TITLE 45. CRIMES

CHAPTER 8. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

Part 4. Montana Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act

Pattern Of Criminal Street Gang Activity

45-8-405. Pattern of criminal street gang activity. (1) For purposes of this part, "pattern of criminal street gang activity" means the commission, solicitation, conspiracy, or attempt, the adjudication as a delinquent youth for the commission, attempt, or solicitation, or the conviction of two or more of the offenses listed in subsection (2) within a 3-year period, which offenses were committed on separate occasions.

(2) The offenses that form a pattern of criminal street gang activity include:

(a) deliberate homicide, as defined in 45-5-102;

(b) assault with a weapon, as defined in 45-5-213;

(c) intimidation, as defined in 45-5-203;

(d) kidnapping, as defined in 45-5-302;

(e) aggravated kidnapping, as defined in 45-5-303;

(f) robbery, as defined in 45-5-401;

(g) sexual intercourse without consent, as defined in 45-5-503;

(h) aggravated promotion of prostitution, as defined in 45-5-603;

(i) criminal mischief, as defined in 45-6-101;

(j) arson, as defined in 45-6-103;

(k) burglary, as defined in 45-6-204;

(l) theft, as defined in 45-6-301;

(m) forgery, as defined in 45-6-325;

(n) tampering with witnesses and informants, as defined in 45-7-206;

(o) bringing armed individuals into the state, as defined in 45-8-106;

(p) unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted person, as defined in 45-8-313;

(q) carrying a concealed weapon, as defined in 45-8-316;

(r) possession of a deadly weapon by a prisoner, as defined in 45-8-318;

(s) possession of a destructive device, as defined in 45-8-334;

(t) possession of explosives, as defined in 45-8-335;

(u) possession of a sawed-off firearm, as defined in 45-8-340;

(v) the sale, possession for sale, transportation, manufacture, offer for sale, offer to manufacture, or other offense involving a dangerous drug as prohibited by Title 45, chapter 9;

(w) use of threat to coerce criminal street gang membership or use of violence to coerce criminal street gang membership provided in 45-8-403.

History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 285, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 432, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 1718, Ch. 56, L. 2009.