RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 746 (HB 627) 2022 Regular Session Bryant
Existing law provides that unauthorized use of a motor vehicle is the intentional taking or
use of a motor vehicle which belongs to another without the intent to permanently deprive
the other of the motor vehicle permanently.
Existing law provides that an offender shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned with
or without hard labor for not more than two years, or both.
New law adds that when the misappropriation or taking amounts to less than a value of
$1,000, the offender shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, or fined not more
than $1,000, or both.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Adds R.S. 14:68.4(C))