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1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 26-6 as follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | (720 ILCS 5/26-6) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 26-6. Disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | service. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that due to the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | unique nature of funeral and memorial services and the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | heightened opportunity for extreme emotional distress on such | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | occasions, the purpose of this Section is to protect the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | privacy and ability to mourn of grieving families directly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | before, during, and after a funeral or memorial service. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | (b) For purposes of this Section: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | (1) "Funeral" means the ceremonies, rituals, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | processions, and memorial services held at a funeral site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | in connection with the burial, cremation, or memorial of a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | deceased person. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | (2) "Funeral site" means a church, synagogue, mosque, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | funeral home, mortuary, cemetery, gravesite, mausoleum, or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | other place at which a funeral is conducted or is scheduled | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | to be conducted within the next hour 30 minutes or has been |
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1 | conducted within the last hour 30 minutes . | ||||||
2 | (c) A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct at a | ||||||
3 | funeral or memorial service when he or she: | ||||||
4 | (1) engages, with knowledge of the existence of a | ||||||
5 | funeral site, in any loud singing, playing of music, | ||||||
6 | chanting, whistling, yelling, or noisemaking with, or | ||||||
7 | without, noise amplification including, but not limited | ||||||
8 | to, bullhorns, auto horns, and microphones within 1,000 200 | ||||||
9 | feet of any ingress or egress of that funeral site, where | ||||||
10 | the volume of such singing, music, chanting, whistling, | ||||||
11 | yelling, or noisemaking is likely to be audible at and | ||||||
12 | disturbing to the funeral site; | ||||||
13 | (2) displays, with knowledge of the existence of a | ||||||
14 | funeral site and within 1,000 200 feet of any ingress or | ||||||
15 | egress of that funeral site, any visual images that convey | ||||||
16 | fighting words or actual or veiled threats against any | ||||||
17 | other person; or | ||||||
18 | (3) with knowledge of the existence of a funeral site, | ||||||
19 | knowingly obstructs, hinders, impedes, or blocks another | ||||||
20 | person's entry to or exit from that funeral site or a | ||||||
21 | facility containing that funeral site, except that the | ||||||
22 | owner or occupant of property may take lawful actions to | ||||||
23 | exclude others from that property. | ||||||
24 | (d) Disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial service is | ||||||
25 | a Class C misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation is a | ||||||
26 | Class 4 felony. |
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1 | (e) If any clause, sentence, section, provision, or part of | ||||||
2 | this Section or the application thereof to any person or | ||||||
3 | circumstance is adjudged to be unconstitutional, the remainder | ||||||
4 | of this Section or its application to persons or circumstances | ||||||
5 | other than those to which it is held invalid, is not affected | ||||||
6 | thereby.
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7 | (Source: P.A. 94-772, eff. 5-17-06.)
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8 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
9 | becoming law.
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