REFERENCE TITLE: perjury; classification

State of Arizona Senate Forty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session 2008

SB 1192

Introduced by Senator Gray C

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 13-2702, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to perjury.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 13-2702, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-2702.  Perjury; immunity; classification

A.  A person commits perjury by making either:

1.  A false sworn statement in regard to a material issue, believing it to be false.

2.  A false unsworn declaration, certificate, verification or statement in regard to a material issue that the person subscribes as true under penalty of perjury, believing it to be false.

B.  If a person is granted immunity from prosecution or enters a plea agreement and the person subsequently commits a violation of this section in a criminal prosecution, the immunity agreement or plea agreement is automatically vacated and void.

B.  C.  Perjury is a class 4 felony Except that if the perjury is committed in furtherance of a prosecution against a defendant for a class 1, 2 or 3 felony, the offense of perjury carries the same classification as the highest classification of class 1, 2 or 3 felony offenses for which the defendant is being prosecuted, regardless of the outcome of the case against the defendant. END_STATUTE