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

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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-Engrossed.html

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Senate Engrossed House Bill

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-third Legislature

Second Regular Session

2018

 

 

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