Soliciting Membership in a Criminal Street Gang

From the Law Office of Alison Grinter in Dallas, Texas

1 Degree
2 Statute(s)
3 Caselaw
4 Collateral Consequences
5 Notes

Degree

Soliciting Membership in a Criminal Street Gang is a Third Degree Felony for the first offense, and a Second Degree Felony for the second and subsequent offenses.

Statute(s)

Sec. 71.022. SOLICITING MEMBERSHIP IN A CRIMINAL STREET GANG.

(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly causes, enables, encourages, recruits, or solicits another person to become a member of a criminal street gang which, as a condition of initiation, admission, membership, or continued membership, requires the commission of any conduct which constitutes an offense punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or a felony.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
(c) A second or subsequent offense under this section is a felony of the second degree.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1555, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.