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90_HB2994
720 ILCS 5/12-4 from Ch. 38, par. 12-4
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes stylistic
changes in the aggravated battery statute.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
2 Section 12-4.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
6 changing Section 12-4 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 5/12-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
8 Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
9 (a) A person who, in committing a battery, intentionally
10 or knowingly causes great bodily harm, or permanent
11 disability or disfigurement commits aggravated battery.
12 (b) In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated
13 battery if he or she:
14 (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by the
15 discharge of a firearm;
16 (2) Is hooded, robed or masked, in such manner as
17 to conceal his identity;
18 (3) Knows the individual harmed to be a teacher or
19 other person employed in any school and such teacher or
20 other employee is upon the grounds of a school or grounds
21 adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used
22 for school purposes;
23 (4) Knows the individual harmed to be a supervisor,
24 director, instructor or other person employed in any park
25 district and such supervisor, director, instructor or
26 other employee is upon the grounds of the park or grounds
27 adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used
28 for park purposes;
29 (5) Knows the individual harmed to be a caseworker,
30 investigator, or other person employed by the State
31 Department of Public Aid, a County Department of Public
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1 Aid, or the Department of Human Services (acting as
2 successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under
3 the Department of Human Services Act) and such
4 caseworker, investigator, or other person is upon the
5 grounds of a public aid office or grounds adjacent
6 thereto, or is in any part of a building used for public
7 aid purposes, or upon the grounds of a home of a public
8 aid applicant, recipient, or any other person being
9 interviewed or investigated in the employee's discharge
10 of his or her duties, or on grounds adjacent thereto, or
11 is in any part of a building in which the applicant,
12 recipient, or other such person resides or is located;
13 (6) Knows the individual harmed to be a peace
14 officer, a person summoned and directed by a peace
15 officer, a correctional institution employee, or a
16 fireman while such officer, employee or fireman is
17 engaged in the execution of any official duties including
18 arrest or attempted arrest, or to prevent the officer,
19 employee or fireman from performing official duties, or
20 in retaliation for the officer, employee or fireman
21 performing official duties, and the battery is committed
22 other than by the discharge of a firearm;
23 (7) Knows the individual harmed to be an emergency
24 medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
25 technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
26 paramedic, ambulance driver or other medical assistance
27 or first aid personnel engaged in the performance of any
28 of his or her official duties, or to prevent the
29 emergency medical technician - ambulance, emergency
30 medical technician - intermediate, emergency medical
31 technician - paramedic, ambulance driver, or other
32 medical assistance or first aid personnel from performing
33 official duties, or in retaliation for performing
34 official duties;
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1 (8) Is, or the person battered is, on or about a
2 public way, public property or public place of
3 accommodation or amusement;
4 (9) Knows the individual harmed to be the driver,
5 operator, employee or passenger of any transportation
6 facility or system engaged in the business of
7 transportation of the public for hire and the individual
8 assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then
9 using such public transportation as a passenger or using
10 any area of any description designated by the
11 transportation facility or system as a vehicle boarding,
12 departure, or transfer location;
13 (10) Knowingly and without legal justification and
14 by any means causes bodily harm to an individual of 60
15 years of age or older;
16 (11) Knows the individual harmed is pregnant;
17 (12) Knows the individual harmed to be a judge whom
18 the person intended to harm as a result of the judge's
19 performance of his or her official duties as a judge;
20 (13) Knows the individual harmed to be an employee
21 of the Illinois Department of Children and Family
22 Services engaged in the performance of his authorized
23 duties as such employee;
24 (14) Knows the individual harmed to be a person who
25 is physically handicapped; or
26 (15) Knowingly and without legal justification and
27 by any means causes bodily harm to a merchant who detains
28 the person for an alleged commission of retail theft
29 under Section 16A-5 of this Code. In this item (15),
30 "merchant" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
31 16A-2.4 of this Code.
32 For the purpose of paragraph (14) of subsection (b) of
33 this Section, a physically handicapped person is a person who
34 suffers from a permanent and disabling physical
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1 characteristic, resulting from disease, injury, functional
2 disorder or congenital condition.
3 (c) A person who administers to an individual or causes
4 him to take, without his or her consent or by threat or
5 deception, and for other than medical purposes, any
6 intoxicating, poisonous, stupefying, narcotic or anesthetic
7 substance commits aggravated battery.
8 (d) A person who knowingly gives to another person any
9 food that contains any substance or object that is intended
10 to cause physical injury if eaten, commits aggravated
11 battery.
12 (e) Sentence.
13 Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony.
14 (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97; 90-115, eff. 1-1-98.)