PRINTER'S NO. 494
No. 474 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY MELLOW, STAPLETON, BODACK, O'PAKE, KASUNIC,
HECKLER, BELAN AND MUSTO, FEBRUARY 12, 1997
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 12, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for offenses
3 relating to weapons or implements for escape.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 5122 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 5122. Weapons or implements for escape.
9 (a) Offenses defined.--
10 (1) A person commits a misdemeanor of the first degree
11 if he unlawfully introduces within a detention facility,
12 correctional institution or mental hospital, or unlawfully
13 provides an inmate thereof with any weapon, ammunition, tool,
14 implement, or other thing which may be used for escape.
15 (2) An inmate commits a misdemeanor of the first degree
16 if he unlawfully procures, makes or otherwise provides
17 himself with, or unlawfully has in his possession or under
18 his control, any weapon or ammunition.
1 (3) An inmate commits a misdemeanor of the second degree
2 if he unlawfully procures, makes or otherwise provides
3 himself with, or unlawfully has in his possession or under
4 his control, any ammunition, tool, implement or other thing
5 which may be used for escape.
6 (b) Definitions.--
7 (1) As used in this section the word "unlawfully" means
8 surreptitiously or contrary to law, regulation or order of
9 the detaining authority.
10 (2) As used in this section the word "weapon" means any
11 implement readily capable of lethal use and shall include any
12 firearm, ammunition, knife, dagger, razor, other cutting or
13 stabbing implement or club, including any item which has been
14 modified or adopted so that it can be used as a firearm,
15 ammunition, knife, dagger, razor, other cutting or stabbing
16 implement, or club. The word "firearm" includes an unloaded
17 firearm and the unassembled components of a firearm.
18 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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