14-168.1. Conversion by bailee, lessee, tenant or attorney-in-fact.
Every person entrusted with any property as bailee, lessee, tenant or lodger, or with any power of attorney for the sale or transfer thereof, who fraudulently converts the same, or the proceeds thereof, to his own use, or secretes it with a fraudulent intent to convert it to his own use, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
If, however, the value of the property converted or secreted, or the proceeds thereof, is in excess of four hundred dollars ($400.00), every person so converting or secreting it is guilty of a Class H felony. In all cases of doubt the jury shall, in the verdict, fix the value of the property converted or secreted. (1965, c. 1073, s. 5; 1979, c. 468; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 13; 1981, c. 63, s. 1; c. 179, s. 14; 1993, c. 539, s. 113; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 2013-360, s. 18B.14(d).)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 24 - Vehicles and Draft Animals-Protection of Bailor Against Acts of Bailee.
§ 14-165 - Malicious or willful injury to hired personal property.
§ 14-166 - Subletting of hired property.
§ 14-167 - Failure to return hired property.
§ 14-168 - Hiring with intent to defraud.
§ 14-168.1 - Conversion by bailee, lessee, tenant or attorney-in-fact.
§ 14-168.3 - Prima facie evidence of intent to convert property.
§ 14-168.4 - Failing to return rented property on which there is purchase option.