A new statute on unlawful appropriation of motor vehicles (§ 6a, Section 38 in Penal Code) was given May 8-1963. According to the statute the cases of “taking and driving” form a special type of crime. The sentence stipulated for this kind of an offence runs from 14 days to 2 years. Under aggravating circumstances the maximum lenght of the sentence can amount to 3 years of hard labour. Under extenuating circumstances the offence is punished with 1 — 300 day fines. The Section also indicates that the act constitutes an indictable offence. The statute is included in Chapter 38 in Penal Code to emphasize its close connection with larceny statutes. It is up to the courts to draw the line between the two offences larceny and “taking and driving”. It has been found that criminal courts lately have tended to apply the larceny statute also in cases when the unlawfully appropriated motor vehicle has been driven outside the boundaries of a city and left there by the roadside, or abandoned in some other way, and even in cases when the vehicle has been found in some other part of the city.