Sec. 10-62. Theft.
(a) A person commits theft when he or she knowingly obtains, retains or exercises control over anything of value less than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) of another without authorization, or by threat or deception; or receives, loans money by pawn or pledge on, or disposes of anything of value or belonging to another that he or she knows or believes to have been stolen, and:
(1) Intends to deprive the other person permanently of the use or benefit of the thing of value; or
(2) Knowingly uses, conceals, or abandons the thing of value in such a manner as to deprive the other person permanently of its use or benefit; or
(3) Uses, conceals, or abandons the thing of value intending that such use, concealment, or abandonment will deprive the other person permanently of its use or benefit; or
(4) Demands any consideration to which he or she is not legally entitled as a condition of restoring the thing of value to the other person; or
(5) Knowingly retains the thing of value more than seventy-two (72) hours after the agreed-upon time of return in any lease or hire agreement. (Ord. 1154 §1, 2013)