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Larceny and wrongful appropriation - 51 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 6042

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     § 6042.  Larceny and wrongful appropriation.
        (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, 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.

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