A.
A person
commits the offense of tampering if he/she:
1.
Tampers with property of another for the purpose of causing substantial
inconvenience to that person or to another;
2.
Unlawfully rides in or upon another's automobile, airplane, motorcycle,
motorboat or other motor-propelled vehicle;
3.
Tampers or makes connection with property of a utility; or
4.
Tampers with, or causes to be tampered with, any meter or other property
of an electric, gas, steam or water utility, the effect of which tampering
is either:
B.
In any prosecution under paragraph (4) of Subsection (A), proof that a meter or any other property of a utility has been tampered with, and the person or persons accused received the use or direct benefit of the electric, gas, steam or water service with one (1) or more of the effects described in paragraph (4) of Subsection (A), shall be sufficient to support an inference which the trial court may submit to the trier of fact from which the trier of fact may conclude that there has been a violation of such subdivision by the person or persons who use or receive the direct benefit of the electric, gas, steam or water service.
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
A.
A person
does not commit an offense by damaging, tampering with, operating,
riding in or upon or making connection with property of another if
he/she does so under a claim of right and has reasonable grounds to
believe he/she has such a right.
B.
The
defendant shall have the burden of injecting the issue of claim of
right.
A.
A person
commits the offense of trespass in the first degree if he/she knowingly
enters unlawfully or knowingly remains unlawfully in a building or
inhabitable structure or upon real property.
B.
A person
does not commit the offense of trespass by entering or remaining upon
real property unless the real property is fenced or otherwise enclosed
in a manner designed to exclude intruders or as to which notice against
trespass is given by:
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
[Ord. No. 1841 § 1, 2-21-2017]
No person shall solicit, sell, distribute or peddle goods, wares
or services from any person at property designated by a sign, conspicuously
posted at the front door of the property, indicating "No Solicitation,"
"No solicitors" or other similar language expressing the unwillingness
of occupants of the property to accept solicitors.
A person commits the offense of trespass of a school bus if
he/she knowingly and unlawfully enters any part of or unlawfully operates
any school bus.
A person commits the offense of reckless burning or exploding
when he/she knowingly starts a fire or causes an explosion and thereby
recklessly damages or destroys a building or an inhabitable structure
of another.
A person commits the offense of negligent burning or exploding
when he/she with criminal negligence causes damage to property of
another by fire or explosion.
[CC 1992 §220.090; R.O. 1979 §9.200]
As used in this Article, the following words shall have the
meanings set out herein:
To take, use, transfer, conceal or retain possession of.
To withhold property from the owner permanently; or to restore
property only upon payment of reward or other compensation; or to
use or dispose of the property in a manner that makes recovery of
the property by the owner unlikely.
Anything of value whether real or personal, tangible or intangible,
in possession or in action and shall include, but not be limited to,
the evidence of a debt actually executed but not delivered or issued
as a valid instrument.
Includes transportation, telephone, electricity, gas, water
or other public service, accommodation in hotels, motels, restaurants
or elsewhere, admission to exhibitions and use of vehicles.
A.
A person
commits the offense of stealing if he/she knowingly appropriates property
or services of another with the purpose to deprive him/her thereof,
either without his/her consent or by means of deceit or coercion.
B.
Evidence
of the following is admissible in any prosecution pursuant to this
Section on the issue of the requisite knowledge or belief of the alleged
stealer that:
1.
He/she failed or refused to pay for property or services of a hotel,
restaurant, inn or boarding house;
2.
He/she gave in payment for property or services of a hotel, restaurant,
inn or boarding house a check or negotiable paper on which payment
was refused;
3.
He/she left the hotel, restaurant, inn or boarding house with the
intent to not pay for property or services;
4.
He/she surreptitiously removed or attempted to remove his/her baggage
from a hotel, inn or boarding house; or
5.
He/she, with intent to cheat or defraud a retailer, possesses, uses,
utters, transfers, makes, alters, counterfeits or reproduces a retail
sales receipt, price tag or universal price code label or possesses,
with intent to cheat or defraud, the device that manufactures fraudulent
receipts or universal price code labels.
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
A.
No
person shall drive a motor vehicle so as to cause it to leave the
premises of an establishment at which motor fuel offered for retail
sale was dispensed into the fuel tank of such motor vehicle unless
payment or authorized charge for motor fuel dispensed has been made.
B.
A person found guilty or pleading guilty to stealing pursuant to Section 210.335 for the theft of motor fuel as described in Subsection (A) shall have his/her driver's license suspended by the court beginning on the date of the court's order of conviction. The person shall submit all of his/her operator's and chauffeur's licenses to the court upon conviction and the court shall forward all such driver's licenses and the order of suspension of driving privileges to the Department of Revenue for administration of such order.
[CC 1992 §220.110; Ord. No. 382 §1, 6-13-1984; Ord. No. 1209 §1, 7-12-2001]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to obtain and accept lodging, food,
beverage, accommodations or services from a hotel, motel, inn or restaurant
without making payment for such services. A person commits the violation
of theft of services if he/she appropriates services of another with
the purpose to deprive him/her thereof, either without consent or
by means of deceit or coercion.
B.
Evidence
of any of the following shall be admissible in any prosecution under
this Section and shall constitute prima facie evidence of knowledge
and intent to appropriate services without making payment:
1.
That he/she received the service or services, then failed or refused
to pay for services received;
2.
That he/she surreptitiously removed or attempted to remove baggage,
personal property or both from the hotel, motel or inn after receiving
services;
3.
That he/she presented a credit card or other credit instrument for
payment of services while not being authorized to use said credit
card, device or instrument.
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Other competent evidence of knowledge and intent may be admitted
in lieu of or in addition to any of the foregoing evidence.
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[CC 1992 §220.120; Ord. No. 509 §1, 3-13-1990]
A.
CUSTOMER
DIVERT
PERSON
RECONNECTION
TAMPER
UTILITY SERVICE
Definitions. The following words and phrases, when used
in this Section, shall, for the purpose of this Section, have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them in this Section except when
the context otherwise requires:
The person in whose name a utility service is provided.
To change the intended course or path of electricity, water,
gas, telephone, cable television or other utility service without
authorization or consent of the utility.
Any individual, partnership, firm, association or corporation.
The commencement of utility service, other than by the utility
company, to a customer or other person after service has been discontinued
by the utility.
To rearrange, damage, injure, destroy, alter, interfere with
or otherwise prevent from performing normal or customary function.
The provision of electricity, water, gas, telephone, cable
television or other utility service.
B.
Unlawful Acts. A person commits the crime of theft of utility
service if he/she:
1.
Knowingly diverts or causes to be diverted utility service by any
means whatsoever.
2.
Knowingly makes or causes to make any connection or reconnection
with property owned or used by the utility to provide utility service
without the authorization or consent of the utility.
3.
Knowingly prevents any utility meter or other device used in determining
the charge for utility service from accurately performing its measuring
function by tampering or by any other means.
4.
Knowingly tampers with any property owned or used by the utility
company to provide utility service.
5.
Knowingly uses or receives a direct benefit of all or any portion
of the utility service with knowledge of or reason to believe that
the diversion, tampering or unauthorized connection existed at the
time of the use or that the use or receipt was without the authorization
or consent of the utility.
6.
Knowingly advertises, manufactures, distributes, sells, uses, rents
or offers for sale, rental or use any device of any description or
any plan or kit designed to obtain utility service in violation of
this Section.
7.
Knowingly obtains utility service by means of false representations
or other fraudulent or deceptive actions designed to avoid the payment
of any outstanding lawful charges for any utility service.
8.
Knowingly avoids the lawful charges, in whole or in part, for any
utility service by the use of any fraudulent or deceptive scheme,
device, means or method.
C.
The
existence on the property and in the actual possession of the accused
of any instrument, apparatus or device primarily designed to be used
to obtain utility service without paying the full lawful charge therefore
or any utility equipment that has been altered, tampered with or bypassed
so as to cause no measurement or inaccurate measurement of utility
service shall be sufficient to support an inference which the trial
court may submit to the trier of fact from which the trier of fact
may conclude that the accused has committed the crime of theft of
utility service.
D.
Nothing
in this Section shall be construed to render unlawful or prohibit
an individual or other legal entity from owning or operating a video
cassette recorder or a device commonly known as a "satellite receiving
dish" for the purpose of receiving and utilizing satellite-relayed
television signals for his/her own use.
A.
A person
commits the offense of receiving stolen property if, for the purpose
of depriving the owner of a lawful interest therein, he/she receives,
retains or disposes of property of another knowing that it has been
stolen or believing that it has been stolen.
B.
Evidence
of the following is admissible in any criminal prosecution pursuant
to this Section to prove the requisite knowledge or belief of the
alleged receiver that:
1.
He/she was found in possession or control of other property stolen
on separate occasions from two (2) or more persons;
2.
He/she received other stolen property in another transaction within
the year preceding the transaction charged;
3.
He/she acquired the stolen property for a consideration which he/she
knew was far below its reasonable value; or
4.
He/she obtained control over stolen property knowing the property
to have been stolen or under such circumstances as would reasonably
induce a person to believe the property was stolen.
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
A.
A person
commits the offense of financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled
person if such person knowingly and by deception, intimidation or
force obtains control over the elderly or disabled person's property
with the intent to permanently deprive the elderly or disabled person
of the use, benefit or possession of his/her property thereby benefiting
such person or detrimentally affecting the elderly or disabled person.
Financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person is a misdemeanor
if the value of the property is less than fifty dollars ($50.00).
B.
DECEPTION
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
DISABLED PERSON
ELDERLY PERSON
INTIMIDATION
Definitions. As
used in this Section, the following terms shall have these prescribed
meanings:
A misrepresentation or concealment of material fact relating
to the terms of a contract or agreement entered into with the elderly
or disabled person or to the existing or pre-existing condition of
any of the property involved in such contract or agreement or the
use or employment of any misrepresentation, false pretense or false
promise in order to induce, encourage or solicit the elderly or disabled
person to enter into a contract or agreement.
"Deception" includes:
Creating or confirming another person's impression which is
false and which the offender does not believe to be true.
Failure to correct a false impression which the offender previously
has created or confirmed.
Preventing another person from acquiring information pertinent
to the disposition of the property involved.
Selling or otherwise transferring or encumbering property, failing
to disclose a lien, adverse claim or other legal impediment to the
enjoyment of the property, whether such impediment is or is not valid
or is or is not a matter of official record.
Promising performance which the offender does not intend to
perform or knows will not be performed. Failure to perform standing
alone is not sufficient evidence to prove that the offender did not
intend to perform.
A person with a mental, physical or developmental disability
that substantially impairs the person's ability to provide adequately
for the person's care or protection.
A person sixty (60) years of age or older.
A threat of physical or emotional harm to an elderly or disabled
person, or the communication to an elderly or disabled person that
he/she will be deprived of food and nutrition, shelter, prescribed
medication, or medical care and treatment.
C.
Nothing
in this Section shall be construed to limit the remedies available
to the victim pursuant to any State law relating to domestic violence.
D.
Nothing
in this Section shall be construed to impose criminal liability on
a person who has made a good faith effort to assist the elderly or
disabled person in the management of his/her property, but through
no fault of his/her own has been unable to provide such assistance.
E.
Nothing
in this Section shall limit the ability to engage in bona fide estate
planning, to transfer property, and to otherwise seek to reduce estate
and inheritance taxes; provided that such actions do not adversely
impact the standard of living to which the elderly or disabled person
has become accustomed at the time of such actions.
F.
It
shall not be a defense to financial exploitation of an elderly or
disabled person that the accused reasonably believed that the victim
was not an elderly or disabled person.
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
A.
A person
commits the offense of fraudulent use of a credit device or debit
device if the person uses a credit device or debit device for the
purpose of obtaining services or property knowing that:
1.
The device is stolen, fictitious or forged;
2.
The device has been revoked or canceled;
3.
For any other reason his/her use of the device is unauthorized; or
4.
Uses a credit device or debit device for the purpose of paying property
taxes and knowingly cancels said charges or payment without just cause.
It shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this Section if
a person cancels said charges or payment after obtaining a property
tax receipt to obtain license tags from the Missouri Department of
Revenue.
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
[Ord. No. 1443 §1(220.105), 10-13-2005]
A.
A person
or entity commits the crime of attempted theft by use of deceitful
business practices if a person or entity, by the use of deceit, takes
a substantial step towards the appropriation of the property of another,
including cash, in a business transaction with the purpose to deprive
the victim thereof.
B.
Deceitful
business practices include, but are not limited to, knowingly making
false statements in the process of making repair estimates for the
repair of equipment or machinery, including motor vehicles, or knowingly
making false statements in the process of performing safety inspections
for equipment or machinery, including motor vehicles, with the purpose
to defraud.
A.
A person
commits the offense of alteration or removal of item numbers if he/she
with the purpose of depriving the owner of a lawful interest therein:
1.
Destroys, removes, covers, conceals, alters, defaces or causes to
be destroyed, removed, covered, concealed, altered or defaced the
manufacturer's original serial number or other distinguishing owner-applied
number or mark on any item which bears a serial number attached by
the manufacturer or distinguishing number or mark applied by the owner
of the item for any reason whatsoever;
2.
Sells, offers for sale, pawns or uses as security for a loan any
item on which the manufacturer's original serial number or other distinguishing
owner-applied number or mark has been destroyed, removed, covered,
concealed, altered or defaced; or
3.
Buys, receives as security for a loan or in pawn, or in any manner
receives or has in his/her possession any item on which the manufacturer's
original serial number or other distinguishing owner-applied number
or mark has been destroyed, removed, covered, concealed, altered or
defaced.
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
A.
A person
commits the offense of failing to return leased or rented property
if, with the intent to deprive the owner thereof, he/she purposefully
fails to return leased or rented personal property to the place and
within the time specified in an agreement in writing providing for
the leasing or renting of such personal property. In addition, any
person who has leased or rented personal property of another, who
conceals the property from the owner or who otherwise sells, pawns,
loans, abandons or gives away the leased or rented property is guilty
of the offense of failing to return leased or rented property. The
provisions of this Section shall apply to all forms of leasing and
rental agreements including, but not limited to, contracts which provide
the consumer options to buy the leased or rented personal property,
lease-purchase agreements and rent-to-own contracts. For the purpose
of determining if a violation of this Section has occurred, leasing
contracts which provide options to buy the merchandise are owned by
the owner of the property until such time as the owner endorses the
sale and transfer of ownership of the leased property to the lessee.
B.
It
shall be prima facie evidence of the offense of failing to return
leased or rented property when a person who has leased or rented personal
property of another willfully fails to return or make arrangements
acceptable with the lessor to return the personal property to its
owner at the owner's place of business within ten (10) days after
proper notice following the expiration of the lease or rental agreement,
except that if the motor vehicle has not been returned within seventy-two
(72) hours after the expiration of the lease or rental agreement,
such failure to return the motor vehicle shall be prima facie evidence
of the intent of the offense of failing to return leased or rented
property. Where the leased or rented property is a motor vehicle,
if the motor vehicle has not been returned within seventy-two (72)
hours after the expiration of the lease or rental agreement, the lessor
may notify the local law enforcement agency of the failure of the
lessee to return such motor vehicle, and the local law enforcement
agency shall cause such motor vehicle to be put into any appropriate
State and local computer system listing stolen motor vehicles. Any
Law Enforcement Officer which stops such a motor vehicle may seize
the motor vehicle and notify the lessor that he/she may recover such
motor vehicle after it is photographed and its vehicle identification
number is recorded for evidentiary purposes. Where the leased or rented
property is not a motor vehicle, if such property has not been returned
within the ten (10) day period prescribed in this Subsection, the
owner of the property shall report the failure to return the property
to the local law enforcement agency, and such law enforcement agency
may within five (5) days notify the person who leased or rented the
property that such person is in violation of this Section, and that
failure to immediately return the property may subject such person
to arrest for the violation.
C.
This
Section shall not apply if such personal property is a vehicle and
such return is made more difficult or expensive by a defect in such
vehicle which renders such vehicle inoperable if the lessee shall
notify the lessor of the location of such vehicle and such defect
before the expiration of the lease or rental agreement or within ten
(10) days after proper notice.
D.
Proper
notice by the lessor shall consist of a written demand addressed and
mailed by certified or registered mail to the lessee at the address
given at the time of making the lease or rental agreement. The notice
shall contain a statement that the failure to return the property
may subject the lessee to criminal prosecution.
E.
Any person who has leased or rented personal property of another who destroys such property so as to avoid returning it to the owner shall be guilty of property damage pursuant to Section 210.295 in addition to being in violation of this Section.
F.
Venue
shall lie in the County where the personal property was originally
rented or leased.
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
A.
A person
commits the offense of passing a bad check when:
1.
With purpose to defraud, the person makes, issues or passes a check
or other similar sight order or any other form of presentment involving
the transmission of account information for the payment of money knowing
that it will not be paid by the drawee or that there is no such drawee;
or
2.
The person makes, issues or passes a check or other similar sight
order or any other form of presentment involving the transmission
of account information for the payment of money, knowing that there
are insufficient funds in or on deposit with that account for the
payment of such check, sight order or other form of presentment involving
the transmission of account information in full and all other checks,
sight orders or other forms of presentment involvingthe transmission
of account information upon such funds then outstanding, or that there
is no such account or no drawee and fails to pay the check or sight
order or other form of presentment involving the transmission of account
information within ten (10) days after receiving actual notice in
writing that it has not been paid because of insufficient funds or
credit with the drawee or because there is no such drawee.
B.
As used in Subparagraph (2) of Subsection (A) of this Section, "actual notice in writing" means notice of the non-payment
which is actually received by the defendant. Such notice may include
the service of summons or warrant upon the defendant for the initiation
of the prosecution of the check or checks which are the subject matter
of the prosecution if the summons or warrant contains information
of the ten (10) day period during which the instrument may be paid
and that payment of the instrument within such ten (10) day period
will result in dismissal of the charges. The requirement of notice
shall also be satisfied for written communications which are tendered
to the defendant and which the defendant refuses to accept.
[1]
Note — Under certain circumstances this offense can
be a felony under state law.
A.
MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT
MERCHANDISE
MERCHANT
WRONGFUL TAKING
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following definitions
shall apply:
Any mercantile place of business in, at or from which goods,
wares and merchandise are sold, offered for sale or delivered from
and sold at retail or wholesale.
All goods, wares and merchandise offered for sale or displayed
by a merchant.
Any corporation, partnership, association or person who is
engaged in the business of selling goods, wares and merchandise in
a mercantile establishment.
Includes stealing of merchandise or money and any other wrongful
appropriation of merchandise or money.
B.
Any
merchant, his/her agent or employee, who has reasonable grounds or
probable cause to believe that a person has committed or is committing
a wrongful taking of merchandise or money from a mercantile establishment,
may detain such person in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable
length of time for the purpose of investigating whether there has
been a wrongful taking of such merchandise or money. Any such reasonable
detention shall not constitute an unlawful arrest or detention, nor
shall it render the merchant, his/her agent or employee criminally
or civilly liable to the person so detained.
C.
Any person willfully concealing unpurchased merchandise of any mercantile establishment, either on the premises or outside the premises of such establishment, shall be presumed to have so concealed such merchandise with the intention of committing a wrongful taking of such merchandise within the meaning of Subsection (A), and the finding of such unpurchased merchandise concealed upon the person or among the belongings of such person shall be evidence of reasonable grounds and probable cause for the detention in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable length of time of such person by a merchant, his/her agent or employee in order that recovery of such merchandise may be effected, and any such reasonable detention shall not be deemed to be unlawful nor render such merchant, his/her agent or employee criminally or civilly liable.
