State of Illinois
91^st General Assembly
Public Acts

Public Act 91-0335

HB2306 Enrolled                                LRB9101729RCcs

    AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code  of  1961  by  changing
Section 12-9.

    Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5.  The Criminal  Code  of  1961  is  amended  by
changing Section 12-9 as follows:

    (720 ILCS 5/12-9) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-9)
    Sec. 12-9.  Threatening public officials.
    (a)  A person commits the offense of threatening a public
official when:
         (1) that  person knowingly and willfully delivers or
    conveys, directly or indirectly, to a public official any
    telephone communication, letter, paper,  writing,  print,
    missive, or document containing a threat to take the life
    of  or  to  inflict  great  bodily  harm  upon the public
    official or a member of his immediate family and
         (2) the  threat  was   conveyed   because   of   the
    performance   or  nonperformance  of  some  public  duty,
    because of hostility of  the  person  making  the  threat
    toward  the status or position of the public official, or
    because of some other factor related  to  the  official's
    public existence.
    (b)  For  purposes of this Section: (1) "public official"
means a person who is elected to office in accordance with  a
statute   or   who   is  appointed  to  an  office  which  is
established, and the qualifications and duties of  which  are
prescribed,  by  statute,  to discharge a public duty for the
State or any of its political subdivisions or in the case  of
an  elective  office  any  person  who has filed the required
documents for nomination or election to such office;  "public
official"   includes   a  duly  appointed  assistant  State's
Attorney; (2) "immediate family" means  a  public  official's
spouse, child or children.
    (c)  Threatening a public official is a Class 3 4 felony.
(Source: P.A. 87-238.)