18-4624. TAKEN OR CONVERTED MERCHANDISE AS THEFT. A person steals property and commits theft by 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 price with the intention of depriving the merchant of the value of such merchandise.
History:
[18-4624, added 1980, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 870.]