Senate Engrossed obstruction highway; large event; classification State of Arizona Senate Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024 SENATE BILL 1073 An Act amending section 13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to offenses against public order. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Senate Engrossed obstruction highway; large event; classification
State of Arizona Senate Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024
SENATE BILL 1073
Senate Engrossed
obstruction highway; large event; classification
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-sixth Legislature
Second Regular Session
2024
SENATE BILL 1073
An Act
amending section 13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to offenses against public order.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE13-2906. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare; classification; definition A. A person commits obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare if the person, alone or with other persons, does any of the following: 1. Having no legal privilege to do so, recklessly interferes with the passage of any highway or public thoroughfare by creating an unreasonable inconvenience or hazard. 2. Intentionally activates a pedestrian signal on a highway or public thoroughfare if the person's reason for activating the signal is not to cross the highway or public thoroughfare but to do both of the following: (a) Stop the passage of traffic on the highway or public thoroughfare. (b) Solicit a driver for a donation or business. 3. After receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally interferes with passage on a highway or other public thoroughfare or entrance into a public forum that results in preventing other persons from gaining access to a governmental meeting, a governmental hearing or a political campaign event. 4. Having no legal privilege to do so and after receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally interferes with passage on any roadway in or leading to an airport or passage on a highway, bridge or tunnel currently holding twenty-five or more vehicles or people. B. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare under: 1. Subsection A, paragraph 4 of this section is a class 6 felony. 1. 2. Subsection A, paragraph 3 of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor. 2. 3. Subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor, except that a second or subsequent violation within a period of twenty-four months is a class 1 misdemeanor. 3. 4. Subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section is a class 3 misdemeanor. C. For the purposes of this section, "public forum" has the same meaning prescribed in section 15-1861. END_STATUTE
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE13-2906. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare; classification; definition
A. A person commits obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare if the person, alone or with other persons, does any of the following:
1. Having no legal privilege to do so, recklessly interferes with the passage of any highway or public thoroughfare by creating an unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.
2. Intentionally activates a pedestrian signal on a highway or public thoroughfare if the person's reason for activating the signal is not to cross the highway or public thoroughfare but to do both of the following:
(a) Stop the passage of traffic on the highway or public thoroughfare.
(b) Solicit a driver for a donation or business.
3. After receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally interferes with passage on a highway or other public thoroughfare or entrance into a public forum that results in preventing other persons from gaining access to a governmental meeting, a governmental hearing or a political campaign event.
4. Having no legal privilege to do so and after receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally interferes with passage on any roadway in or leading to an airport or passage on a highway, bridge or tunnel currently holding twenty-five or more vehicles or people.
B. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare under:
1. Subsection A, paragraph 4 of this section is a class 6 felony.
1. 2. Subsection A, paragraph 3 of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor.
2. 3. Subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor, except that a second or subsequent violation within a period of twenty-four months is a class 1 misdemeanor.
3. 4. Subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section is a class 3 misdemeanor.
C. For the purposes of this section, "public forum" has the same meaning prescribed in section 15-1861. END_STATUTE