PRINTER'S NO. 572
No. 543 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY PICCOLA, BRIGHTBILL, ULIANA, JUBELIRER, MELLOW,
AFFLERBACH, GERLACH, HELFRICK, O'PAKE, ROBBINS, MADIGAN,
WOZNIAK, THOMPSON, DELP AND SALVATORE, FEBRUARY 25, 1997
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 25, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for the crime of municipal
3 housing code avoidance.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 7509. Municipal housing code avoidance.
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person commits the crime of
10 municipal housing code avoidance upon that person's fourth or
11 subsequent conviction of a violation of the same subsection of a
12 municipal housing code for the same property without any
13 reasonable attempt to correct the violation.
14 (b) Grading.--Municipal housing code avoidance shall
15 constitute a:
16 (1) Misdemeanor of the second degree when the offense is
17 a fourth conviction of a violation of the same subsection
18 under a municipal housing code relating to the same property.
1 (2) Misdemeanor of the first degree when the offense is
2 based on five or more convictions of violations of the same
3 subsection under a municipal housing code relating to the
4 same property.
5 (c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term
6 "municipal housing code" means any municipality's building,
7 housing or property maintenance code or ordinance.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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