HomeMy WebLinkAbout139 - 10/21/1997 - AMENDING CITY CODE PERTAINING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY ORDINANCE NO.139, 1997
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING ARTICLE III OF CHAPTER 17 OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
PERTAINING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY
WHEREAS, the Colorado General Assembly, effective July 1, 1997, changed the
jurisdictional amount for the crime of misdemeanor theft from $400 to $500; and
WHEREAS, Section 17-36 of the Fort Collins City Code currently uses the jurisdictional
amount of$400 for misdemeanor theft; and
WHEREAS, this Ordinance raising the jurisdictional amount to $500 is necessary for
consistency with State law.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that Section 17-36 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended to read in
its entirety as follows:
Sec. 17-36. Theft.
No person shall knowingly obtain or exercise control over anything of value
of less than five hundred dollars($500.)of another without authorization or by threat
or deception when such person:
(1) Intends to deprive the other person permanently of the use or benefit
of the thing of value; or
(2) Knowingly uses, conceals or abandons the thing of value in such
manner as to deprive the other person permanently of its use or
benefit; or
(3) Uses,conceals or abandons the thing of value intending that such use,
concealment or abandonment will deprive the other person
permanently of its use or benefit; or
(4) Demands any consideration to which he or she is not legally entitled
as a condition of restoring the thing of value to the other person.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered-published this 7th day of
October, A.D. 1997, and to be presented for final passage on the-21 st day of October,-A.DS. 1997.
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Passed and adopted on final reading this 21 st day of Oct )ber, A.D. 1997.
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