Full Text of HB1432 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 changing | 5 |
| Sections 12-2 and 12-4 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/12-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-2)
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| Sec. 12-2. Aggravated assault.
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| (a) A person commits an aggravated assault, when, in | 9 |
| committing an
assault, he:
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| (1) Uses a deadly weapon or any device manufactured and | 11 |
| designed to be
substantially similar in appearance to a | 12 |
| firearm, other than by
discharging a firearm in the | 13 |
| direction of another person, a peace
officer, a person | 14 |
| summoned or directed by a peace officer, a correctional
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| officer or a fireman or in the direction of a vehicle | 16 |
| occupied by another
person, a peace officer, a person | 17 |
| summoned or directed by a peace officer,
a correctional | 18 |
| officer or a fireman while the officer or fireman is
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| engaged in the execution of any of his official duties, or | 20 |
| to prevent the
officer or fireman from performing his | 21 |
| official duties, or in retaliation
for the officer or | 22 |
| fireman performing his official duties;
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| (2) Is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to | 24 |
| conceal his
identity or any device manufactured and | 25 |
| designed to be substantially
similar in appearance to a | 26 |
| firearm;
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| (3) Knows the individual assaulted to be a teacher or | 28 |
| other person
employed in any school and such teacher or | 29 |
| other employee is upon the
grounds of a school or grounds | 30 |
| adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a
building used for | 31 |
| school purposes;
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| (4) Knows the individual assaulted to be a supervisor, |
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| director,
instructor or other person employed in any park | 2 |
| district and such
supervisor, director, instructor or | 3 |
| other employee is upon the grounds of
the park or grounds | 4 |
| adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used
for | 5 |
| park purposes;
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| (5) Knows the individual assaulted to be a caseworker, | 7 |
| investigator, or
other person employed by the State | 8 |
| Department of Public Aid, a
County
Department of Public | 9 |
| Aid, or the Department of Human Services (acting as
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| successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under | 11 |
| the Department of
Human Services Act) and such caseworker, | 12 |
| investigator, or other person
is upon the grounds of a | 13 |
| public aid office or grounds adjacent thereto, or
is in any | 14 |
| part of a building used for public aid purposes, or upon | 15 |
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grounds of a home of a public aid applicant, recipient | 16 |
| or any other person
being interviewed or investigated in | 17 |
| the employees' discharge of his
duties, or on grounds | 18 |
| adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building in
which | 19 |
| the applicant, recipient, or other such person resides or | 20 |
| is located;
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| (6) Knows the individual assaulted to be a peace | 22 |
| officer, or a community
policing volunteer, or a fireman
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| while the officer or fireman is engaged in the execution of | 24 |
| any of his
official duties, or to prevent the officer, | 25 |
| community policing volunteer,
or fireman from performing
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| his official duties, or in retaliation for the officer, | 27 |
| community policing
volunteer, or fireman
performing his | 28 |
| official duties, and the assault is committed other than by
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| the discharge of a firearm in the direction of the officer | 30 |
| or fireman or
in the direction of a vehicle occupied by the | 31 |
| officer or fireman;
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| (7) Knows the individual assaulted to be
an emergency | 33 |
| medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
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| technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician - | 35 |
| paramedic, ambulance
driver or other medical
assistance or | 36 |
| first aid personnel engaged in the
execution of any of his |
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| official duties, or to prevent the
emergency medical | 2 |
| technician - ambulance, emergency medical
technician - | 3 |
| intermediate, emergency medical technician - paramedic,
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| ambulance driver, or other medical assistance or first aid | 5 |
| personnel from
performing his official duties, or in | 6 |
| retaliation for the
emergency medical technician - | 7 |
| ambulance, emergency medical
technician - intermediate, | 8 |
| emergency medical technician - paramedic,
ambulance | 9 |
| driver, or other medical assistance or first aid personnel
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| performing his official duties;
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| (8) Knows the individual assaulted to be the driver, | 12 |
| operator, employee
or passenger of any transportation | 13 |
| facility or system engaged in the
business of | 14 |
| transportation of the public for hire and the individual
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| assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then using | 16 |
| such public
transportation as a passenger or using any area | 17 |
| of any description
designated by the transportation | 18 |
| facility or system as a vehicle boarding,
departure, or | 19 |
| transfer location;
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| (9) Or the individual assaulted is on or about a public | 21 |
| way, public
property, or public place of accommodation or | 22 |
| amusement;
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| (9.5) Is, or the individual assaulted is, in or about a | 24 |
| publicly or privately owned sports or entertainment arena, | 25 |
| stadium, community or convention hall, special event | 26 |
| center, amusement facility, or a special event center in a | 27 |
| public park during any 24-hour period when a professional | 28 |
| sporting event, National Collegiate Athletic Association | 29 |
| (NCAA)-sanctioned sporting event, United States Olympic | 30 |
| Committee-sanctioned sporting event, or International | 31 |
| Olympic Committee-sanctioned sporting event is taking | 32 |
| place in this venue;
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| (10) Knows the individual assaulted to be an employee | 34 |
| of the State of
Illinois, a municipal corporation therein | 35 |
| or a political subdivision
thereof, engaged in the | 36 |
| performance of his authorized duties as such
employee;
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| (11) Knowingly and without legal justification, | 2 |
| commits an assault on
a physically handicapped person;
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| (12) Knowingly and without legal justification, | 4 |
| commits an assault on a
person 60 years of age or older;
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| (13) Discharges a firearm;
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| (14) Knows the individual assaulted to be a | 7 |
| correctional officer, while
the officer is engaged in the | 8 |
| execution of any of his or her official duties,
or to | 9 |
| prevent the officer from performing his or her official | 10 |
| duties, or in
retaliation for the officer performing his or | 11 |
| her official duties;
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| (15) Knows the individual assaulted to be a | 13 |
| correctional employee or
an employee of the Department of | 14 |
| Human Services supervising or controlling
sexually | 15 |
| dangerous persons or sexually violent persons, while
the | 16 |
| employee is engaged in the execution of any of his or her | 17 |
| official duties,
or to prevent the employee from performing | 18 |
| his or her official duties, or in
retaliation for the | 19 |
| employee performing his or her official duties, and the
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| assault is committed other than by the discharge of a | 21 |
| firearm in the direction
of the employee or in the | 22 |
| direction of a vehicle occupied by the employee;
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| (16) Knows the individual assaulted to be an employee | 24 |
| of a police or
sheriff's department engaged in the | 25 |
| performance of his or her official duties
as such employee; | 26 |
| or
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| (17) Knows the individual assaulted to be a sports | 28 |
| official or coach at any level of competition and the act | 29 |
| causing the assault to the sports official or coach | 30 |
| occurred within an athletic facility or an indoor or | 31 |
| outdoor playing field or within the immediate vicinity of | 32 |
| the athletic facility or an indoor or outdoor playing field | 33 |
| at which the sports official or coach was an active | 34 |
| participant in the athletic contest held at the athletic | 35 |
| facility. For the purposes of this paragraph (17), "sports | 36 |
| official" means a person at an athletic contest who |
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| enforces the rules of the contest, such as an umpire or | 2 |
| referee; and "coach" means a person recognized as a coach | 3 |
| by the sanctioning authority that conducted the athletic | 4 |
| contest.
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| (a-5) A person commits an aggravated assault when he or she | 6 |
| knowingly and
without lawful justification shines or flashes a | 7 |
| laser gunsight or other laser
device that is attached or | 8 |
| affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a
firearm, so | 9 |
| that the laser beam strikes near or in the immediate vicinity | 10 |
| of
any person.
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| (b) Sentence.
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| Aggravated assault as defined in paragraphs (1) through (5) | 13 |
| and (8) through
(12) and (17) of subsection (a) of this Section | 14 |
| is a Class A misdemeanor. Aggravated
assault as defined in | 15 |
| paragraphs (13), (14), and (15) of subsection (a) of this
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| Section and as defined in subsection (a-5) of this Section is a | 17 |
| Class 4
felony. Aggravated assault as defined in paragraphs
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| (6), (7), and (16) of
subsection (a) of this Section is a Class | 19 |
| A misdemeanor if a firearm is not
used in the commission of the | 20 |
| assault. Aggravated assault as defined in
paragraphs (6), (7), | 21 |
| and (16) of subsection (a) of this
Section is a Class 4 felony | 22 |
| if a firearm is used in the commission of the
assault.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-841, eff. 8-22-02; 92-865, eff. 1-3-03; | 24 |
| 93-692, eff. 1-1-05.)
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| (720 ILCS 5/12-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
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| Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
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| (a) A person who, in committing a battery, intentionally or | 28 |
| knowingly
causes great bodily harm, or permanent disability or | 29 |
| disfigurement commits
aggravated battery.
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| (b) In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated | 31 |
| battery if he or
she:
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| (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by the discharge of | 33 |
| a firearm;
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| (2) Is hooded, robed or masked, in such manner as to | 35 |
| conceal his
identity;
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| (3) Knows the individual harmed to be a teacher or | 2 |
| other person
employed in any school and such teacher or | 3 |
| other employee is upon the
grounds of a school or grounds | 4 |
| adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a
building used for | 5 |
| school purposes;
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| (4) Knows the individual harmed to be a supervisor, | 7 |
| director,
instructor or other person employed in any park | 8 |
| district and such
supervisor, director, instructor or | 9 |
| other employee is upon the grounds
of the park or grounds | 10 |
| adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building
used for | 11 |
| park purposes;
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| (5) Knows the individual harmed to be a caseworker, | 13 |
| investigator, or
other person employed by the State | 14 |
| Department of Public Aid, a County
Department of Public | 15 |
| Aid, or the Department of Human Services (acting as
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| successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under | 17 |
| the Department of
Human Services Act) and such caseworker, | 18 |
| investigator, or other
person is upon the grounds of a | 19 |
| public aid office or grounds adjacent
thereto, or is in any | 20 |
| part of a building used for public aid purposes,
or upon | 21 |
| the grounds of a home of a public aid applicant, recipient, | 22 |
| or
any other person being interviewed or investigated in | 23 |
| the employee's
discharge of his duties, or on grounds | 24 |
| adjacent thereto, or is in any
part of a building in which | 25 |
| the applicant, recipient, or other such
person resides or | 26 |
| is located;
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| (6) Knows the individual harmed to be a peace officer, | 28 |
| a community
policing volunteer, a correctional institution | 29 |
| employee, an employee
of the Department of Human Services | 30 |
| supervising or controlling sexually
dangerous persons or | 31 |
| sexually violent persons, or a fireman while
such officer, | 32 |
| volunteer, employee or fireman is engaged in the execution | 33 |
| of
any official duties including arrest or attempted | 34 |
| arrest, or to prevent the
officer, volunteer, employee or | 35 |
| fireman from performing official duties, or in
retaliation | 36 |
| for the officer, volunteer, employee or fireman performing |
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| official
duties, and the battery is committed other than by | 2 |
| the discharge of a firearm;
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| (7) Knows the individual harmed to be an emergency | 4 |
| medical technician -
ambulance, emergency medical | 5 |
| technician - intermediate, emergency medical
technician - | 6 |
| paramedic, ambulance driver, other medical assistance, | 7 |
| first
aid personnel, or hospital personnel engaged in the
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| performance of any of his or her official duties,
or to | 9 |
| prevent the emergency medical technician - ambulance, | 10 |
| emergency medical
technician - intermediate, emergency | 11 |
| medical technician - paramedic, ambulance
driver, other | 12 |
| medical assistance, first aid personnel, or
hospital | 13 |
| personnel from performing
official duties, or in | 14 |
| retaliation for performing official duties;
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| (8) Is, or the person battered is, on or about a public | 16 |
| way, public
property or public place of accommodation or | 17 |
| amusement;
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| (8.5) Is, or the person battered is, on a publicly or | 19 |
| privately owned sports or entertainment arena, stadium, | 20 |
| community or convention hall, special event center, | 21 |
| amusement facility, or a special event center in a public | 22 |
| park during any 24-hour period when a professional sporting | 23 |
| event, National Collegiate Athletic Association | 24 |
| (NCAA)-sanctioned sporting event, United States Olympic | 25 |
| Committee-sanctioned sporting event, or International | 26 |
| Olympic Committee-sanctioned sporting event is taking | 27 |
| place in this venue;
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| (9) Knows the individual harmed to be the driver, | 29 |
| operator, employee
or passenger of any transportation | 30 |
| facility or system engaged in the
business of | 31 |
| transportation of the public for hire and the individual
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| assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then using | 33 |
| such public
transportation as a passenger or using any area | 34 |
| of any description
designated by the transportation | 35 |
| facility or system as a vehicle
boarding, departure, or | 36 |
| transfer location;
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| (10) Knowingly and without legal justification and by | 2 |
| any means
causes bodily harm to an individual of 60 years | 3 |
| of age or older;
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| (11) Knows the individual harmed is pregnant;
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| (12) Knows the individual harmed to be a judge whom the
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| person intended to harm as a result of the judge's | 7 |
| performance of his or
her official duties as a judge;
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| (13) Knows the individual harmed to be an employee of | 9 |
| the Illinois
Department of Children and Family Services | 10 |
| engaged in the performance of
his authorized duties as such | 11 |
| employee;
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| (14) Knows the individual harmed to be a person who is | 13 |
| physically
handicapped;
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| (15) Knowingly and without legal justification and by | 15 |
| any means causes
bodily harm to a merchant who detains the | 16 |
| person for an alleged commission of
retail theft under | 17 |
| Section 16A-5 of this Code.
In this item (15), "merchant" | 18 |
| has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
16A-2.4 of this | 19 |
| Code;
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| (16) Is, or the person battered is, in any building or | 21 |
| other structure
used to provide shelter or other services | 22 |
| to victims or to the dependent
children of victims of | 23 |
| domestic violence pursuant to the Illinois Domestic
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| Violence Act of 1986 or the Domestic Violence Shelters Act, | 25 |
| or the person
battered is within 500 feet of such a | 26 |
| building or other structure while going
to or from such a | 27 |
| building or other structure. "Domestic violence" has the
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| meaning ascribed to it in Section 103 of the Illinois | 29 |
| Domestic Violence Act of
1986. "Building or other structure | 30 |
| used to provide shelter" has the meaning
ascribed to | 31 |
| "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic Violence Shelters | 32 |
| Act; or
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| (17) Knows the individual harmed to be an employee of a | 34 |
| police or
sheriff's department engaged in the performance | 35 |
| of his or her official duties
as such employee.
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| For the purpose of paragraph (14) of subsection (b) of this |
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| Section, a
physically handicapped person is a person who | 2 |
| suffers from a permanent and
disabling physical | 3 |
| characteristic, resulting from disease, injury,
functional | 4 |
| disorder or congenital condition.
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| (c) A person who administers to an individual or causes him | 6 |
| to take,
without his consent or by threat or deception, and for | 7 |
| other than
medical purposes, any intoxicating, poisonous, | 8 |
| stupefying, narcotic,
anesthetic, or controlled substance | 9 |
| commits aggravated battery.
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| (d) A person who knowingly gives to another person any food | 11 |
| that
contains any substance or object that is intended to cause | 12 |
| physical
injury if eaten, commits aggravated battery.
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| (d-3) A person commits aggravated battery when he or she | 14 |
| knowingly and
without lawful justification shines or flashes a | 15 |
| laser gunsight or other laser
device that is attached or | 16 |
| affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a
firearm, so | 17 |
| that the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of | 18 |
| another.
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| (d-5) An inmate of a penal institution or a sexually | 20 |
| dangerous person or a
sexually violent person in the custody of | 21 |
| the Department of Human Services
who causes or attempts to | 22 |
| cause a
correctional employee of the penal institution or an | 23 |
| employee of the
Department of Human Services to come into | 24 |
| contact with blood,
seminal fluid, urine, or feces, by | 25 |
| throwing, tossing, or expelling that fluid
or material commits | 26 |
| aggravated battery. For purposes of this subsection (d-5),
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| "correctional employee" means a person who is employed by a | 28 |
| penal institution.
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| (e) Sentence.
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| Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony, except a violation | 31 |
| of subsection (a)
is a Class 2 felony when the person knows the | 32 |
| individual harmed to be a peace
officer engaged in the | 33 |
| execution of any of his or her official duties, or the
battery | 34 |
| is to prevent the officer from performing his or her official | 35 |
| duties,
or in retaliation for the officer performing his or her | 36 |
| official duties.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-516, eff. 1-1-02; 92-841, | 2 |
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8-22-02; 92-865, eff. 1-3-03; 93-83, eff. 7-2-03.)
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