2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53a - Penal Code
Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses
Section 53a-181k - Intimidation based on bigotry or bias in the second degree: Class D felony.

(a) A person is guilty of intimidation based on bigotry or bias in the second degree when such person maliciously, and with specific intent to intimidate or harass another person because of the actual or perceived race, religion, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression of such other person, does any of the following: (1) Causes physical contact with such other person, (2) damages, destroys or defaces any real or personal property of such other person, or (3) threatens, by word or act, to do an act described in subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection, if there is reasonable cause to believe that an act described in subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection will occur.

(b) Intimidation based on bigotry or bias in the second degree is a class D felony.

(P.A. 00-72, S. 2; P.A. 04-135, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 04-135 amended Subsec. (a) to add “disability” and “gender identity or expression” as bases.

See Sec. 52-571c re action for damages and other relief for violation of this section.

Subdiv. (3) not unconstitutionally vague or overbroad. 265 C. 145.

Subdiv. (3) is not unconstitutionally overbroad because it prohibits only true threats, not all threats, and is not unconstitutionally void for vagueness in context of defendant’s actions and words. 104 CA 46. Evidence was sufficient for jury to reasonably determine that defendant had requisite specific intent to intimidate or harass victim on basis of victim’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, which evidence included statement to police replete with disparaging remarks against homosexuals and defendant’s statement prior to incident that victim was homosexual. 118 CA 711.