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2010 SESSION

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SB 444 Marijuana plants; destruction thereof if more than 10 is seized in connection with drug prosecution.

Introduced by: W. Roscoe Reynolds | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Destruction of live marijuana plants. Provides that where a seizure of more than 10 suspected live marijuana plants is made in connection with any drug prosecution or investigation, the appropriate law-enforcement agency may retain 10 of the seized plants and destroy the remainder by direction of the chief law-enforcement officer or his designee, without a court order, when: it is not reasonably possible to preserve all of the plants in place or to remove the plants to another location; random and representative samples of the plants to be destroyed are retained for evidentiary purposes; and photographs or video recordings are taken to record the total amount of the suspected marijuana plants seized.

FULL TEXT

• 01/13/10  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103575D  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/13/10  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103575D
• 01/13/10  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/14/10  Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
• 02/03/10  Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N)