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/* Here's the Arizona Computer Crimes Law, effective in 1978, see 
section 13-2301, Arizona Revised Statutes.*/

SECTION 13-2301 Definitions

/* We are omitting sections A through D of this section as they 
do not relate to computers.*/

E. For the purposes of Section 13-2316:

     1. "Access" means to approach, instruct, communicate with, 
store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use the 
resources of, a computer, computer system, or computer network.

     2. "Computer" means an electronic device which performs 
logic, arithmetic or memory functions by the manipulations of 
electronic or magnetic impulses, and includes input, output, 
processing, storage, software, or communication facilities which 
are connected or related to a device in a system or network.

     3. "Computer network" means the interconnection of 
communications lines with a computer through remote terminals, or 
a complex consisting of 2 or more interconnected computers.

     4. "Computer program" means a series of instructions or 
statements, in a form acceptable to a computer, which permits the 
functioning of a computer system in a manner designed to provide 
appropriate products from such computer system.

     5. "Computer software" means a set of computer programs, 
procedures, and associated documentation concerned with the 
operation of a computer system.

     6. "Computer system" means a set of related, connected or 
unconnected equipment, devices and software.

     7. "Financial instrument" means any check, draft, money 
order, certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bill of 
exchange, credit card or marketable security or any other written 
instrument, as defined by Section 13-2001, paragraph 7, which is 
transferable for value.
 
     8. "Property" means financial instruments, information, 
including electronically produced data, computer software and 
programs in either machine or human readable form, and anything 
of value, tangible or intangible.

     9. "Services" includes computer time, data processing, and 
storage functions.

SECTION 13-2316 Computer fraud; classification

     A. A person commits computer fraud in the first degree by 
accessing, altering, damaging or destroying without authorization 
any computer, computer system, computer network, or any part of 
such computer, system or network, with the intent to devise or 
execute any scheme or artifice to defraud or deceive, or control 
property or services, by means of a false or fraudulent 
pretenses, representations, or promises. 

     B.  A person commits computer fraud in the second degree by 
intentionally and without authorization, accessing, altering, 
damaging or destroying any computer, computer system, or computer 
network, or or data contained in a computer, computer system, or 
computer network.

     C. Computer fraud in the first degree is  class 3 felony. 
Computer fraud in the second degree is a class 6 felony.

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