96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB0140

 

Introduced 1/30/2009, by Sen. Martin A. Sandoval

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/Art. 48 heading new
720 ILCS 5/48-1 new
720 ILCS 5/48-5 new
720 ILCS 5/48-10 new

    Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the Gang-related Crimes Law. Creates the offense of active participation in a criminal street gang. Provides that a person commits the offense who actively participates in any criminal street gang with knowledge that its members engage in or have engaged in a course or pattern of criminal gang activity, and who willfully promotes, furthers, assists, or benefits from any felonious criminal conduct by members of that criminal street gang. Provides that a person who commits active participation in a criminal street gang is guilty of conspiracy to commit the felonious conduct of the criminal street gang. Creates the offense of disorderly promotion of a criminal street gang. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly speaks a gang-related name or flashes a gang-related sign or symbol in such an unreasonable manner so as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace. Provides that a violation is a Class C misdemeanor.


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CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning 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 adding
5 Article 48 as follows:
 
6     (720 ILCS 5/Art. 48 heading new)
7
ARTICLE 48. GANG-RELATED CRIMES

 
8     (720 ILCS 5/48-1 new)
9     Sec. 48-1. Short title. This Article may be cited as the
10 Gang-related Crimes Law.
 
11     (720 ILCS 5/48-5 new)
12     Sec. 48-5. Active participation in a criminal street gang.
13     (a) A person commits active participation in a criminal
14 street gang who actively participates in any criminal street
15 gang with knowledge that its members engage in or have engaged
16 in a course or pattern of criminal gang activity, and who
17 willfully promotes, furthers, assists, or benefits from any
18 felonious criminal conduct by members of that criminal street
19 gang. A person who commits active participation in a criminal
20 street gang is guilty of conspiracy to commit the felonious
21 conduct of the criminal street gang.

 

 

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1     (b) Sentence. A person convicted of active participation in
2 a criminal street gang may be sentenced in accordance with
3 Section 8-2 of this Code.
4     (c) In this Section, "criminal street gang" and "course or
5 pattern of criminal activity" have the meanings ascribed to
6 them in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus
7 Prevention Act.
 
8     (720 ILCS 5/48-10 new)
9     Sec. 48-10. Disorderly promotion of a criminal street gang.
10     (a) A person commits disorderly promotion of a criminal
11 street gang when he or she knowingly speaks a gang-related name
12 or flashes a gang-related sign or symbol in such an
13 unreasonable manner so as to alarm or disturb another and to
14 provoke a breach of the peace.
15     (b) Sentence. A violation of this Section is a Class C
16 misdemeanor.
17     (c) In this Section, "criminal street gang" has the meaning
18 ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang
19 Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act; and "gang-related name" and
20 "gang-related sign or symbol" mean any name, sign or other
21 symbol intended to identify a criminal street gang.