Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(i) Create or confirm in another an impression
which is false and which the offender does not believe to be
true; [or]

(ii) Fail to correct a false impression which
the offender previously has created or confirmed; [or]

(iii) Prevent another from acquiring
information pertinent to the disposition of the property
involved; [or]

(iv) Sell or otherwise transfer or encumber
property, failing to disclose a lien, adverse claim, or other
legal impediment to the enjoyment of the property, whether the
impediment is or is not of value or is not a matter of official
record; [or]

(v) Insert or deposit a slug in a coin machine;

(vi) Remove, alter, or otherwise disfigure any
label or price tag; [or]

(vii) Promise performance which the offender
does not intend to perform or knows will not be performed. The
defendant's intention or knowledge that a promise would not be
performed shall not be established by or inferred from the fact
alone that the promise was not performed; or

(viii) Misrepresent the value of a motor
vehicle offered for sale by tampering with, interfering with,
resetting or altering the odometer of any motor vehicle with the
intent to change the number of miles indicated.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Extraneous conjunctions in Article 27, §
340(b)(1).

Occurred: Ch. 849, Acts of 1978.

343.

(b) It is not a defense to theft that the property was
taken, obtained, or withheld from a person who had obtained
possession of the property[,] by illegal means.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Extraneous comma in Article 27, § 343(b).

Occurred: Ch. 687, Acts of 1979.

371.

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