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| Public Act 097-0359 | ||||
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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 | ||||
Section 26-6 as follows: | ||||
(720 ILCS 5/26-6) | ||||
Sec. 26-6. Disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial | ||||
service. | ||||
(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that due to the | ||||
unique nature of funeral and memorial services and the | ||||
heightened opportunity for extreme emotional distress on such | ||||
occasions, the purpose of this Section is to protect the | ||||
privacy and ability to mourn of grieving families directly | ||||
before, during, and after a funeral or memorial service. | ||||
(b) For purposes of this Section: | ||||
(1) "Funeral" means the ceremonies, rituals, | ||||
processions, and memorial services held at a funeral site | ||||
in connection with the burial, cremation, or memorial of a | ||||
deceased person. | ||||
(2) "Funeral site" means a church, synagogue, mosque, | ||||
funeral home, mortuary, cemetery, gravesite, mausoleum, or | ||||
other place at which a funeral is conducted or is scheduled | ||||
to be conducted within the next 30 minutes or has been | ||||
conducted within the last 30 minutes. | ||
(c) A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct at a | ||
funeral or memorial service when he or she: | ||
(1) engages, with knowledge of the existence of a | ||
funeral site, in any loud singing, playing of music, | ||
chanting, whistling, yelling, or noisemaking with, or | ||
without, noise amplification including, but not limited | ||
to, bullhorns, auto horns, and microphones within 300 200 | ||
feet of any ingress or egress of that funeral site, where | ||
the volume of such singing, music, chanting, whistling, | ||
yelling, or noisemaking is likely to be audible at and | ||
disturbing to the funeral site; | ||
(2) displays, with knowledge of the existence of a | ||
funeral site and within 300 200 feet of any ingress or | ||
egress of that funeral site, any visual images that convey | ||
fighting words or actual or veiled threats against any | ||
other person; or | ||
(3) with knowledge of the existence of a funeral site, | ||
knowingly obstructs, hinders, impedes, or blocks another | ||
person's entry to or exit from that funeral site or a | ||
facility containing that funeral site, except that the | ||
owner or occupant of property may take lawful actions to | ||
exclude others from that property. | ||
(d) Disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial service is | ||
a Class C misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation is a | ||
Class 4 felony. | ||
(e) If any clause, sentence, section, provision, or part of | ||
this Section or the application thereof to any person or | ||
circumstance is adjudged to be unconstitutional, the remainder | ||
of this Section or its application to persons or circumstances | ||
other than those to which it is held invalid, is not affected | ||
thereby.
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(Source: P.A. 94-772, eff. 5-17-06.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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