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1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 12-4 as follows:
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6 | (720 ILCS 5/12-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-4)
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7 | Sec. 12-4. Aggravated Battery.
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8 | (a) A person who commits the offense of battery resulting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | in substantial risk of death or causes serious permanent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | disfigurement or impairment of a bodily function , in committing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | a battery, intentionally or knowingly
causes great bodily harm, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | or permanent disability or disfigurement commits
aggravated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | battery.
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14 | (b) In committing a battery, a person commits aggravated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | battery if he or
she:
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16 | (1) Uses a deadly weapon other than by the discharge of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | a firearm;
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18 | (2) Is hooded, robed or masked, in such manner as to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | conceal his
identity;
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20 | (3) Knows that the individual harmed was acting in the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | course of his or her professional or official duties in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | providing a function of health, safety, or general welfare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | to another or the public as a whole
Knows the individual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | harmed to be a teacher or other person
employed in any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | school and such teacher or other employee is upon the
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26 | grounds of a school or grounds adjacent thereto, or is in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | any part of a
building used for school purposes ;
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28 | (4) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | supervisor, director,
instructor or other person employed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | in any park district and such
supervisor, director, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | instructor or other employee is upon the grounds
of the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | park or grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a |
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1 | building
used for park purposes ;
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2 | (5) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be a | ||||||
3 | caseworker, investigator, or
other person employed by the | ||||||
4 | State Department of Public Aid, a County
Department of | ||||||
5 | Public Aid, or the Department of Human Services (acting as
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6 | successor to the Illinois Department of Public Aid under | ||||||
7 | the Department of
Human Services Act) and such caseworker, | ||||||
8 | investigator, or other
person is upon the grounds of a | ||||||
9 | public aid office or grounds adjacent
thereto, or is in any | ||||||
10 | part of a building used for public aid purposes,
or upon | ||||||
11 | the grounds of a home of a public aid applicant, recipient, | ||||||
12 | or
any other person being interviewed or investigated in | ||||||
13 | the employee's
discharge of his duties, or on grounds | ||||||
14 | adjacent thereto, or is in any
part of a building in which | ||||||
15 | the applicant, recipient, or other such
person resides or | ||||||
16 | is located ;
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17 | (6) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be a peace | ||||||
18 | officer, a community
policing volunteer, a correctional | ||||||
19 | institution employee, an employee
of the Department of | ||||||
20 | Human Services supervising or controlling sexually
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21 | dangerous persons or sexually violent persons, or a fireman | ||||||
22 | while
such officer, volunteer, employee or fireman is | ||||||
23 | engaged in the execution of
any official duties including | ||||||
24 | arrest or attempted arrest, or to prevent the
officer, | ||||||
25 | volunteer, employee or fireman from performing official | ||||||
26 | duties, or in
retaliation for the officer, volunteer, | ||||||
27 | employee or fireman performing official
duties, and the | ||||||
28 | battery is committed other than by the discharge of a | ||||||
29 | firearm ;
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30 | (7) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be an | ||||||
31 | emergency medical technician -
ambulance, emergency | ||||||
32 | medical technician - intermediate, emergency medical
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33 | technician - paramedic, ambulance driver, other medical | ||||||
34 | assistance, first
aid personnel, or hospital personnel | ||||||
35 | engaged in the
performance of any of his or her official | ||||||
36 | duties,
or to prevent the emergency medical technician - |
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1 | ambulance, emergency medical
technician - intermediate, | ||||||
2 | emergency medical technician - paramedic, ambulance
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3 | driver, other medical assistance, first aid personnel, or
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4 | hospital personnel from performing
official duties, or in | ||||||
5 | retaliation for performing official duties ;
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6 | (8) (Blank)
Is, or the person battered is, on or about | ||||||
7 | a public way, public
property or public place of | ||||||
8 | accommodation or amusement ;
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9 | (9) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be the | ||||||
10 | driver, operator, employee
or passenger of any | ||||||
11 | transportation facility or system engaged in the
business | ||||||
12 | of transportation of the public for hire and the individual
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13 | assaulted is then performing in such capacity or then using | ||||||
14 | such public
transportation as a passenger or using any area | ||||||
15 | of any description
designated by the transportation | ||||||
16 | facility or system as a vehicle
boarding, departure, or | ||||||
17 | transfer location ;
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18 | (10) Knowingly and without legal justification and by | ||||||
19 | any means
causes bodily harm to an individual of 60 years | ||||||
20 | of age or older;
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21 | (11) Knows the individual harmed is pregnant;
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22 | (12) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be a judge | ||||||
23 | whom the
person intended to harm as a result of the judge's | ||||||
24 | performance of his or
her official duties as a judge ;
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25 | (13) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be an | ||||||
26 | employee of the Illinois
Department of Children and Family | ||||||
27 | Services engaged in the performance of
his authorized | ||||||
28 | duties as such employee ;
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29 | (14) Knows the individual harmed to be a person who is | ||||||
30 | physically
handicapped;
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31 | (15) Knowingly and without legal justification and by | ||||||
32 | any means causes
bodily harm to a merchant who detains the | ||||||
33 | person for an alleged commission of
retail theft under | ||||||
34 | Section 16A-5 of this Code.
In this item (15), "merchant" | ||||||
35 | has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
16A-2.4 of this | ||||||
36 | Code;
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1 | (16) (Blank)
Is, or the person battered is, in any | ||||||
2 | building or other structure
used to provide shelter or | ||||||
3 | other services to victims or to the dependent
children of | ||||||
4 | victims of domestic violence pursuant to the Illinois | ||||||
5 | Domestic
Violence Act of 1986 or the Domestic Violence | ||||||
6 | Shelters Act, or the person
battered is within 500 feet of | ||||||
7 | such a building or other structure while going
to or from | ||||||
8 | such a building or other structure. "Domestic violence" has | ||||||
9 | the
meaning ascribed to it in Section 103 of the Illinois | ||||||
10 | Domestic Violence Act of
1986. "Building or other structure | ||||||
11 | used to provide shelter" has the meaning
ascribed to | ||||||
12 | "shelter" in Section 1 of the Domestic Violence Shelters | ||||||
13 | Act ; or
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14 | (17) (Blank)
Knows the individual harmed to be an | ||||||
15 | employee of a police or
sheriff's department engaged in the | ||||||
16 | performance of his or her official duties
as such employee .
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17 | For the purpose of paragraph (14) of subsection (b) of this | ||||||
18 | Section, a
physically handicapped person is a person who | ||||||
19 | suffers from a permanent and
disabling physical | ||||||
20 | characteristic, resulting from disease, injury,
functional | ||||||
21 | disorder or congenital condition.
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22 | (c) A person who administers to an individual or causes him | ||||||
23 | to take,
without his consent or by threat or deception, and for | ||||||
24 | other than
medical purposes, any intoxicating, poisonous, | ||||||
25 | stupefying, narcotic,
anesthetic, or controlled substance | ||||||
26 | commits aggravated battery.
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27 | (d) A person who knowingly gives to another person any food | ||||||
28 | that
contains any substance or object that is intended to cause | ||||||
29 | physical
injury if eaten, commits aggravated battery.
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30 | (d-3) (Blank)
A person commits aggravated battery when he | ||||||
31 | or she knowingly and
without lawful justification shines or | ||||||
32 | flashes a laser gunsight or other laser
device that is attached | ||||||
33 | or affixed to a firearm, or used in concert with a
firearm, so | ||||||
34 | that the laser beam strikes upon or against the person of | ||||||
35 | another .
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36 | (d-5) An inmate of a penal institution or a sexually |
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1 | dangerous person or a
sexually violent person in the custody of | ||||||
2 | the Department of Human Services
who causes or attempts to | ||||||
3 | cause a
correctional employee of the penal institution or an | ||||||
4 | employee of the
Department of Human Services to come into | ||||||
5 | contact with blood,
seminal fluid, urine, or feces, by | ||||||
6 | throwing, tossing, or expelling that fluid
or material commits | ||||||
7 | aggravated battery. For purposes of this subsection (d-5),
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8 | "correctional employee" means a person who is employed by a | ||||||
9 | penal institution.
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10 | (e) Sentence.
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11 | Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony, except a violation | ||||||
12 | of subsection (a)
is a Class 2 felony when the person knows the | ||||||
13 | individual harmed to be a peace
officer engaged in the | ||||||
14 | execution of any of his or her official duties, or the
battery | ||||||
15 | is to prevent the officer from performing his or her official | ||||||
16 | duties,
or in retaliation for the officer performing his or her | ||||||
17 | official duties.
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18 | (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-516, eff. 1-1-02; 92-841, | ||||||
19 | eff.
8-22-02; 92-865, eff. 1-3-03; 93-83, eff. 7-2-03.)
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