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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing
5Section 12-6.4 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/12-6.4)
7    Sec. 12-6.4. Criminal street gang recruitment on school
8grounds, or public property adjacent to school grounds, or park
9district property and criminal street gang recruitment of a
10minor.
11    (a) A person commits the offense of criminal street gang
12recruitment on school grounds, or public property adjacent to
13school grounds, or park district property, when on school
14grounds, or public property adjacent to school grounds, or park
15district property, he or she threatens the use of physical
16force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or induce another person to
17join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or conspires
18to do so.
19    (a-5) A person commits the offense of criminal street gang
20recruitment of a minor when he or she threatens the use of
21physical force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or induce another
22person to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or
23conspires to do so, whether or not such threat is communicated

 

 

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1in person, by means of the Internet, or by means of a
2telecommunications device.
3    (b) Sentence. Criminal street gang recruitment on school
4grounds, or public property adjacent to school grounds, or park
5district property is a Class 1 felony and criminal street gang
6recruitment of a minor is a Class 1 felony.
7    (c) In this Section:
8        "Criminal street gang" has the meaning ascribed to it
9    in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus
10    Prevention Act.
11        "School grounds" means the building or buildings or
12    real property comprising a public or private elementary or
13    secondary school, community college, college, or
14    university and includes a school yard, school playing
15    field, or school playground.
16        "Minor" means any person under 18 years of age.
17        "Internet" means an interactive computer service or
18    system or an information service, system, or access
19    software provider that provides or enables computer access
20    by multiple users to a computer server, and includes, but
21    is not limited to, an information service, system, or
22    access software provider that provides access to a network
23    system commonly known as the Internet, or any comparable
24    system or service and also includes, but is not limited to,
25    a World Wide Web page, newsgroup, message board, mailing
26    list, or chat area on any interactive computer service or

 

 

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1    system or other online service.
2        "Telecommunications device" means a device that is
3    capable of receiving or transmitting speech, data,
4    signals, text, images, sounds, codes, or other information
5    including, but not limited to, paging devices, telephones,
6    and cellular and mobile telephones.
7(Source: P.A. 96-199, eff. 1-1-10.)