(a) A person commits the crime of theft in the second degree if the person commits theft as defined in Alaska Stat. § 11.46.100 and

Attorney's Note

Under the Alaska Statutes, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class C felonyup to 5 yearsup to $50,000
For details, see Alaska Stat. § 12.55.125
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 11.46.130

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(1) the value of the property or services is $750 or more but less than $25,000;
(2) the property is a firearm or explosive;
(3) the property is taken from the person of another;
(4) the property is taken from a vessel and is vessel safety or survival equipment;
(5) the property is taken from an aircraft and the property is aircraft safety or survival equipment;
(6) the value of the property is $250 or more but less than $750 and, within the preceding five years, the person has been convicted and sentenced on two or more separate occasions in this or another jurisdiction of

(A) an offense under Alaska Stat. § 11.46.120, or an offense under another law or ordinance with similar elements;
(B) a crime set out in this subsection or an offense under another law or ordinance with similar elements;
(C) an offense under Alaska Stat. § 11.46.140 (a)(1), or an offense under another law or ordinance with similar elements; or
(D) an offense under Alaska Stat. § 11.46.220 (c)(1) or (c)(2)(A), or an offense under another law or ordinance with similar elements; or
(7) the property is an access device or identification document.
(b) In this section,

(1) “aircraft” means a contrivance used or designed for navigation of flight in air;
(2) “aircraft safety or survival equipment” means equipment required to be carried on an aircraft under Alaska Stat. § 02.35.110;
(3) “vessel” means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane on water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water;
(4) “vessel safety or survival equipment” means personal flotation devices; immersion suits; personal flotation device lights; survival craft; equipment necessary for the proper operation of survival craft; emergency position indicating radio beacons; fire extinguishers and supporting equipment; firefighters’ outfits; and self contained breathing apparatuses; in this paragraph, “survival craft” means a device designed to enable a person to survive the loss of a vessel, and includes buoyant apparatuses, inflatable buoyant apparatuses, life floats, inflatable life rafts, and auxiliary craft, including skiffs, usable as survival craft.
(c) Theft in the second degree is a class C felony.
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