§110.2. Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment

            A. Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment is the intentional alteration, destruction, removal, or disabling of electronic monitoring equipment being utilized in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 46:2143.

            B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of tampering with electronic monitoring equipment shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and shall be imprisoned for not more than six months.

            (2) If the offender violates the provisions of this Section while he is involved in the commission of a felony, he shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than one year.

            (3) If the offender violates the provisions of this Section after being released pursuant to a bail undertaking for a felony crime of violence enumerated or defined in R.S. 14:2(B), he shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than a year.

            (4) At least seventy-two hours of the sentence shall be served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

            Acts 2003, No. 1024, §1; Acts 2023, No. 374, §1.