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HOUSE
BILL 1309
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1998 Regular Session
State of Washington 55th
Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/21/97.
Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
Creating the
crime of disarming a law enforcement officer.
AN
ACT Relating to disarming an officer; adding new sections to chapter 9A.76 RCW;
and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 1. (1)
A person is guilty of disarming a law enforcement officer if with intent to
interfere with the performance of the officer's duties the person knowingly
removes a firearm or weapon from the person of a law enforcement officer or
corrections officer or deprives a law enforcement officer or corrections
officer of the use of a firearm or weapon, when the officer is acting within
the scope of the officer's duties, does not consent to the removal, and the
person has reasonable cause to know or knows that the individual is a law
enforcement or corrections officer.
(2)
Disarming a law enforcement or corrections officer is a class C felony unless
the firearm involved is discharged when the person removes the firearm, in
which case the offense is a class B felony.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. A
person who commits another crime during the commission of the crime of
disarming a law enforcement or corrections officer may be punished for the
other crime as well as for disarming a law enforcement officer and may be
prosecuted separately for each crime.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 3.
Sections 1 and 2 of this act do not apply when the law enforcement officer or
corrections officer is engaged in criminal conduct.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.
Sections 1 through 3 of this act are added to chapter 9A.76 RCW.
