2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53a - Penal Code
Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses
Section 53a-222 - Violation of conditions of release in the first degree: Class D felony.
(a) A person is guilty of violation of conditions of release in the first degree when, while charged with the commission of a felony, such person is released pursuant to subsection (b) of section 54-63c, subsection (c) of section 54-63d or subsection (c) of section 54-64a, and intentionally violates one or more of the imposed conditions of release.
(b) Violation of conditions of release in the first degree is a class D felony.
(P.A. 98-90, S. 1; P.A. 99-186, S. 10; P.A. 07-123, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 99-186 amended Subsec. (a) to revise a statutory reference and make provisions gender neutral; P.A. 07-123 renamed offense by replacing “violation of conditions of release” with “violation of conditions of release in the first degree”, amended Subsec. (a) to delete provision making offense applicable to a person charged with a “misdemeanor or motor vehicle violation for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment may be imposed”, include a person released pursuant to Sec. 54-63c(b), delete provision that person be released “on the condition that such person (1) avoid all contact with the alleged victim or (2) not use or possess a dangerous weapon” and require that person intentionally violate “one or more of the imposed conditions of release”, rather than “that condition”, and amended Subsec. (b) to increase penalty from a class A misdemeanor to a class D felony.
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