Bill Text: MS HB1417 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Catalytic converters; provide felony for theft of.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-06 - Died In Committee [HB1417 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2012-HB1417-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2012 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative DeLano
House Bill 1417
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 97-17-41, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT THEFT OF A CATALYTIC CONVERTER SHALL BE GRAND LARCENY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 97-17-41, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
97-17-41. (1) Every person who shall be convicted of taking and carrying away, feloniously, the personal property of another, of the value of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or more, shall be guilty of grand larceny, and shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding ten (10) years; or shall be fined not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both. The total value of property taken and carried away by the person from a single victim shall be aggregated in determining the gravity of the offense.
(2) Every person who shall be convicted of taking and carrying away, feloniously, the property of a church, synagogue, temple or other established place of worship, of the value of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or more, shall be guilty of grand larceny, and shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding ten (10) years, or shall be fined not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both.
(3) Every person who shall be convicted of taking and carrying away, feloniously, the catalytic converter of another, regardless of the value, shall be guilty of grand larceny, and shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding ten (10) years, or shall be fined not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012.
