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Compiled by the National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTE: For your convenience, hyperlinks are located on each state name in this Table of Contents. For faster access, please select the name of the state you would like to view. ALABAMA .................................................................................... 3 MONTANA ............................................................................... 100 ALASKA ....................................................................................... 5 NEBRASKA ............................................................................... 104 ARIZONA ..................................................................................... 9 NEVADA .................................................................................. 112 ARKANSAS ................................................................................. 12 NEW HAMPSHIRE..................................................................... 114 CALIFORNIA ............................................................................... 15 NEW JERSEY ............................................................................. 120 COLORADO ................................................................................ 16 NEW MEXICO ........................................................................... 129 CONNECTICUT............................................................................ 21 NEW YORK ............................................................................... 133 DELAWARE ................................................................................ 23 NORTH CAROLINA .................................................................... 142 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ............................................................. 23 NORTH DAKOTA ...................................................................... 144 FLORIDA .................................................................................... 25 OHIO ....................................................................................... 146 GEORGIA ................................................................................... 38 OKLAHOMA ............................................................................. 148 HAWAII ..................................................................................... 42 OREGON .................................................................................. 151 IDAHO ....................................................................................... 48 PENNSYLVANIA ........................................................................ 152 ILLINOIS ..................................................................................... 48 RHODE ISLAND ........................................................................ 153 INDIANA .................................................................................... 52 SOUTH CAROLINA .................................................................... 156 IOWA ........................................................................................ 59 SOUTH DAKOTA ....................................................................... 157 KANSAS ..................................................................................... 59 TENNESSEE .............................................................................. 159 KENTUCKY ................................................................................. 60 TEXAS ...................................................................................... 163 LOUISIANA ................................................................................ 61 UTAH ....................................................................................... 167 MAINE ....................................................................................... 66 VERMONT................................................................................ 169 MARYLAND ................................................................................ 74 VIRGINIA ................................................................................. 170 MASSACHUSETTS ....................................................................... 78 WASHINGTON ......................................................................... 176 MICHIGAN ................................................................................. 84 WEST VIRGINIA ........................................................................ 186 MINNESOTA .............................................................................. 90 WISCONSIN ............................................................................. 188 MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................... 93 WYOMING ............................................................................... 191 MISSOURI .................................................................................. 98 2 STATE DEFINITION OF STALKING WHO QUALIFIES RELIEF AVAILABLE PENALTIES AND FOR AN ORDER? SANCTIONS ALABAMA Abuse Definition-Stalking Protection Order Protection Order Domestic violence in the first degree ALA. CODE Abuse. An act of domestic (a) The following persons have (c) The court may grant any of §30-5-7 violence committed against a standing to file a sworn the following relief in a final (a)…Domestic violence in the (LexisNexis 2014) victim, which is any of the petition for a protection order protection order or a first degree is a Class A felony, following: *** m. Stalking. under this chapter as a modification of a protection except that the defendant Stalking as defined under plaintiff: order after notice and a shall serve a minimum term of Ex parte protection order Sections 13A–6–90 to 13A–6– (1) A person who is at least 18 hearing, whether or not the imprisonment of one year or modification of 94, inclusive *. years old or is otherwise defendant appears: without consideration of protection order Ala. Code § 30-5-2 (1)(m) emancipated and is the victim (1) Grant the relief available in probation, parole, good time (2015). of abuse, as defined in Section subsection (b). credits, or any other reduction 30–5–2, or has reasonable (2) Specify arrangements for in time for any second or Stalking in the first degree cause to believe he or she is in visitation of any children by subsequent conviction under imminent danger of becoming the defendant on a basis that this subsection. (a) A person who intentionally the victim of any act of abuse. gives primary consideration to (b) The minimum term of and repeatedly follows or (2) A parent, legal guardian, the safety of the plaintiff or imprisonment imposed under harasses another person and next friend, or the State any children, or both, and subsection (a) shall be double who makes a threat, either Department of Human require supervision by a third without consideration of expressed or implied, with the Resources may petition for party or deny visitation if probation, parole, good time intent to place that person in relief on behalf of the necessary to protect the safety credits, or any reduction in reasonable fear of death or following: of the plaintiff or any children, time if a defendant willfully serious bodily harm is guilty of a. A minor child. or both. violates a protection order the crime of stalking in the b. Any person prevented by (3) Order the defendant to pay issued by a court of first degree. physical or mental incapacity attorney's fees and court competent jurisdiction and in (b) The crime of stalking in the from seeking a protection costs. the process of violating the first degree is a Class C felony. order. (4) When the defendant has a order commits domestic Ala. Code § 13A-6-90 (2015). Ala. Code § 30-5-5 (2015) duty to support the plaintiff or violence in the first degree. any children living in the Ala. Code § 13A-6-130 (2015). Stalking in the second degree residence or household and the defendant is the sole Domestic violence in the (a) A person who, acting with owner or lessee, grant to the second degree an improper purpose, plaintiff possession of the intentionally and repeatedly residence or household to the (a)… Domestic violence in the follows, harasses, telephones, exclusion of the defendant by second degree is a Class B or initiates communication, evicting the defendant or felony, except the defendant verbally, electronically, or restoring possession to the shall serve a minimum term of otherwise, with another plaintiff, or both, or by imprisonment of six months person, any member of the consent agreement allowing without consideration of other person's