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unauthorized use of a car

What Section of Title 18 of Purdon's discusses the unauthorized of a car?


Asked on 2/22/06, 7:02 am

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Mark Johns Mark Johns, Esquire

Re: unauthorized use of a car

� 3928. Unauthorized use of automobiles and other vehicles.

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree if he operates the automobile, airplane, motorcycle, motorboat, or other motor-propelled vehicle of another without consent of the owner.

(b) Defense.--It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the actor reasonably believed that the owner would have consented to the operation had he known of it.

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Answered on 2/22/06, 7:46 am


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