END_STATUTE13-2317.  [Money laundering; classification;
definitions]{.underline}

A.  A person is guilty of money laundering in the first degree if the
person does any of the following:

1.  Knowingly initiates, organizes, plans, finances, directs, manages,
supervises or is in the business of money laundering in violation of
subsection B of this section.

2.  Violates subsection B of this section in the course of or for the
purpose of facilitating terrorism or murder.

B.  A person is guilty of money laundering in the second degree if the
person does any of the following:

1.  Acquires or maintains an interest in, transacts, transfers,
transports, receives or conceals the existence or nature of racketeering
proceeds knowing or having reason to know that they are the proceeds of
an offense.

2.  Makes property available to another by transaction, transportation
or otherwise knowing that it is intended to be used to facilitate
racketeering.

3.  Conducts a transaction knowing or having reason to know that the
property involved is the proceeds of an offense and with the intent to
conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership or control
of the property or the intent to facilitate racketeering.

4.  Intentionally or knowingly makes a false statement,
misrepresentation or false certification or makes a false entry or omits
a material entry in any application, financial statement, account
record, customer receipt, report or other document that is filed or
required to be maintained or filed under title 6, chapter 12.

5.  Intentionally or knowingly evades or attempts to evade any reporting
requirement under section 6‑1241, whether by structuring transactions as
described in 31 Code of Federal Regulations part 103, by causing any
financial institution, money transmitter, trade or business to fail to
file the report, by failing to file a required report or record or by
any other means.

6.  Intentionally or knowingly provides any false information or fails
to disclose information that causes any licensee, authorized delegate,
money transmitter, trade or business to either:

(a)  Fail to file any report or record that is required under section
6‑1241.

(b)  File such a report or record that contains a material omission or
misstatement of fact.

7.  Intentionally or knowingly falsifies, conceals, covers up or
misrepresents or attempts to falsify, conceal, cover up or misrepresent
the identity of any person in connection with any transaction with a
financial institution or money transmitter.

8.  In connection with a transaction with a financial institution or
money transmitter, intentionally or knowingly makes, uses, offers or
presents or attempts to make, use, offer or present, whether accepted or
not, a forged instrument, a falsely altered or completed written
instrument or a written instrument that contains any materially false
personal identifying information.

9.  If the person is a money transmitter, a person engaged in a trade or
business or any employee of a money transmitter or a person engaged in a
trade or business, intentionally or knowingly accepts false personal
identifying information from any person or otherwise knowingly
incorporates false personal identifying information into any report or
record that is required by section 6‑1241.

10.  Intentionally conducts, controls, manages, supervises, directs or
owns all or part of a money transmitting business for which a license is
required by title 6, chapter 12 unless the business is licensed pursuant
to title 6, chapter 12 and complies with the money transmitting business
registration requirements under 31 United States Code section 5330.

C.  A person is guilty of money laundering in the third degree if the
person intentionally or knowingly does any of the following:

1.  In the course of any transaction transmitting money, confers or
agrees to confer anything of value on a money transmitter or any
employee of a money transmitter that is intended to influence or reward
any person for failing to comply with any requirement under title 6,
chapter 12.

2.  Engages in the business of receiving money for transmission or
transmitting money, as an employee or otherwise, and receives anything
of value upon an agreement or understanding that it is intended to
influence or benefit the person for failing to comply with any
requirement under title 6, chapter 12.

D.  In addition to any other criminal or civil remedy, if a person
violates subsection A or B of this section as part of a pattern of
violations that involve a total of one hundred thousand dollars or more
in any twelve month period, the person is subject to forfeiture of
substitute assets in an amount that is three times the amount that was
involved in the pattern, including conduct that occurred before and
after the twelve month period.

E.  Money laundering in the third degree is a class 6 felony.  Money
laundering in the second degree is a class 3 felony.  Money laundering
in the first degree is a class 2 felony.

F.  For the purposes of this section:

1.  The following terms have the same meaning prescribed in section
6‑1201:

(a)  \"Authorized delegate\".

(b)  \"Licensee\".

(c)  \"Money accumulation business\".

(d)  \"Money transmitter\".

(e)  \"Trade or business\".

(f)  \"Transmitting money\".

2.  The following terms have the same meaning prescribed in section
13‑2001:

(a)  \"Falsely alters a written instrument\".

(b)  \"Falsely completes a written instrument\".

(c)  \"Falsely makes a written instrument\".

(d)  \"Forged instrument\".

(e)  \"Personal identifying information\".

(f)  \"Written instrument\".

3.  The following terms have the same meaning prescribed in section
13‑2301:

(a)  \"Financial institution\".

(b)  \"Financial instrument\".

(c)  \"Racketeering\", except that for the purposes of civil remedies
sought by the attorney general, racketeering includes any act,
regardless of whether the act would be chargeable or indictable under
the laws of this state or whether the act is charged or indicted, that
is committed for financial gain, punishable by imprisonment for more
than one year under the laws of the United States and described in
section 274(a)(1)(A)(i), (ii) or (iii) or (a)(2) of the immigration and
nationality act (8 United States Code section 1324(a)(1)(A)(i), (ii) or
(iii) or (a)(2)) if persons acting in concert in the conduct acquire a
total of more than five thousand dollars through the conduct in a one
month period.  For the purpose of forfeiture of property other than real
property, the conduct must involve more than three aliens in a one month
period.  For the purpose of forfeiture of real property, the conduct
must involve more than fifteen aliens in a one month period.

4.  The following terms have the same meaning prescribed in section
13‑2314:

(a)  \"Acquire\".

(b)  \"Proceeds\".

G.  For the purposes of this section:

1.  \"Offense\" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13‑105 and
includes conduct for which a sentence to a term of incarceration is
provided by any law of the United States.

2.  \"Superintendent\" has the same meaning prescribed in section 6‑101.

3.  \"Transaction\" means a purchase, sale, trade, loan, pledge,
investment, gift, transfer, transmission, delivery, deposit, withdrawal,
payment, transfer between accounts, exchange of currency, extension of
credit, purchase or sale of any financial instrument or any other
acquisition or disposition of property by whatever means. END_STATUTE