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      21-4219.   Criminal discharge of a firearm at an unoccupied dwelling; criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied building or occupied vehicle. (a) Criminal discharge of a firearm at an unoccupied dwelling is the malicious, intentional and unauthorized discharge of any firearm at an unoccupied dwelling.

      Criminal discharge of a firearm at an unoccupied dwelling is a severity level 8, person felony.

      (b)   Except as provided in K.S.A. 21-3411, and amendments thereto, criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied building or occupied vehicle is the malicious, intentional and unauthorized discharge of a firearm at a dwelling, building, structure, motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, train, locomotive, railroad car, caboose, rail-mounted work equipment or rolling stock or other means of conveyance of persons or property in which there is a human being.

      Criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied building or occupied vehicle is a severity level 7, person felony.

      Criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied building or occupied vehicle which results in bodily harm to a person during the commission thereof is a severity level 5, person felony.

      Criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied building or occupied vehicle which results in great bodily harm to a person during the commission thereof is a severity level 3, person felony.

      (c)   This section shall be part of and supplemental to the Kansas criminal code.

      History:   L. 1992, ch. 21, § 1; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 158; L. 1994, ch. 348, § 17; L. 1996, ch. 30, § 4; L. 1996, ch. 258, § 9; July 1.