 6 felony if the person directly or indirectly uses a reencoder to place information encoded on the magnetic strip or stripe of a payment card or encoded on a computer chip embedded on a payment card onto the magnetic strip or stripe or computer chip of a different payment card without the permission of the authorized user of the payment card from which the information is being reencoded, the issuer of the authorized user's payment card, or a merchant.
Source: SL 2003, ch 131, § 3; SDCL § 22-30A-8.4; SL 2005, ch 120, § 85; SL 2019, ch 110, § 2.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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