720 ILCS 620/ Flag Desecration Act.

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720 ILCS 620/0.01

(720 ILCS 620/0.01) (from Ch. 1, par. 3350)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Flag Desecration Act.

(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)

720 ILCS 620/1

(720 ILCS 620/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3351)

Sec. 1.

Any person who (a) for exhibition or display, places or
causes to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or
any advertisement of any nature, upon any flag, standard, color or
ensign of the United States or State flag of this State or ensign, (b)
exposes or causes to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard,
color or ensign, upon which has been printed, painted or otherwise
placed, or to which has been attached, appended, affixed, or annexed,
any word, figure, mark, picture, design or drawing or any advertisement
of any nature, or (c) exposes to public view, manufactures, sells,
exposes for sale, gives away, or has in possession for sale or to give
away or for use for any purpose, any article or substance, being an
article of merchandise, or a receptacle of merchandise or article or
thing for carrying or transporting merchandise upon which has been
printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed a representation of any
such flag, standard, color, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to,
decorate, mark or distinguish the article or substance on which so
placed, shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.

Any person who publicly mutilates, defaces, defiles,
tramples, or
intentionally displays
on the ground or floor any such flag,
standard, color or ensign shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.

(Source: P.A. 86‑942.)

720 ILCS 620/2

(720 ILCS 620/2) (from Ch. 1, par. 3352)

Sec. 2.

The words flag, standard, color or ensign, as used in this
act, shall include any flag, standard, color, ensign or any picture or
representation of either thereof, made of any substance or represented
on any substance and of any size evidently purporting to be either of
said flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States of America, or
a picture or a representation of either thereof, upon which shall be
shown the colors, the stars, and the stripes, in any number of either
thereof, of the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States
of America.

(Source: Laws 1907, p. 351.)

720 ILCS 620/4

(720 ILCS 620/4) (from Ch. 1, par. 3354)

Sec. 4.

All prosecutions under this Act shall be brought by any
person in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, against any
person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Act, before
any circuit court. The State's Attorneys shall see that this Act is
enforced in their respective counties, and shall prosecute all offenders
on receiving information of the violation of this Act. Sheriffs, deputy
sheriffs, and police officers shall inform against and prosecute all
persons whom there is probable cause to believe are guilty of violating
this Act. One‑half of the amount recovered in any penal action under
this Act shall be paid to the person making and filing the complaint in
such action, and the remaining 1/2 to the school fund of the county in
which the conviction is obtained.

(Source: Laws 1968, p. 173.)

720 ILCS 620/5

(720 ILCS 620/5) (from Ch. 1, par. 3355)

Sec. 5.

All prosecutions under this act shall be commenced within six
months from the time such offense was committed, and not afterwards.

(Source: Laws 1907, p. 351.)