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92_SB2030
LRB9216007RCpk
1 AN ACT in relation to 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
5 changing Section 31-1 as follows:
6 (720 ILCS 5/31-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 31-1)
7 Sec. 31-1. Resisting or obstructing a peace officer or
8 correctional institution employee.
9 (a) A person who knowingly resists or obstructs the
10 performance by one known to the person to be a peace officer
11 or correctional institution employee of any authorized act
12 within his or her official capacity commits a Class A
13 misdemeanor.
14 (b) For purposes of this Section, "correctional
15 institution employee" means any person employed to supervise
16 and control inmates incarcerated in a penitentiary, State
17 farm, reformatory, prison, jail, house of correction, police
18 detention area, half-way house, or other institution or place
19 for the incarceration or custody of persons under sentence
20 for offenses or awaiting trial or sentence for offenses,
21 under arrest for an offense, a violation of probation, a
22 violation of parole, or a violation of mandatory supervised
23 release, or awaiting a bail setting hearing or preliminary
24 hearing.
25 (Source: P.A. 87-1198.)