Louisiana Criminal Damage of a Pipeline Facility Law

A. Criminal damage of a pipeline facility is the intentional damaging of a pipeline facility as defined in this Section.

B. For purposes of this Section, a pipeline facility shall include:

(1) Any pipeline, including but not limited to flow lines, transmission, distribution, or gathering lines regardless of size or length, which transmits or transports oil, gas, petrochemicals, minerals, or water in a solid, liquid, or gaseous state, and

(2) Any pipeline, flow line, transmission, distribution, or gathering line which meets the requirements of Paragraph (1) preceding and which is under construction or repair.

C. Whoever commits the crime of criminal damage of a pipeline facility may be imprisoned for not more than five years or fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both.

D. Whoever commits the crime of criminal damage of a pipeline facility wherein it is foreseeable that human life might be threatened as a result of such conduct shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than two years nor more than ten years and shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars.