HB6059 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB099 17127 RLC 41485 b

99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB6059

Introduced 2/11/2016, by Rep. Sue Scherer

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/26-2

from Ch. 38, par. 26-2

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person also commits interference with emergency communication when he or she knowingly prevents or attempts to prevent a person who reasonably believes an emergency is taking place from contacting a 9-1-1 emergency telephone system, obtaining medical assistance, or making a report to a law enforcement official. Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing Section 26-2 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/26-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 26-2)

Sec. 26-2. Interference with emergency communication.

(a) A person commits interference with emergency communication when he or she knowingly, intentionally and without lawful justification interrupts, disrupts, impedes, or otherwise interferes with the transmission of a communication over a citizens band radio channel, the purpose of which communication is to inform or inquire about an emergency.

(a-5) A person commits interference with emergency communication when he or she knowingly prevents or attempts to prevent a person who reasonably believes an emergency is taking place from contacting a 9-1-1 emergency telephone system, obtaining medical assistance, or making a report to a law enforcement official.

(b) For the purpose of this Section, "emergency" means a condition or circumstance in which an individual is or is reasonably believed by the person transmitting the communication to be in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or in which property is or is reasonably believed by the person transmitting the communication to be in imminent danger of damage or destruction.

(c) Sentence.

(1) Interference with emergency communication under subsection (a) of this Section is a Class B misdemeanor, except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2) or (3) of this subsection (c).

(2) Interference with emergency communication under subsection (a) of this Section, where serious bodily injury or property loss in excess of $1,000 results, is a Class A misdemeanor.

(3) Interference with emergency communication under subsection (a-5) of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13.)