House File 453 - Introduced



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                                       BY  SCHUELLER


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                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act establishing the offense of satellite television equipment
  2    trespass and providing a penalty.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1161YH 83
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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  716.11  SATELLITE TELEVISION
  1  2 EQUIPMENT TRESPASS.
  1  3    1.  A person commits satellite television equipment
  1  4 trespass if the person enters upon the property of another
  1  5 without the written permission of the owner and places or
  1  6 affixes satellite television equipment on the property.  If
  1  7 the property has multiple owners, the person shall acquire
  1  8 written permission from a majority of the owners.
  1  9    2.  For the purposes of this section:
  1 10    a.  "Property" includes any land, dwelling, building, or
  1 11 other temporary or permanent structure whether publicly or
  1 12 privately owned.
  1 13    b.  "Satellite television equipment" means any cables,
  1 14 converters, decoders, devices, instruments, satellite dishes,
  1 15 wires, or other equipment used in a satellite television
  1 16 system, including devices leased from a satellite television
  1 17 provider by a subscriber for use in receiving satellite
  1 18 television service.
  1 19    3.  Any person guilty of a satellite television equipment
  1 20 trespass commits a simple misdemeanor.
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22    This bill establishes the offense of satellite television
  1 23 equipment trespass.  Under the bill, a person commits
  1 24 satellite television equipment trespass if the person enters
  1 25 upon the property of another without the written permission of
  1 26 the owner and places or affixes satellite television equipment
  1 27 on the property.  The bill provides that if the property has
  1 28 multiple owners, written permission from a majority of the
  1 29 owners is required.
  1 30    The bill provides that committing satellite television
  1 31 equipment trespass is a simple misdemeanor.  A simple
  1 32 misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than 30
  1 33 days or a fine of at least $65 but not more than $625 or by
  1 34 both.
  1 35 LSB 1161YH 83
  2  1 md/nh/5