Burglary in the third degree
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case Colwell v. Commonwealth (2000)
Most recently applied in Roy Edward Tucker v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (September 2017)
Effective: July 14, 2022 History: Amended 2022 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person is guilty of burglary in the third degree when, with the intent to commit a crime, he or she knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a building.
(2) Burglary in the third degree is a Class D felony, unless the offense occurs during a declared emergency as defined by KRS 39A.020 arising from a natural or man- made disaster, within the area covered by the emergency declaration, and within the area impacted by the disaster, in which case it is a Class C felony.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.