(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 the agent, employee or representative of a 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 such property knowing it to have been stolen, embezzled or converted. This presumption may 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 is not necessary to aver, nor on the trial thereof to prove, that the person who stole, embezzled or converted such property has been convicted.
(Ord. 243. Passed 6-23-76.)