{
 "citation": "14:35.2",
 "heading": "Simple battery of persons with infirmities",
 "doc_id": "78454",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78454",
 "classification": "M",
 "enacted_year": "1999",
 "last_amended_year": "2014",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "C",
   "text": "Whoever commits the crime of battery of persons with infirmities shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.",
   "los_min": "30D",
   "los_max": "6M",
   "hard_labor": "",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:35.2\n\n\u00a735.2. Simple battery of persons with infirmities\n\nA. Simple battery of persons with infirmities is a battery committed against a person\nwho is infirm, has a disability, or is aged and who is incapable of consenting to the battery\ndue to either of the following:\n\n(1) Advanced age.\n\n(2) Unsoundness of mind, stupor, abnormal condition of the mind, or other mental\nor developmental disability, regardless of the age of the victim.\n\nB. For purposes of this Section, \"person who is infirm, has a disability, or is aged\"\nshall include but not be limited to any individual who is a resident of a nursing home, facility\nfor persons with intellectual disabilities, mental health facility, hospital, or other residential\nfacility, or any individual who is sixty years of age or older. Lack of knowledge of the\nperson's age shall not be a defense.\n\nC. Whoever commits the crime of battery of persons with infirmities shall be fined\nnot more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than\nsix months, or both.\n\nActs 1999, No. 1056, \u00a71; Acts 2014, No. 811, \u00a76, eff. June 23, 2014."
}