PRINTER'S NO. 3058
No. 2235 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY BENNINGHOFF, ALLEN, M. BAKER, BARD, BARRAR,
BASTIAN, CAPPELLI, CIVERA, CLARK, CLYMER, COLEMAN, CORRIGAN,
CREIGHTON, DONATUCCI, EGOLF, FAIRCHILD, FRANKEL, GEIST,
GEORGE, GODSHALL, HARHAI, HERMAN, HERSHEY, HESS, HORSEY,
KELLER, LEDERER, MARSICO, McGEEHAN, McGILL, McILHATTAN,
MELIO, S. MILLER, NAILOR, PALLONE, PICKETT, READSHAW, ROSS,
RUBLEY, SEMMEL, B. SMITH, STABACK, R. STEVENSON,
E. Z. TAYLOR, J. TAYLOR, TRICH, TURZAI, WASHINGTON, WATSON,
WILT, WOJNAROSKI, G. WRIGHT AND YOUNGBLOOD, DECEMBER 11, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, DECEMBER 11, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for false
3 identification to law enforcement officers and authorities.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4914 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4914. False identification to law enforcement officers and
9 authorities.
10 (a) [Offense] Offenses defined.--A person commits an offense
11 if he:
12 (1) submits false identification to a law enforcement
13 officer, whether orally or in writing, with intent to conceal
14 a true identity; or
15 (2) furnishes law enforcement authorities with false
1 information about his identity after being informed by a law
2 enforcement officer who is in uniform or who has identified
3 himself as a law enforcement officer that the person is the
4 subject of an official investigation of a violation of law.
5 (b) Grading.--
6 (1) An offense under subsection (a)(1) is a misdemeanor
7 of the second degree.
8 (2) An offense under [this section] subsection (a)(2) is
9 a misdemeanor of the third degree.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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