RS 14:62.9 Simple burglary of a law enforcement or emergency vehicle

§62.9.  Simple burglary of a law enforcement or emergency vehicle

A.  Simple burglary of a law enforcement or emergency vehicle is the unauthorized entering of any law enforcement or emergency vehicle with the intent to commit a felony or any theft therein.

B.  For the purposes of this Section, "law enforcement or emergency vehicle" means a marked vehicle with fully visual and audible warning signals operated by a fire department, a state, parish, or municipal police department, a sheriff's office, or such ambulances and emergency medical response vehicles certified by the Department of Health and Hospitals that are operated by certified ambulance services, and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development, or by the chief of police of any incorporated municipality.

C.  Whoever commits the crime of simple burglary of a law enforcement or emergency vehicle shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than twenty years, or both.

Acts 2010, No. 972, §1.