Full Text of HB4532 94th General Assembly
HB4532eng 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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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 adding | 5 |
| Section 26-6 as follows: | 6 |
| (720 ILCS 5/26-6 new) | 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, "funeral site" means a | 16 |
| church, synagogue, mosque, funeral home, gravesite, or other | 17 |
| place at which a funeral or memorial service is being conducted | 18 |
| or is scheduled to be conducted within the next 30 minutes or | 19 |
| has been conducted within the last 30 minutes. | 20 |
| (c) A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct at a | 21 |
| funeral or memorial service when he or she: | 22 |
| (1) engages, with knowledge of the existence of a | 23 |
| funeral site, in any loud singing, playing of music, | 24 |
| chanting, whistling, yelling, or noisemaking with, or | 25 |
| without, noise amplification including, but not limited | 26 |
| to, bullhorns, auto horns, and microphones within 200 feet | 27 |
| of any ingress or egress of that funeral site, where the | 28 |
| volume of such singing, music, chanting, whistling, | 29 |
| yelling, or noisemaking is likely to be audible at and | 30 |
| disturbing to the funeral site; | 31 |
| (2) displays, with knowledge of the existence of a | 32 |
| funeral site and within 200 feet of any ingress or egress |
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| of that funeral site, any visual images that convey | 2 |
| fighting words or actual or veiled threats against any | 3 |
| other person; | 4 |
| (3) with knowledge of the existence of a funeral site, | 5 |
| knowingly obstructs, hinders, impedes, or blocks another | 6 |
| person's entry to or exit from that funeral site or a | 7 |
| facility containing that funeral site, except that the | 8 |
| owner or occupant of property may take lawful actions to | 9 |
| exclude others from that property; or | 10 |
| (4) with knowledge of the existence of a funeral site, | 11 |
| knowingly engages in a march or picket at the funeral site | 12 |
| at any public location located within 200 feet of any | 13 |
| ingress or egress of that funeral site. | 14 |
| (d) Disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial service is | 15 |
| a Class C misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation of | 16 |
| disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial service is a Class | 17 |
| 4 felony. | 18 |
| (e) If any clause, sentence, section, provision, or part of | 19 |
| this Section or the application thereof to any person or | 20 |
| circumstance is adjudged to be unconstitutional, the remainder | 21 |
| of this Section or its application to persons or circumstances | 22 |
| other than those to which it is held invalid, is not affected | 23 |
| thereby.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 25 |
| becoming law.
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