(a) Any person who, with the intent to defraud, uses a scanning device to access, read, obtain, memorize, or store, temporarily or permanently, information contained or encoded on the magnetic strip or stripe of a credit or debit card without the permission of the authorized user of such payment card shall incur a third degree felony.(b) Any person who, with intent to defraud, uses a re-encoder to place encoded information on the magnetic strip or stripe of a credit or debit card, on the magnetic strip or stripe of any other card or any electronic medium that allows an authorized transaction to occur, without the permission of the authorized user of the credit or debit card from which the information is being re-encoded shall incur a third degree felony. History —June 18, 2004, No. 149, added as art. 235–A on Dec. 30, 2010, No. 237, § 5.