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90_HB1368enr
720 ILCS 5/Art. 20.5 heading new
720 ILCS 5/20.5-5 new
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of
causing a catastrophe. Defines the offense as knowingly
causing a catastrophe by explosion, fire, flood, collapse of
a building, release of poison, radioactive material,
bacteria, virus, or other dangerous and difficult to confine
force or substance. Penalty is a Class X felony. Effective
immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by adding
2 Article 20.5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
6 adding Article 20.5 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 5/Art. 20.5 heading new)
8 ARTICLE 20.5. CAUSING A CATASTROPHE
9 (720 ILCS 5/20.5-5 new)
10 Sec. 20.5-5. Causing a catastrophe.
11 (a) A person commits the offense of causing a
12 catastrophe if he or she knowingly causes a catastrophe by
13 explosion, fire, flood, collapse of a building, release of
14 poison, radioactive material, bacteria, virus, or other
15 dangerous and difficult to confine force or substance.
16 (b) As used in this Section, "catastrophe" means serious
17 physical injury to 5 or more persons or substantial damage to
18 5 or more buildings or inhabitable structures or substantial
19 damage to a vital public facility that seriously impairs its
20 usefulness or operation; and "vital public facility" means a
21 facility that is necessary to ensure or protect the public
22 health, safety, or welfare, including but not limited to, a
23 hospital, law enforcement agency, fire department, private or
24 public utility company, national defense contractor, a
25 facility of the armed forces, or emergency services agency.
26 (c) Sentence. Causing a catastrophe is a Class X
27 felony.
28 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
29 becoming law.