{
 "citation": "14:34.4",
 "heading": "Battery of a school or recreation athletic contest official",
 "doc_id": "78448",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78448",
 "classification": "M",
 "enacted_year": "1990",
 "last_amended_year": "2019",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "B(1)",
   "text": "B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of battery of a school or recreation athletic contest official shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars and not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned not less than five days nor more than six months without benefit of suspension of sentence.",
   "los_min": "5D",
   "los_max": "6M",
   "hard_labor": "",
   "benefits": "W/O BENEFITS (suspension of sentence)",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  },
  {
   "subsection": "B(2)",
   "text": "(2) Whoever commits the crime of battery of a school or recreation athletic contest official which results in serious bodily injury to the victim shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars and not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than six months.",
   "los_min": "10D",
   "los_max": "6M",
   "hard_labor": "",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:34.4\n\n\u00a734.4. Battery of a school or recreation athletic contest official\n\nA.(1) Battery of a school or recreation athletic contest official is a battery committed\nwithout the consent of the victim when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the\nvictim is a school athletic or recreation contest official actively engaged in the conducting,\nsupervising, refereeing, or officiating of a school-sanctioned interscholastic athletic contest\nor a sanctioned recreation athletic contest.\n\n(2) For purposes of this Section, \"school athletic contest official\" means any referee,\numpire, coach, instructor, administrator, staff person, or school or school board employee of\nany public or private elementary and secondary school.\n\n(3) For purposes of this Section, \"recreation athletic contest official\" means any\nreferee, umpire, coach, instructor, administrator, staff person, or recreation employee of any\npublic or quasi public recreation program.\n\nB.(1) Whoever commits the crime of battery of a school or recreation athletic contest\nofficial shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars and not more than five thousand\ndollars and imprisoned not less than five days nor more than six months without benefit of\nsuspension of sentence.\n\n(2) Whoever commits the crime of battery of a school or recreation athletic contest\nofficial which results in serious bodily injury to the victim shall be fined not less than one\nthousand dollars and not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned for not less than\nten days nor more than six months.\n\n(3)(a) In addition to any other penalty imposed, the court shall order the offender to\nperform forty hours of court-approved community service work.\n\n(b) In addition to any other penalty imposed, the court shall order the offender to\nparticipate in a court-approved counseling program which may include anger management,\nabusive behavior intervention groups, or any other type of counseling deemed appropriate\nby the court. Any costs associated with the counseling program shall be borne by the\noffender.\n\n(c) Participation in the community service and counseling program required by the\nprovisions of Subparagraphs (a) and (b) of this Paragraph shall not be suspended.\n\n(d) Failure to successfully complete the community service work and counseling\nprogram, as determined by the supervisor of the program to which he is assigned, may result\nin revocation of probation.\n\nActs 1990, No. 675, \u00a71; Acts 1999, No. 1046, \u00a71; Acts 2014, No. 815, \u00a71; Acts 2019,\nNo. 2, \u00a71."
}