Bill Text: CT HB05546 | 2018 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 5546 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Larceny Against A Person With Intellectual Disability.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-16 - File Number 504 [HB05546 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05546-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 5546*
*February Session, 2018*		_____HB05546JUD___040318____

AN ACT CONCERNING LARCENY AGAINST A PERSON WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 53a-123 of the 2018 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2018):

(a) A person is guilty of larceny in the second degree when he or she commits larceny, as defined in section 53a-119, and: (1) The property consists of a motor vehicle, the value of which exceeds ten thousand dollars, (2) the value of the property or service exceeds ten thousand dollars, (3) the property, regardless of its nature or value, is taken from the person of another, (4) the property is obtained by defrauding a public community, and the value of such property is two thousand dollars or less, (5) the property, regardless of its nature or value, is obtained by embezzlement, false pretenses or false promise and the victim of such larceny is (A) sixty years of age or older, or is a conserved person, as defined in section 45a-644, or is blind or physically disabled, as defined in section 1-1f, or (B) known and intended by the person to be a person with intellectual disability, as defined in section 1-1g, or (6) the property, regardless of its value, consists of wire, cable or other equipment used in the provision of telecommunications service and the taking of such property causes an interruption in the provision of emergency telecommunications service.

(b) For purposes of this section, "motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle, construction equipment, agricultural tractor or farm implement or major component part of any of the above. In any prosecution under subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of this section, evidence of (1) forcible entry, (2) forcible removal of ignition, or (3) alteration, mutilation or removal of a vehicle identification number shall be prima facie evidence (A) that the person in control or possession of such motor vehicle knows or should have known that such motor vehicle is stolen, and (B) that such person possesses such motor vehicle with larcenous intent.