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                          HOUSE BILL 2247

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Representatives Chappell, Brumsickle, Campbell, Orr, Karahalios, Cothern, Schoesler, Springer, Van Luven, Brough, Carlson, Basich and Kremen

Read first time 01/12/94.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Concerning first degree burglary.

    AN ACT Relating to burglary; and amending RCW 9A.52.020.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.52.020 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 260 s 9A.52.020 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A person is guilty of burglary in the first degree if, with intent to commit a crime against a person or property therein, he or she enters or remains unlawfully in a ((dwelling)) building and if, in entering or while in the ((dwelling)) building or in immediate flight therefrom, the actor or another participant in the crime (a) is armed with a deadly weapon, or (b) assaults any person therein.

    (2) Burglary in the first degree is a class A felony.

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