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| 1 | - | Substitute Senate Bill No. 198 | |
| 1 | + | General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 198 | |
| 2 | + | February Session, 2012 *_____SB00198JUD___040212____* | |
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| 3 | - | Public Act No. 12-38 | |
| 4 | + | General Assembly | |
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| 6 | + | Substitute Bill No. 198 | |
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| 8 | + | February Session, 2012 | |
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| 10 | + | *_____SB00198JUD___040212____* | |
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| 5 | 12 | AN ACT CONCERNING DESECRATION OF WAR OR VETERANS' MEMORIALS. | |
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| 7 | 14 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: | |
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| 9 | 16 | Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) A person is guilty of interference with a war or veterans' memorial or monument when such person, without authorization of the government body or veterans' organization responsible for the placement, control or maintenance of a war or veterans' memorial or monument, intentionally defaces, mutilates or destroys such memorial or monument, or removes such memorial or monument, or any part thereof, from its official location. | |
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| 11 | 18 | (b) Interference with a war or veterans' memorial or monument is a class D felony and any person found guilty under subsection (a) of this section shall be fined five thousand dollars. | |
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| 13 | 20 | Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) A person is guilty of the unlawful possession, purchase or sale of a war or veterans' memorial or monument when such person possesses or purchases or attempts to purchase or sells, offers for sale or attempts to sell, or transfers or disposes of a war or veterans' memorial or monument, or any part thereof, knowing that it has been unlawfully removed from its official location. | |
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| 15 | 22 | (b) Unlawful possession, purchase or sale of a war or veterans' memorial or monument is a class D felony and any person found guilty under subsection (a) of this section shall be fined five thousand dollars. | |
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| 27 | + | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | |
| 28 | + | Section 1 from passage New section | |
| 29 | + | Sec. 2 from passage New section | |
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| 31 | + | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | |
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| 33 | + | Section 1 | |
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| 37 | + | New section | |
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| 47 | + | VA Joint Favorable Subst. C/R JUD | |
| 48 | + | JUD Joint Favorable | |
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| 58 | + | Joint Favorable |