Chapter 341
2011 -- S 0033 SUBSTITUTE A
Enacted 07/13/11
A N A C T
RELATING TO
CRIMINAL OFFENSES --
Introduced By: Senators Tassoni, Bates, Lombardo, and Felag
Date Introduced: January 11, 2011
It is enacted by the General
Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 11-20-2 of the General Laws in Chapter
11-20 entitled "
Corpses" is hereby
amended to read as follows:
11-20-2.
Desecration of grave. -- Every person who shall
willfully and maliciously
destroy, mutilate, deface, cover over, injure or remove any
tomb, monument, gravestone,
American Flag, or other structure or thing placed or
designed for a memorial of the dead, or any
fence, railing, curb, or other thing intended for the
protection or for the ornament of any tomb,
monument, gravestone, or other structure of the like character
and designed for that purposes, or
of any inclosure enclosure
for the sepulture of the dead, or dig or plow up, cultivate or build upon
or within any inclosure
enclosure or plot of ground used and occupied for the sepulture of the
dead, or shall commit any nuisance in it, or wantonly
disturb, remove, or in any way desecrate the
contents of any grave in any inclosure
enclosure or plot of ground, shall be guilty of a felony and
shall be imprisoned not less than one year and not
exceeding three (3) years, and/or be fined not
more than three thousand dollars ($3,000), or both five
thousand dollars ($5,000), or both and
shall, in addition to imprisonment and/or fine, be ordered
to make full restitution to any person,
business or entity incurring the expense of repairing the
grave.
SECTION 2. Section 11-44-13 of the General Laws in Chapter
11-44 entitled "Trespass
and Vandalism" is hereby amended to read as follows:
11-44-13.
Injury to public statues and monuments. -- Every
person who shall willfully
trespass upon, deface, mutilate, or otherwise injure the
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in the
city of shall may be punished by
a fine not
exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), one thousand
dollars ($1,000) and/or by imprisonment not
exceeding one year, or both fine and imprisonment and
shall, in addition to imprisonment and/or
fine, be ordered to make full restitution to the public or
governmental entity incurring the expense
of repairing the statue or monument.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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