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Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1.  17-A MRSA §517  is enacted to read:
§ 517. Creating police standoff
 
1.  Creating police standoff.     A person is guilty of creating a police standoff if that person:
 
A.  Is in fact barricaded as a result of the person's own actions;
 
B.  Is or claims to be armed with a dangerous weapon;
 
C.  Is instructed by a law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency, either personally, electronically or in writing, to leave the barricaded location; and
 
D.  Fails in fact to leave the barricaded location within 1/2 hour of receiving the instruction as described in paragraph C from a law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency.
 
2.  Class E crime.     Creating a police standoff is a Class E crime.
Sec. 2. 25 MRSA c. 405, as amended, is repealed.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment is the majority report of the committee and replaces the bill. The amendment repeals the civil violation of creating a police standoff that exists in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25 and enacts a Class E crime of creating a police standoff in Title 17-A. The amendment provides that a person is guilty of creating a police standoff when the person is barricaded as a result of the person's own actions, including when the person barricades himself or herself in a vehicle, is or claims to be armed with a dangerous weapon, is instructed by law enforcement to leave the barricaded location and fails to leave within 1/2 hour. The amendment does not include the provision from the repealed law that relates to restitution since restitution will be available with regard to the new Class E crime for economic loss incurred for police costs as an emergency response under Title 17-A, chapter 54.