Section 569.099

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS

Chapter 569

Effective - 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories, see footnote   

  569.099.  Tampering with computer users — penalties. — 1.  A person commits the offense of tampering with computer users if he or she knowingly and without authorization or without reasonable grounds to believe that he or she has such authorization:

  (1)  Accesses or causes to be accessed any computer, computer system, or computer network; or

  (2)  Denies or causes the denial of computer system services to an authorized user of such computer system services, which, in whole or in part, is owned by, under contract to, or operated for, or on behalf of, or in conjunction with another.

  2.  The offense of tampering with computer users is a class A misdemeanor unless the offense is committed for the purpose of devising or executing any scheme or artifice to defraud or to obtain any property, the value of which is seven hundred fifty dollars or more, in which case tampering with computer users is a class E felony.

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(L. 1982 H.B. 1454, et al. § 4, A.L. 1987 H.B. 208, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1888, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)

Effective 1-01-17

CROSS REFERENCE:

Civil action for tampering with computer users, expenses and attorney fees, 537.525