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Public Act 91-0619
SB304 Enrolled LRB9103785RCks
AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
Section 12-4.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
changing Section 12-4 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/12-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
(a) A person who, in committing a battery, intentionally
or knowingly causes great bodily harm, or permanent
disability or disfigurement commits aggravated battery.
(b) In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated
battery if he or she:
(1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by the
discharge of a firearm;
(2) Is hooded, robed or masked, in such manner as
to conceal his identity;
(3) Knows the individual harmed to be a teacher or
other person employed in any school and such teacher or
other employee is upon the grounds of a school or grounds
adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used
for school purposes;
(4) Knows the individual harmed to be a supervisor,
director, instructor or other person employed in any park
district and such supervisor, director, instructor or
other employee is upon the grounds of the park or grounds
adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used
for park purposes;
(5) Knows the individual harmed to be a caseworker,
investigator, or other person employed by the State
Department of Public Aid, a County Department of Public
Aid, or the Department of Human Services (acting as
successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under
the Department of Human Services Act) and such
caseworker, investigator, or other person is upon the
grounds of a public aid office or grounds adjacent
thereto, or is in any part of a building used for public
aid purposes, or upon the grounds of a home of a public
aid applicant, recipient, or any other person being
interviewed or investigated in the employee's discharge
of his duties, or on grounds adjacent thereto, or is in
any part of a building in which the applicant, recipient,
or other such person resides or is located;
(6) Knows the individual harmed to be a peace
officer, a community policing volunteer, a correctional
institution employee, or a fireman while such officer,
volunteer, employee or fireman is engaged in the
execution of any official duties including arrest or
attempted arrest, or to prevent the officer, volunteer,
employee or fireman from performing official duties, or
in retaliation for the officer, volunteer, employee or
fireman performing official duties, and the battery is
committed other than by the discharge of a firearm;
(7) Knows the individual harmed to be an emergency
medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
paramedic, ambulance driver, or other medical assistance,
or first aid personnel, or hospital emergency room
personnel engaged in the performance of any of his or her
official duties, or to prevent the emergency medical
technician - ambulance, emergency medical technician -
intermediate, emergency medical technician - paramedic,
ambulance driver, or other medical assistance, or first
aid personnel, or hospital emergency room personnel from
performing official duties, or in retaliation for
performing official duties;
(8) Is, or the person battered is, on or about a
public way, public property or public place of
accommodation or amusement;
(9) Knows the individual harmed to be the driver,
operator, employee or passenger of any transportation
facility or system engaged in the business of
transportation of the public for hire and the individual
assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then
using such public transportation as a passenger or using
any area of any description designated by the
transportation facility or system as a vehicle boarding,
departure, or transfer location;
(10) Knowingly and without legal justification and
by any means causes bodily harm to an individual of 60
years of age or older;
(11) Knows the individual harmed is pregnant;
(12) Knows the individual harmed to be a judge whom
the person intended to harm as a result of the judge's
performance of his or her official duties as a judge;
(13) Knows the individual harmed to be an employee
of the Illinois Department of Children and Family
Services engaged in the performance of his authorized
duties as such employee;
(14) Knows the individual harmed to be a person who
is physically handicapped; or
(15) Knowingly and without legal justification and
by any means causes bodily harm to a merchant who detains
the person for an alleged commission of retail theft
under Section 16A-5 of this Code. In this item (15),
"merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
16A-2.4 of this Code.
For the purpose of paragraph (14) of subsection (b) of
this Section, a physically handicapped person is a person who
suffers from a permanent and disabling physical
characteristic, resulting from disease, injury, functional
disorder or congenital condition.
(c) A person who administers to an individual or causes
him to take, without his consent or by threat or deception,
and for other than medical purposes, any intoxicating,
poisonous, stupefying, narcotic, anesthetic, or controlled
substance commits aggravated battery.
(d) A person who knowingly gives to another person any
food that contains any substance or object that is intended
to cause physical injury if eaten, commits aggravated
battery.
(e) Sentence.
Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony.
(Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97; 90-115, eff. 1-1-98;
90-651, eff. 1-1-99; 90-735, eff. 8-11-98; revised 9-16-98.)
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