(a) No person shall buy, receive, possess, conceal or aid in the concealment of stolen, embezzled or converted money, goods or property knowing the money, goods or property to be stolen, embezzled or converted. However, such person shall be prosecuted under this section only if the property purchased, received, possessed or concealed is of a value of two hundred dollars ($200.00) or less.
(Adopting Ordinance)
(b) A person who is a dealer in or collector of merchandise or personal property, or the agent, employee or representative of a dealer or collector, who fails to make reasonable inquiry that the person selling or delivering the stolen, embezzled or converted property to the dealer or collector has a legal right to do so, or who buys or receives stolen, embezzled or converted property which has a registration, serial or other identifying number altered or obliterated on an external surface of the property, shall be presumed to have bought, embezzled or converted such property. This presumption may be rebutted by proof.
(Ord. 364. Passed 3-7-95.)