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§ 2704. Assault by life prisoner

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 18 Pa.C.S.A. Crimes and OffensesEffective: January 3, 2023

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 18 Pa.C.S.A. Crimes and Offenses (Refs & Annos)
Part II. Definition of Specific Offenses (Refs & Annos)
Article B. Offenses Involving Danger to the Person (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 27. Assault (Refs & Annos)
Effective: January 3, 2023
18 Pa.C.S.A. § 2704
§ 2704. Assault by life prisoner
Every person who has been sentenced to death or life imprisonment in any penal institution located in this Commonwealth, and whose sentence has not been commuted, who commits an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon or instrument upon another, or by any means of force likely to produce serious bodily injury, is guilty of a crime, the penalty for which shall be the same as the penalty for murder of the second degree. A person is guilty of this offense if:
(1) he intentionally or knowingly causes another to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, saliva, urine or feces by throwing, tossing, spitting or expelling such fluid or material when, at the time of the offense, the person knew, had reason to know, should have known or believed such fluid or material to have been obtained from an individual, including the person charged under this section, infected by a communicable disease declared reportable by regulation authorized by the act of April 23, 1956 (1955 P.L. 1510, No. 500),1 known as the Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955; and
(2) the communicable disease referenced in paragraph (1) is communicable to another by the method used or attempted to be used to cause another to come into contact with the blood, seminal fluid, saliva, urine or feces.

Credits

1972, Dec. 6, P.L. 1482, No. 334, § 1, effective June 6, 1973. Amended 1974, March 26, P.L. 213, No. 46, § 4, imd. effective; 1998, Feb. 18, P.L. 102, No. 19, § 3, imd. effective; 2022, Nov. 3, P.L. 1634, No. 99, § 1, effective in 60 days [Jan. 3, 2023].

Footnotes

35 P.S. § 521.1 et seq.
18 Pa.C.S.A. § 2704, PA ST 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 2704
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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