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NC Gen Stat § 14-113.6 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19A - Obtaining Property or Services by False or Fraudulent Use of Credit Device or Other Means.|§ 14-113.6 - Penalties for violation; civil action.

 14-113.6. Penalties for violation; civil action.(a) Any person violating any of the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. However, if the offense is a violation of G.S. 14-113.5 and involves five or more unlawful telecommunication devices the person shall be guilty of a Class G felony.(b) The court may, in addition to any other sentence authorized by law, order a person convicted of violating G.S. 14-113.5 to make restitution for the offense.(c) Any person or entity aggrieved by a violation of G.S. 14-113.5 may, in a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction, obtain appropriate relief, including preliminary and other equitable or declaratory relief, compensatory and punitive damages, reasonable investigation expenses, costs of suit and any attorney fees as may be provided by law. (1961, c. 223, s. 5; 1965, c. 1147; 1969, c. 1224, s. 6; 1993, c. 539, s. 54; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 1995, c. 425, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.6A (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19A - Obtaining Property or Services by False or Fraudulent Use of Credit Device or Other Means.|§ 14-113.6A - Venue of offenses.

 14-113.6A. Venue of offenses.(a) Any of the offenses described in Article 19A which involve the placement of telephone calls may be deemed to have been committed at either the place at which the telephone call or calls were made or at the place where the telephone call or calls were received.(b) An offense under former G.S. 14-113.5(3) or 14-113.5(4) (see now G.S. 14-113.5(a)(3) or 14-113.5(a)(4)) may be deemed to have been committed at either the place at which the publication was initiated or at which the publication was received or at which the information so published was utilized to avoid or attempt to avoid the payment of any lawful telephone or telegraph toll charge. (1971, c. 1213, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.7 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19A - Obtaining Property or Services by False or Fraudulent Use of Credit Device or Other Means.|§ 14-113.7 - Article not construed as repealing § 14-100.

 14-113.7. Article not construed as repealing 14-100.This Article shall not be construed as repealing G.S. 14-100. (1961, c. 223, s. 6; 1065, c. 1147.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.7A (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19A - Obtaining Property or Services by False or Fraudulent Use of Credit Device or Other Means.|§ 14-113.7A - Application of Article to credit cards.

 14-113.7A. Application of Article to credit cards.This Article shall not be construed as being applicable to any credit card as the term is defined in G.S. 14-113.8. (1967, c. 1244, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.9 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.|§ 14-113.9 - Financial transaction card theft.

 14-113.9. Financial transaction card theft.(a) A person is guilty of financial transaction card theft when the person does any of the following:(1) Takes, obtains, or withholds a financial transaction card from the person, possession, custody, or control of another without the cardholder's consent and with the intent to use it; or who, with knowledge that it has been so taken, obtained, or withheld, receives the financial transaction card with intent to use it or to sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder.(2) Receives a financial transaction card that he or she knows to have been lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the identity or address of the cardholder, and retains possession with intent to use it or to sell it or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder.(3) Not being the issuer, sells a financial transaction card or buys a financial transaction card from a person other than the issuer.(4) Not being the issuer, during any 12-month period, receives financial transaction cards issued in the names of two or more persons which he or she has reason to know were taken or retained under circumstances that constitute a violation of G.S. 14-113.13(a)(3) and subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of this section.(5) With the intent to defraud any person, either (i) uses a scanning device to access, read, obtain, memorize, or store, temporarily or permanently, information encoded on another person's financial transaction card, or (ii) receives the encoded information from another person's financial transaction card.(6) Knowingly possesses, sells, or delivers a skimming device. The prohibition set forth in this subdivision does not apply to an employee, officer, or agent of any of the following while acting within the scope of the person's official duties:a. A law enforcement agency.b. A State or federal court.c. An agency or department of the State, local, or federal government.d. A financial or retail security investigator employed by a merchant.(b) Financial transaction card theft is punishable as provided by G.S. 14-113.17(b).  (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979, c. 741, s. 1; c. 760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1; c. 179, s. 14; 2002-175, s. 3; 2021-68, s. 2; 2021-88, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.10 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.|§ 14-113.10 - Prima facie evidence of theft.

 14-113.10. Prima facie evidence of theft.When a person has in his possession or under his control financial transaction cards issued in the names of two or more other persons other than members of his immediate family, such possession shall be prima facie evidence that such financial transaction cards have been obtained in violation of G.S. 14-113.9(a). (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979, c. 741, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.11 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.|§ 14-113.11 - Forgery of financial transaction card.

 14-113.11. Forgery of financial transaction card.(a) A person is guilty of financial transaction card forgery when:(1) With intent to defraud a purported issuer, a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, or any other person, he falsely makes or falsely embosses a purported financial transaction card or utters such a financial transaction card; or(2) With intent to defraud 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 transaction card or utters such a financial transaction card; or(3) He, not being the cardholder or a person authorized by him, with intent to defraud the issuer, or a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, or any other person, signs a financial transaction card.(b) A person falsely makes 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 a named issuer but which is not such a financial transaction card because the issuer did not authorize the making or drawing, or alters a financial transaction card which was validly issued.(c) A person falsely embosses a financial transaction card when, without authorization of the named issuer, he completes a financial transaction card by adding any of the matter, other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the financial transaction card before it can be used by a cardholder.(d) A person falsely encodes a financial transaction card when, without authorization of the purported issuer, he records magnetically, electronically, electro-magnetically or by any other means whatsoever, information on a financial transaction card which will permit acceptance of that card by any automated banking device. Conviction of financial transaction card forgery shall be punishable as provided in G.S. 14-113.17(b). (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979, c. 741, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.12 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.|§ 14-113.12 - Prima facie evidence of forgery.

 14-113.12. Prima facie evidence of forgery.(a) When a person, other than the purported issuer, possesses two or more financial transaction cards which are falsely made or falsely embossed, such possession shall be prima facie evidence that said cards were obtained in violation of G.S. 14-113.11(a)(1) or 14-113.11(a)(2).(b) When a person, other than the cardholder or a person authorized by him possesses two or more financial transaction cards which are signed, such possession shall be prima facie evidence that said cards were obtained in violation of G.S. 14-113.11(a)(3). (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979, c. 741, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.14 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.|§ 14-113.14 - Criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices.

 14-113.14. Criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices.(a) A person is guilty of criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices when:(1) He is a person other than the cardholder and possesses two or more incomplete financial transaction cards, with intent to complete them without the consent of the issuer; or(2) He possesses, with knowledge of its character, machinery, plates, or any other contrivance designed to reproduce instruments purporting to be financial transaction cards of an issuer who has not consented to the preparation of such financial transaction cards.(b) A financial transaction card is incomplete if part of the matter other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the financial transaction card before it can be used by a cardholder, has not yet been stamped, embossed, imprinted, encoded or written upon it.Conviction of criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices is punishable as provided in G.S. 14-113.17(b). (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979, c. 741, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.15 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.|§ 14-113.15 - Criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained.

 14-113.15. Criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained.A person is guilty of criminally receiving goods and services fraudulently obtained when he receives money, goods, services or anything else of value obtained in violation of G.S. 14-113.13(a) with the knowledge or belief that the same were obtained in violation of G.S. 14-113.13(a). Conviction of criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained is punishable as provided in G.S. 14-113.17(a) if the value of all the money, goods, services and anything else of value, obtained in violation of this section, does not exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) in any six-month period; conviction of criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained is punishable as provided in G.S. 14-113.17(b) if such value exceeds five hundred dollars ($500.00) in any six-month period. (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979, c. 741, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.15A (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.|§ 14-113.15A - Criminal factoring of financial transaction card records.

 14-113.15A. Criminal factoring of financial transaction card records.Any person who, without the acquirer's express authorization, employs or solicits an authorized merchant, or any agent or employee of such merchant, to remit to an issuer or acquirer, for payment, a financial transaction card record of a sale, which sale was not made by such merchant, his agent or employee, is guilty of a felony punishable as provided in G.S. 14-113.17(b). (1989, c. 161, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.16 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.|§ 14-113.16 - Presumption of criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained.

 14-113.16. Presumption of criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained.A person who obtains at a discount price a ticket issued by an airline, railroad, steamship or other transportation company from other than an authorized agent of such company which was acquired in violation of G.S. 14-113.13(a) without reasonable inquiry to ascertain that the person from whom it was obtained had a legal right to possess it shall be presumed to know that such ticket was acquired under circumstances constituting a violation of G.S. 14-113.13(a). (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979, c. 741, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.17 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.|§ 14-113.17 - Punishment and penalties.

 14-113.17. Punishment and penalties.(a) A person who is subject to the punishment and penalties of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.(b) A crime punishable under this Article is punishable as a Class I felony. (1967, c. 1244, s. 2; 1979, c. 741, s. 1; c. 760, s. 5; 1993, c. 539, ss. 55, 1183; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.20 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19C - Identity Theft.|§ 14-113.20 - Identity theft.

 14-113.20. Identity theft.(a) A person who knowingly obtains, possesses, or uses identifying information of another person, living or dead, with the intent to fraudulently represent that the person is the other person for the purposes of making financial or credit transactions in the other person's name, to obtain anything of value, benefit, or advantage, or for the purpose of avoiding legal consequences is guilty of a felony punishable as provided in G.S. 14-113.22(a).(b) The term "identifying information" as used in this Article includes the following:(1) Social security or employer taxpayer identification numbers.(2) Drivers license, State identification card, or passport numbers.(3) Checking account numbers.(4) Savings account numbers.(5) Credit card numbers.(6) Debit card numbers.(7) Personal Identification (PIN) Code as defined in G.S. 14-113.8(6).(8) Electronic identification numbers, electronic mail names or addresses, Internet account numbers, or Internet identification names.(9) Digital signatures.(10) Any other numbers or information that can be used to access a person's financial resources.(11) Biometric data.(12) Fingerprints.(13) Passwords.(14) Parent's legal surname prior to marriage.(c) It shall not be a violation under this Article for a person to do any of the following:(1) Lawfully obtain credit information in the course of a bona fide consumer or commercial transaction.(2) Lawfully exercise, in good faith, a security interest or a right of offset by a creditor or financial institution.(3) Lawfully comply, in good faith, with any warrant, court order, levy, garnishment, attachment, or other judicial or administrative order, decree, or directive, when any party is required to do so. (1999-449, s. 1; 2000-140, s. 37; 2002-175, s. 4; 2005-414, s. 6.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.20A (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19C - Identity Theft.|§ 14-113.20A - Trafficking in stolen identities.

 14-113.20A. Trafficking in stolen identities.(a) It is unlawful for a person to sell, transfer, or purchase the identifying information of another person with the intent to commit identity theft, or to assist another person in committing identity theft, as set forth in G.S. 14-113.20.(b) A violation of this section is a felony punishable as provided in G.S. 14-113.22(a1). (2002-175, s. 5; 2005-414, s. 7(2).)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.21 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19C - Identity Theft.|§ 14-113.21 - Venue of offenses.

 14-113.21. Venue of offenses.In any criminal proceeding brought under G.S. 14-113.20, the crime is considered to be committed in the county where the victim resides, where the perpetrator resides, where any part of the identity theft took place, or in any other county instrumental to the completion of the offense, regardless of whether the defendant was ever actually present in that county. (1999-449, s. 1; 2005-414, ss. 2, 7.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.21A (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19C - Identity Theft.|§ 14-113.21A - Investigation of offenses.

 14-113.21A. Investigation of offenses.(a) A person who has learned or reasonably suspects that the person has been the victim of identity theft may contact the local law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over the person's actual residence. Notwithstanding the fact that jurisdiction may lie elsewhere for investigation and prosecution of a crime of identity theft, the local law enforcement agency may take the complaint, issue an incident report, and provide the complainant with a copy of the report and may refer the report to a law enforcement agency in that different jurisdiction.(b) Nothing in this section interferes with the discretion of a local law enforcement agency to allocate resources for investigations of crimes. A complaint filed or report issued under this section is not required to be counted as an open case for purposes of compiling open case statistics. (2005-414, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.22 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19C - Identity Theft.|§ 14-113.22 - Punishment and liability.

 14-113.22. Punishment and liability.(a) A violation of G.S.14-113.20(a) is punishable as a Class G felony, except it is punishable as a Class F felony if: (i) the victim suffers arrest, detention, or conviction as a proximate result of the offense, or (ii) the person is in possession of the identifying information pertaining to three or more separate persons.(a1) A violation of G.S. 14-113.20A is punishable as a Class E felony.(a2) The court may order a person convicted under G.S. 14-113.20 or G.S. 14-113.20A to pay restitution pursuant to Article 81C of Chapter 15A of the General Statutes for financial loss caused by the violation to any person. Financial loss included under this subsection may include, in addition to actual losses, lost wages, attorneys' fees, and other costs incurred by the victim in correcting his or her credit history or credit rating, or in connection with any criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding brought against the victim resulting from the misappropriation of the victim's identifying information.(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), (a1), or (a2) of this section, any person who commits an act made unlawful by G.S. 14-113.20 or G.S. 14-113.20A may also be liable for damages under G.S. 1-539.2C.(c) In any case in which a person obtains identifying information of another person in violation of this Article, uses that information to commit a crime in addition to a violation of this Article, and is convicted of that additional crime, the court records shall reflect that the person whose identity was falsely used to commit the crime did not commit the crime. (1999-449, s. 1; 2002-175, ss. 6, 7; 2003-206, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.23 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19C - Identity Theft.|§ 14-113.23 - Authority of the Attorney General.

 14-113.23. Authority of the Attorney General.The Attorney General may investigate any complaint regarding identity theft under this Article. In conducting these investigations, the Attorney General has all the investigative powers available to the Attorney General under Article 1 of Chapter 75 of the General Statutes. The Attorney General shall refer all cases of identity theft under G.S. 14-113.20 to the district attorney in the county where the crime was deemed committed in accordance with G.S. 14-113.21. (1999-449, s. 1; 2005-414, s. 7(2).)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.24 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19C - Identity Theft.|§ 14-113.24 - Credit, charge, or debit card numbers on receipts.

 14-113.24. Credit, charge, or debit card numbers on receipts.(a) For purposes of this section, the word "person" means the person that owns or leases the cash register or other machine or device that electronically prints receipts of credit, charge, or debit card transactions.(b) Except as provided in this section, no person that accepts credit, charge, or debit cards for the transaction of business shall print more than five digits of the credit, charge, or debit card account number or the expiration date upon any receipt with the intent to provide the receipt to the cardholder at the point of sale. This section applies to a person who employs a cash register or other machine or device that electronically prints receipts for credit, charge, or debit card transactions. This section does not apply to a person whose sole means of recording a credit, charge, or debit card number for the transaction of business is by handwriting or by an imprint or copy of the credit, charge, or debit card.(c) A person who violates this section commits an infraction as defined in G.S. 14-3.1 and is subject to a penalty of up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) per violation, not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) in any calendar month or two thousand dollars ($2,000) in any calendar year. A person who receives a citation for violation of this section is not subject to the penalty provided in this subsection if the person establishes in court that the person came into compliance with this section within 30 days of the issuance of the citation and the person has remained in compliance with this section. (2003-206, s. 1; 2003-206, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 14-113.25 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 14 - Criminal Law|Article 19C - Identity Theft.|§ 14-113.25 - Sale of certain cash registers and other receipt printing machines.

 14-113.25. Sale of certain cash registers and other receipt printing machines.(a) No person shall sell or offer to sell a cash register or other machine or device that electronically prints receipts of credit, charge, or debit card transactions that cannot be programmed or operated to produce a receipt with five or fewer digits of the credit, charge, or debit card account number and no expiration date printed on the receipt. This subsection applies to cash registers or other machines or devices sold or offered for sale for use in the ordinary course of business in this State.(b) A person who violates this section commits an infraction as defined in G.S. 14-3.1 and is subject to a penalty of up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) per violation. For purposes of assessing penalties pursuant to this subsection, the sale or offer for sale of each individual cash register or other machine or device that electronically prints receipts of credit, charge, or debit card transactions in violation of this section is treated as a separate violation. (2003-206, s. 1.)