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ORDINANCE. NO. B -1705
AN ORDINANCE amending Section 1 of Ordinance No. B -1586 entitled "AN ORDINANCE declaring
certain acts and transactions to be petit larceny and making persons guilty
thereof disorderly persons, and prescribing a penalty therefor, and declar-
ing an emergency;" and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 1 of Ordinance No B -1586 passed on August 9, 1 95 4 ,
entitled as-shown in the caption hereof, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. Every person who, with intent to deprive or defraud the owner
thereof,- -
"(a) Steals or takes money or property or leads or-drives away property of
another; or
"(b) Obtains from the owner or another the possession of or title to any
personal property by color or aid of any order for the payment -or delivery of property or
money, or by color or aid of any fraudulent or false representation, personation, or pre-
tense or by any false token or writing, or by any trick, device, bunco game, or fortune
telling; or
"(c Having any property in his possession, custody, or control, as bailee,
factor, pledgee, servant, attorney, agent, employee, trustee, executor, administrator,
guardian, or officer of any person, estate, association, or corporation, or as a public
officer, or a person authorized by agreement or by competent authority to take or hold
such possession, custody, or control, or as a finder thereof, secretes, withholds, or
appropriates the same to his own use or to the use of any person other than the true owner
or person entitled thereto; or
"(d) Having received any personal property by reason of a mistake, with
knowledge of such mistake, secretes, withholds or appropriates the same to his own use or
to the use of any person other than the true owner or person entitled thereto;- -
"with reference to money or property of a value of seventy -five dollars ($75.00) or less,
steals the 'same and shall be guilty of petit larceny, and is hereby declared a disorderly
person.."
Section 2. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety, and an emergency is declared to exist,
and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, ap-
proval and publication as provided by law and the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this 20th day of June,
1955.
ATTEST: PEARL BENJAMIN (S E A L) G. W. BURNS
City Clerk Mayor
I her..eby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance No.
B -1705 entitled "AN ORDINANCE amending Section 1 of Ordinance No. B -1586 entitled "AN
ORDINANCE declaring certain acts and transactions to be petit larceny and making persons
guilty thereof disorderly persons, and prescribing a penalty therefor, and declaring an
emergency;" and declaring an emergency." as passed on the 20th day of June, 1955 and that
has been published by law.
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ITY /CLERK