§ 270.20 Unlawful wearing of a body vest.
1.* A person is guilty of the unlawful wearing of a body vest when
acting either alone or with one or more other persons he commits any
violent felony offense defined in section 70.02 while possessing a
firearm, rifle or shotgun and in the course of and in furtherance of
such crime he wears a body vest.
*(As amended effective 11/1/01.)
2. For the purposes of this section a "body vest" means a
bullet-resistant soft body armor providing, as a minimum
standard, the level of protection known as threat level I which
shall mean at least seven layers of bullet-resistant material
providing protection from three shots of one hundred fifty-eight
grain lead ammunition fired from a .38 calibre handgun at a
velocity of eight hundred fifty feet per second.
The unlawful wearing of a body vest is a class E felony.
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