PRINTER'S NO. 1099
No. 964 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY REBER, CALTAGIRONE, FOX, KOSINSKI, CESSAR, ARGALL,
TRELLO, FEE, JADLOWIEC, FAIRCHILD, THOMAS, JAROLIN, KENNEY,
TIGUE, ROBINSON, D. W. SNYDER, GLADECK, B. SMITH, HARPER,
MAIALE, J. L. WRIGHT, RAYMOND, MORRIS, STABACK, PERZEL,
GODSHALL, MELIO, GEIST, SERAFINI, SAURMAN, VROON, CIVERA,
BURD, SCHEETZ, ADOLPH, CLYMER, CORNELL, VEON, JOHNSON,
J. TAYLOR, CAWLEY, BELFANTI, GANNON, CARLSON, BLAUM, FARMER,
BELARDI, ROBBINS, DIETTERICK, DeLUCA, CORRIGAN, SEMMEL,
FLICK, NOYE, E. Z. TAYLOR, LEE, COWELL, DALEY, FARGO, WOGAN,
LANGTRY AND MARSICO, APRIL 4, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 4, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for contraband.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 5123(a) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes, amended December 19, 1988 (P.L. ,
7 No.158), is amended to read:
8 § 5123. Contraband.
9 (a) Contraband to confined persons prohibited.--A person
10 commits a [misdemeanor] felony of the [first] second degree if
11 he sells, gives, or furnishes to any convict in a prison, or
12 inmate in a mental hospital, or gives away in, or brings into
13 any prison, mental hospital, or any building appurtenant
14 thereto, or on the land granted to or owned or leased by the
1 Commonwealth or county for the use and benefit of the prisoners
2 or inmates, or puts in any place where it may be secured by a
3 convict of a prison, inmate of a mental hospital, or employee
4 thereof, any kind of spirituous or fermented liquor, drug,
5 medicine or poison or any controlled substance included in
6 Schedules I through V of the act of April 14, 1972 (P.L.233,
7 No.64), known as The Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and
8 Cosmetic Act, (except the ordinary hospital supply of the prison
9 or mental hospital) without a written permit signed by the
10 physician of such institution, specifying the quantity and
11 quality of the liquor or substance which may be furnished to any
12 convict, inmate, or employee in the prison or mental hospital,
13 the name of the prisoner, inmate, or employee for whom, and the
14 time when the same may be furnished, which permit shall be
15 delivered to and kept by the warden or superintendent of the
16 prison or mental hospital.
17 * * *
18 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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