TITLE 48

MONOPOLIES AND TRADE PRACTICES

CHAPTER 7

SHOPLIFTING

48-703.  Definitions. As used in this chapter:

(a)  "Merchandise" means any personal property displayed, held or offered for sale by a merchant.

(b)  "Merchant" means an owner or operator, and the agent, consignee, employee, lessee, or officer of an owner or operator, of any merchant’s premises.

(c)  "Premises" means any establishment or part thereof wherein merchandise is displayed, held or offered for sale.

(d)  "Minor" means any person less than eighteen (18) years of age.

(e)  "Retail theft" means the alteration, transfer, or removal of any label, price tag, marking, indicia of value or any other markings which aid in the determination of value of any merchandise displayed, held, stored, or offered for sale, in a retail mercantile establishment, for the purpose of attempting to purchase such merchandise either personally or in consort with another, at less than the retail value with the intention of depriving the merchant of the value of such merchandise.

History:

[48-703, added 1974, ch. 245, sec. 1, p. 1620; am. 1980, ch. 243, sec. 3, p. 563.]