HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  1923

(f) (2) A person convicted of theft where the property
or services that was the subject of the theft has a value of
less than $300 is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall restore
the property taken to the owner or pay him the value of the
property or services, and be fined not more than $100, or be
imprisoned for not more than 18 months, or be both fined and
imprisoned in the discretion of the court[.]; HOWEVER, ALL
ACTIONS OR PROSECUTIONS FOR THEFT WHERE THE PROPERTY OR
SERVICES THAT WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE THEFT HAS A VALUE OF
LESS THAN $300 SHALL BE COMMENCED WITHIN 2 YEARS AFTER THE
COMMISSION OF THE OFFENSE.

343.

(b) It is not a defense to theft that the property was
taken, obtained, or withheld from a person who had obtained
possession of the property, by [other] illegal means.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections
132 and 206 of Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments (as
repealed by provisions of Chapter 849 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1978) be and they are hereby repealed
and reenacted, without amendments, to read as follows:

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

If any executor, administrator, guardian, committee,
trustee, receiver or any fiduciary shall fraudulently and
wilfully appropriate to any use and purpose not in the due
and lawful execution of his trust, any money or any other

thing of value which may come into his__hands as _ such

executor, administrator, guardian, committee, trustee,
receiver, or in any other fiduciary capacity, or secrete it
with a fraudulent intent to appropriate it to such use or
purpose, he shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and
shall be punished upon conviction by imprisonment in the
penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than five
years.

206.

Any person who, after hiring, leasing or renting a
motor vehicle under agreement to return such motor vehicle
at the termination of the period for which such motor
vehicle is hired, leased or rented, shall abandon such motor
vehicle, or refuse or wilfully neglect to return the same,

shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon

conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than five

hundred ($500)__dollars, or imprisonment for not more than

one year, or to both fine and imprisonment.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
353A of Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments (as repealed by