Section 10-15-4. Prohibited activities involving magnetic strip or stripe on payment card  


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  •    (a) No person shall use 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 with the intent to defraud the authorized user, the issuer of the authorized user's payment card, or a merchant.

    (b) No person shall use 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 with the intent to defraud the authorized user, the issuer of the authorized user's payment card, or a merchant.
Code 1981, § 10-15-4, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 339, § 2.