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

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and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health, and safety and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that the City wishes to close any window of time between the effective date of the state code change and the effective date of the local code change; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. Section 517.05, Cheating, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lake- wood, currently reading as follows: 517.05 CHEATING. (a) No person, with purpose to defraud or knowing that he is facilitating a fraud, shall engage in conduct designed to convpt the outcome of: (1) The subject of a bet; (2) A contest of knowledge, skill, speed, strength or endurance; (3) A scheme or game of chance. (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of cheating, a misdemeanor of the first degree, if the potential gain from cheating is less than three hundred dollars ($300.00), or if [he offender has not previously been convicted of any gambling offense or of any theft offense as defined in Section 545.01. shall be and hereby is amended to read as follows: 517.05 CHEATING. (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of cheating, a misdemeanor of the first degree, if the potential gain from cheating is less than three hundred one thousand dollars ($39001 000.00), or if the offender has not previously been convicted of any gambling offense or of any then offense as definednr Section 545.01. Section 2. Section 525.02, Falsification, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lake- wood, currently reading as follows: 525.02 FALSIFICATION. (a) No person shall knowingly make a false statement or knowingly swear or affirm the truth of a false statement previously made, when any of the following applies: (1) The statement is made in any official proceeding. (2) The statement is made withpurpose to incriminate another.