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Sixty-second Legislature
Second Regular Session - 2014
IN THE SENATE
SENATE BILL NO. 1337
BY AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
AN ACT
RELATING TO AGRICULTURE; AMENDING CHAPTER 70, TITLE 18, IDAHO CODE, BY THE
ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 18-7042, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE CRIME
OF INTERFERENCE WITH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, TO DEFINE TERMS, TO PROVIDE FOR VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES AND TO PROVIDE FOR RESTITUTION; PROVIDING SEVERABILITY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
SECTION 1. That Chapter 70, Title 18, Idaho Code, be, and the same is
hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known and designated as Section 18-7042, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:
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18-7042. INTERFERENCE WITH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION. (1) A person commits the crime of interference with agricultural production if the person
knowingly:
(a) Is not employed by an agricultural production facility and enters
an agricultural production facility by force, threat, misrepresentation or trespass;
(b) Obtains records of an agricultural production facility by force,
threat, misrepresentation or trespass;
(c) Obtains employment with an agricultural production facility by
force, threat, or misrepresentation with the intent to cause economic
or other injury to the facility's operations, livestock, crops, owners,
personnel, equipment, buildings, premises, business interests or customers;
(d) Enters an agricultural production facility that is not open to the
public and, without the facility owner's express consent or pursuant
to judicial process or statutory authorization, makes audio or video
recordings of the conduct of an agricultural production facility's operations; or
(e) Intentionally causes physical damage or injury to the agricultural
production facility's operations, livestock, crops, personnel, equipment, buildings or premises.
(2) For purposes of this section:
(a) "Agricultural production" means activities associated with the
production of agricultural products for food, fiber, fuel and other
lawful uses and includes without limitation:
(i)
Construction, expansion, use, maintenance and repair of an
agricultural production facility;
(ii) Preparing land for agricultural production;
(iii) Handling or applying pesticides, herbicides or other chemicals, compounds or substances labeled for insects, pests, crops,
weeds, water or soil;
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