Senate Bill sb2058

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 2058

    By Senator Crist





    12-1859-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to lewdness and indecent

  3         exposure; amending ss. 800.02 and 800.03, F.S.;

  4         providing enhanced penalties for offenses

  5         involving unnatural and lascivious acts or

  6         exposure or exhibition of sexual organs

  7         committed within a specified distance of

  8         certain locations; amending s. 933.18, F.S.;

  9         conforming a provision to the enhancement of

10         penalties; providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Section 800.02, Florida Statutes, is

15  amended to read:

16         800.02  Unnatural and lascivious act.--

17         (1)(a)  Except as provided in paragraph (b), a person

18  who commits any unnatural and lascivious act with another

19  person commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable

20  as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

21         (b)  A person who commits any unnatural and lascivious

22  act with another person on or within 1,000 feet of the real

23  property comprising:

24         1.  A child care facility, as defined in s. 402.302,

25  that is in compliance with the signage requirements of s.

26  893.13(1)(c);

27         2.  A public or private elementary, middle, or

28  secondary school between the hours of 6 a.m. and 12 midnight;

29  or

30         3.  A public playground or community center

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 1  commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided

 2  in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

 3         (2)  A mother's breastfeeding of her baby does not

 4  under any circumstance violate this section.

 5         Section 2.  Section 800.03, Florida Statutes, is

 6  amended to read:

 7         800.03  Exposure of sexual organs.--

 8         (1)(a)  Except as provided in paragraph (b), a person

 9  who exposes or exhibits his or her It is unlawful to expose or

10  exhibit one's sexual organs in public or on the private

11  premises of another, or so near thereto as to be seen from

12  such private premises, in a vulgar or indecent manner, or is

13  to be naked in public except in any place provided or set

14  apart for that purpose commits. Violation of this section is a

15  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.

16  775.082 or s. 775.083.

17         (b)  A person who exposes or exhibits his or her sexual

18  organs in violation of paragraph (a) on or within 1,000 feet

19  of the real property comprising:

20         1.  A child care facility, as defined in s. 402.302,

21  that is in compliance with the signage requirements of s.

22  893.13(1)(c);

23         2.  A public or private elementary, middle, or

24  secondary school between the hours of 6 a.m. and 12 midnight;

25  or

26         3.  A public playground or community center

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28  commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided

29  in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

30         (2)  A mother's breastfeeding of her baby does not

31  under any circumstance violate this section.

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 1         Section 3.  Subsection (7) of section 933.18, Florida

 2  Statutes, is amended to read:

 3         933.18  When warrant may be issued for search of

 4  private dwelling.--No search warrant shall issue under this

 5  chapter or under any other law of this state to search any

 6  private dwelling occupied as such unless:

 7         (7)  One or more of the following misdemeanor child

 8  abuse offenses is being committed there:

 9         (a)  Interference with custody, in violation of s.

10  787.03.

11         (b)  Commission of an unnatural and lascivious act with

12  a child, in violation of s. 800.02.

13         (c)  Exposure of sexual organs to a child, in violation

14  of s. 800.03.

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16  If, during a search pursuant to a warrant issued under this

17  section, a child is discovered and appears to be in imminent

18  danger, the law enforcement officer conducting such search may

19  remove the child from the private dwelling and take the child

20  into protective custody pursuant to chapter 39. The term

21  "private dwelling" shall be construed to include the room or

22  rooms used and occupied, not transiently but solely as a

23  residence, in an apartment house, hotel, boardinghouse, or

24  lodginghouse. No warrant shall be issued for the search of any

25  private dwelling under any of the conditions hereinabove

26  mentioned except on sworn proof by affidavit of some

27  creditable witness that he or she has reason to believe that

28  one of said conditions exists, which affidavit shall set forth

29  the facts on which such reason for belief is based.

30         Section 4.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2007.

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