Title 10 — Business, Licensing, and Regulated Activity
Chapter 10A — General commerce and professional licensing
| Section | Offense | Grade | Elements |
|---|---|---|---|
| § 10.01 | Operating without a required business license | M3 | Knowingly operates a regulated business without a current license after notice. A business involving weapons, controlled substances, gambling, alcohol, security, transport, or healthcare is M1. |
| § 10.02 | Violation of license condition | I | Knowingly violates a material operating, hours, capacity, recordkeeping, or safety condition of a license. Repeated or dangerous violation is M2. |
| § 10.03 | Fraudulent license application | M1 | Knowingly makes a material false statement or submits false documentation to obtain or renew a government license or permit. |
| § 10.04 | Unlicensed professional practice | M1 | Knowingly performs a service reserved to a licensed profession without authority. Bodily injury, major loss, or healthcare practice is F4. |
| § 10.05 | Consumer deception | M2 | In commerce, knowingly misrepresents a material fact about price, origin, condition, quantity, warranty, or service. Scheme or major loss may be charged as fraud. |
| § 10.06 | Price gouging during emergency | M1 | During a declared emergency, knowingly charges a grossly excessive price for essential food, fuel, shelter, medicine, transport, or emergency supplies without cost justification. |
| § 10.07 | False weights or measures | M2 | Knowingly uses a false scale, meter, quantity statement, octane rating, or measurement to obtain commercial benefit. |
| § 10.08 | Sale of unsafe or recalled goods | M1 | Knowingly sells a product subject to a safety recall or known to pose a substantial undisclosed risk. Injury is F4. |
| § 10.09 | Food-service health violation | M3 | Knowingly violates a material food-safety, sanitation, temperature, contamination, or closure requirement. Serious danger is M1. |
| § 10.10 | Building or fire-code violation | M3 | Knowingly maintains an occupied business in material violation of capacity, exit, alarm, suppression, or structural-safety requirements after notice. Imminent danger is M1. |
| § 10.11 | Unlawful employment practice involving safety | M1 | Knowingly directs an unqualified or underage person to perform hazardous regulated work, or retaliates for reporting an imminent safety danger. |
| § 10.12 | Wage theft | M1 | Intentionally withholds earned wages, falsifies hours, or takes unlawful kickbacks from compensation. F5 at $25,000 aggregate or as a repeated enterprise. |
| § 10.13 | Records required of regulated business | M3 | Knowingly fails to create, retain, or produce records required for a regulated transaction after lawful demand. Falsification may be charged separately. |
Chapter 10B — Alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, and gaming
| Section | Offense | Grade | Elements |
|---|---|---|---|
| § 10.20 | Unlicensed sale of alcohol | M2 | Knowingly sells or serves alcoholic beverages without a required license. Repeated commercial operation is M1. |
| § 10.21 | Sale of alcohol to a minor | M1 | Knowingly or recklessly sells, furnishes, or serves alcohol to a minor. Reasonable reliance on apparently valid identification is a defense. |
| § 10.22 | Sale of alcohol to an obviously intoxicated person | M2 | Knowingly serves alcohol to a person visibly intoxicated to a degree creating foreseeable danger. Resulting serious injury may support M1. |
| § 10.23 | Minor in possession of alcohol | I | A minor knowingly possesses or consumes alcohol without a lawful household, medical, religious, or employment exception. Diversion is preferred. |
| § 10.24 | Furnishing cannabis to a minor | F5 | Knowingly sells or provides cannabis to a minor outside lawful medical authority. |
| § 10.25 | Unlicensed cannabis business | F5 | Operates a commercial cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, delivery, or retail business without required license. |
| § 10.26 | Sale of tobacco or nicotine product to a minor | M3 | Knowingly or recklessly sells a regulated tobacco or nicotine product to a minor. |
| § 10.27 | Illegal gambling | M3 | Knowingly stakes value on an unlicensed game of chance operated for profit. Social games authorized by server policy are excluded. |
| § 10.28 | Promoting illegal gambling | F5 | Owns, finances, manages, records bets for, or profits from an unlicensed gambling business. Large-scale or fixed contests are F4. |
| § 10.29 | Possession of gambling records or devices | M1 | Possesses betting records, rigged devices, or commercial gambling equipment with intent to operate illegal gambling. |
| § 10.30 | Sports bribery or contest fixing | F3 | Offers, solicits, or accepts a benefit to alter the outcome, scoring, officiating, or honest performance of a sporting or competitive event. |
Chapter 10C — Specialized regulated businesses
| Section | Offense | Grade | Elements |
|---|---|---|---|
| § 10.40 | Unlicensed firearm dealing | F4 | Engages in repeated firearm sales for profit without a required dealer license. Trafficking quantities may be charged under § 7.28. |
| § 10.41 | Firearm dealer record violation | M1 | A licensed dealer knowingly fails to verify eligibility, maintain a required record, or report a multiple sale or theft. |
| § 10.42 | Unlicensed security service | M1 | Provides armed security, bail enforcement, private policing, or protective services without required license. |
| § 10.43 | Unlicensed medical or pharmacy operation | F4 | Operates a clinic, ambulance, pharmacy, or medical service without required authorization. |
| § 10.44 | Unlicensed salvage or vehicle dismantling | M1 | Operates a salvage yard, dismantler, or major-parts business without required license or acquisition records. Stolen property supports additional felonies. |
| § 10.45 | Unlicensed money-service business | F5 | Knowingly operates currency exchange, check cashing, money transmission, lending, or virtual-asset transfer without required registration. |
| § 10.46 | Predatory or criminal lending | F4 | Extends credit at a prohibited rate and uses threats, violence, unlawful collateral seizure, or coercion to collect. |
| § 10.47 | Unauthorized sale of government credentials | F4 | Sells or transfers licenses, permits, badges, records, access cards, or official credentials without authority. |
| § 10.48 | Failure to report suspicious regulated transaction | M1 | A regulated dealer knowingly avoids a mandatory report concerning a clearly suspicious firearm, explosive, major-cash, or controlled transaction. |
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