Pennsylvania § 6042 Larceny and wrongful appropriation

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 6042 — Larceny and wrongful appropriation

Pennsylvania § 6042

Title 51MILITARY AFFAIRS

PartPART IV

Ch. 60PUNITIVE SECTIONS

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51 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 6042 (2026).

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(a)Offenses defined.--Any person subject to this part who, while in a duty status, wrongfully takes, obtains or withholds by any means whatever from the possession of the true owner or of any other person any money, personal property or article of value of any kind:

(1)with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate the same to his own use or the use of any person other than the true owner, steals such property and is guilty of larceny; or

(2)with intent temporarily to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate the same to his own use or the use of any person other than the true owner, is guilty of wrongful appropriation.

(b)Punishment.--Any person found guilty of larceny or

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(a) Offenses defined.--Any person subject to this part who, while in a duty status, wrongfully takes, obtains or withholds by any means whatever from the possession of the true owner or of any other person any money, personal property or article of value of any kind:

(1) with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate the same to his own use or the use of any person other than the true owner, steals such property and is guilty of larceny; or

(2) with intent temporarily to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate the same to his own use or the use of any person other than the true owner, is guilty of wrongful appropriation.

(b) Punishment.--Any person found guilty of larceny or wrongful appropriation shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.