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Texas Penal Code - PENAL § 31.16. Organized Retail Theft

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(a) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., ch. 323 (H.B. 2482), § 4.

(b) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally conducts, promotes, or facilitates an activity in which the person receives, possesses, conceals, stores, barters, sells, or disposes of:

(1) stolen retail merchandise; or

(2) merchandise explicitly represented to the person as being stolen retail merchandise.

(c) An offense under this section is:

(1) a Class C misdemeanor if the total value of the merchandise involved in the activity is less than $100;

(2) a Class B misdemeanor if the total value of the merchandise involved in the activity is $100 or more but less than $750;

(3) a Class A misdemeanor if the total value of the merchandise involved in the activity is $750 or more but less than $2,500;

(4) a state jail felony if the total value of the merchandise involved in the activity is $2,500 or more but less than $30,000;

(5) a felony of the third degree if the total value of the merchandise involved in the activity is $30,000 or more but less than $150,000;

(6) a felony of the second degree if the total value of the merchandise involved in the activity is $150,000 or more but less than $300,000; or

(7) a felony of the first degree if the total value of the merchandise involved in the activity is $300,000 or more.

(d) An offense described for purposes of punishment by Subsections (c)(1)-(6) is increased to the next higher category of offense if it is shown on the trial of the offense that:

(1) the person organized, supervised, financed, or managed one or more other persons engaged in an activity described by Subsection (b); or

(2) during the commission of the offense, a person engaged in an activity described by Subsection (b) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:

(A) caused a fire exit alarm to sound or otherwise become activated;

(B) deactivated or otherwise prevented a fire exit alarm or retail theft detector from sounding; or

(C) used a shielding or deactivation instrument to prevent or attempt to prevent detection of the offense by a retail theft detector.

(e) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., ch. 323 (H.B. 2482), § 4.

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