Arizona HB 2246: jail; prohibited items; drugs

Status: signed by governor (as of 2018-04-12)

State: Arizona · Session: 53rd-2nd-regular · Bill: HB 2246

Subjects: DRUGS, PRISONS AND PRISONERS - TITLE 31, PROHIBITED ITEMS

Sponsors: Eddie Farnsworth

Bill Text

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 REFERENCE TITLE: jail; prohibited items; drugs

 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-third Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2018

 HB 2246

 Introduced by 

 Representative 
 Farnsworth E

AN 
ACT

amending section 31‑129, Arizona 
Revised Statutes; relating to jails.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it 
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 31-129, Arizona Revised Statutes, 
is amended to read:

START_STATUTE31-129. Taking 
prohibited articles into jail; violation; classification; definitions

A. A person not authorized by law who 
takes into a jail or the grounds belonging or adjacent thereto, to the jail any opium, morphine, cocaine or other 
narcotic 
marijuana, narcotic drug or dangerous drug, or intoxicating liquor of any kind, or firearms, weapons or 
explosives of any kind, is guilty of a class 5 felony.

B. For 
the purposes of this section, "marijuana", "narcotic drug" 
and "dangerous drug" have the same meanings prescribed in section 13‑3401. 
END_STATUTE

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