HLS 10RS-533 ENGROSSED
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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 213
BY REPRESENTATIVE WILLMOTT
CRIME/BURGLARY: Creates the crime of simple burglary of a law enforcement or
emergency vehicle
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 14:62.9, relative to the crime of burglary; to create the crime of simple2
burglary of a law enforcement or emergency vehicle; to provide for definitions; to3
provide for penalties; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 14:62.9 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง62.9. Simple burglary of a law enforcement or emergency vehicle7
A. Simple burglary of a law enforcement or emergency vehicle is the8
unauthorized entering of any law enforcement or emergency vehicle with the intent9
to commit a felony or any theft therein.10
B. For the purposes of this Section, "law enforcement or emergency vehicle"11
means a marked vehicle with fully visual and audible warning signals operated by12
a fire department, a state, parish, or municipal police department, a sheriff's office,13
or such ambulances and emergency medical response vehicles certified by the14
Department of Health and Hospitals that are operated by certified ambulance15
services, and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service16
corporations as are designated or authorized by the secretary of the Department of17
Transportation and Development, or by the chief of police of any incorporated18
municipality.19 HLS 10RS-533 ENGROSSED
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C. Whoever commits the crime of simple burglary of a law enforcement or1
emergency vehicle shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, imprisoned2
with or without hard labor for not more than twenty years, or both.3
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Willmott HB No. 213
Abstract: Creates the crime of simple burglary of a law enforcement or emergency vehicle.
Proposed law defines simple burglary of a law enforcement or emergency vehicle as the
unauthorized entering of any law enforcement or emergency vehicle with the intent to
commit a felony or any theft therein.
Proposed law defines "law enforcement or emergency vehicle".
Proposed law provides for penalties including a fine of not more than $10,000, imprisonment
with or without hard labor for not more than 20 years, or both.
(Adds R.S. 14:62.9)