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 1        AN ACT concerning criminal actions.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Criminal  Code  of  1961  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 21-7 as follows:

 6        (720 ILCS 5/21-7) (from Ch. 38, par. 21-7)
 7        Sec.  21-7.   Criminal  trespass  to Restricted areas and
 8    restricted Landing areas at airports.)  Whoever enters  upon,
 9    or  remains  in,  any  restricted area  or restricted landing
10    area used in connection with an  airport  facility,  or  part
11    thereof,   in  this  State,  after  such  person has received
12    notice  from  the  airport  authority  that  such  entry   is
13    forbidden  commits  a  Class 4 felony A misdemeanor.  Whoever
14    enters upon, or remains in, any restricted area or restricted
15    landing area used in connection with an airport facility,  or
16    part   thereof,  in  this  State,  while  in  possession of a
17    weapon, replica of a weapon, or ammunition, after the  person
18    has received notice from the airport authority that the entry
19    is  forbidden commits a Class 3 felony.  Notice that the area
20    is "restricted" and entry thereto "forbidden",  for  purposes
21    of  this  Section, means that the person or persons have been
22    notified personally, either orally or in  writing,  or  by  a
23    printed  or  written notice forbidding such entry to him or a
24    group or an organization of which he is a member, which   has
25    been  conspicuously  posted  or  exhibited  at  every  usable
26    entrance to such area or the forbidden part thereof.
27        The  terms "Restricted area" or "Restricted landing area"
28    in this  Section  are  defined  to  incorporate  the  meaning
29    ascribed  to  those  terms  in  Section  8  of  the "Illinois
30    Aeronautics Act", approved July 24,  1945,  as  amended,  and
31    also  include  any  other  area  of the airport that has been
 
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 1    designated such by the airport authority.
 2    (Source: P.A. 81-564.)