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Chapter 107
Criminal Code

9. "Receiving" means acquiring possession, control, or title, or lending on the security of the property.

10. "Services" means labor, professional service, transportation, telephone, mail or other public service, gas, electricity and other public utility services, accommodations in hotels, restaurants, or elsewhere, admission to exhibitions, and use of vehicles or other property.

11. "Shoplifting" means to willfully take possession of any merchandise owned, held, offered, or displayed for sale, by a merchant, store, or other mercantile establishment, with the intent to deprive the owner of the merchandise. The term includes:

a. Removing merchandise from a store or other mercantile establishment without paying for the merchandise;

b. Concealing a nonpurchased good or merchandise;

c. Altering, transferring, or removing a price marking on a good or merchandise;

d. Transferring a good from one container to another; and

e. Causing the amount paid for a good or merchandise to be less than the stated retail price.

12. "Stolen" means property which has been the subject of theft or robbery or a vehicle which is received from a person who is then in violation of section 12.1-23-06.

12.13. "Threat" means an expressed purpose, however communicated, to:

a. Cause bodily injury in the future to the person threatened or to any other person;

b. Cause damage to property;

c. Subject the person threatened or any other person to physical confinement or restraint;

d. Engage in other conduct constituting a crime;

e. Accuse anyone of a crime;

f. Expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or false, tending to subject a person living or deceased, to hatred, contempt, or ridicule or to impair another's credit or business repute;

g. Reveal any information sought to be concealed by the person threatened;

h. Testify or provide information or withhold testimony or information with respect to another's legal claim or defense;

i. Take or withhold official action as a public servant, or cause a public servant to take or withhold official action;