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§3554
Title 17: CRIMES
Chapter 117: STRIKES AND VIOLENCE AGAINST UTILITIES, RAILROADS AND PLANTS
§3602

§3601. Violence or intimidation to promote controversy between utility and workers

A person who, alone or in pursuance or furtherance of any agreement or combination with others to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a dispute or controversy between a gas, telegraph, telephone, electric light, electric power or railroad corporation and its employees or workers, wrongfully and without legal authority, uses violence towards or intimidates any person in any way or by any means, with intent to compel the person against the person's will to do or abstain from doing any act that the person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing; or, on the premises of the corporation, by bribery or in any manner or by any means induces or endeavors or attempts to induce the person to leave the employment and service of the corporation, with intent to further the objects of the combination or agreement; or in any way interferes with the person while in the performance of the person's duty; or threatens or persistently follows the person in a disorderly manner or injures or threatens to injure the person's property with either of those intents, must be punished by a fine of not more than $300 or by imprisonment for not more than 3 months.   [RR 2025, c. 2, Pt. E, §26 (COR).]
SECTION HISTORY
RR 2025, c. 2, Pt. E, §26 (COR).
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