§ 2575. Offense of retail theft
A person commits the offense of retail theft when the person, with intent of depriving
a merchant wrongfully of the lawful possession of merchandise, money, or credit:
(1) takes and carries away or causes to be taken and carried away or aids and abets the
carrying away of any merchandise from a retail mercantile establishment without paying
the retail value of the merchandise; or
(2) alters, transfers, or removes or causes to be altered, transferred, or removed or
aids and abets the alteration, transfer, or removal of any label, price tag, indicia
of value, or any other markings affixed to any merchandise in a retail mercantile
establishment and purchases the merchandise for less than its retail value; or
(3) transfers or causes to be transferred or aids and abets in the transfer of any merchandise
in a retail mercantile establishment from one container or location to another container
or location and purchases the merchandise for less than its retail value; or
(4) alters, transfers, counterfeits, or reproduces a retail sales receipt or a Universal
Product Code (UPC) label or possesses an altered, counterfeit, or reproduced retail
sales receipt or UPC label; or
(5) possesses 15 or more altered, counterfeit, or reproduced retail sales receipts or
UPC labels or possesses a device that is designed to alter, counterfeit, or reproduce
retail sales receipts or UPC labels; or
(6) manufactures, sells, offers for sale, distributes, or knowingly possesses a laminated
or coated bag intended to shield merchandise from detection by an electronic or magnetic
theft detector; or
(7) manufactures, sells, offers for sale, distributes, or knowingly possesses any tool
or device designed to allow or capable of allowing the deactivation or removal from
any merchandise of any theft detection device without the permission of the merchant
or the person owning or lawfully holding the merchandise. (Added 1977, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2005, No. 157 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2023, No. 128 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. July 1, 2024.)