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92_SB0175

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to criminal law.

 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 12-4 as follows:

 6        (720 ILCS 5/12-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
 7        Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
 8        (a)  A person who, in committing a battery, intentionally
 9    or  knowingly  causes  great  bodily   harm,   or   permanent
10    disability or disfigurement commits aggravated battery.
11        (b)  In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated
12    battery if he or she:
13             (1)  Uses   a   deadly  weapon  other  than  by  the
14        discharge of a firearm;
15             (2)  Is hooded, robed or masked, in such  manner  as
16        to conceal his identity;
17             (3)  Knows  the individual harmed to be a teacher or
18        other person employed in any school and such  teacher  or
19        other employee is upon the grounds of a school or grounds
20        adjacent  thereto,  or  is in any part of a building used
21        for school purposes;
22             (4)  Knows the individual harmed to be a supervisor,
23        director, instructor or other person employed in any park
24        district and such  supervisor,  director,  instructor  or
25        other employee is upon the grounds of the park or grounds
26        adjacent  thereto,  or  is in any part of a building used
27        for park purposes;
28             (5)  Knows the individual harmed to be a caseworker,
29        investigator, or  other  person  employed  by  the  State
30        Department  of  Public Aid, a County Department of Public
31        Aid, or the  Department  of  Human  Services  (acting  as
 
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 1        successor  to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under
 2        the  Department  of  Human   Services   Act)   and   such
 3        caseworker,  investigator,  or  other  person is upon the
 4        grounds of  a  public  aid  office  or  grounds  adjacent
 5        thereto,  or is in any part of a building used for public
 6        aid purposes, or upon the grounds of a home of  a  public
 7        aid  applicant,  recipient,  or  any  other  person being
 8        interviewed or investigated in the  employee's  discharge
 9        of  his  duties, or on grounds adjacent thereto, or is in
10        any part of a building in which the applicant, recipient,
11        or other such person resides or is located;
12             (6)  Knows the  individual  harmed  to  be  a  peace
13        officer,  a  community policing volunteer, a correctional
14        institution employee, or a fireman  while  such  officer,
15        volunteer,   employee   or  fireman  is  engaged  in  the
16        execution of any  official  duties  including  arrest  or
17        attempted  arrest,  or to prevent the officer, volunteer,
18        employee or fireman from performing official  duties,  or
19        in  retaliation  for  the officer, volunteer, employee or
20        fireman performing official duties, and  the  battery  is
21        committed other than by the discharge of a firearm;
22             (7)  Knows  the individual harmed to be an emergency
23        medical  technician  -   ambulance,   emergency   medical
24        technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
25        paramedic,  ambulance  driver,  other medical assistance,
26        first aid personnel, or hospital emergency room personnel
27        engaged in the performance of any of his or her  official
28        duties,  or to prevent the emergency medical technician -
29        ambulance, emergency medical technician  -  intermediate,
30        emergency   medical  technician  -  paramedic,  ambulance
31        driver, other medical assistance, first aid personnel, or
32        hospital  emergency  room   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; or.
32             (16)  Is, or the person battered is, in any building
33        or other structure  used  to  provide  shelter  or  other
34        services  to  victims  of domestic violence as defined in
 
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 1        Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986
 2        or to the  dependent  children  of  victims  of  domestic
 3        violence,  or within 500 feet of such a building or other
 4        structure.
 5        For the purpose of paragraph (14) of  subsection  (b)  of
 6    this Section, a physically handicapped person is a person who
 7    suffers    from    a   permanent   and   disabling   physical
 8    characteristic, resulting from  disease,  injury,  functional
 9    disorder or congenital condition.
10        (c)  A  person who administers to an individual or causes
11    him to take, without his consent or by threat  or  deception,
12    and  for  other  than  medical  purposes,  any  intoxicating,
13    poisonous,  stupefying,  narcotic,  anesthetic, or controlled
14    substance commits aggravated battery.
15        (d)  A person who knowingly gives to another  person  any
16    food  that  contains any substance or object that is intended
17    to  cause  physical  injury  if  eaten,  commits   aggravated
18    battery.
19        (d-3)  (d-5)  A person commits aggravated battery when he
20    or she knowingly and without lawful justification  shines  or
21    flashes  a  laser  gunsight  or  other  laser  device that is
22    attached or affixed to a firearm, or used in concert  with  a
23    firearm,  so  that the laser beam strikes upon or against the
24    person of another.
25        (d-5)  An inmate of a penal  institution  who  causes  or
26    attempts  to  cause  a  correctional  employee  of  the penal
27    institution to come into contact with blood,  seminal  fluid,
28    urine,  or  feces,  by  throwing,  tossing, or expelling that
29    fluid or material commits aggravated battery.   For  purposes
30    of  this  subsection  (d-5),  "correctional employee" means a
31    person who is employed by a penal institution.
32        (e)  Sentence.
33        Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony.
34    (Source: P.A.  90-115,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-651,  eff.  1-1-99;
 
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 1    90-735, eff. 8-11-98;  91-357,  eff.  7-29-99;  91-488,  eff.
 2    1-1-00;  91-619,  eff.  1-1-00;  91-672, eff. 1-1-00; revised
 3    1-7-00.)

 4        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 5    becoming law.

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