S58 - Protect Critical Infrastructure. (SL 2023-47)

Overview: S.L. 2023-47 does the following:

• Updates and consolidates statutes that relate to damage to utility property (electric, gas, and telecommunications).
• Increases penalties for acts of damage to energy facilities.
• Increases the penalty for trespass to energy facilities, and adds a specific prohibition on trespass to wastewater treatment facilities.
• Increases the penalty for willful injury to wires and other fixtures of telephone, broadband, broadcast, or cable telecommunications.

This act became effective December 1, 2023, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date. Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of the act are not abated or affected by the act, and the statutes that would have been applicable but for the changes made by the act remain applicable to those prosecutions.