Bill Text: PA HB1234 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Further providing for arson endangering property.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-29 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB1234 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1234-Introduced.html

---

PRINTER'S NO. 1344
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1234 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY PAYNE, VULAKOVICH, FABRIZIO, MILLER, MILNE, READSHAW, SWANGER AND TALLMAN, MARCH 29, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 29, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for arson
endangering property.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3301(c) and (j) of Title 18 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 3301. Arson and related offenses.
* * *
(c) Arson endangering property.--A person commits a felony
of the second degree if he intentionally starts a fire or causes
an explosion, whether on his own property or that of another, or
if he aids, counsels, pays or agrees to pay another to cause a
fire or explosion, and if:
(1) he commits the act with intent of destroying or
damaging a building or unoccupied structure of another;
(2) he thereby recklessly places an inhabited building
or occupied structure of another in danger of damage or
destruction; [or]
(3) he commits the act with intent of destroying or
damaging any property, whether his own or of another, to
collect insurance for such loss[.]; or
(4) he thereby recklessly endangers another person
including, but not limited to, an emergency responder.
* * *
(j) Definitions.--As used in this section the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection:
"Occupied structure." Any structure, vehicle or place
adapted for overnight accommodation of persons or for carrying
on business therein, whether or not a person is actually
present. If a building or structure is divided into separately
occupied units, any unit not occupied by the actor is an
occupied structure of another.
"Property of another." A building or other property, whether
occupied or unoccupied and whether real or personal, in which a
person other than the actor has an interest which the actor has
no authority to defeat or impair, even though the actor may also
have an interest in the building or property.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
20110HB1234PN1344 - 2 -