| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to crime; extending crime of damage or theft to telecommunications |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 equipment to broadband and cable services; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4 section 609.593, subdivision 1. |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 609.593, subdivision 1, is amended to read: |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7 Subdivision 1.Crime.Whoever intentionally and without consent from one authorized |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8to give consent causes any damage to or takes, removes, severs, or breaks: |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9 (1) any line erected or maintained for the purpose of transmitting electricity for light, |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10heat, or power, or any insulator or cross-arm, appurtenance or apparatus connected to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11line, or any wire, cable, or current of the line; or any component used in the generation, |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12transmission, or distribution of electricity, including equipment used for grounding, system |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13protection, or personnel protection; |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14 (2) any pipe or main or hazardous liquid pipeline erected, operated, or maintained for |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15the purpose of transporting, conveying, or distributing gas or other hazardous liquids for |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16light, heat, power, or any other purpose, or any part of the pipe, main, or pipeline, or any |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17valve, meter, holder, compressor, machinery, appurtenance, equipment, or apparatus |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18connected with any main or pipeline; or |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19 (3) any machinery, equipment, or fixtures used in receiving, initiating, amplifying, |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20processing, transmitting, retransmitting, recording, switching, or monitoring |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21telecommunications services, such as computers, transformers, amplifiers, routers, repeaters, |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1.22multiplexers, and other items performing comparable functions; and machinery, equipment, |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1.23and fixtures used in the transportation of telecommunications services, broadband services, |
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| 24 | 24 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 25 | 25 | | REVISOR KLL/MI 25-0464503/13/25 |
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| 26 | 26 | | State of Minnesota |
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| 27 | 27 | | This Document can be made available |
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| 28 | 28 | | in alternative formats upon request |
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| 29 | 29 | | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 30 | 30 | | H. F. No. 2875 |
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| 31 | 31 | | NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 32 | 32 | | Authored by Nash, Elkins, Scott and Feist03/26/2025 |
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| 33 | 33 | | The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Public Safety Finance and Policy 2.1cable services, radio transmitters and receivers, satellite equipment, microwave equipment, |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2.2and other transporting media including wire, cable, fiber, poles, and conduit; |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2.3is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 2. |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2Section 1. |
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| 37 | 37 | | REVISOR KLL/MI 25-0464503/13/25 |
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