Bill Text: MI SB0768 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Crimes; business crimes; possession, manufacturing, installation, transfer, or sale of an automated sales suppression device; prohibit. Amends 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.1 - 750.568) by adding sec. 411w.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)
Status: (Passed) 2012-05-31 - Assigned Pa 0146'12 With Immediate Effect [SB0768 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB0768-Chaptered.html
Act No. 146
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
May 30, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
May 30, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 29, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Senators Pappageorge, Schuitmaker, Meekhof, Nofs, Hopgood, Colbeck, Jones, Caswell, Marleau, Proos, Green, Bieda and Brandenburg
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 768
AN ACT to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, codify, and add to the statutes relating to crimes; to define crimes and prescribe the penalties and remedies; to provide for restitution under certain circumstances; to provide for the competency of evidence at the trial of persons accused of crime; to provide immunity from prosecution for certain witnesses appearing at criminal trials; to provide for liability for damages; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act,” (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 411w.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 411w. (1) A person shall not knowingly sell, purchase, install, transfer, or possess in this state any automated sales suppression device or zapper or phantom-ware.
(2) A person who violates subsection (1) is guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned for not less than 1 year or more than 5 years and, in addition, may be fined not more than $100,000.00.
(3) A person who violates subsection (1) is liable for all taxes and penalties due the state as the result of the fraudulent use of an automated sales suppression device or phantom-ware and shall disgorge all profits associated with the sale or use of an automated sales suppression device or phantom-ware.
(4) As used in this section:
(a) “Automated sales suppression device” or “zapper” means a software program carried on a memory stick or removable compact disc, accessed through an internet link, or accessed through any other means, that falsifies the electronic records of electronic cash registers and other point-of-sale systems, including, but not limited to, transaction data and transaction reports.
(b) “Electronic cash register” means a device that keeps a register or supporting documents through the means of an electronic device or computer system designed to record transaction data for the purpose of computing, compiling, or processing retail sales transaction data in whatever manner.
(c) “Phantom-ware” means a hidden, preinstalled, or installed at a later time programming option embedded in the operating system of an electronic cash register or hardwired into the electronic cash register that can be used to create a virtual second till or may eliminate or manipulate transaction records that may or may not be preserved in digital formats to represent the true or manipulated record of transactions in the electronic cash register.
(d) “Transaction data” includes information regarding items purchased by a customer, the price for each item, a taxability determination for each item, a segregated tax amount for each of the taxed items, the amount of cash or credit tendered, the net amount returned to the customer in change, the date and time of the purchase, the name, address, and identification number of the vendor, and the receipt or invoice number of the transaction.
(e) “Transaction report” means a report that includes, but need not be limited to, the sales, taxes collected, media totals, and discount voids at an electronic cash register that is printed on cash register tape at the end of a day or shift, or a report documenting every action at an electronic cash register that is stored electronically.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
