367.045. Customer failure to repay pawnbroker when notified that goods pledged or sold were misappropriated, penalty. - Missouri Statutes

Customer failure to repay pawnbroker when notified that goods pledgedor sold were misappropriated, penalty.

367.045. 1. When the tangible personal property subject to the pawnor sales transaction has been delivered or awarded to a claimant pursuantto section 367.044, and within ten business days after a written demand forpayment and notice is deposited by the pawnbroker as certified orregistered mail in the United States mail and addressed to the conveyingcustomer, the conveying customer fails to repay the pawnbroker the fullamount incurred by the pawnbroker in connection with such property and theprocedure described in section 367.044, the conveying customer shall havecommitted the crime of fraudulently pledging or selling misappropriatedproperty.

2. Fraudulently pledging or selling property is a class B misdemeanorif the amount received by the conveying customer from the pawnbroker wasless than fifty dollars. Fraudulently pledging or selling property is aclass A misdemeanor if the amount received by the conveying customer fromthe pawnbroker was more than fifty dollars and less than one hundred fiftydollars. Fraudulently pledging or selling property is a class C felony ifthe amount received by the conveying customer from the pawnbroker was onehundred fifty dollars or more.

(L. 1993 S.B. 18, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1526)