93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5436


 
Introduced 02/06/04, by Michael J. Madigan
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













720 ILCS 5/12-10
  from Ch. 38, par. 12-10







    Amends the Criminal Code of 1961.  Makes a technical change in a Section
defining the offense of tattooing the body of a minor.
















LRB093 17139 RLC 42805 b

















 


 


A BILL FOR









 











HB5436

LRB093 17139 RLC 42805 b






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    AN ACT in relation to 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 changing 
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Section 12-10 as
follows:


 
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    (720 ILCS 5/12-10)  (from Ch. 38, par. 12-10)

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    Sec. 12-10. Tattooing Body of Minor.)
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Any person, other 
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than a
person licensed
to practice medicine in all its 
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branches, who tattoos or offers to tattoo
a person under the 
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age of 21 is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.


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    As used in this Section, to "tattoo" means to insert 
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pigment under the
surface of the skin of a human being, by 
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pricking with a needle or otherwise,
so as to produce an 
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indelible mark or figure visible through the skin.


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(Source: P.A. 77-2638.)