ORDINANCE NO. 853

 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING LARCENY AND THE BUYING AND RECEIVING OF STOLEN GOODS AND PROVIDING A PENALTY THEREFOR.

 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:

 Section 1. LARCENY OR BUYING AND RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS. That larceny or the buying or receiving goods or other things obtained by larceny, burglary or robbery, knowing the same to have been so obtained, in all cases where the money or the value of the thing stolen, bought or received does not exceed Fifty Dollars, is hereby prohibited.

 Section 2. Any person who is convicted of the above offense shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars nor more than Three Hundred Dollars.

 Passed and adopted this 16th day of April, 1952.

/s/ Oscar Hanson, Jr.

President of the City Council

ATTEST:

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 853, was introduced, read and ordered published by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular meeting of said body held on the 2nd day of April, 1952, and that the same was published in The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper published and in general circulation in said City at least ten days before its final passage.

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City, this 16th day of April, 1952.

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

First Pub April 4, 1952

Final Pub April 18, 1952