Title 18 — CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

18-2319. Attempt to influence votes. No person shall attempt to influence the vote of any elector by means of a promise or a favor, or by means of violence or threats of violence, or threats of withdrawing custom or dealing in business or trade, or enforcing the payment of a debt…

18-2320. Bribery of electors. No person shall in any way offer a bribe to an elector to influence his vote.

18-2321. Fraudulent permission of registration. Any registry agent, or other person, who in any manner shall wilfully or corruptly permit any person not entitled to registration or to a certificate of registration, to be registered or have a certificate of registration, or who de…

18-2322. Illegal registration by voter. Any person who shall willfully cause, or endeavor to cause, his name to be registered in any other election district than that in which he resides, or will reside prior to the day of the next ensuing election, except as herein otherwise pro…

18-2323. Placing placards in booths. Any person or officer of election who shall put, or permit to be put, into a voting booth, any placard, notice or device, except the sample ballots and cards of instruction as by law provided, intended or likely to call the attention of the vo…

18-2324. BALLOT HARVESTING PROHIBITED — EXCEPTIONS — Penalty. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, no person shall knowingly collect or convey another voter’s voted or unvoted ballot. (2) This section shall not apply to: (a) A person who collects or …

18-2401. Consolidation of theft offenses. (1) Conduct denominated theft in this chapter constitutes a single offense superceding the separate offenses previously known as embezzlement, extortion, false pretenses, cheats, misrepresentations, larceny and receiving stolen goods. (2)…

18-2402. Definitions. The following definitions are applicable to this chapter: (1) "Appropriate." To "appropriate" property of another to oneself or a third person means: (a) To exercise control over it, or to aid a third person to exercise control over it, permanently or for so…

18-2403. Theft. (1) A person steals property and commits theft when, with intent to deprive another of property or to appropriate the same to himself or to a third person, he wrongfully takes, obtains or withholds such property from an owner thereof. (2) Theft includes a wrongful…

18-2404. Prima facie evidence — Theft by lessee. It shall be prima facie evidence that a person knowingly obtains or exerts unauthorized control over property of the owner when a lessee of the personal property of another, leased or rented by written instrument: (1) Fails or refu…

18-2405. Proof of fraudulent intent in procuring food, lodging or other accommodations. Proof that lodging, food or other accommodation was obtained by any deception or false pretense, or by any false or fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other property, or that any pe…

18-2406. Defenses. (1) It is no defense to a charge of theft of property that the offender has an interest therein, when the owner also has an interest to which the offender is not entitled. (2) Where the property involved is that of the offender’s spouse, no prosecution for thef…

18-2407. Grading of theft. Theft is divided into two (2) degrees, grand theft and petit theft. (1) Grand theft. (a) A person is guilty of grand theft when he commits a theft as defined in this chapter and when the property, regardless of its nature and value, is obtained by extor…

18-2408. Punishment for theft. (1) Grand theft committed in a manner prescribed in subsection (1)(a) of section 18-2407, Idaho Code, is a felony punishable by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one (1) year nor …

18-2409. Pleading and proof. (1) Where it is an element of the crime charged that property was taken from the person or obtained by extortion, an indictment, complaint or information for theft must so specify. In all other cases, an indictment, information or complaint for theft …

18-2410. Prohibiting defacing, altering or obliterating numbers — Sales prohibited — Penalty. (1) Any person who, with intent to deceive or defraud others, shall deface, alter, remove, cover, destroy or obliterate the manufacturer’s serial or identification number on any item of …

18-2411. Unlawful use of theft detection shielding devices. (1) A person commits unlawful use of a theft detection shielding device when he knowingly manufacturers, sells, offers for sale or distributes any laminated, or coated bag or device peculiar to shielding and intended to …

18-2415. Scanning — Reencoding. (1) As used in this section, the term: (a) "Scanning device" means a scanner, reader, or any other electronic device that is used to access, read, scan, obtain, memorize, or store, temporarily or permanently, information encoded on the magnetic str…

18-2416. Short title. This act may be known and cited as the "Unused Merchandise Ownership Protection Act."

18-2417. Definitions. As used in the unused merchandise ownership protection act: (1) "Open market" may include a "swap meet," an "indoor swap meet" or a "flea market" and means an event at which two (2) or more persons offer personal property for sale or exchange and either: (a)…

18-2418. Prohibited sales — Certain merchandise. (1) It is a violation of the unused merchandise ownership protection act for a vendor of unused merchandise to sell or offer for sale any baby food or infant formula, cosmetic, drug or medical device at an open market without displ…

18-2419. Recordkeeping requirements — Violations. (1) A vendor of unused merchandise shall maintain receipts for the vendor’s purchase of any unused merchandise sold or offered for sale by the vendor at an open market. The receipts shall be kept at the open market in which the un…

18-2420. Exemptions. (1) The following persons are exempt from the provisions of the unused merchandise ownership protection act: (a) A vendor at an event organized or operated for religious, educational, charitable or other nonprofit purposes if no part of any admission fee or p…

18-2421. Penalties. A person who violates any provision of the unused merchandise ownership protection act is guilty of a misdemeanor for the first offense. Any person who pleads guilty to or is found guilty of a violation of the unused merchandise ownership protection act, or an…

18-2501. Rescuing prisoners. Every person who rescues, or attempts to rescue, or aids another person in rescuing or attempting to rescue, any prisoner from any prison, or from any officer or person having him in lawful custody, is punishable as follows: (1) If such prisoner was i…

18-2502. Officers assisting in escape. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, peace officer, correctional officer or other employee of a correctional facility, as defined in section 18-101A, Idaho Code, including a private correctional facility, who fraudulently contrives, procures, aids, …

18-2504. Private persons assisting in escape. Every person who wilfully assists any prisoner confined in any prison, or in the lawful custody of any officer or person, to escape, or in an attempt to escape, from such prison or custody, is guilty of a felony.

18-2505. Escape by one charged with, convicted of, or on probation for a felony — Escape by a juvenile from custody. (1) Every prisoner charged with, convicted of, or on probation for a felony who is confined in any correctional facility, as defined in section 18-101A, Idaho Code…

18-2506. Escape by one charged with or convicted of a misdemeanor — Escape by a juvenile from custody. (1) (a) Every prisoner charged with or convicted of a misdemeanor who is confined in any county jail or other place or who is engaged in any county work outside of such jail or …

18-2507. Expense of prosecution — How paid. Whenever a person is prosecuted under any of the provisions of section 18-2505, Idaho Code, and whenever a prisoner in the custody of the board of correction housed in a state correctional facility, as defined in section 18-101A, Idaho …

18-2508. persons committed to public institutions — Enticing to escape or harboring unlawful. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly entice the escape of or harbor any person committed to or confined in any institution maintained by the state for the treatment, educ…

18-2510. possession, introduction or removal of certain articles into or from correctional facilities. (1) No person including a prisoner, except as authorized by law or with permission of the facility head, shall knowingly: (a) Introduce, or attempt to introduce, contraband into…

18-2601. Falsifying evidence — Offering forged or fraudulent documents in evidence. Every person who, upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation whatever authorized or permitted by law, offers in evidence as genuine or true, any book, paper, document, record, or other i…

18-2602. Preparing false evidence. Every person guilty of preparing any false or antedated book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it, or allow it to be produced, for any fraudulent or deceitful purpose, as genuine or true, upo…

18-2603. Destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. Every person who, knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other object, matter or thing, is about to be produced, used or discovered as evidence upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry, or investigat…

18-2604. Intimidating a witness. (1) Any person who, by direct or indirect force, or by any threats to a person or property, or by any manner wilfully intimidates, influences, impedes, deters, threatens, harasses, obstructs or prevents a witness, including a child witness, or any…

18-2605. Bribing witnesses. Every person who gives or offers, or promises to give, to any witness or person about to be called as a witness, any bribe, upon any understanding or agreement that the testimony of such witness shall be thereby influenced, or who attempts by any other…

18-2606. Receiving of bribe by witness. Every person who is a witness, or is about to be called as such, who receives or offers to receive any bribe, upon any understanding that his testimony shall be influenced thereby, or that he will absent himself from the trial or proceeding…

18-2701. Bribery of executive officers. Every person who gives or offers any bribe to any executive officer of this state, with intent to influence him in respect to any act, decision, vote, opinion or other proceeding as such officer, is guilty of a felony.

18-2702. Asking or receiving bribes. Every executive officer or person elected or appointed to an executive office who asks, receives or agrees to receive, any bribe upon any agreement or understanding that his vote, opinion or action upon any matter then pending, or which may be…

18-2704. Asking or receiving rewards. Every executive officer who asks or receives any emolument, gratuity or reward, or any promise thereof, excepting such as may be authorized by law, for doing any official act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

18-2705. Officers not to purchase scrip. Every officer or person prohibited by the laws of this state from becoming a purchaser at sales, or from purchasing scrip, or other evidences of indebtedness, who violates any of the provisions of such laws, is punishable by a fine of not …

18-2706. Presentation of fraudulent accounts. Every person who, with intent to defraud, presents for allowance or for payment to any state board or officer, or to any county, town, city, ward or village board or officer, authorized to allow or pay the same if genuine, any false o…

18-2707. Buying appointments. Every person who gives or offers any gratuity or reward, in consideration that he or any other person shall be appointed to any public office, or shall be permitted to exercise or discharge the duties thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

18-2708. Making appointments for reward. Every public officer who for any gratuity or reward, appoints another person to a public office, or permits another person to exercise or discharge any of the duties of his office, is punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000, and in addit…

18-2709. Intrusion into office — Holding over. Every person who wilfully and knowingly intrudes himself into any public office to which he has not been elected or appointed, and every person who, having been an executive officer, wilfully exercises any of the functions of his off…

18-2710. Withholding books and records from successor. Every officer whose office is abolished by law, or who, after the expiration of the time for which he may be appointed or elected, or after he has resigned or been legally removed from office, wilfully and unlawfully withhold…

18-2711. Application of chapter. The various provisions of this chapter apply to administrative and ministerial officers, in the same manner as if they were mentioned therein.

18-2712. Disqualified person holding office. Every person not a legal voter and possessing all the qualifications prescribed for voters, or who is under any disqualification created by the laws of this state, who holds or exercises any office, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

18-2901. False imprisonment defined. False imprisonment is the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another.