(a) No person shall receive, retain, transfer outside the City or dispose of property of another, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the property has been obtained through commission of a theft offense.
(b) It is not a defense to a charge of receiving stolen property in violation of this section that the property was obtained by means other than through the commission of a theft offense if the property was explicitly represented to the accused person as being obtained through the commission of a theft offense.
(c) When able to do so, the City may seize by lawful means any property obtained through the commission of a theft offense from a bona fide purchaser of such property, whether the property is within or without the City, and may return such property to its owner.
(d) A bona fide purchaser of property obtained through the commission of a theft offense from whom the City has seized such property by lawful means may be classified as a victim of receiving stolen property.
(e) Whoever violates subsection (a) of this section is guilty of receiving stolen property, a misdemeanor of the first degree, provided that the value of the property involved is less than one thousand dollars ($1,000). (Ord. 13-12. Passed 3-5-2012.)