18-2421 — PENALTIES


                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 24
                                    THEFT
    18-2421.  PENALTIES. A person who violates any provision of the unused
merchandise ownership protection act is guilty of a misdemeanor for the first
offense. Any person who pleads guilty to or is found guilty of a violation of
the unused merchandise ownership protection act, or any substantially
conforming statute in another state or any local jurisdiction, for a second
time within five (5) years, notwithstanding the form of the judgment(s) or
withheld judgment(s), is guilty of a  felony and shall be sentenced to the
custody of the state board of correction for a term not to exceed five (5)
years, or shall be fined an amount not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars
($25,000) or both.