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LRB094 18845 RLC 54266 b |
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing |
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| Section 12-9 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/12-9) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-9)
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| Sec. 12-9. Threatening public officials.
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| (a) A person commits the offense of threatening a public |
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| official when:
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| (1) that person knowingly and willfully delivers or |
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| conveys, directly
or indirectly, to a public official by |
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| any means a communication:
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| (i) containing a threat that would place
the public |
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| official or a member of his or her immediate family in |
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| reasonable
apprehension of immediate or future bodily |
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| harm, sexual assault, confinement,
or restraint; or
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| (ii) containing a threat that would place the |
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| public official
or a member of his or her immediate |
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| family in reasonable apprehension that
damage will |
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| occur to property in the custody, care, or control of |
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| the public
official or his or her immediate family; and
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| (2) the threat was conveyed because of the performance |
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| or nonperformance
of some public duty, because of hostility |
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| of the person making the threat
toward the status or |
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| position of the public official, or because of any
other |
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| factor related to the official's public existence.
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| (b) For purposes of this Section:
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| (1) "Public official"
means a person who is elected to |
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| office in accordance with a statute or
who is appointed to |
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| an office which is established, and the qualifications
and |
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| duties of which are prescribed, by statute, to discharge a |
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| public duty
for the State or any of its political |
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