Full Text of SB0048 97th General Assembly
SB0048 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012 SB0048 Introduced 1/27/2011, by Sen. Shane Cultra SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Creates the Gun-free Zone Criminal Conduct Liability Act. Provides that any person, organization, or entity or any agency of government, including any unit of local government, that creates a gun-free zone is liable for all costs, attorney's fees, and treble damages resulting from criminal conduct that occurs against an individual in the gun-free zone, if a reasonable person would believe that possession of a firearm could have helped the individual defend against such conduct. Defines "gun-free zone". Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT to create the Gun-free Zone Criminal Conduct | 2 | | Liability Act.
| 3 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 4 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 5 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 6 | | Gun-free Zone Criminal Conduct Liability Act. | 7 | | Section 5. Liability for criminal conduct in a gun-free | 8 | | zone. | 9 | | (a) Any person, organization, or entity or any agency of | 10 | | government, including any unit of local government, that | 11 | | creates a gun-free zone is liable for all costs, attorney's | 12 | | fees, and treble damages resulting from criminal conduct that | 13 | | occurs against an individual in the gun-free zone, if a | 14 | | reasonable person would believe that possession of a firearm | 15 | | could have helped the individual defend against such conduct. | 16 | | (b) For the purposes of this Section: | 17 | | (1) "Criminal conduct" includes offenses specified in | 18 | | the Criminal Code of 1961.
| 19 | | (2) "Gun-free zone" means any building, place, area, or | 20 | | curtilage that is open to the public, or in or upon any | 21 | | public conveyance, where a person's right or ability to | 22 | | keep arms or to bear arms is infringed, restricted, or | 23 | | diminished in any way by statute, policy, rule, regulation, |
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| 1 | | ordinance, utterance, or posted signs.
| 2 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 3 | | becoming law.
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