Bill Text: MS SB2358 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Trespass after warning; increase criminal penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee [SB2358 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2024-SB2358-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2024 Regular Session

To: Judiciary, Division B

By: Senator(s) Johnson

Senate Bill 2358

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 97-17-97, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR TRESPASS AFTER WARNING; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 97-17-97, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     97-17-97.  (1)  Except as otherwise provided in Section 73-13-103, if any person or persons shall without authority of law go into or upon or remain in or upon any building, premises or land of another, including the premises of any public housing authority after having been banned from returning to the premises of the housing authority, whether an individual, a corporation, partnership, or association, or any part, portion or area thereof, after having been forbidden to do so, either orally or in writing, including any sign hereinafter mentioned, by any owner, or lessee, or custodian, or other authorized person, or by the administrators of a public housing authority regardless of whether or not having been invited onto the premises of the housing authority by a tenant, or after having been forbidden to do so by such sign or signs posted on, or in such building, premises or land, or part, or portion, or area thereof, at a place or places where such sign or signs may be reasonably seen, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of no less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) but not more than * * * Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by confinement in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

     (2)  The provisions of this section are supplementary to the provisions of any other statute of this state.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2024.

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