/* 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