SF0075

Official summary

Summary for LSO115 Bill No.: SF0075 Effective : 3/15/2016 LSO No.: 16LSO-0353 Enrolled Act No.: SEA No. 0055 Chapter No.: 117 Prime Sponsor: Hicks Catch Title: Criminal trespass to collect data-amendments. Subject: Crimes of trespassing to unlawfully co llect resource data, unlawful collect ion of resource data and trespassing to ac cess adjacent or proximate land Summary/Major Elements: Existing law provides for the crime of trespassing to unlawfully collect resource data. Th is bill provide s that , to be guilty of trespassing to unlawfully collect resource data, the land entered onto for the purpose of collecting resource data must be private land. Existing law provides for the crime of unlawful collection of resource data. This bill provide s that , to be guilty of unlawfully collecting resource data, the land entered onto and from which resource data is collected must be private land. The bill further creates the crime of trespassing to access adjacent or proximate land. A person is guilty of trespassing to access adjacent or proximate land if he: Crosses private land to access adjacent or proximate land where he collects resource data; and Does not have an ownership interest in the real property or authorization to cross the private land or does not have written or verbal permission to cr oss the private land. The bill provides criminal penalties for trespassing to access adjacent or proximate land. The bill repeals the definition of “ open land ” and amends the definition of “ collect. ” The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent. While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill .