PRINTER'S NO. 3492
No. 2561 Session of 1988
INTRODUCED BY PRESSMANN, VROON, RYBAK, BOWSER, KOSINSKI, ARGALL,
COWELL, HESS, ITKIN, NOYE, McHALE, DORR, MELIO, FARGO,
MAIALE, SEMMEL, TRELLO, VEON, LEVDANSKY, VAN HORNE, BATTISTO,
DALEY, RITTER, WOZNIAK, BILLOW, RUDY AND FREEMAN, JUNE 15,
1988
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 15, 1988
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for retail theft
3 rehabilitation and community service in relation to retail
4 theft.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 3929 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding subsections to read:
9 § 3929. Retail theft.
10 * * *
11 (h) Retail theft rehabilitation.--
12 (1) Every person convicted of a violation of this
13 section or placed on Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition
14 or other preliminary disposition as a result of a charge of a
15 violation of this section shall, as part of sentencing or as
16 a condition of probation or Accelerated Rehabilitative
17 Disposition, attend and successfully complete a retail theft
1 rehabilitation program, if that condition is imposed by the
2 court.
3 (2) Fees to cover the costs of participation in a retail
4 theft rehabilitation program shall be in addition to any
5 other penalty required or allowed by law and shall be the
6 responsibility of the defendant.
7 (i) Community service.--In addition to any other requirement
8 of this section, a person convicted of a violation of this
9 section or placed on Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition or
10 other preliminary disposition as a result of a charge brought
11 under this section may engage in a program of community work
12 service or collection of litter from public and private
13 property, if that condition is imposed by the court. The
14 duration of the defendant's participation shall not exceed the
15 duration of the supervision period imposed.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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