A person is guilty of a Class 6 felony if the person directly or indirectly uses a scanning device to access, read, obtain, memorize, or store, temporarily or permanently, information encoded on the magnetic strip or stripe of a payment card or encoded on a chip embedded on a payment card without the permission of the authorized user of the payment card, the issuer of the authorized user's payment card, or a merchant.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-40-12
Unauthorized use of scanning device on payment card--Felony
Source: SL 2003, ch 131, § 2; SDCL § 22-30A-8.3; SL 2005, ch 120, § 85; SL 2019, ch 110, § 1.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.