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.