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(720 ILCS 5/Art. 21.2 heading) ARTICLE 21.2.

INTERFERENCE WITH A PUBLIC

INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

720 ILCS 5/21.2‑1

(720 ILCS 5/21.2‑1) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2‑1)

Sec. 21.2‑1.

The General Assembly, in recognition of unlawful campus disorders across
the nation which are disruptive of the educational process, dangerous to
the health and safety of persons, damaging to public and private property,
and which divert the use of institutional facilities from the primary
function of education, establishes by this Act criminal penalties for
conduct declared in this Article to be unlawful. However, this Article does
not modify or supersede any other law relating to damage to persons or
property, nor does it prevent a public institution of higher education from
establishing restrictions upon the availability or use of any building or
other facility owned, operated or controlled by the institution to preserve
their dedication to education, nor from establishing standards of
scholastic and behavioral conduct reasonably relevant to the missions,
processes and functions of the institution, nor from invoking appropriate
discipline or expulsion for violations of such standards.

(Source: P. A. 76‑1582.)

720 ILCS 5/21.2‑2

(720 ILCS 5/21.2‑2) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2‑2)

Sec. 21.2‑2.

A person commits interference with a public institution of higher
education when, on the campus of a public institution of higher education,
or at or in any building or other facility owned, operated or controlled by
the institution, without authority from the institution he, through force
or violence, actual or threatened:

(a) willfully denies to a trustee, employee, student or invitee of the
institution:

(1) Freedom of movement at such place; or

(2) Use of the property or facilities of the institution; or

(3) The right of ingress or egress to the property or facilities of the
institution; or

(b) willfully impedes, obstructs, interferes with or disrupts:

(1) the performance of institutional duties by a trustee or employee of
the institution; or

(2) the pursuit of educational activities, as determined or prescribed
by the institution, by a trustee, employee, student or invitee of the
institution; or

(c) knowingly occupies or remains in or at any building, property or
other facility owned, operated or controlled by the institution after due
notice to depart.

(Source: P. A. 76‑1582.)

720 ILCS 5/21.2‑3

(720 ILCS 5/21.2‑3) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2‑3)

Sec. 21.2‑3.

Nothing in this Article prevents lawful assembly of the trustees,
employees, students or invitees of a public institution of higher
education, or prevents orderly petition for redress of grievances.

(Source: P.A. 76‑1582.)

720 ILCS 5/21.2‑4

(720 ILCS 5/21.2‑4) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2‑4)

Sec. 21.2‑4.

Sentence.

A person convicted of violation of this Article commits a Class C
misdemeanor for the first offense and for a second or subsequent offense
commits a Class B misdemeanor.

(Source: P. A. 77‑2638.)

720 ILCS 5/21.2‑5

(720 ILCS 5/21.2‑5) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2‑5)

Sec. 21.2‑5.

For the purposes of this Article the words and phrases described in this
Section have the meanings designated in this Section, except when a
particular context clearly requires a different meaning.

"Public institution of higher education" means an educational
organization located in this State which provides an organized post‑high
school educational program, and which is supported in whole or in part by
appropriations of the General Assembly.

A person has received "due notice" if he, or the group of which he is a
part, has been given oral or written notice from an authorized
representative of the public institution of higher education in a manner
reasonably designated to inform him, or the group of which he is a part,
that he or they should cease such action or depart from such premises. The
notice may also be given by a printed or written notice forbidding entry
conspicuously posted or exhibited at the main entrance of the building or
other facility, or the forbidden part thereof.

"Force or violence" includes, but is not limited to, use of one's
person, individually or in concert with others, to impede access to or
movement within or otherwise to interfere with the conduct of the
authorized activities of the public institution of higher education, its
trustees, employees, students or invitees.

(Source: P. A. 76‑1582.)

720 ILCS 5/21.2‑6

(720 ILCS 5/21.2‑6) (from Ch. 38, par. 21.2‑6)

Sec. 21.2‑6.

If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or
circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other
provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without the
invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this
Act are declared severable.

(Source: P. A. 76‑1582.)