PRINTER'S NO. 1808
No. 1347 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY GERLACH, GREENLEAF, MOWERY, EARLL, LEMMOND,
KITCHEN AND COSTA, MARCH 21, 2000
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 21, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for an offense relating to
3 contraband.
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 § 914. Contraband.
9 (a) Offenses.--A person commits a misdemeanor of the second
10 degree if that person receives, retains, possesses or disposes
11 of any movable property:
12 (1) Knowing that the movable property:
13 (i) is contraband; or
14 (ii) contains contraband.
15 (2) Believing that the movable property probably
16 contains contraband.
17 (b) Exception.--This section shall not constitute a
18 violation when the performer is a law enforcement officer acting
1 in the scope of his assigned duties.
2 (c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term
3 "contraband" means any property:
4 (1) That is unlawful to produce or possess.
5 (2) That the possession of that property is lawful, but
6 that property was used or possessed in perpetration of an
7 unlawful act.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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