HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2250        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1512

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act creating the crime of larceny by overcoming a security device..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 140 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:

Section 30B. Any person who, with intent to steal property from any store or other retail mercantile establishment, knowingly possesses any item, article, implement or device designed for the purpose of overcoming detection of security markings or attachments placed on any property offered for sale at such store or establishment shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.