Bill Text: MN SF515 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Crime of fleeing a peace officer modifications
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-09 - HF substituted in committee HF361 [SF515 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF515-Introduced.html
1.2relating to crime; modifying crime of fleeing a peace officer;amending
1.3Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 609.487, subdivision 4.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 609.487, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
1.6 Subd. 4. Fleeing officer; death; bodily injury. Whoever flees or attempts to flee by
1.7means of a motor vehicle a peace officer who is acting in the lawful discharge of an official
1.8duty, and the perpetrator knows or should reasonably know the same to be a peace officer,
1.9and who in the course of fleeing in a motor vehicle or subsequently by other means causes
1.10the death of a human being not constituting murder or manslaughter or any bodily injury
1.11to any person other than the perpetrator may be sentenced to imprisonment as follows:
1.12(a) if the course of fleeing results in death, to imprisonment for not more than 40
1.13years or to payment of a fine of not more than $80,000, or both; or
1.14(b) if the course of fleeing results in great bodily harm, to imprisonment for not more
1.15than seven years or to payment of a fine of not more than $14,000, or both; or
1.16(c) if the course of fleeing results in substantial bodily harm, to imprisonment for not
1.17more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
1.18EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2011, and applies to crimes
1.19committed on or after that date.
1.3Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 609.487, subdivision 4.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 609.487, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
1.6 Subd. 4. Fleeing officer; death; bodily injury. Whoever flees or attempts to flee by
1.7means of a motor vehicle a peace officer who is acting in the lawful discharge of an official
1.8duty, and the perpetrator knows or should reasonably know the same to be a peace officer,
1.9and who in the course of fleeing in a motor vehicle or subsequently by other means causes
1.10the death of a human being not constituting murder or manslaughter or any bodily injury
1.11to any person other than the perpetrator may be sentenced to imprisonment as follows:
1.12(a) if the course of fleeing results in death, to imprisonment for not more than 40
1.13years or to payment of a fine of not more than $80,000, or both; or
1.14(b) if the course of fleeing results in great bodily harm, to imprisonment for not more
1.15than seven years or to payment of a fine of not more than $14,000, or both; or
1.16(c) if the course of fleeing results in substantial bodily harm, to imprisonment for not
1.17more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
1.18EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2011, and applies to crimes
1.19committed on or after that date.
