Public Act 097-0359
 
HB0180 EnrolledLRB097 02996 RLC 43026 b


  
    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
  
 
    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 26-6 as follows:
 
    (720 ILCS 5/26-6)
    Sec. 26-6. Disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial 
service.
    (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that due to the 
unique nature of funeral and memorial services and the 
heightened opportunity for extreme emotional distress on such 
occasions, the purpose of this Section is to protect the 
privacy and ability to mourn of grieving families directly 
before, during, and after a funeral or memorial service.
    (b) For purposes of this Section:
        (1) "Funeral" means the ceremonies, rituals, 
    processions, and memorial services held at a funeral site 
    in connection with the burial, cremation, or memorial of a 
    deceased person.
        (2) "Funeral site" means a church, synagogue, mosque, 
    funeral home, mortuary, cemetery, gravesite, mausoleum, or 
    other place at which a funeral is conducted or is scheduled 
    to be conducted within the next 30 minutes or has been 
    conducted within the last 30 minutes.
    (c) A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct at a 
funeral or memorial service when he or she:
        (1)  engages, with knowledge of the existence of a 
    funeral site, in any loud singing, playing of music, 
    chanting, whistling, yelling, or noisemaking with, or 
    without, noise amplification including, but not limited 
    to, bullhorns, auto horns, and microphones within 300 200 
    feet of any ingress or egress of that funeral site, where 
    the volume of such singing, music, chanting, whistling, 
    yelling, or noisemaking is likely to be audible at and 
    disturbing to the funeral site;
        (2)  displays, with knowledge of the existence of a 
    funeral site and within 300  200 feet of any ingress or 
    egress of that funeral site, any visual images that convey 
    fighting words or actual or veiled threats against any 
    other person; or
        (3)  with knowledge of the existence of a funeral site, 
    knowingly obstructs, hinders, impedes, or blocks another 
    person's entry to or exit from that funeral site or a 
    facility containing that funeral site, except that the 
    owner or occupant of property may take lawful actions to 
    exclude others from that property.
    (d) Disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial service is 
a Class C misdemeanor.  A second or subsequent violation is a 
Class 4 felony.
    (e) If any clause, sentence, section, provision, or part of 
this Section or the application thereof to any person or 
circumstance is adjudged to be unconstitutional, the remainder 
of this Section or its application to persons or circumstances 
other than those to which it is held invalid, is not affected 
thereby.


(Source: P.A. 94-772, eff. 5-17-06.)
 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.