§ 11-8-2.3 Breaking and entering of dwelling house of persons 60 years of age or older when resident on premises. – (a) Every person who shall break and enter any dwelling house or apartment, without the consent of the owner or tenant at a time when a resident of the dwelling house or apartment who is sixty (60) years of age or older is on the premises, shall be imprisoned for not less than four (4) years and not more than twenty (20) years for the first conviction, and for the second and subsequent convictions shall be imprisoned for not less than six (6) years and not more than twenty (20) years, and may in addition be fined not more than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for a first conviction and not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for second and subsequent convictions.
(b) Every person convicted pursuant to subsection (a) of this
section shall be ordered to make restitution to the victim of the offense, or
to perform up to five hundred (500) hours of public community restitution work,
or both, or any combination of them imposed by the sentencing judge. The court
may not waive the obligation to make restitution and/or public community
restitution work. Restitution and/or public community restitution work shall be
in addition to any fine or sentence which may be imposed and not in lieu of the
fine or sentence; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall be
construed to require the payment of restitution while the convicted person is
imprisoned.
(P.L. 1987, ch. 87, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 543, § 1.)