Section 367.045

Title XXIV BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 367

Effective - 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories, see footnote   

  367.045.  Customer failure to repay pawnbroker when notified that goods pledged or sold were misappropriated, penalty. — 1.  When the tangible personal property subject to the pawn or sales transaction has been delivered or awarded to a claimant pursuant to section 367.044, and within ten business days after a written demand for payment and notice is deposited by the pawnbroker as certified or registered mail in the United States mail and addressed to the conveying customer, the conveying customer fails to repay the pawnbroker the full amount incurred by the pawnbroker in connection with such property and the procedure described in section 367.044, the conveying customer shall have committed the crime of fraudulently pledging or selling misappropriated property.

  2.  Fraudulently pledging or selling property is a class B misdemeanor if the amount received by the conveying customer from the pawnbroker was less than fifty dollars.  Fraudulently pledging or selling property is a class A misdemeanor if the amount received by the conveying customer from the pawnbroker was more than fifty dollars and less than one hundred fifty dollars.  Fraudulently pledging or selling property is a class D felony if the amount received by the conveying customer from the pawnbroker was one hundred fifty dollars or more.

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(L. 1993 S.B. 18, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1526, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)

Effective 1-01-17