Bill Text: AZ SB1073 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed


Bill Title: Obstruction highway; large event; classification

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-04-02 - Governor Vetoed [SB1073 Detail]

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Senate Engrossed

 

obstruction highway; large event; classification

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

SENATE BILL 1073

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending section 13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to offenses against public order.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-2906. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare; classification; definition

A. A person commits obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare if the person, alone or with other persons, does any of the following:

1. Having no legal privilege to do so, recklessly interferes with the passage of any highway or public thoroughfare by creating an unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.

2. Intentionally activates a pedestrian signal on a highway or public thoroughfare if the person's reason for activating the signal is not to cross the highway or public thoroughfare but to do both of the following:

(a) Stop the passage of traffic on the highway or public thoroughfare.

(b) Solicit a driver for a donation or business.

3. After receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally interferes with passage on a highway or other public thoroughfare or entrance into a public forum that results in preventing other persons from gaining access to a governmental meeting, a governmental hearing or a political campaign event.

4. Having no legal privilege to do so and after receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally interferes with passage on any roadway in or leading to an airport or passage on a highway, bridge or tunnel currently holding twenty-five or more vehicles or people.

B. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare under:

1. Subsection A, paragraph 4 of this section is a class 6 felony.

1. 2. Subsection A, paragraph 3 of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor. 

2. 3. Subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor, except that a second or subsequent violation within a period of twenty-four months is a class 1 misdemeanor.

3. 4. Subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section is a class 3 misdemeanor.

C. For the purposes of this section, "public forum" has the same meaning prescribed in section 15-1861. END_STATUTE

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