§ 14-113.11. Forgery of financial transaction card. - North Carolina Statutes

§14‑113.11.  Forgery of financial transaction card.

(a)        A person is guiltyof financial transaction card forgery when:

(1)        With intent todefraud a purported issuer, a person or organization providing money, goods,services or anything else of value, or any other person, he falsely makes orfalsely embosses a purported financial transaction card or utters such afinancial transaction card; or

(2)        With intent todefraud a purported issuer, a person or organization providing money, goods,services or anything else of value, or any other person, he falsely encodes,duplicates or alters existing encoded information on a financial transactioncard or utters such a financial transaction card; or

(3)        He, not being thecardholder or a person authorized by him, with intent to defraud the issuer, ora person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else ofvalue, or any other person, signs a financial transaction card.

(b)        A person falselymakes a financial transaction card when he makes or draws, in whole or in part,a device or instrument which purports to be the financial transaction card of anamed issuer but which is not such a financial transaction card because theissuer did not authorize the making or drawing, or alters a financial transactioncard which was validly issued.

(c)        A person falselyembosses a financial transaction card when, without authorization of the namedissuer, he completes a financial transaction card by adding any of the matter,other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appearon the financial transaction card before it can be used by a cardholder.

(d)        A person falselyencodes a financial transaction card when, without authorization of thepurported issuer, he records magnetically, electronically, electro‑magneticallyor by any other means whatsoever, information on a financial transaction cardwhich will permit acceptance of that card by any automated banking device.Conviction of financial transaction card forgery shall be punishable as providedin G.S. 14‑113.17(b). (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979,c. 741, s. 1.)