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2011 SESSION

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SB 1012 Marijuana plants; when seizure of 10 or more, law-enforcement agency may destroy.

Introduced by: Phillip P. Puckett | 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 marijuana plants is made in connection with any drug prosecution or investigation, the appropriate law-enforcement agency may destroy the plants by direction of the chief law-enforcement officer or his designee, without a court order, when it is not reasonably possible to preserve 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

• 01/11/11  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11101105D  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/11/11  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11101105D
• 01/11/11  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/12/11  Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
• 01/19/11  Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N 1-A)