PRINTER'S NO. 816
No. 733 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY PICCOLA AND SWEET, APRIL 12, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 12, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for institutional
3 vandalism.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3307 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 3307. Institutional vandalism.
9 (a) Offenses defined.--A person commits the offense of
10 institutional vandalism if he knowingly desecrates, as defined
11 in section 5509 (relating to desecration of venerated objects),
12 vandalizes, defaces or otherwise damages:
13 (1) any church, synagogue or other facility or place
14 used for religious worship or other religious purposes;
15 (2) any cemetery, mortuary or other facility used for
16 the purpose of burial or memorializing the dead;
17 (3) any school, educational facility [or], community
18 center, juvenile detention center, county or State prison;
1 (4) the grounds adjacent to and owned or occupied by any
2 facility set forth in paragraph (1), (2) or (3); or
3 (5) any personal property located in any facility set
4 forth in paragraph (1), (2) or (3).
5 (b) Grading.--An offense under this section is a felony of
6 the third degree if the actor causes pecuniary loss in excess of
7 $5,000. Pecuniary loss includes the cost of repair or
8 replacement of the property affected. Otherwise, institutional
9 vandalism is a misdemeanor of the second degree.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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