House Bill 3709c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998             CS/HB 3709

        By the Committee on Crime & Punishment and Representatives
    Dockery, Bloom, Brown, Casey, Putnam, Argenziano, Chestnut,
    Murman, Lynn, Dennis, Bullard, Brennan, Kosmas, Wasserman
    Schultz, Edwards, Albright, Heyman, Cosgrove, D. Prewitt and
    Byrd


  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to voyeurism; creating s.

  3         810.14, F.S., relating to the offense of

  4         voyeurism; prohibiting a person from entering

  5         or remaining on property, or using a device,

  6         for the lewd, lascivious, or indecent purpose

  7         of secretly observing, photographing, filming,

  8         videotaping, or recording an occupant of a

  9         building or structure in a place where a person

10         would have a reasonable expectation of privacy;

11         providing penalties; providing third degree

12         felony penalties upon conviction of a second or

13         subsequent offense of voyeurism; providing for

14         nonapplicability of specified provisions

15         prohibiting voyeurism to a place of lawful

16         incarceration; providing an effective date.

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

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20         Section 1.  Section 810.14, Florida Statutes, is

21  created to read:

22         810.14  Voyeurism prohibited; penalties; exceptions to

23  applicability.--

24         (1)  A person who enters or remains on any property, or

25  uses a device, for the lewd, lascivious, or indecent purpose

26  of secretly observing, photographing, filming, videotaping, or

27  recording an occupant of a building or structure in a place

28  where a person would have a reasonable expectation of privacy

29  commits the offense of voyeurism, a misdemeanor of the first

30  degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083,

31  except as provided in subsection (2). This subsection does not

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  1  apply to a place where people are incarcerated pursuant to

  2  lawful authority.

  3         (2)  A person who commits the offense of voyeurism in

  4  violation of subsection (1) and who has previously been

  5  convicted one or more times of the offense of voyeurism

  6  commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided

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

  8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

  9  year in which enacted.

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      Prohibits voyeurism. Provides that the criminal offense
14    of voyeurism is entering or remaining on property, or
      using a device, for the lewd, lascivious, or indecent
15    purpose of secretly observing, photographing, filming,
      videotaping, or recording an occupant of a building or
16    structure in a place where a person would have a
      reasonable expectation of privacy. Provides penalties,
17    including third degree felony penalties upon conviction
      of a second or subsequent offense of voyeurism. Provides
18    for nonapplicability of specified provisions prohibiting
      voyeurism to a place of lawful incarceration.
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