2016 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 14 - Criminal Law
RS 14:67.9 - Theft of oil and gas equipment; penalties

LA Rev Stat § 14:67.9 (2016) What's This?

§67.9. Theft of oil and gas equipment; penalties

Any person who shall unlawfully take or misappropriate any machinery, drilling mud, welding equipment, pipe, fittings, pumps, or any other oil and gas equipment used in connection with the drilling, production, or maintenance of oil or gas wells, with the intent to deprive the owner or lessee thereof of said items shall:

(1) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of twenty-five thousand dollars or more, be fined not less than seventy thousand dollars or imprisoned for not less than five years or more than thirty years at hard labor, or both.

(2) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of five hundred dollars or more, but less than a value of twenty-five thousand dollars, be fined not less than one hundred or more than fifty thousand dollars or be imprisoned for not less than one year or more than ten years, with or without hard labor, or both.

(3) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of three hundred dollars or more, but less than five hundred dollars, be fined not more than two thousand dollars or be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than two years, or both.

(4) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to less than a value of three hundred dollars, be fined not more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 762, §1; Acts 2006, No. 143, §1; Acts 2006, No. 222, §1.

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