PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1648 PRINTER'S NO. 2002
No. 1257 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY SCARNATI, M. WHITE, WENGER, LAVALLE, WAUGH, COSTA,
ERICKSON, LEMMOND AND MUSTO, JANUARY 10, 2002
SENATOR M. WHITE, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, AS
AMENDED, MAY 8, 2002
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, defining the offense of environmental
3 terrorism HARASSMENT; and providing a penalty. <--
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 5518. Environmental terrorism HARASSMENT. <--
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person commits the offense of
10 environmental terrorism HARASSMENT if the person communicates to <--
11 another person a threat to commit or cause to be committed a
12 crime of violence dangerous to human life or destructive to
13 property or business practices, for the primary purpose of
14 expressing a perspective on an environmental or natural resource
15 issue against a person or business and the natural and probable
16 consequence of such a threat is one of the following:
17 (1) To place the person or business to whom the threat
18 is communicated or the person threatened in reasonable fear
1 that the crime will be committed.
2 (2) To cause injury in fact to persons or damage to
3 property or business.
4 (3) To cause an interruption in business that results in
5 loss of revenues or compensable damages.
6 (b) Restitution.--A person convicted under this section
7 shall, in addition to any other sentence imposed, be sentenced
8 to pay the business restitution in an amount equal to the cost
9 of the interruption of business directly relating to the act of
10 environmental terrorism HARASSMENT. <--
11 (c) Grading.--An offense under this section is a misdemeanor
12 of the third degree.
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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