Rep. Jerry F. Costello, II

Adopted in House Comm. on Feb 07, 2012

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3802

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3802 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
5changing Section 26-6 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/26-6)
7    Sec. 26-6. Disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial
8service.
9    (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that due to the
10unique nature of funeral and memorial services and the
11heightened opportunity for extreme emotional distress on such
12occasions, the purpose of this Section is to protect the
13privacy and ability to mourn of grieving families directly
14before, during, and after a funeral or memorial service.
15    (b) For purposes of this Section:
16        (1) "Funeral" means the ceremonies, rituals,

 

 

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1    processions, and memorial services held at a funeral site
2    in connection with the burial, cremation, or memorial of a
3    deceased person.
4        (2) "Funeral site" means a church, synagogue, mosque,
5    funeral home, mortuary, cemetery, gravesite, mausoleum, or
6    other place at which a funeral is conducted or is scheduled
7    to be conducted within the next hour 30 minutes or has been
8    conducted within the last hour 30 minutes.
9    (c) A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct at a
10funeral or memorial service when he or she:
11        (1) engages, with knowledge of the existence of a
12    funeral site, in any loud singing, playing of music,
13    chanting, whistling, yelling, or noisemaking with, or
14    without, noise amplification including, but not limited
15    to, bullhorns, auto horns, and microphones within 1,000 300
16    feet of any ingress or egress of that funeral site, where
17    the volume of such singing, music, chanting, whistling,
18    yelling, or noisemaking is likely to be audible at and
19    disturbing to the funeral site;
20        (2) displays, with knowledge of the existence of a
21    funeral site and within 1,000 300 feet of any ingress or
22    egress of that funeral site, any visual images that convey
23    fighting words or actual or veiled threats against any
24    other person; or
25        (3) with knowledge of the existence of a funeral site,
26    knowingly obstructs, hinders, impedes, or blocks another

 

 

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1    person's entry to or exit from that funeral site or a
2    facility containing that funeral site, except that the
3    owner or occupant of property may take lawful actions to
4    exclude others from that property.
5    (d) Disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial service is
6a Class C misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation is a
7Class 4 felony.
8    (e) If any clause, sentence, section, provision, or part of
9this Section or the application thereof to any person or
10circumstance is adjudged to be unconstitutional, the remainder
11of this Section or its application to persons or circumstances
12other than those to which it is held invalid, is not affected
13thereby.
14(Source: P.A. 97-359, eff. 8-15-11.)
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16becoming law.".