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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No.
Section 1, relating to the crime of shoplifting
AND making it a misdemeanor to aid or assist
a person committing shdplifting.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES.ORDAIN:
Section 1. That Ordinance No. 2944, Section 1, is
amended to read.
SHOPLIFTING DEFINED-PENALTY. A person who wilfully
tak¢.s possesion of merchandise, the purchase of which is less
than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), offered for sale by
any wholesale or retail store or other mercantile establishment
without the consent of the seller, without having paid the
purchase price thereof, with the intention of converting such
merchandise to his own use, is guilty of a misdemeanor of
shoplifting. Upon a conviction therefor, he may be punished by
a fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300.00),
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Section 2. A person who wilfully aids or abets another
person to commit the crime of shoplifting, and who knows that his
action will aid or abet that person in the commission of the crime
of shoplifting , upon a conviction therefor ma~ be punished by a
fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300.00),-~~-~m-
Section 3. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this or-
dinance or its application to any person or circumstance is held
invalid, the remainder of the ordinance, or the application of the
ordinance to other persons is not affected.
APPROVED by the City council on the first reading this
/~-l~ day of December, 1976.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication
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of such passage this ~ day of ~~r, ~3~.
GLENN K. JARSTAD, ~R
ATTEST:
G. C. YE~DON, SR., CITY CLERK