Senate Engrossed House Bill

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session 2018

HOUSE BILL 2246

 

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 knowingly 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