Any person who, acting alone or in conspiracy with another, for the purpose of depriving any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws of this state or the United States, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws of this state or the United States, engages in the use of force or threat, as provided in section 53a-62, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor, except that if bodily injury results such person shall be guilty of a class C felony or if death results such person shall be guilty of a class B felony.
(P.A. 93-412, S. 1.)
See Sec. 52-571a re action for damages and other relief for violation of this section.
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.