2006 Utah Code - 76-10-1504 — Bus hijacking -- Assault with intent to commit hijacking -- Use of a dangerous weapon or firearm -- Penalties.

     76-10-1504.   Bus hijacking -- Assault with intent to commit hijacking -- Use of a dangerous weapon or firearm -- Penalties.
     (1) A person is guilty of bus hijacking if he seizes or exercises control, by force or violence or threat of force or violence, of any bus within the state. Bus hijacking is a first degree felony.
     (2) A person is guilty of assault with the intent to commit bus hijacking if he intimidates, threatens, or commits assault or battery toward any driver, attendant, guard, or any other person in control of a bus so as to interfere with the performance of duties by such person. Assault with the intent to commit bus hijacking is a second degree felony.
     (3) Any person who, in the commission of assault with intent to commit bus hijacking, uses a dangerous weapon, as defined in Section 76-1-601, is guilty of a first degree felony.
     (4) (a) Any person who boards a bus with a concealed dangerous weapon or firearm upon his person or effects is guilty of a second degree felony.
     (b) The prohibition of Subsection (4)(a) does not apply to elected or appointed peace officers or commercial security personnel who are in possession of weapons or firearms used in the course and scope of their employment, or a person licensed to carry a concealed weapon; nor shall the prohibition apply to persons in possession of weapons or firearms with the consent of the owner of the bus or his agent, or the lessee or bailee of the bus.

Amended by Chapter 13, 1998 General Session
Amended by Chapter 282, 1998 General Session