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tO be removed 'gage or effects from a hotel, motel, campground, boardinghouse, restaurant or other eating house while there is a lien existing thereon for the proper charges due from him for fare and board furnished therein, and if the value of the service, credit or benefit procured or obtained is less than $200.00, shall be guilty of a Ctass_l misdemeanor. Section 21-147. ~ssion of mer- ~ - chandise; altering p! transferring 'cods from one container to'another, counsel- another in performance of-such acts. Without .ty, the intenti0n of convert- ing goods or merchandise to his own or another's use without having paid the full purchase price thereof, or of defrauding. %he owner of the~vatue of the goods or merchandise: (1) Wilfully conceals or takes~possession of the goods or merchandise of any store or other mercantile establishment, or - (2) Alters the price tag or other price mark~n~ on such ]goods or merchandise,-or transfers the goods from one container to another, or (3) aids or abets another in the performance of any of the above acts, shall be deemed guilty of larceny and upon conviction thereof sna~l be punished ms provided in Section 21-148. The'wilfull concealment'of goods or merchandise of any store or other mercantile establisment, while still on the premises thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of an intent to convert and defraud the owner thereof o~% of the value of the goods or merchandise. Se( Punishment for 'conx/iction under Section 21-147. (a) Any person Convicted first time of an offense under Section 21-147, when the value of the goods or merchandise involved in the offense is less than $200.00 shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (b) Any person convicted of an offense under Section 21- 147, when the value of the goods or merchandise involved in the offense is less than $200.00, and it is alleged in the warrant or information on which he is convicted ~nd admitted, or found by the jury or judge before whom he is tried, that he has been convicted on.a prior occasIon, in the Co~umonwealth of Virginia for the like offense, regardless of the value of the goods or merchandise involved in the prior'conviction, shall be confined in jail not less than thirty (30) days nor more than twelve (12) months.