(720 ILCS 5/Art. 21.2 heading) ARTICLE 21.2. INTERFERENCE WITH A PUBLIC
INSTITUTION OF EDUCATION
(Source: P.A. 96-807, eff. 1-1-10.) |
(720 ILCS 5/21.2-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2-1)
Sec. 21.2-1. The General Assembly, in recognition of unlawful campus and school disorders across
the nation which are disruptive of the educational process, dangerous to
the health and safety of persons, damaging to public and private property,
and which divert the use of institutional facilities from the primary
function of education, establishes by this Act criminal penalties for
conduct declared in this Article to be unlawful. However, this Article does
not modify or supersede any other law relating to damage to persons or
property, nor does it prevent a public institution of education from
establishing restrictions upon the availability or use of any building or
other facility owned, operated or controlled by the institution to preserve
their dedication to education, nor from establishing standards of
scholastic and behavioral conduct reasonably relevant to the missions,
processes and functions of the institution, nor from invoking appropriate
discipline or expulsion for violations of such standards.
(Source: P.A. 96-807, eff. 1-1-10.)
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(720 ILCS 5/21.2-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2-2)
Sec. 21.2-2. Interference with a public institution of education. A person commits interference with a public institution of
education when he or she, on the campus of a public institution of education,
or at or in any building or other facility owned, operated or controlled by
the institution, without authority from the institution he or she, through force
or violence, actual or threatened:
(1) knowingly denies to a trustee, school board | ||
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(A) Freedom of movement at that place; or
(B) Use of the property or facilities of the | ||
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(C) The right of ingress or egress to the | ||
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(2) knowingly impedes, obstructs, interferes with or | ||
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(A) the performance of institutional duties by a | ||
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(B) the pursuit of educational activities, as | ||
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(3) knowingly occupies or remains in or at any | ||
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(Source: P.A. 96-807, eff. 1-1-10; 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13.)
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(720 ILCS 5/21.2-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2-3)
Sec. 21.2-3. Nothing in this Article prevents lawful assembly of the trustees, school board members, superintendent, principal,
employees, students or invitees of a public institution of
education, or prevents orderly petition for redress of grievances.
(Source: P.A. 96-807, eff. 1-1-10.)
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(720 ILCS 5/21.2-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2-4)
Sec. 21.2-4. Sentence. A person convicted of violation of this Article commits a Class C
misdemeanor for the first offense and for a second or subsequent offense
commits a Class B misdemeanor. If the interference with the public institution of education is accompanied by a threat of personal injury or property damage, the person commits a Class 3 felony and may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 2 years and not more than 10 years and may be prosecuted for intimidation in accordance with Section 12-6 of this Code.
(Source: P.A. 96-807, eff. 1-1-10.)
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(720 ILCS 5/21.2-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2-5)
Sec. 21.2-5. For the purposes of this Article the words and phrases described in this
Section have the meanings designated in this Section, except when a
particular context clearly requires a different meaning.
"Public institution of education" means an educational
organization located in this State which provides an organized elementary, secondary, or post-high
school educational program, and which is supported in whole or in part by
appropriations of the General Assembly, a unit of local government or school district.
A person has received "due notice" if he, or the group of which he is a
part, has been given oral or written notice from an authorized
representative of the public institution of education in a manner
reasonably designated to inform him, or the group of which he is a part,
that he or they should cease such action or depart from such premises. The
notice may also be given by a printed or written notice forbidding entry
conspicuously posted or exhibited at the main entrance of the building or
other facility, or the forbidden part thereof.
"Force or violence" includes, but is not limited to, use of one's
person, individually or in concert with others, to impede access to or
movement within or otherwise to interfere with the conduct of the
authorized activities of the public institution of education, its
trustees, school board members, superintendent, principal, employees, students or invitees.
(Source: P.A. 96-807, eff. 1-1-10.)
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(720 ILCS 5/21.2-6) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2-6)
Sec. 21.2-6.
If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or
circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other
provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without the
invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this
Act are declared severable.
(Source: P.A. 76-1582.)
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