General Assembly Raised Bill No. 195
February Session, 2012 LCO No. 828
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Referred to Committee on Public Safety and Security
Introduced by:
(PS)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 195
February Session, 2012
LCO No. 828
*00828_______PS_*
Referred to Committee on Public Safety and Security
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE STORAGE OF STOLEN PROPERTY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 54-36a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2012):
(b) (1) Whenever property is seized in connection with a criminal arrest or seized pursuant to a search warrant without an arrest, the law enforcement agency seizing such property shall file, on forms provided for this purpose by the Office of the Chief Court Administrator, an inventory of the property seized. The inventory, together with the uniform arrest report, in the case of an arrest, shall be filed with the clerk of the court for the geographical area in which the criminal offense is alleged to have been committed; except, when the property is stolen property and, in the opinion of the law enforcement officer, does not exceed [two hundred fifty] one thousand dollars in value, or when an attempt was made to steal the property but the property at all times remained on the premises in a sealed container, the filing of an inventory shall not be required and such property may be returned to the owner. In the case of property seized in connection with a search warrant without an arrest, the inventory shall be attached to the warrant and shall be filed with the clerk of the court for the geographical area in which the search warrant was issued. If any criminal proceeding is transferred to another court location, then the clerk with whom the inventory is filed shall transfer such inventory to the clerk of the court location to which such action is transferred.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2012 54-36a(b)(1)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2012
54-36a(b)(1)
Statement of Purpose:
To relieve local police departments of the administrative and financial burdens of inventorying and storing stolen property by raising the property value threshold that determines when the police must file an inventory and retain the property.
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