Looting is defined as:

Looting is defined as:

• A. Entering a building during a state of emergency and stealing property.
• B. Trespassing during a state of emergency without taking property.
• C. Stealing property during normal times.
• D. Entering a building during a flood and vandalizing property.

Answer: (A)

Looting is theft that occurs in the midst of a state of emergency, where someone enters property during the disruption and takes property. The defining elements are entering a building while there is an emergency and actually stealing something. This makes the described scenario—entering during a state of emergency and taking property—the act of looting. If there’s only trespassing without taking, or stealing during normal times, or entering during a flood to vandalize without taking property, those do not fit the definition of looting.

Looting is theft that occurs in the midst of a state of emergency, where someone enters property during the disruption and takes property. The defining elements are entering a building while there is an emergency and actually stealing something. This makes the described scenario—entering during a state of emergency and taking property—the act of looting. If there’s only trespassing without taking, or stealing during normal times, or entering during a flood to vandalize without taking property, those do not fit the definition of looting.