Bill Text: AZ HB2246 | 2018 | Fifty-third Legislature 2nd Regular | Chaptered


Bill Title: Jail; prohibited items; drugs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-04-12 - Chapter 202 [HB2246 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2018-HB2246-Chaptered.html

 

 

Senate Engrossed House Bill

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-third Legislature

Second Regular Session

2018

 

 

 

CHAPTER 202

 

HOUSE BILL 2246

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 31‑129, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to jails.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 31-129, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE31-129.  Taking prohibited articles into jail; violation; classification; definitions

A.  A person not authorized by law who knowingly takes into a jail or the grounds belonging or adjacent thereto, to the jail any opium, morphine, cocaine or other narcotic marijuana, narcotic drug or dangerous drug, or intoxicating liquor of any kind, or firearms, weapons or explosives of any kind is guilty of a class 5 felony.

B.  For the purposes of this section, "marijuana", "narcotic drug" and "dangerous drug" have the same meanings prescribed in section 13‑3401. END_STATUTE


 

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 12, 2018.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 13, 2018.

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