Bill Text: CT HB05410 | 2016 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Increasing The Penalty For Refusing To Submit To The Taking Of Fingerprints, A Photograph Or A Physical Description.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-13 - File Number 592 [HB05410 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2016-HB05410-Comm_Sub.html
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February Session, 2016 |
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AN ACT INCREASING THE PENALTY FOR REFUSING TO SUBMIT TO THE TAKING OF FINGERPRINTS, A PHOTOGRAPH OR A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 29-12 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2016):
(a) All persons arrested for a crime as described in section 29-11 shall submit to the taking of their fingerprints, photograph and physical description. [and all] All constables and chiefs of police of organized police departments and the commanding officers of state police stations shall immediately furnish to the State Police Bureau of Identification two copies of a standard identification card on which shall be imprinted fingerprints of each person so arrested, together with the physical description of, and such information as said bureau may require with respect to, such arrested person. In the event fingerprint or photographic images of arrested persons are captured by electronic means, the captured electronic images shall be immediately transmitted to said bureau. Any electronic imaging equipment used to capture such fingerprint or photographic images shall be approved by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection or said commissioner's designee.
(b) All wardens of correctional institutions and the Community Correctional Center Administrator shall furnish to the State Police Bureau of Identification such information with respect to prisoners as said bureau requires.
(c) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, for the submission to and the taking of fingerprints as required under this section which will promote efficiency and be consistent with advances in automation and technology.
(d) Any person who knowingly and intentionally refuses to submit to the taking of his or her fingerprints, photograph or physical description pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a class E felony.
Sec. 2. Section 29-17 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2016):
Any person who neglects or refuses to comply with the requirements of sections 29-11, 29-11a and 29-12a to 29-16, inclusive, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2016 |
29-12 |
Sec. 2 |
October 1, 2016 |
29-17 |
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