It is unlawful for any person to steal, convert, embezzle or acquire by fraud the property of another, including any money, goods, chattel, bank notes, bonds, promissory notes, bills of exchange, other bills, orders, certificates or any books of account for or concerning money due or to become due and to be delivered.
It is unlawful for any person to intentionally receive, retain or dispose of stolen property, knowing or believing the same to have been stolen, converted, embezzled or acquired by fraud, unless the property is received, retained or disposed of with intent to restore it to the owner.
A.
It is unlawful for any person to willfully take possession of or conceal any merchandise offered for sale with the intention of converting it without paying for it or to willfully alter any label, price tag or marking upon any merchandise, or transfer any merchandise from one container to another with the intention of depriving the merchant of all or part of the value of the merchandise.
B.
If any police officer, special officer or merchant has probable cause to believe that a person has willfully taken possession of any merchandise with the intention of converting it without paying for it, or has willfully concealed merchandise, and that he/she can recover the merchandise by detaining the person or taking him/her into custody, the police officer, special officer or merchant may, for the purpose of attempting to effect a recovery of the merchandise, take the person into custody or detain him/her in a reasonable manner for a reasonable time. Such taking into custody or detention shall not subject the officer or merchant to any criminal or civil liability.
C.
Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person whom he/she has probable cause to believe has committed the crime of shoplifting. Any merchant who causes such an arrest shall not be criminally or civilly liable if he/she has a reasonable basis for believing the person so arrested has committed the crime of shoplifting.
It shall be unlawful to cheat a machine or device, which consists of any person, with the intent to defraud, attempting to operate or causing to be operated any automatic vending machine, coin-box telephone, or any machine or receptacle designed to receive lawful money of the United States in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or services, by means of any slug, or by any false, counterfeited, mutilated, sweated or foreign coin, or by any means, method, trick or device.
It shall be unlawful to falsely obtain services or accommodations, which consists of any person obtaining any service, food, entertainment or accommodations without paying therefor, and with the intent to cheat or defraud the owner or person supplying such service, food, entertainment or accommodations.
It shall be unlawful to remove effects, which consists of any person removing or causing to be removed any baggage or effects from any hotel, motel, trailer park, inn, rented dwelling or boardinghouse while there is a lien existing thereon for the proper charges due for fare or board furnished from such hotel, motel, trailer park, inn, rented dwelling or boardinghouse, and where the owner or person in possession of such baggage or effects is given actual notice of the fact of such lien, or where a notice of such lien has been conspicuously posted upon the premises adjacent to such baggage or effects, giving notice of the fact of such lien and the amount thereof.