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Senate
Bill No. 1257
(Environmental Harassment)
Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY SCARNATI, M. WHITE, WENGER, LAVALLE, WAUGH, COSTA, ERICKSON, LEMMOND AND MUSTO, JANUARY 10, 2002
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, JUNE 11, 2002
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, defining the offense of environmental harassment; and providing a penalty. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 5518. Environmental harassment.
(a) Offense defined.--A person
commits the offense of 10 environmental harassment if the person communicates
to another person a threat to commit or cause to be committed a crime
of violence dangerous to human life or destructive to property or business
practices, for the primary purpose of expressing a perspective on an environmental
or natural resource issue against a person or business and the natural
and probable consequence of such a threat is one of the following:
(1) To place the person or business
to whom the threat is communicated or the person threatened in reasonable
fear that the
crime will be committed. (2)
To cause injury in fact to persons or damage to property or business.
(3)
To cause an interruption in business that results in loss of revenues
or compensable damages.
(b) Restitution.--A person convicted
under this section shall, in addition to any other sentence imposed,
be sentenced to pay restitution in an amount equal to the cost, INCLUDING
ANY interruption of business, directly relating to the act of environmental
harassment. (c) Grading.--An offense under this
section is a misdemeanor of the third degree.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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