13-12 Amends 517, 525, 541 & 545 raise minimum threshold for felony theft

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(a) No person shall receive, retain transfer outside the Citv or dispose of property of another, knowh~g or having reasonable cause to believe that the property has been obtanred through commission of a theft offense. (b) It is not a defense to a charge of receiving stolen property in violation of this section that the property was obtained by means other than through the commission of a theft offense if the property was explicitly represented to the accused person as being obtained through the com- mission of a then offense. (c) When able to do so the City makseize by lawful means any property obtained through the commission of a then offense from a bona fide purchaser of such pTOpertV whether the property is within or without the City and may return such property to its owner. (~ A bona fide ~rchaser of property obtained through the commission of a theft offense from whom the City has seized such property by lawfiil means maybe classified as a victim of receivin stg olen property. ~ Whoever violates subsection (al of this section is guilty of receiving stolen property, a misdemeanor of the first degree, provided that the value of the property involved is less than €ive-hundred one thousand dollars ($389991.000.00). Section 11. Section 545.20, Criminal Simulation, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, currently reading as follows: 545.20 CRIMINAL SIMULATION. (a) No person, with purpose to defraud, or knowing that the person is fa- cilitating afraud, shall do any of the following: (I) Make or alter any object so that it appears to have value because of an- tiquity, rarity, curiosity, source, or authorship, which it does not in fact possess; (2) Practice deception in making, retouching, editing or reproducing any photograph, movie fihp, video tape, phonograph record or recording tape; (3) Falsely or fraudulently make, simulate, forge, alter, or counterfeit any wrapper, label, stamp, cork, or cap prescribed by the Liquor Conttol Commission under Ohio R.C. Chapters 4301 and 4303, falsely or fraudulently cause to be made, shmulated, forged, altered, or counter- feited any wrapper, label, stamp, cork or cap prescribed by the Liquor Control Commission under Ohio R.C. Chapters 4301 and 4303; (4) Utter, or possess with purpose to utter, any object that the person knows to have been simulated as provided in subsection (a)(I), (2) or (3) of this section. (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of criminal simulation, a misde- meanor of the fnst degree, provided the loss to the victim is less than five hundred dollars ($500.00).