Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 14, § 70.4. Access device fraud

(1) “Access device” means a person's social security number, driver's license number, birth date, mother's maiden name, checking account numbers, savings account numbers, personal identification numbers, electronic identification numbers, digital signatures, gift card, account information related to a gift card, or other means of account access that can be used to obtain anything of value, whether contemporaneously or not.

(2) “Counterfeit access device” means an access device that is fictitious, altered, or forged.

(3) “Device-making equipment” means any instrumentality, mechanism, or impression designed or primarily used for making an access device or counterfeit access device.

(4) “Gift card” means a card, code, or device that is issued to a consumer on a prepaid basis in a specified amount and is redeemable in exchange for goods or services. The value of the gift is either the maximum face value of the card when it is held for sale by the merchant or the actual value of the funds deposited with the merchant at the time of the activation and purchase.

(5) “Transfer” means sell, give, provide, or transmit.

F. (1) A person who commits the crime of access device fraud when the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of twenty-five thousand dollars or more shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty years, fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, or both.

(2) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of five thousand dollars or more, but less than a value of twenty-five thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than ten years, fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both.

(3) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of one thousand dollars or more, but less than a value of five thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than five years, fined not more than three thousand dollars, or both.

(4) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of less than one thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

(5) Upon a third or subsequent conviction of theft, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than two years, fined not more than two thousand dollars, or both.