(A) No person shall buy, receive, or aid in the concealment of any stolen, embezzled, or converted money, goods, or property, knowing the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or converted.
(B) Any person, being a dealer in or collector of any merchandise or personal property, or any agent, employee, or representative of such dealer or collector, who fails to make reasonable inquiry that the person selling or delivering any stolen, embezzled, or converted property to him or her has a legal right to do so, or who buys or receives any such property which has a registration, serial, or other identifying number altered or obliterated on any external surface thereof, shall be presumed to have bought or received the property knowing it to have been stolen, embezzled, or converted. This presumption may, however, be rebutted by proof.
(C) In any prosecution of the offense of buying, receiving, or aiding in the concealment of stolen, embezzled, or converted money or other property, it shall not be necessary to aver, nor at the trial thereof to prove, that the person who stole, embezzled, or converted the property has been convicted.
(Ord. 11-190, passed 7-19-2011) Penalty, see § 130.99