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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY WAUGH, ALLOWAY, BOSCOLA, BROWNE, BRUBAKER, COSTA, FOLMER, FONTANA, LOGAN, O'PAKE, PICCOLA, PILEGGI, RAFFERTY, STACK, TARTAGLIONE, WASHINGTON, D. WHITE, WONDERLING AND VOGEL, MARCH 12, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 12, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of |
3 | robbery. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Section 3701 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania |
7 | Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: |
8 | § 3701. Robbery. |
9 | (a) Offense defined.-- |
10 | (1) A person is guilty of robbery if, in the course of |
11 | committing a theft, he: |
12 | (i) inflicts serious bodily injury upon another; |
13 | (ii) threatens another with or intentionally puts |
14 | him in fear of immediate serious bodily injury; |
15 | (iii) commits or threatens immediately to commit any |
16 | felony of the first or second degree; |
17 | (iv) inflicts bodily injury upon another or |
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1 | threatens another with or intentionally puts him in fear |
2 | of immediate bodily injury; [or] |
3 | (v) physically takes or removes property from the |
4 | person of another by force however slight[.]; or |
5 | (vi) takes or removes the money of a financial |
6 | institution without the permission of the financial |
7 | institution by making a demand of an employee of the |
8 | financial institution orally or in writing with the |
9 | intent to deprive the financial institution thereof. |
10 | (2) An act shall be deemed "in the course of committing |
11 | a theft" if it occurs in an attempt to commit theft or in |
12 | flight after the attempt or commission. |
13 | (3) For purposes of this subsection, a "financial |
14 | institution" means a bank, trust company, savings trust, |
15 | credit union or similar institution. |
16 | (b) Grading.--Robbery under subsection (a)(1)(iv) and (vi) |
17 | is a felony of the second degree; robbery under subsection (a) |
18 | (1)(v) is a felony of the third degree; otherwise, it is a |
19 | felony of the first degree. |
20 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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