[ Search ] [ Legislation ] [ Bill Summary ]
[ Home ] [ Back ] [ Bottom ]
90_HB0418 720 ILCS 5/24-3.3 from Ch. 38, par. 24-3.3 Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 to prohibit a person from selling, giving, or delivering a firearm to another person in a school, on the real property comprising a school, or within one-half mile of a school or taking a firearm into a school. Penalty is a Class 3 felony. Exempts a federally licensed firearm dealer while transacting business at an address that has a zoning classification that permits the operation of a retail establishment if the federally licensed firearm dealer transacted business at that address before the effective date of this amendatory Act. LRB9001371RCsb LRB9001371RCsb 1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing 2 Section 24-3.3. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by 6 changing Section 24-3.3 as follows: 7 (720 ILCS 5/24-3.3) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-3.3) 8 Sec. 24-3.3. Unlawful sale or delivery of firearms on 9 certain propertythe Premises of Any School, regardless of10the time of day or the time of year, or any conveyance owned,11leased or contracted by a school to transport students to or12from school or a school related activity, or residential13property owned, operated and managed by a public housing14agency. 15 (a) Any person 18 years of age or older who sells, gives 16 or delivers any firearm to any person under 18 years of age 17 in any school, regardless of the time of day or the time of 18 year, or residential property owned, operated and managed by 19 a public housing agency or on the real property comprising 20 any school, regardless of the time of day or the time of 21 year, or residential property owned, operated and managed by 22 a public housing agency commits a Class 3 felony. 23 (b) A person, regardless of age and regardless of the 24 time of day or the time of year, who sells, gives, or 25 delivers a firearm to another person, regardless of age, in a 26 school, on the real property of a school, or within one-half 27 mile of a school or who takes a firearm into a school commits 28 a Class 3 felony. 29 The provisions of this subsection (b) do not apply to a 30 federally licensed firearm dealer while transacting business 31 at an address that has a zoning classification that permits -2- LRB9001371RCsb 1 the operation of a retail establishment if the federally 2 licensed firearm dealer transacted business at the address 3 before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997. 4 School is defined, for the purposes of this Section, as 5 any public or private elementary or secondary school, 6 community college, college or university. This does not apply 7 to peace officers or to students carrying or possessing 8 firearms for use in school training courses, parades, target 9 shooting on school ranges, or otherwise with the consent of 10 school authorities and which firearms are transported 11 unloaded and enclosed in a suitable case, box or 12 transportation package. 13 (Source: P.A. 86-946; 87-524.)