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SB 527 Bomb threats; reimbursement of expenses incurred in emergency response.

Introduced by: Richard H. Stuart | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Bomb threats; reimbursement of expenses incurred in emergency response. Authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of a felony violation of the bomb threat statute or the statute that penalizes the incitement of a bomb threat shall be liable for the reasonable expense, not to exceed $1,000, of an appropriate emergency response to the threat. Current law allows such an ordinance to subject a person to liability for the expense of the emergency response to an imitation version of a weapon of terrorism or fire bomb or other explosive device.


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