PRINTER'S NO. 41
No. 28 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY MUSTO, COSTA, LAVALLE, WAGNER, LOGAN, KITCHEN,
LEMMOND, O'PAKE, MADIGAN AND STOUT, JANUARY 23, 2003
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, JANUARY 23, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, prohibiting the unauthorized taking of
3 newspapers from municipal recycling containers placed for
4 collection.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 3935. Theft from municipal recycling containers.
10 (a) Offense defined.--A person commits a summary offense if
11 the person, without prior authorization to do so, removes any
12 newspapers that other persons have sorted, bundled or baled for
13 recycling or placed in a municipal recycling container of
14 another person for collection by a municipality.
15 (b) Penalty.--A person who commits an offense under this
16 section shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300
17 or, in the alternative and at the discretion of the court, to
18 perform community service for not fewer than eight hours nor
1 more than 16 hours.
2 (c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term
3 "municipal recycling container" means a container that is owned
4 by a municipality or a party under a contract with a
5 municipality and is clearly marked as to ownership and supplied
6 to a person for the deposit of newspapers and other materials to
7 be collected.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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