SB 6010 -
By Committee on Public Safety
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
"Sec. 1 RCW 9A.52.060 and 2011 c 336 s 371 are each amended to
read as follows:
(1) Every person who shall make or mend or cause to be made or
mended, or have in his or her possession, any engine, machine, tool,
false key, altered or shaved key, pick lock, bit, nippers, or implement
adapted, designed, or commonly used for the commission of burglary
under circumstances evincing an intent to use or employ, or allow the
same to be used or employed in the commission of a burglary, or knowing
that the same is intended to be so used, shall be guilty of making or
having burglar tools.
(2) For purposes of this section, an "altered or shaved key" is any
key so altered, by cutting, filing, or other means, to fit multiple
locks other than the lock for which the key was originally
manufactured.
(3) Making or having burglar tools is a gross misdemeanor."
Correct the title.
EFFECT: (1) Adds altered or shaved keys to the current statutory
list of burglary tools (where the intent to use the altered or shaved
key in the commission of a burglary crime is an element of the
offense). As a result, making or possessing a shaved key with the
intent to use the key in the commission of a burglary is a gross
misdemeanor offense.
(2) Eliminates the provisions in the burglary statute and the motor
vehicle theft statute that made:
(a) Mere possession of shaved keys a crime even in situations where
law enforcement could not establish an intent to use the tools to
commit burglary or motor vehicle theft;
(b) Each additional set of one to ten altered or shaved keys a
separate and distinct crime and an additional gross misdemeanor.