Rep. Rita Mayfield
Filed: 2/21/2019
 
 

 

 

 
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1
AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 36 




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 36 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
 
4    "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended  by 
5changing Section 25-1 as follows:
 



6    (720 ILCS 5/25-1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 25-1)



7    Sec. 25-1. Mob action. 

8    (a) A person commits mob action when he or she engages in 
9any of the following:


10        (1) the knowing or reckless use of force or violence 
11    disturbing the public peace by 4 2 or
more persons acting 
12    together and without authority of law;


13        (2) the knowing assembly of 4 2 or more persons with 
14    the intent to commit or facilitate the commission of a 
15    felony or misdemeanor; or


16        (3) the knowing assembly of 4 2 or more persons, 
 
 
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1    without authority of law, for
the purpose of doing violence 
2    to the person or property of anyone supposed
to have been 
3    guilty of a violation of the law, or for the purpose of

4    exercising correctional powers or regulative powers over 
5    any person by
violence.

6    (b) Sentence.
7        (1) Mob action in violation of paragraph (1) of 
8    subsection (a) is a Class 4
felony.

9        (2) Mob action in violation of paragraphs (2) and (3) 
10    of
subsection (a) is a Class C misdemeanor.

11        (3) A participant in a mob action that by violence 
12    inflicts
injury to the person or property of another 
13    commits a Class 4 felony.

14        (4) A participant in a mob action who does not withdraw 
15    when
commanded to do so by a peace officer commits a Class 
16    A misdemeanor.

17        (5) In addition to any other sentence that may be 
18    imposed, a court shall
order any person convicted of mob 
19    action to perform community service for not
less than 30 
20    and not more than 120 hours, if community service is 
21    available in
the jurisdiction and is funded and approved by 
22    the county board of the county
where the offense was 
23    committed. In addition, whenever any person is placed on

24    supervision for an alleged offense under this Section, the 
25    supervision shall be
conditioned upon the performance of 
26    the community service. This paragraph does not apply when 
 
 
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1    the court imposes a sentence of
incarceration.

2(Source: P.A. 96-710, eff. 1-1-10; 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13.)".