Any person who, with the intent to subject, or cause to be subjected, any other person to the deprivation of any rights, privileges or immunities, secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of this state or of the United States, on account of religion, national origin, alienage, color, race, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, blindness or physical disability, violates the provisions of section 46a-58 while wearing a mask, hood or other device designed to conceal the identity of such person shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(P.A. 82-14, S. 1, 2; P.A. 07-62, S. 2; P.A. 11-55, S. 36.)
History: P.A. 07-62 included within offense the deprivation of rights on account of sexual orientation; P.A. 11-55 included within offense the deprivation of rights on account of gender identity or expression.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 939 - Offenses Against the Person
Section 53-10a. - Persons sentenced to life imprisonment prior to October 1, 1963.
Section 53-20. - Cruelty to persons.
Section 53-21. - Injury or risk of injury to, or impairing morals of, children. Sale of children.
Section 53-22. - Psychiatric examinations.
Section 53-23. - Abandonment of child under the age of six years.
Section 53-34a. - Deprivation of rights of physically disabled and blind; class C misdemeanor.
Section 53-34b. - Deprivation of the right to breast-feed one's child.
Section 53-36c. - Counsel for commission.
Section 53-37. - Ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race.
Section 53-37b. - Deprivation of a person's equal rights and privileges by force or threat.
Section 53-38. - Fictitious notice of birth, marriage or death.
Section 53-39. - Malicious prosecution.
Section 53-41. - Tattooing of persons restricted.
Section 53-41a. - Surveillance devices in dressing rooms prohibited.