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                         SENATE BILL 5050

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senators Morton, Smith, Rasmussen and Schow

Read first time 01/09/95.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Revising the elements of the crime of burglary in the first degree.

    AN ACT Relating to burglary in the first degree; 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 and if, in entering or while in the dwelling 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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