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(4) An agent of an insurer, a reinsurer, a
purported insurer or reinsurer, or a broker.
(5) A health maintenance organization.
(6) A limited service health maintenance
organization.
(l) “Manufacturer” means a person who man-
ufactures a recording. The term does not include
a person who manufactures a medium upon which
sounds or visual images can be recorded or stored.
(m) “Make” means to draw, prepare, com-
plete, counterfeit, copy or otherwise reproduce, or
alter any written instrument in whole or in part.
(n) “Metering device” means a mechanism or
system used by a utility to measure or record the
quantity of services received by a customer.
(o) “Public relief or assistance” means any
payment made, service rendered, hospitalization
provided, or other benefit extended to a person by
a governmental entity from public funds and
includes township assistance, food stamps, direct
relief, unemployment compensation, and any
other form of support or aid.
(p) “Recording” means a tangible medium
upon which sounds or visual images are recorded
or stored. The term includes the following:
(1) An original:
(A) phonograph record;
(B) compact disc;
(C) wire;
(D) tape;
(E) audio cassette;
(F) video cassette; or
(G) film.
(2) Any other medium on which sounds or
visual images are or can be recorded or oth-
erwise stored.
(3) A copy or reproduction of an item in
subdivision (1) or (2) that duplicates the
original recording in whole or in part.
(q) “Slug” means an article or object that is
capable of being deposited in a coin machine as
an improper substitute for a genuine coin, bill, or
token.
(r) “Synthetic identifying information” means
identifying information that identifies:
(1) a false or fictitious person;
(2) a person older than the person who is
using the information; or
(3) a combination of persons described
under subdivisions (1) and (2).
(s) “Utility” means a person who owns or
operates, for public use, any plant, equipment,
property, franchise, or license for the production,
storage, transmission, sale, or delivery of elec-
tricity, water, steam, telecommunications, infor-
mation, or gas.
(t) “Written instrument” means a paper, a
document, or other instrument containing written
matter and includes money, coins, tokens, stamps,
seals, credit cards, badges, trademarks, medals,
retail sales receipts, labels or markings (including
a universal product code (UPC) or another prod-
uct identification code), or other objects or sym-
bols of value, right, privilege, or identification.
35-43-5-2. Counterfeiting; Forgery;
Application Fraud.
(a) A person who knowingly or intentionally:
(1) makes or utters a written instrument in
such a manner that it purports to have been
made:
(A) by another person;
(B) at another time;
(C) with different provisions; or
(D) by authority of one who did not
give authority; or
(2) possesses more than one (1) written
instrument knowing that the written instru-
ments were made in a manner that they
purport to have been made:
(A) by another person;
(B) at another time;
(C) with different provisions; or
(D) by authority of one who did not
give authority;
commits counterfeiting, a Level 6 felony.
(b) A person who, with intent to defraud:
(1) makes or delivers to another person:
(A) a false sales receipt
(B) a duplicate of a sales receipt; or
(C) a label or other item with a false
universal product code (UPC) or other
product identification code; or
(2) places a false universal product code
(UPC) or another product identification
code on property displayed or offered for
sale;
commits making or delivering a false sales doc-
