2C:20-7.
Receiving stolen property
2C:20-7.
Receiving Stolen Property.
a. Receiving. A person is
guilty of theft if he knowingly receives or brings into this
State movable property of another knowing that it has been
stolen, or believing that it is probably stolen. It is an
affirmative defense that the property was received with purpose
to restore it to the owner. "Receiving" means
acquiring possession, control or title, or lending on the
security of the property.
b. Presumption of knowledge.
The requisite knowledge or belief is presumed in the case of a person
who:
(1) Is found in possession or
control of two or more items of property stolen on two or more
separate occasions; or
(2) Has received stolen property
in another transaction within the year preceding the transaction
charged; or
(3) Being a person in the business
of buying or selling property of the sort received, acquires the
property without having ascertained by reasonable inquiry that the
person from whom he obtained it had a legal right to possess and
dispose of it ;or
(4) Is found in possession of two
or more defaced access devices.
Amended 1979, c.178, s.35; 1981, c.290,
s.19; 1997, c.6, s.3.
Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey
as a Criminal Trial Attorney
