BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                        2501

$100, knowing it to be stolen or of the crime of receiving
any bond, bill obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note
for the payment of money, bank note, paper bill of credit,
or certificate granted by or under the authority of this
State, or the United States, or any of then, under the value
of $100, knowing it to be stolen, shall restore the money,
goods or chattels or things taken and received to the owner
or make restitution to the value of the whole or the part
which is not restored and being convicted he shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than
$100 or imprisoned for not more than 18 months, or both
fined and imprisoned; provided that all actions or
prosecutions under this section shall be commenced within
two years after the commission of the offense. And the
receiver may be prosecuted and punished although the
principal offender or offenders have not been convicted, and
although the receiver received the money, goods, or
chattels, or things from a person other than the person by
whom the money, goods, or chattels or things have been
stolen.

(b) All prosecutions for violation of the provisions
of this section may be brought in any court of competent
jurisdiction.]

[Shoplifting]

[551A.

(a) In any mercantile establishment, it is unlawful
for any person

(1)    To remove any goods, wares or merchandise
from the immediate place of display or from any other place
within the establishment with the intent to appropriate the
same to the use of the person so taking, or to deprive the
owner of the use, or value, or any part thereof; or

(2)    To obtain or attempt to obtain possession
of any goods, wares or merchandise, by charging the same to
a real person without the authority of such person, or to a
fictitious person, with a like intent; or,

(3)    To conceal any such goods, wares or
merchandise with a like intent; or,

(4)    To alter, remove, or otherwise disfigure
any label or price tag with a like intent; or

(5)    To transfer any goods, wares or merchandise
from a container in which the same shall be displayed or
packaged to any other container with a like intent; and any
person committing any of the acts mentioned is guilty of
shoplifting.

(b) Any person who aids or abets in the commission of
the acts set out in subsection (a) is guilty of shoplifting.