💾 Archived View for spam.works › mirrors › textfiles › law › az_lawsta.law captured on 2023-06-16 at 18:54:16.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
/* 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.
Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253