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NH Rev Stat § 635:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 635 - Unauthorized Entries|Section 635:4 - Prescribed Manner of Posting.

    635:4 Prescribed Manner of Posting. –||A person may post his land to prohibit criminal trespass and physical activities by posting signs of durable material with any words describing the physical activity prohibited, such as "No Hunting or Trespassing", printed with block letters no less than 2 inches in height, and with the name and address of the owner or lessee of such land. Such signs shall be posted not more than 100 yards apart on all sides and shall also be posted at gates, bars and commonly used entrances. This section shall not prevent any owner from adding to the language required by this section.|||Source. 1977, 284:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 635:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 635 - Unauthorized Entries|Section 635:5 - Penalty.

    635:5 Penalty. –||Any person who is found removing, defacing or destroying any sign, poster or property of another shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.|||Source. 1977, 284:1. 1992, 269:13, eff. July 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 635:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 635 - Unauthorized Entries|Section 635:6 - Interference With Cemetery or Burial Ground.

    635:6 Interference With Cemetery or Burial Ground. –||I. No person, without the written authorization of the owner of a burial plot, or the lineal descendant or ascendant of the deceased, if such owner or lineal descendant or ascendant is known, or the written authorization of the governing board of the municipality in which the burial plot lies, if the owner or lineal descendant or ascendant is unknown, shall:||(a) Purposely or knowingly destroy, mutilate, injure or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone, marker, or other structure, or any portion or fragment thereof, placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or any fence, railing, gate, curb, or plot delineator or other enclosure for the burial of the dead.||(b) Purposely or knowingly disturb the contents of any tomb or grave in any cemetery or burial ground.||II. The governing board of the municipality in which the burial plot lies shall not grant approval for the removal or disturbance of a tomb, monument, gravestone, marker, or plot delineator without first giving 30 days' notice, along with a report of the full circumstances, to the division of historical resources, that such approval has been requested. The governing board of the municipality shall maintain a record of the date, circumstances, and disposition of the request for removal or disturbance.|||Source. 1987, 107:1. 2015, 95:1, eff. Aug. 4, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 635:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 635 - Unauthorized Entries|Section 635:7 - Unlawful Possession or Sale of Gravestones and Gravesite Items.

    635:7 Unlawful Possession or Sale of Gravestones and Gravesite Items. –||No person shall possess or sell, offer for sale or attempt to sell, or transfer or dispose of any monument, gravestone, marker, or other structure, or any portion or fragment thereof, placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or any fence, railing, gate, plot delineator, or curb, knowing or having reasonable cause to know that it has been unlawfully removed from a cemetery or burial ground.|||Source. 1987, 107:1, eff. May 6, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 635:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 635 - Unauthorized Entries|Section 635:8 - Penalties.

    635:8 Penalties. –||Any person who is convicted of an offense under RSA 635:6 or 635:7 shall be guilty of a class B felony, and shall be ordered by the court to make restitution for damages resulting from the offense and for replacement of removed items.|||Source. 1987, 107:1, eff. May 6, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 636:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 636 - Robbery|Section 636:1 - Robbery.

    636:1 Robbery. –||I. A person commits the offense of robbery if, in the course of committing a theft, he:||(a) Uses physical force on the person of another and such person is aware of such force; or||(b) Threatens another with or purposely puts him in fear of immediate use of physical force.||II. An act shall be deemed "in the course of committing a theft" if it occurs in an attempt to commit theft, in an effort to retain the stolen property immediately after its taking, or in immediate flight after the attempt or commission.||III. Robbery is a class B felony, except that if the defendant:||(a) Was actually armed with a deadly weapon; or||(b) Reasonably appeared to the victim to be armed with a deadly weapon; or||(c) Inflicted or attempted to inflict death or serious injury on the person of another,||the offense is a class A felony, except that if the defendant was actually armed with a deadly weapon, and the deadly weapon was a firearm, he shall be sentenced in accordance with RSA 651:2, II-g.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 1990, 95:5, eff. June 12, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:1 - Consolidation.

    637:1 Consolidation. –||Conduct denominated theft in this chapter constitutes a single offense embracing the separate offenses such as those heretofore known as larceny, larceny by trick, larceny by bailees, embezzlement, false pretense, extortion, blackmail, receiving stolen property. An accusation of theft may be supported by evidence that it was committed in any manner that would be theft under this chapter, notwithstanding the specification of a different manner in the indictment or information.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:3 - Theft by Unauthorized Taking or Transfer.

    637:3 Theft by Unauthorized Taking or Transfer. –||I. A person commits theft if he obtains or exercises unauthorized control over the property of another with a purpose to deprive him thereof.||II. As used in this section and RSA 637:4 and 5, "obtain or exercise unauthorized control" includes but is not necessarily limited to conduct heretofore defined or known as common law larceny by trespassory taking, larceny by conversion, larceny by bailee, and embezzlement.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:3-a - Willful Concealment.

    637:3-a Willful Concealment. –||I. A person is guilty of willful concealment if, without authority, he or she willfully conceals the goods or merchandise of any store while still upon the premises of such store. Goods or merchandise found concealed upon the person shall be prima facie evidence of willful concealment. Notwithstanding RSA 637:11, willful concealment shall be a misdemeanor.||II. A person commits theft if, with the purpose to deprive a merchant of goods or merchandise, he or she knowingly:||(a) Removes goods or merchandise from the premises of a merchant; or||(b) Alters, transfers, or removes any price marking affixed to goods or merchandise; or||(c) Causes the cash register or other sales recording device to reflect less than the merchant's stated or advertised price for the goods or merchandise; or||(d) Transfers goods or merchandise from the container in which such goods or merchandise were intended to be sold to another container.|||Source. 2009, 209:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:4 - Theft by Deception.

    637:4 Theft by Deception. –||I. A person commits theft if he obtains or exercises control over property of another by deception and with a purpose to deprive him thereof.||II. For the purposes of this section, deception occurs when a person purposely:||(a) Creates or reinforces an impression which is false and which that person does not believe to be true, including false impressions as to law, value, knowledge, opinion, intention or other state of mind. Provided, however, that an intention not to perform a promise, or knowledge that it will not be performed, shall not be inferred from the fact alone that the promise was not performed; or||(b) Fails to correct a false impression which he previously had created or reinforced and which he did not believe to be true, or which he knows to be influencing another to whom he stands in a fiduciary or confidential relationship; or||(c) Prevents another from acquiring information which is pertinent to the disposition of the property involved; or||(d) Fails to disclose a known lien, adverse claim or other legal impediment to the enjoyment of property which he transfers or encumbers in consideration for the property obtained, whether such impediment is or is not valid, or is or is not a matter of official record; or||(e) Misrepresents to or misleads any person, in any manner, so as to make that person believe that the person on whose behalf a solicitation or sales promotion is being conducted is a charitable trust or that the proceeds of such solicitation or sales promotion shall be used for charitable purposes, if such is not the fact.||III. Theft by deception does not occur, however, when there is only falsity as to matters having no pecuniary significance, or puffing by statements unlikely to deceive ordinary persons in the group addressed. "Puffing" means an exaggerated commendation of wares in communications addressed to the public or to a class or group.||IV. A person commits theft under this section notwithstanding that the victim has suffered no actual or net pecuniary loss.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 1986, 222:2. 1992, 239:4, eff. July 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:5 - Theft by Extortion.

    637:5 Theft by Extortion. –||I. A person is guilty of theft as he obtains or exercises control over the property of another by extortion and with a purpose to deprive him thereof.||II. As used in this section, extortion occurs when a person threatens to:||(a) Cause physical harm in the future to the person threatened or to any other person or to property at any time; or||(b) Subject the person threatened or any other person to physical confinement or restraint; or||(c) Engage in other conduct constituting a crime; or||(d) Accuse any person of a crime or expose him to hatred, contempt or ridicule; or||(e) Reveal any information sought to be concealed by the person threatened; or||(f) Testify or provide information or withhold testimony or information with respect to another's legal claim or defense; or||(g) Take action as an official against anyone or anything, or withhold official action, or cause such action or withholding; or||(h) Bring about or continue a strike, boycott or other similar collective action to obtain property which is not demanded or received for the benefit of the group which the actor purports to represent; or||(i) Do any other act which would not in itself substantially benefit him but which would harm substantially any other person with respect to that person's health, safety, business, calling, career, financial condition, reputation, or personal relationships.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:6 - Theft of Lost or Mislaid Property.

    637:6 Theft of Lost or Mislaid Property. –||A person commits theft when:||I. He obtains property of another which he knows to have been lost or mislaid, or to have been delivered under a mistake as to the identity of the recipient or as to the nature or amount of the property, without taking reasonable measures to return the same to the owner, and||II. He has the purpose to deprive the owner of such property when he obtains the property or at any time prior to taking the measures designated in paragraph I.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:7 - Receiving Stolen Property.

    637:7 Receiving Stolen Property. –||I. A person commits theft if he receives, retains, or disposes of the property of another knowing that it has been stolen, or believing that it has probably been stolen, with a purpose to deprive the owner thereof.||II. The knowledge or belief required for paragraph I is presumed in the case of a dealer who:||(a) Is found in possession or control of property stolen from 2 or more persons on separate occasions; or||(b) Has received other stolen property within the year preceding the receiving charged; or||(c) Being a dealer in property of the sort received, retained or disposed, acquires it for a consideration which he knows is far below its reasonable value, or||(d) Purchases property from a law enforcement officer working in an undercover capacity, or an agent of such law enforcement officer, where such property has been explicitly represented as stolen.||III. As used in this section, "receives" means acquiring possession, control or title or lending on the security of the property; and "dealer" means a person in the business of buying or selling goods.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 2001, 174:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:7-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:7-a - Possession of Property Without Serial Number.

    637:7-a Possession of Property Without Serial Number. –||I. No person shall knowingly remove, deface, alter, change, destroy, obliterate or mutilate, or cause to be removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed, obliterated or mutilated the identifying number or numbers or any other identifying mark on any machine, mechanical or electrical device or any other property. Anyone doing so with the intent thereby to conceal the identity of the item or to defraud a manufacturer, seller or purchaser, or to hinder competition in the areas of sales and servicing, or to prevent the detection of a crime shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.||II. Any person who buys, receives, possesses, sells or disposes of any machine, mechanical or electrical device or any other property knowing that the identification number or numbers or any other identifying mark on the item have been removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed, obliterated or mutilated shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. However, if a person discovering that the identification number or numbers or any other identifying mark have been removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed, obliterated or mutilated shall report the same to the nearest police station, he shall not be charged with violating this section. Further, said provisions do not apply to those persons who, on August 13, 1977, are lawfully in possession of that type of property described in paragraph I which does not have identifying numbers or marks or from which the identifying marks or numbers have been lost inadvertently.||III. The provisions of this section do not apply to those cases or instances where any of the changes or alterations enumerated in paragraph I have been customarily made or done in an established practice in the ordinary and regular conduct of business by the original manufacturer, or by his duly appointed direct representative, or under specific authorization from the original manufacturer.||IV. When property described in paragraph I comes into the custody of a law enforcement officer, it shall be considered stolen or embezzled property, and prior to being disposed of, shall have an identifying number engraved on it or embedded in it.|||Source. 1977, 187:1, eff. Aug. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:8 - Theft of Services.

    637:8 Theft of Services. –||I. A person commits theft if he obtains services which he knows are available only for compensation by deception, threat, force, or any other means designed to avoid the due payment therefor. "Deception" has the same meaning as in RSA 637:4, II, and "threat" the same meaning as in RSA 637:5, II.||II. A person commits theft if, having control over the disposition of services of another, to which he knows he is not entitled, he diverts such services to his own benefit or to the benefit of another who he knows is not entitled thereto.||III. As used in this section, "services" includes, but is not necessarily limited to, labor, professional service, public utility and transportation services, restaurant, hotel, motel, tourist cabin, rooming house and like accommodations, the supplying of equipment, tools, vehicles, or trailers for temporary use, telephone or telegraph service, gas, electricity, water or steam, admission to entertainment, exhibitions, sporting events or other events for which a charge is made.||IV. This section shall not apply to the attachment of private equipment to residential telephone lines unless the telephone company can prove that the attached equipment will cause direct harm to the telephone system. Attached equipment which is registered with the public utilities commission shall not require a protective interconnecting device. If the telephone company cites this section in its directories or other customer informational material, said company shall duplicate the entire section verbatim therein.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 1977, 175:1, eff. Aug. 7, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:9 - Unauthorized Use of Propelled Vehicle or Rented Property.

    637:9 Unauthorized Use of Propelled Vehicle or Rented Property. –||I. A person is guilty of theft if:||(a) Having custody of a propelled vehicle pursuant to an agreement between himself or another and the owner thereof whereby the actor or another is to perform for compensation a specific service for the owner involving the maintenance, repair or use of such vehicle, he intentionally uses or operates the same, without the consent of the owner, for his own purposes in a manner constituting a gross deviation from the agreed purpose; or||(b) Having custody of a propelled vehicle pursuant to a rental or lease agreement with the owner thereof whereby such vehicle is to be returned to the owner at a specified time and place, he abandons the vehicle or willfully refuses or neglects to redeliver it to the owner in such manner as he may have agreed; or||(c) Having custody of any property pursuant to a rental or lease agreement whereby such property is to be returned in a specified manner, intentionally fails to comply with the terms of the agreement concerning return so as to render such failure a gross deviation from the agreement.||II. [Repealed.]||III. As used in this section, "propelled vehicle" means any automobile, airplane, motorcycle, motorboat or any other motor-propelled vehicle or vessel, or any boat or vessel propelled by sail, oar or paddle.|||Source. 1971, 518:1. 1985, 176:1. 1992, 269:22, I, eff. July 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:10 - Theft by Misapplication of Property.

    637:10 Theft by Misapplication of Property. –||I. A person commits theft if he obtains property from anyone or personal services from an employee upon agreement, or subject to a known legal obligation, to make a specified payment or other disposition to a third person, whether from that property or its proceeds or from his own property to be reserved in an equivalent or agreed amount, if he purposely or recklessly fails to make the required payment or disposition and deals with the property obtained or withheld as his own.||II. Liability under paragraph I is not affected by the fact that it may be impossible to identify particular property as belonging to the victim at the time of the failure to make the required payment or disposition.||III. An officer or employee of the government or of a financial institution is presumed:||(a) To know of any legal obligation relevant to his liability under this section, and||(b) To have dealt with the property as his own if he fails to pay or account upon lawful demand, or if an audit reveals a shortage or falsification of his accounts.||IV. As used in this section:||(a) "Financial institution" means a bank, insurance company, credit union, safety deposit company, savings and loan association, investment trust, or other organization held out to the public as a place of deposit of funds or medium of savings or collective investment.||(b) "Government" means the United States, any state or any county, municipality or other political unit within territory belonging to the United States, or any department, agency, or subdivision of any of the foregoing, or any corporation or other association carrying out the functions of government or formed pursuant to interstate compact or international treaty.|||Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:10-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:10-a - Use or Possession of Theft Detection Shielding Devices and Theft Detection Device Removers.

    637:10-a Use or Possession of Theft Detection Shielding Devices and Theft Detection Device Removers. –||I. A person commits unlawful use of a theft detection shielding device when he or she engages in the following acts:||(a) Knowingly manufactures, sells, offers for sale, or distributes a laminated or coated bag or device specially designed, marketed, and intended to be used to shield merchandise from detection by an electronic or magnetic theft alarm sensor.||(b) Knowingly possesses any laminated or coated bag or device specially designed, marketed, and intended to be used to shield merchandise from detection by an electronic or magnetic theft alarm sensor, with the intent to commit a theft.||II. A person commits unlawful possession of a theft detection device remover when he or she knowingly possesses any tool or device designed to allow the removal of any theft detection device from any merchandise, with the intent to use such tool to remove the detection device from the merchandise without the permission of the merchant or person owning or holding said merchandise.||III. Persons convicted of either the use or possession of theft detection shielding devices or theft detection device removers shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 2000, 89:1, eff. April 27, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 637:10-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXII - Criminal Code|Title 637 - Theft|Section 637:10-b - Fraudulent Retail Transactions.

    637:10-b Fraudulent Retail Transactions. –||I. A person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if such person possesses, uses, transfers, manufactures, alters, counterfeits, or reproduces a retail sales receipt or universal product code label with the purpose to deprive a merchant of goods or merchandise.||II. A person shall be guilty of a class B felony if such person possesses, uses, transfers, manufactures, alters, counterfeits, or reproduces 5 or more retail sales receipts or universal product code labels, or any combination of 5 or more sales receipts or universal product code labels, or possesses a device designed or adapted to manufacture counterfeit retail sales receipts or universal product code labels with the purpose to deprive a merchant of goods or merchandise.|||Source. 2009, 209:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.|