Louisiana § RS 29:230 - Article 130. Stalking

§ RS 29:230. Article 130. Stalking

            A. Any person subject to this Code who commits all of the following acts is guilty of stalking and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct:

            (1) Who wrongfully engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear death or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to the person or a member of the person's immediate family.

            (2) Who has knowledge, or should have knowledge, that the specific person will be placed in reasonable fear of death or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to the person or a member of the person's immediate family.

            (3) Whose acts induce reasonable fear in the specific person of death or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to the person or to a member of the person's immediate family.

            B. In this Code, for purposes of this Article unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings ascribed herein:

            (1) "Course of conduct" means either of the following:

            (a) A repeated maintenance of visual or physical proximity to a specific person.

            (b) A repeated conveyance of verbal threat, written threats, or threats implied by conduct, or a combination of such threats, directed at or towards a specific person.

            (2) "Immediate family", in the case of a specific person, means a spouse, parent, child, or sibling of the person, or any other family member, relative, or intimate partner of the person who regularly resides in the household of the person or who within the six months preceding the commencement of the course of conduct regularly resided in the household of the person.

            (3) "Repeated", with respect to conduct, means two or more occasions of such conduct.

            Acts 2013, No. 303, §1; Acts 2022, No. 672, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 29:220a.