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1     AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing
5 Section 12-2 as follows:
 
6     (720 ILCS 5/12-2)  (from Ch. 38, par. 12-2)
7     Sec. 12-2. Aggravated assault.
8     (a) A person commits an aggravated assault, when, in
9 committing an assault, he:
10         (1) Uses a deadly weapon or any device manufactured and
11     designed to be substantially similar in appearance to a
12     firearm, other than by discharging a firearm in the
13     direction of another person, a peace officer, a person
14     summoned or directed by a peace officer, a correctional
15     officer or a fireman or in the direction of a vehicle
16     occupied by another person, a peace officer, a person
17     summoned or directed by a peace officer, a correctional
18     officer or a fireman while the officer or fireman is
19     engaged in the execution of any of his official duties, or
20     to prevent the officer or fireman from performing his
21     official duties, or in retaliation for the officer or
22     fireman performing his official duties;
23         (2) Is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to
24     conceal his identity or any device manufactured and
25     designed to be substantially similar in appearance to a
26     firearm;
27         (3) Knows the individual assaulted to be a teacher or
28     other person employed in any school and such teacher or
29     other employee is upon the grounds of a school or grounds
30     adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used for
31     school purposes;
32         (4) Knows the individual assaulted to be a supervisor,

 

 

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1     director, instructor or other person employed in any park
2     district and such supervisor, director, instructor or
3     other employee is upon the grounds of the park or grounds
4     adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building used for
5     park purposes;
6         (5) Knows the individual assaulted to be a caseworker,
7     investigator, or other person employed by the State
8     Department of Public Aid, a County Department of Public
9     Aid, or the Department of Human Services (acting as
10     successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under
11     the Department of Human Services Act) and such caseworker,
12     investigator, or other person is upon the grounds of a
13     public aid office or grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any
14     part of a building used for public aid purposes, or upon
15     the grounds of a home of a public aid applicant, recipient
16     or any other person being interviewed or investigated in
17     the employees' discharge of his duties, or on grounds
18     adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building in which
19     the applicant, recipient, or other such person resides or
20     is located;
21         (6) Knows the individual assaulted to be a peace
22     officer, or a community policing volunteer, or a fireman
23     while the officer or fireman is engaged in the execution of
24     any of his official duties, or to prevent the officer,
25     community policing volunteer, or fireman from performing
26     his official duties, or in retaliation for the officer,
27     community policing volunteer, or fireman performing his
28     official duties, and the assault is committed other than by
29     the discharge of a firearm in the direction of the officer
30     or fireman or in the direction of a vehicle occupied by the
31     officer or fireman;
32         (7) Knows the individual assaulted to be an emergency
33     medical technician - ambulance, emergency medical
34     technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
35     paramedic, ambulance driver or other medical assistance or
36     first aid personnel engaged in the execution of any of his

 

 

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1     official duties, or to prevent the emergency medical
2     technician - ambulance, emergency medical technician -
3     intermediate, emergency medical technician - paramedic,
4     ambulance driver, or other medical assistance or first aid
5     personnel from performing his official duties, or in
6     retaliation for the emergency medical technician -
7     ambulance, emergency medical technician - intermediate,
8     emergency medical technician - paramedic, ambulance
9     driver, or other medical assistance or first aid personnel
10     performing his official duties;
11         (8) Knows the individual assaulted to be the driver,
12     operator, employee or passenger of any transportation
13     facility or system engaged in the business of
14     transportation of the public for hire and the individual
15     assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then using
16     such public transportation as a passenger or using any area
17     of any description designated by the transportation
18     facility or system as a vehicle boarding, departure, or
19     transfer location;
20         (9) Or the individual assaulted is on or about a public
21     way, public property, or public place of accommodation or
22     amusement;
23         (10) Knows the individual assaulted to be an employee
24     of the State of Illinois, a municipal corporation therein
25     or a political subdivision thereof, engaged in the
26     performance of his authorized duties as such employee;
27         (11) Knowingly and without legal justification,
28     commits an assault on a physically handicapped person;
29         (12) Knowingly and without legal justification,
30     commits an assault on a person 60 years of age or older;
31         (13) Discharges a firearm;
32         (14) Knows the individual assaulted to be a
33     correctional officer, while the officer is engaged in the
34     execution of any of his or her official duties, or to
35     prevent the officer from performing his or her official
36     duties, or in retaliation for the officer performing his or

 

 

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1     her official duties;
2         (15) Knows the individual assaulted to be a
3     correctional employee or an employee of the Department of
4     Human Services supervising or controlling sexually
5     dangerous persons or sexually violent persons, while the
6     employee is engaged in the execution of any of his or her
7     official duties, or to prevent the employee from performing
8     his or her official duties, or in retaliation for the
9     employee performing his or her official duties, and the
10     assault is committed other than by the discharge of a
11     firearm in the direction of the employee or in the
12     direction of a vehicle occupied by the employee; or
13         (16) Knows the individual assaulted to be an employee
14     of a police or sheriff's department engaged in the
15     performance of his or her official duties as such employee;
16     or .
17         (17) Knows the individual assaulted to be a sports
18     official or coach at any level of competition and the act
19     causing the assault to the sports official or coach
20     occurred within an athletic facility or an indoor or
21     outdoor playing field or within the immediate vicinity of
22     the athletic facility or an indoor or outdoor playing field
23     at which the sports official or coach was an active
24     participant in the athletic contest held at the athletic
25     facility. For the purposes of this paragraph (17), "sports
26     official" means a person at an athletic contest who
27     enforces the rules of the contest, such as an umpire or
28     referee; and "coach" means a person recognized as a coach
29     by the sanctioning authority that conducted the athletic
30     contest.
31     (a-5) A person commits an aggravated assault when he or she
32 knowingly and without lawful justification shines or flashes a
33 laser gunsight or other laser device that is attached or
34 affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a firearm, so
35 that the laser beam strikes near or in the immediate vicinity
36 of any person.

 

 

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1     (b) Sentence.
2     Aggravated assault as defined in paragraphs (1) through (5)
3 and (8) through (12) and (17) of subsection (a) of this Section
4 is a Class A misdemeanor. Aggravated assault as defined in
5 paragraphs (13), (14), and (15) of subsection (a) of this
6 Section and as defined in subsection (a-5) of this Section is a
7 Class 4 felony. Aggravated assault as defined in paragraphs
8 (6), (7), and (16) of subsection (a) of this Section is a Class
9 A misdemeanor if a firearm is not used in the commission of the
10 assault. Aggravated assault as defined in paragraphs (6), (7),
11 and (16) of subsection (a) of this Section is a Class 4 felony
12 if a firearm is used in the commission of the assault.
13 (Source: P.A. 91-672, eff. 1-1-00; 92-841, eff. 8-22-02;
14 92-865, eff. 1-3-03; revised 1-9-03.)