{
 "citation": "14:34.6",
 "heading": "Disarming of a peace officer",
 "doc_id": "78450",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78450",
 "classification": "F",
 "enacted_year": "1997",
 "last_amended_year": "2019",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "C",
   "text": "Whoever commits the crime of disarming of a peace officer shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than five years.",
   "los_min": "0",
   "los_max": "5Y",
   "hard_labor": "AT",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:34.6\n\n\u00a734.6. Disarming of a peace officer\n\nA. Disarming of a peace officer is committed when an offender, through use of force\nor threat of force, and without the consent of the peace officer, takes possession of any law\nenforcement equipment from the person of a peace officer or from an area within the peace\nofficer's immediate control, when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe that the\nvictim is a peace officer acting in the performance of his duty.\n\nB. For purposes of this Section:\n\n(1) \"Law enforcement equipment\" shall include any firearms, weapons, restraints,\nballistics shields, forced entry tools, defense technology equipment, self-defense batons, self-defense sprays, chemical weapons, or electro shock weapons used by the peace officer in the\ncourse and scope of his law enforcement duties and approved for such use by the peace\nofficer's law enforcement agency.\n\n(2) \"Peace officer\" shall include commissioned police officers, sheriffs, deputy\nsheriffs, marshals, deputy marshals, correctional officers, constables, wildlife enforcement\nagents, park wardens, livestock brand inspectors, forestry officers, and probation and parole\nofficers.\n\nC. Whoever commits the crime of disarming of a peace officer shall be imprisoned\nat hard labor for not more than five years.\n\nActs 1997, No. 558, \u00a71; Acts 2003, No. 697, \u00a71; Acts 2010, No. 820, \u00a71; Acts 2019,\nNo. 5, \u00a71."
}