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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB4618
Introduced 02/04/04, by Kathleen A. Ryg SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Prohibits the use in a child care facility, public restroom, or health club of electronic devices capable of producing a visual image and of cell phones regardless of their capacity to produce a visual image. Permits the use of these devices for business or emergency use. Provides that a person who violates these provisions is guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined $1,000.
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HB4618 |
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LRB093 18260 RLC 43961 b |
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding |
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| Section 26-4.5 as follows: |
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| (720 ILCS 5/26-4.5 new) |
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| Sec. 26-4.5. Cell phones and other electronic devices; |
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| prohibited places. |
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| (a) A person may not use in a child care facility, public |
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| restroom, or health club: |
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| (1) an electronic, mechanical, manual, electric, |
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| digital, voltaic, or other device, instrument, or means |
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| capable of recording, producing, duplicating, reproducing, |
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| storing, copying, transmitting, or displaying a visual, |
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| video, photographic, electronic, digital, recorded, or |
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| other visual image, picture, or representation including, |
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| but not limited to, a camera, photographic camera, video |
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| camera, fiberoptic camera, motion picture camera, |
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| television camera, camcorder, or videotaping device; or |
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| (2) a cell phone of any type or kind regardless of its |
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| capacity or lack of capacity to produce a visual image. |
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| (b) Nothing in this Section prohibits the use of the |
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| devices described in subsection (a) in the places described in |
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| that subsection for business related purposes or for emergency |
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| use. |
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| (c) Sentence. A person who violates this Section is guilty |
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| of a petty offense and shall be fined $1,000. |
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| (d) For the purposes of this Section, "child care facility" |
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| has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 2.05 of the Child |
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| Care Act of 1969.
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