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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 changing 
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Section 37-1 as follows:
 



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    (720 ILCS 5/37-1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 37-1)



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    Sec. 37-1. Maintaining Public Nuisance. Any building used 
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in the commission of offenses prohibited by Sections
9-1 (first 
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degree murder), 10-1 (kidnapping), 10-2 (aggravated 
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kidnapping), 11-14 (prostitution), 11-15 (soliciting for a 
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prostitute), 11-16 (pandering), 11-17 (keeping a place of 
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prostitution), 11-20 (obscenity), 11-20.1 (child pornography), 
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11-20.3 (aggravated child pornography), 11-21 (harmful 
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material), 11-22 (tie-in sales of obscene publications to 
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distributors),
12-5.1 (criminal housing management), 12-5.15 
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(aggravated criminal housing management), 16-1 (theft), 20-2 
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(possession of explosives or explosive or incendiary devices), 
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23-1, 23-1(a)(1), 24-1(a)(7)(unlawful use of weapons, machine 
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guns, sawed-off rifles and shotguns, grenades, bombs, Molotov 
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cocktails), 24-3 (unlawful sale of firearms), 26-5 (dog 
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fighting), 28-1 (gambling), 28-3 (keeping a gambling place), 
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or , 31-5 (concealing or aiding a fugitive) or
39A-1 of the 
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Criminal Code of
1961, or
prohibited by subsection (a-1), (c), 
 


 






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or (d) of Section 6-16 of the Liquor Control Act of 1934, the 
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Humane Care for Animals Act, the Illinois Controlled Substances 
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Act, the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, 
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or the Cannabis
Control Act, or used in the commission of an 
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inchoate offense
relative to any of the aforesaid principal 
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offenses, or any real property
erected, established, 
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maintained, owned, leased, or used by a streetgang for
the 
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purpose of conducting streetgang related activity as defined in 
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Section 10
of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus 
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Prevention Act is a public
nuisance.

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    (b) Sentence. A person convicted of knowingly maintaining 
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such a public
nuisance commits a Class A misdemeanor. Each 
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subsequent offense under this
Section is a Class 4 felony.

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(Source: P.A. 94-556, eff. 9-11-05.)

 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.