(720 ILCS 5/33A-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 33A-1)
Sec. 33A-1.
Legislative intent and definitions.
(a) Legislative findings. The legislature finds and declares the
following:
(1) The use of a dangerous weapon in the commission |
| of a felony offense poses a much greater threat to the public health, safety, and general welfare, than when a weapon is not used in the commission of the offense.
|
|
(2) Further, the use of a firearm greatly facilitates
|
| the commission of a criminal offense because of the more lethal nature of a firearm and the greater perceived threat produced in those confronted by a person wielding a firearm. Unlike other dangerous weapons such as knives and clubs, the use of a firearm in the commission of a criminal felony offense significantly escalates the threat and the potential for bodily harm, and the greater range of the firearm increases the potential for harm to more persons. Not only are the victims and bystanders at greater risk when a firearm is used, but also the law enforcement officers whose duty is to confront and apprehend the armed suspect.
|
|
(3) Current law does contain offenses involving the
|
| use or discharge of a gun toward or against a person, such as aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm, and reckless discharge of a firearm; however, the General Assembly has legislated greater penalties for the commission of a felony while in possession of a firearm because it deems such acts as more serious.
|
|
(b) Legislative intent.
(1) In order to deter the use of firearms in the
|
| commission of a felony offense, the General Assembly deems it appropriate for a greater penalty to be imposed when a firearm is used or discharged in the commission of an offense than the penalty imposed for using other types of weapons and for the penalty to increase on more serious offenses.
|
|
(2) With the additional elements of the discharge of
|
| a firearm and great bodily harm inflicted by a firearm being added to armed violence and other serious felony offenses, it is the intent of the General Assembly to punish those elements more severely during commission of a felony offense than when those elements stand alone as the act of the offender.
|
|
(3) It is the intent of the 91st General Assembly
|
| that should Public Act 88-680 be declared unconstitutional for a violation of Article 4, Section 8 of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois, the amendatory changes made by Public Act 88-680 to Article 33A of the Criminal Code of 1961 and which are set forth as law in this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly are hereby reenacted by this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly.
|
|
(c) Definitions.
(1) "Armed with a dangerous weapon". A person is
|
| considered armed with a dangerous weapon for purposes of this Article, when he or she carries on or about his or her person or is otherwise armed with a Category I, Category II, or Category III weapon.
|
|
(2) A Category I weapon is a handgun, sawed-off
|
| shotgun, sawed-off rifle, any other firearm small enough to be concealed upon the person, semiautomatic firearm, or machine gun. A Category II weapon is any other rifle, shotgun, spring gun, other firearm, stun gun or taser as defined in paragraph (a) of Section 24-1 of this Code, knife with a blade of at least 3 inches in length, dagger, dirk, switchblade knife, stiletto, axe, hatchet, or other deadly or dangerous weapon or instrument of like character. As used in this subsection (b) "semiautomatic firearm" means a repeating firearm that utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round and that requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.
|
|
(3) A Category III weapon is a bludgeon, black-jack,
|
| slungshot, sand-bag, sand-club, metal knuckles, billy, or other dangerous weapon of like character.
|
|
(Source: P.A. 91-404, eff. 1-1-00; 91-696, eff. 4-13-00.)
|
(720 ILCS 5/33A-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 33A-3)
Sec. 33A-3. Sentence.
(a) Violation of Section 33A-2(a) with a
Category I weapon is a Class X felony for which the defendant shall be
sentenced to a minimum term of imprisonment of 15 years.
(a-5) Violation of Section 33A-2(a) with a Category II weapon
is a Class X
felony for which the defendant shall be sentenced to a minimum term of
imprisonment of 10 years.
(b) Violation of Section 33A-2(a)
with a Category III weapon is a Class 2 felony or the felony
classification provided for the same act while unarmed, whichever
permits the greater penalty. A second or subsequent violation of
Section 33A-2(a) with a Category III weapon is a Class 1 felony
or the felony classification provided for the same act while unarmed, whichever
permits the greater penalty.
(b-5) Violation of Section 33A-2(b) with a firearm that is a Category I or
Category II
weapon is a Class X felony for which the defendant shall be sentenced to a
minimum term of imprisonment of 20 years.
(b-10) Violation of Section 33A-2(c) with a firearm that is a Category I or
Category II
weapon is a Class X felony for which the defendant shall be sentenced to a
term of imprisonment of not less than 25 years nor more than 40 years.
(c) Unless sentencing under subsection (a) of Section 5-4.5-95 of the Unified Code of Corrections (730 ILCS 5/5-4.5-95) is applicable, any person who
violates subsection (a) or (b) of Section 33A-2 with a
firearm, when that person has been convicted in any state or federal court
of 3 or more of the following offenses: treason, first degree murder, second
degree murder, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated
criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual assault,
robbery, burglary, arson, kidnaping, aggravated battery resulting in great
bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement, a violation of the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, or a violation of Section
401(a) of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act,
when the third offense was committed after conviction on the second, the second
offense was committed after conviction on the first, and the violation of
Section 33A-2 was committed after conviction on the third, shall be sentenced
to a term of imprisonment of not less than 25 years nor more than 50
years.
(c-5) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b-10) or (c) of this
Section, a person who violates Section 33A-2(a) with a firearm that is a
Category I weapon or
Section 33A-2(b) in any school, in any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted
by a school to transport students to or from school or a school related
activity, or on the real property comprising any school or public park, and
where
the offense was related to the activities of an organized gang, shall be
sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than the term set forth in
subsection (a) or (b-5) of this Section, whichever is applicable, and not more
than 30 years. For the purposes of this subsection (c-5), "organized gang" has
the meaning ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism
Omnibus Prevention Act.
(d) For armed violence based upon a predicate offense listed in this
subsection (d) the court
shall enter the sentence for armed violence to run consecutively to the
sentence imposed for the predicate offense. The offenses covered by this
provision are:
(i) solicitation of murder,
(ii) solicitation of murder for hire,
(iii) heinous battery as described in Section 12-4.1 |
| or subdivision (a)(2) of Section 12-3.05,
|
|
(iv) aggravated battery of a senior citizen as
|
| described in Section 12-4.6 or subdivision (a)(4) of Section 12-3.05,
|
|
(v) (blank),
(vi) a violation of subsection (g) of Section 5 of
|
| the Cannabis Control Act,
|
|
(vii) cannabis trafficking,
(viii) a violation of subsection (a) of Section 401
|
| of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act,
|
|
(ix) controlled substance trafficking involving a
|
| Class X felony amount of controlled substance under Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act,
|
|
(x) calculated criminal drug conspiracy,
(xi) streetgang criminal drug conspiracy, or
(xii) a violation of the Methamphetamine Control and
|
| Community Protection Act.
|
|
(Source: P.A. 95-688, eff. 10-23-07; 95-1052, eff. 7-1-09; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11 .)
|
(720 ILCS 5/33G-3) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 103-1071 ) (Section scheduled to be repealed on June 1, 2025) Sec. 33G-3. Definitions. As used in this Article: (a) "Another state" means any State of the United States (other than the State of Illinois), or the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or possession of the United States, or any political subdivision, or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof. (b) "Enterprise" includes: (1) any partnership, corporation, association, |
| business or charitable trust, or other legal entity; and
|
|
(2) any group of individuals or other legal entities,
|
| or any combination thereof, associated in fact although not itself a legal entity. An association in fact must be held together by a common purpose of engaging in a course of conduct, and it may be associated together for purposes that are both legal and illegal. An association in fact must:
|
|
(A) have an ongoing organization or structure,
|
| either formal or informal;
|
|
(B) the various members of the group must
|
| function as a continuing unit, even if the group changes membership by gaining or losing members over time; and
|
|
(C) have an ascertainable structure distinct from
|
| that inherent in the conduct of a pattern of predicate activity.
|
|
As used in this Article, "enterprise" includes licit and illicit enterprises.
(c) "Labor organization" includes any organization, labor union, craft union, or any voluntary unincorporated association designed to further the cause of the rights of union labor that is constituted for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or apprenticeships or applications for apprenticeships, or of other mutual aid or protection in connection with employment, including apprenticeships or applications for apprenticeships.
(d) "Operation or management" means directing or carrying out the enterprise's affairs and is limited to any person who knowingly serves as a leader, organizer, operator, manager, director, supervisor, financier, advisor, recruiter, supplier, or enforcer of an enterprise in violation of this Article.
(e) "Predicate activity" means any act that is a Class 2 felony or higher and constitutes a violation or violations of any of the following provisions of the laws of the State of Illinois (as amended or revised as of the date the activity occurred or, in the instance of a continuing offense, the date that charges under this Article are filed in a particular matter in the State of Illinois) or any act under the law of another jurisdiction for an offense that could be charged as a Class 2 felony or higher in this State:
(1) under the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal
|
| Code of 2012: 8-1.2 (solicitation of murder for hire), 9-1 (first degree murder), 9-3.3 (drug-induced homicide), 10-1 (kidnapping), 10-2 (aggravated kidnapping), 10-3.1 (aggravated unlawful restraint), 10-4 (forcible detention), 10-5(b)(10) (child abduction), 10-9 (trafficking in persons, involuntary servitude, and related offenses), 11-1.20 (criminal sexual assault), 11-1.30 (aggravated criminal sexual assault), 11-1.40 (predatory criminal sexual assault of a child), 11-1.60 (aggravated criminal sexual abuse), 11-6 (indecent solicitation of a child), 11-6.5 (indecent solicitation of an adult), 11-14.3(a)(2)(A) and (a)(2)(B) (promoting prostitution), 11-14.4 (promoting juvenile prostitution), 11-18.1 (patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution; patronizing a juvenile prostitute), 12-3.05 (aggravated battery), 12-6.4 (criminal street gang recruitment), 12-6.5 (compelling organization membership of persons), 12-7.3 (stalking), 12-7.4 (aggravated stalking), 12-7.5 (cyberstalking), 12-11 or 19-6 (home invasion), 12-11.1 or 18-6 (vehicular invasion), 18-1 (robbery; aggravated robbery), 18-2 (armed robbery), 18-3 (vehicular hijacking), 18-4 (aggravated vehicular hijacking), 18-5 (aggravated robbery), 19-1 (burglary), 19-3 (residential burglary), 20-1 (arson; residential arson; place of worship arson), 20-1.1 (aggravated arson), 20-1.2 (residential arson), 20-1.3 (place of worship arson), 24-1.2 (aggravated discharge of a firearm), 24-1.2-5 (aggravated discharge of a machine gun or silencer equipped firearm), 24-1.8 (unlawful possession of a firearm by a street gang member), 24-3.2 (unlawful discharge of firearm projectiles), 24-3.9 (aggravated possession of a stolen firearm), 24-3A (gunrunning), 26-5 or 48-1 (dog-fighting), 29D-14.9 (terrorism), 29D-15 (soliciting support for terrorism), 29D-15.1 (causing a catastrophe), 29D-15.2 (possession of a deadly substance), 29D-20 (making a terrorist threat), 29D-25 (falsely making a terrorist threat), 29D-29.9 (material support for terrorism), 29D-35 (hindering prosecution of terrorism), 31A-1.2 (unauthorized contraband in a penal institution), or 33A-3 (armed violence);
|
|
(2) under the Cannabis Control Act: Sections 5
|
| (manufacture or delivery of cannabis), 5.1 (cannabis trafficking), or 8 (production or possession of cannabis plants), provided the offense either involves more than 500 grams of any substance containing cannabis or involves more than 50 cannabis sativa plants;
|
|
(3) under the Illinois Controlled Substances Act:
|
| Sections 401 (manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance), 401.1 (controlled substance trafficking), 405 (calculated criminal drug conspiracy), or 405.2 (street gang criminal drug conspiracy); or
|
|
(4) under the Methamphetamine Control and Community
|
| Protection Act: Sections 15 (methamphetamine manufacturing), or 55 (methamphetamine delivery).
|
|
(f) "Pattern of predicate activity" means:
(1) at least 3 occurrences of predicate activity that
|
| are in some way related to each other and that have continuity between them, and that are separate acts. Acts are related to each other if they are not isolated events, including if they have similar purposes, or results, or participants, or victims, or are committed a similar way, or have other similar distinguishing characteristics, or are part of the affairs of the same enterprise. There is continuity between acts if they are ongoing over a substantial period, or if they are part of the regular way some entity does business or conducts its affairs; and
|
|
(2) which occurs after the effective date of this
|
| Article, and the last of which falls within 3 years (excluding any period of imprisonment) after the first occurrence of predicate activity.
|
|
(g) "Unlawful death" includes the following offenses: under the Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012: Sections 9-1 (first degree murder) or 9-2 (second degree murder).
(Source: P.A. 97-686, eff. 6-11-12; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13 .)
(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 103-1071 )
(Section scheduled to be repealed on June 1, 2025)
Sec. 33G-3. Definitions. As used in this Article:
(a) "Another state" means any State of the United States (other than the State of Illinois), or the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or possession of the United States, or any political subdivision, or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof.
(b) "Enterprise" includes:
(1) any partnership, corporation, association,
|
| business or charitable trust, or other legal entity; and
|
|
(2) any group of individuals or other legal entities,
|
| or any combination thereof, associated in fact although not itself a legal entity. An association in fact must be held together by a common purpose of engaging in a course of conduct, and it may be associated together for purposes that are both legal and illegal. An association in fact must:
|
|
(A) have an ongoing organization or structure,
|
| either formal or informal;
|
|
(B) the various members of the group must
|
| function as a continuing unit, even if the group changes membership by gaining or losing members over time; and
|
|
(C) have an ascertainable structure distinct from
|
| that inherent in the conduct of a pattern of predicate activity.
|
|
As used in this Article, "enterprise" includes licit and illicit enterprises.
(c) "Labor organization" includes any organization, labor union, craft union, or any voluntary unincorporated association designed to further the cause of the rights of union labor that is constituted for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or apprenticeships or applications for apprenticeships, or of other mutual aid or protection in connection with employment, including apprenticeships or applications for apprenticeships.
(d) "Operation or management" means directing or carrying out the enterprise's affairs and is limited to any person who knowingly serves as a leader, organizer, operator, manager, director, supervisor, financier, advisor, recruiter, supplier, or enforcer of an enterprise in violation of this Article.
(e) "Predicate activity" means any act that is a Class 2 felony or higher and constitutes a violation or violations of any of the following provisions of the laws of the State of Illinois (as amended or revised as of the date the activity occurred or, in the instance of a continuing offense, the date that charges under this Article are filed in a particular matter in the State of Illinois) or any act under the law of another jurisdiction for an offense that could be charged as a Class 2 felony or higher in this State:
(1) under the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal
|
| Code of 2012: 8-1.2 (solicitation of murder for hire), 9-1 (first degree murder), 9-3.3 (drug-induced homicide), 10-1 (kidnapping), 10-2 (aggravated kidnapping), 10-3.1 (aggravated unlawful restraint), 10-4 (forcible detention), 10-5(b)(10) (child abduction), 10-9 (trafficking in persons, involuntary servitude, and related offenses), 11-1.20 (criminal sexual assault), 11-1.30 (aggravated criminal sexual assault), 11-1.40 (predatory criminal sexual assault of a child), 11-1.60 (aggravated criminal sexual abuse), 11-6 (indecent solicitation of a child), 11-6.5 (indecent solicitation of an adult), 11-14.3(a)(2)(A) and (a)(2)(B) (promoting prostitution), 11-14.4 (promoting commercial sexual exploitation of a child), 11-18.1 (patronizing a sexually exploited child; patronizing a sexually exploited child), 12-3.05 (aggravated battery), 12-6.4 (criminal street gang recruitment), 12-6.5 (compelling organization membership of persons), 12-7.3 (stalking), 12-7.4 (aggravated stalking), 12-7.5 (cyberstalking), 12-11 or 19-6 (home invasion), 12-11.1 or 18-6 (vehicular invasion), 18-1 (robbery; aggravated robbery), 18-2 (armed robbery), 18-3 (vehicular hijacking), 18-4 (aggravated vehicular hijacking), 18-5 (aggravated robbery), 19-1 (burglary), 19-3 (residential burglary), 20-1 (arson; residential arson; place of worship arson), 20-1.1 (aggravated arson), 20-1.2 (residential arson), 20-1.3 (place of worship arson), 24-1.2 (aggravated discharge of a firearm), 24-1.2-5 (aggravated discharge of a machine gun or silencer equipped firearm), 24-1.8 (unlawful possession of a firearm by a street gang member), 24-3.2 (unlawful discharge of firearm projectiles), 24-3.9 (aggravated possession of a stolen firearm), 24-3A (gunrunning), 26-5 or 48-1 (dog-fighting), 29D-14.9 (terrorism), 29D-15 (soliciting support for terrorism), 29D-15.1 (causing a catastrophe), 29D-15.2 (possession of a deadly substance), 29D-20 (making a terrorist threat), 29D-25 (falsely making a terrorist threat), 29D-29.9 (material support for terrorism), 29D-35 (hindering prosecution of terrorism), 31A-1.2 (unauthorized contraband in a penal institution), or 33A-3 (armed violence);
|
|
(2) under the Cannabis Control Act: Sections 5
|
| (manufacture or delivery of cannabis), 5.1 (cannabis trafficking), or 8 (production or possession of cannabis plants), provided the offense either involves more than 500 grams of any substance containing cannabis or involves more than 50 cannabis sativa plants;
|
|
(3) under the Illinois Controlled Substances Act:
|
| Sections 401 (manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance), 401.1 (controlled substance trafficking), 405 (calculated criminal drug conspiracy), or 405.2 (street gang criminal drug conspiracy); or
|
|
(4) under the Methamphetamine Control and Community
|
| Protection Act: Sections 15 (methamphetamine manufacturing), or 55 (methamphetamine delivery).
|
|
(f) "Pattern of predicate activity" means:
(1) at least 3 occurrences of predicate activity that
|
| are in some way related to each other and that have continuity between them, and that are separate acts. Acts are related to each other if they are not isolated events, including if they have similar purposes, or results, or participants, or victims, or are committed a similar way, or have other similar distinguishing characteristics, or are part of the affairs of the same enterprise. There is continuity between acts if they are ongoing over a substantial period, or if they are part of the regular way some entity does business or conducts its affairs; and
|
|
(2) which occurs after the effective date of this
|
| Article, and the last of which falls within 3 years (excluding any period of imprisonment) after the first occurrence of predicate activity.
|
|
(g) "Unlawful death" includes the following offenses: under the Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012: Sections 9-1 (first degree murder) or 9-2 (second degree murder).
(Source: P.A. 103-1071, eff. 7-1-25.)
|
(720 ILCS 5/33G-4) (Section scheduled to be repealed on June 1, 2025) Sec. 33G-4. Prohibited activities. (a) It is unlawful for any person, who intentionally participates in the operation or management of an enterprise, directly or indirectly, to: (1) knowingly do so, directly or indirectly, through |
| a pattern of predicate activity;
|
|
(2) knowingly cause another to violate this Article;
|
|
(3) knowingly conspire to violate this Article.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any prosecution for a conspiracy to violate this Article, no person may be convicted of that conspiracy unless an overt act in furtherance of the agreement is alleged and proved to have been committed by him, her, or by a coconspirator, but the commission of the overt act need not itself constitute predicate activity underlying the specific violation of this Article.
(b) It is unlawful for any person knowingly to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, through a pattern of predicate activity any interest in, or control of, to any degree, any enterprise, real property, or personal property of any character, including money.
(c) Nothing in this Article shall be construed as to make unlawful any activity which is arguably protected or prohibited by the National Labor Relations Act, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, or the Railway Labor Act.
(d) The following organizations, and any officer or agent of those organizations acting in his or her official capacity as an officer or agent, may not be sued in civil actions under this Article:
(1) a labor organization; or
(2) any business defined in Division D, E, F, G, H,
|
| or I of the Standard Industrial Classification as established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.
|
|
(e) Any person prosecuted under this Article may be convicted and sentenced either:
(1) for the offense of conspiring to violate this
|
| Article, and for any other particular offense or offenses that may be one of the objects of a conspiracy to violate this Article; or
|
|
(2) for the offense of violating this Article, and
|
| for any other particular offense or offenses that may constitute predicate activity underlying a violation of this Article.
|
|
(f) The State's Attorney, or a person designated by law to act for him or her and to perform his or her duties during his or her absence or disability, may authorize a criminal prosecution under this Article. Prior to any State's Attorney authorizing a criminal prosecution under this Article, the State's Attorney shall adopt rules and procedures governing the investigation and prosecution of any offense enumerated in this Article. These rules and procedures shall set forth guidelines which require that any potential prosecution under this Article be subject to an internal approval process in which it is determined, in a written prosecution memorandum prepared by the State's Attorney's Office, that (1) a prosecution under this Article is necessary to ensure that the indictment adequately reflects the nature and extent of the criminal conduct involved in a way that prosecution only on the underlying predicate activity would not, and (2) a prosecution under this Article would provide the basis for an appropriate sentence under all the circumstances of the case in a way that a prosecution only on the underlying predicate activity would not. No State's Attorney, or person designated by law to act for him or her and to perform his or her duties during his or her absence or disability, may authorize a criminal prosecution under this Article prior to reviewing the prepared written prosecution memorandum. However, any internal memorandum shall remain protected from disclosure under the attorney-client privilege, and this provision does not create any enforceable right on behalf of any defendant or party, nor does it subject the exercise of prosecutorial discretion to judicial review.
(g) A labor organization and any officer or agent of that organization acting in his or her capacity as an officer or agent of the labor organization are exempt from prosecution under this Article.
(Source: P.A. 97-686, eff. 6-11-12; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13 .)
|