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Public Act 093-0938
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| HB4788 Enrolled |
LRB093 18387 RLC 44095 b |
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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 |
Section 12-6.4 as follows:
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(720 ILCS 5/12-6.4 new) |
Sec. 12-6.4. Criminal street gang recruitment on school |
grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds. |
(a) A person commits the offense of criminal street gang |
recruitment on school grounds or public property adjacent to |
school grounds when on school grounds or public property |
adjacent to school grounds, he or she threatens the use of |
physical force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or
induce another |
person to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or |
conspires to do so. |
(b) Sentence. Criminal street gang recruitment on school |
grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds is a |
Class 1 felony. |
(c) In this Section, "criminal street gang" has the meaning |
ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang |
Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act and "school grounds" means the |
building or buildings or real property comprising a public or |
private elementary or secondary school, community college, |
college, or university and includes a school yard, school |
playing field, or school playground.
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