Bill Amendment: MS HB722 | 2017 | Regular Session
Bill Title: Cargo theft; provide for crime and penalties of.
Status: 2017-03-23 - Died On Calendar [HB722 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2017-HB722-Senate_Committee_Amendment_No_1.html
Pending
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO
House Bill No. 722
BY: Committee
Amend by striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
SECTION 1. Section 97-17-33, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
97-17-33. (1) Every person who shall be convicted of breaking and entering, in the day or night, any shop, store, booth, tent, warehouse, or other building or private room or office therein, water vessel, commercial or pleasure craft, ship, steamboat, flatboat, railroad car, automobile, shipping container, truck, semitrailer or trailer in which any goods, merchandise, equipment or valuable thing shall be kept for use, sale, deposit, or transportation, with intent to steal therein, or to commit any felony, or who shall be convicted of breaking and entering in the day or nighttime, any building within the curtilage of a dwelling house, not joined to, immediately connected with or forming a part thereof, shall be guilty of burglary, and imprisoned in the Penitentiary not more than seven (7) years or fined in an amount not to exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both; but if the total value of damage to and theft of property exceeds Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), the person convicted shall be imprisoned not more than fourteen (14) years or fined not more than Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00), or both.
(2) Any person who shall be convicted of breaking and entering a church, synagogue, temple or other established place of worship with intent to commit some crime therein shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary not more than fourteen (14) years or a fine of not more than Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00), or both.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.
Further, amend by striking the title in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 97-17-33, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE OFFENSE OF BUSINESS BURGLARY, TO CLARIFY THE OFFENSE OF THEFT OF CARGO, AND TO REVISE PENALTIES THEREFOR; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
