Bill Text: GA HB821 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Criminal damage to property; first degree; change provisions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-30 - House Second Readers [HB821 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-HB821-Introduced.html

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09 LC 29 3613

House Bill 821

By: Representative Marin of the 96th

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for criminal trespass and damage to property, so as to change provisions relating to criminal damage to property in the first degree; to increase certain penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for criminal trespass and damage to property, is amended by revising Code Section 16-7-22, relating to criminal damage to property in the first degree, as follows:

"16-7-22.

(a) A person commits the offense of criminal damage to property in the first degree when he or she:

(1) Knowingly and without authority interferes with any property in a manner so as to endanger human life; or

(2) Knowingly and without authority and by force or violence interferes with the operation of any system of public communication, public transportation, sewerage, drainage, water supply, gas, power, or other public utility service or with any constituent property thereof.

(b) A person convicted of the offense of criminal damage to property in the first degree in violation of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this Code section shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than 15 years. A person convicted of the offense of criminal damage to property in the first degree in violation of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this Code section shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.