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92_HB3721

 
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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
 5    changing Section 12-2 as follows:

 6        (720 ILCS 5/12-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-2)
 7        Sec. 12-2.  Aggravated assault.
 8        (a)  A  person  commits  an  aggravated assault, when, in
 9    committing an assault, he:
10             (1)  Uses a deadly weapon or any device manufactured
11        and designed to be substantially similar in appearance to
12        a firearm, other than by discharging  a  firearm  in  the
13        direction  of  another  person, a peace officer, a person
14        summoned or directed by a peace officer,  a  correctional
15        officer  or  a  fireman  or in the direction of a vehicle
16        occupied by another person, a  peace  officer,  a  person
17        summoned  or  directed by a peace officer, a correctional
18        officer or a fireman while  the  officer  or  fireman  is
19        engaged  in  the execution of any of his official duties,
20        or to prevent the officer or fireman from performing  his
21        official  duties,  or  in  retaliation for the officer or
22        fireman performing his official duties;
23             (2)  Is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to
24        conceal his  identity  or  any  device  manufactured  and
25        designed  to  be substantially similar in appearance to a
26        firearm;
27             (3)  Knows the individual assaulted to be a  teacher
28        or  other  person employed in any school and such teacher
29        or other employee is upon the  grounds  of  a  school  or
30        grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of a building
31        used for school purposes;
 
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 1             (4)  Knows   the   individual   assaulted  to  be  a
 2        supervisor, director, instructor or other person employed
 3        in any  park  district  and  such  supervisor,  director,
 4        instructor  or  other employee is upon the grounds of the
 5        park or grounds adjacent thereto, or is in any part of  a
 6        building used for park purposes;
 7             (5)  Knows   the   individual   assaulted  to  be  a
 8        caseworker, investigator, or other person employed by the
 9        State Department of Public Aid, a  County  Department  of
10        Public  Aid,  or the Department of Human Services (acting
11        as successor to the Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid
12        under  the  Department  of  Human  Services Act) and such
13        caseworker, investigator, or other  person  is  upon  the
14        grounds  of  a  public  aid  office  or  grounds adjacent
15        thereto, or is in any part of a building used for  public
16        aid  purposes,  or upon the grounds of a home of a public
17        aid  applicant,  recipient  or  any  other  person  being
18        interviewed or investigated in the  employees'  discharge
19        of  his  duties, or on grounds adjacent thereto, or is in
20        any part of a building in which the applicant, recipient,
21        or other such person resides or is located;
22             (6)  Knows the individual assaulted to  be  a  peace
23        officer,  or a community policing volunteer, or a fireman
24        while the officer or fireman is engaged in the  execution
25        of any of his official duties, or to prevent the officer,
26        community  policing volunteer, or fireman from performing
27        his official duties, or in retaliation for  the  officer,
28        community  policing  volunteer, or fireman performing his
29        official duties, and the assault is committed other  than
30        by  the  discharge  of  a firearm in the direction of the
31        officer or fireman or  in  the  direction  of  a  vehicle
32        occupied by the officer or fireman;
33             (7)  Knows   the   individual  assaulted  to  be  an
34        emergency  medical  technician  -  ambulance,   emergency
 
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 1        medical  technician  -  intermediate,  emergency  medical
 2        technician - paramedic, ambulance driver or other medical
 3        assistance   or   first   aid  personnel  employed  by  a
 4        municipality or other governmental unit  engaged  in  the
 5        execution  of  any  of his official duties, or to prevent
 6        the emergency medical technician -  ambulance,  emergency
 7        medical  technician  -  intermediate,  emergency  medical
 8        technician   -  paramedic,  ambulance  driver,  or  other
 9        medical assistance or first aid personnel from performing
10        his official duties, or in retaliation for the  emergency
11        medical   technician   -   ambulance,  emergency  medical
12        technician - intermediate, emergency medical technician -
13        paramedic, ambulance driver, or other medical  assistance
14        or first aid personnel performing his official duties;
15             (8)  Knows   the  individual  assaulted  to  be  the
16        driver,  operator,   employee   or   passenger   of   any
17        transportation facility or system engaged in the business
18        of   transportation  of  the  public  for  hire  and  the
19        individual assaulted is then performing in such  capacity
20        or  then  using such public transportation as a passenger
21        or using any area of any description  designated  by  the
22        transportation  facility or system as a vehicle boarding,
23        departure, or transfer location;
24             (9)  Or the individual assaulted is on  or  about  a
25        public   way,   public   property,  or  public  place  of
26        accommodation or amusement;
27             (10)  Knows  the  individual  assaulted  to  be   an
28        employee   of   the   State   of  Illinois,  a  municipal
29        corporation therein or a political  subdivision  thereof,
30        engaged  in  the  performance of his authorized duties as
31        such employee;
32             (11)  Knowingly  and  without  legal  justification,
33        commits an assault on a physically handicapped person;
34             (12)  Knowingly  and  without  legal  justification,
 
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 1        commits an assault on a person 60 years of age or older;
 2             (13)  Discharges a firearm;
 3             (14)  Knows  the  individual  assaulted  to   be   a
 4        correctional officer, while the officer is engaged in the
 5        execution  of  any  of  his or her official duties, or to
 6        prevent the officer from performing his or  her  official
 7        duties,  or in retaliation for the officer performing his
 8        or her official duties; or
 9             (15)  (Blank). Knows the individual assaulted to  be
10        a correctional employee, while the employee is engaged in
11        the execution of any of his or her official duties, or to
12        prevent  the employee from performing his or her official
13        duties, or in retaliation for the employee performing his
14        or her official duties,  and  the  assault  is  committed
15        other than by the discharge of a firearm in the direction
16        of the employee or in the direction of a vehicle occupied
17        by the employee.
18        (a-5)  A  person commits an aggravated assault when he or
19    she knowingly and  without  lawful  justification  shines  or
20    flashes  a  laser  gunsight  or  other  laser  device that is
21    attached or affixed to a firearm, or used in concert  with  a
22    firearm,  so  that  the  laser  beam  strikes  near or in the
23    immediate vicinity of any person.
24        (b)  Sentence.
25        Aggravated assault as defined in paragraphs  (1)  through
26    (5)  and  (8)  (7)  through  (12)  of  subsection (a) of this
27    Section is a Class  A  misdemeanor.   Aggravated  assault  as
28    defined  in paragraphs (13) and, (14), and (15) of subsection
29    (a) of this Section and as defined  in  subsection  (a-5)  of
30    this  Section  is  a  Class  4 felony.  Aggravated assault as
31    defined in paragraphs paragraph (6) and (7) of subsection (a)
32    of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor if a  deadly  weapon
33    or  any  device manufactured and designed to be substantially
34    similar in appearance  to  a  firearm  is  not  used  in  the
 
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 1    commission  of the assault.  Aggravated assault as defined in
 2    paragraphs paragraph (6) and (7) of subsection  (a)  of  this
 3    Section  is a Class 4 felony if a deadly weapon or any device
 4    manufactured and designed  to  be  substantially  similar  in
 5    appearance  to  a  firearm  is  used in the commission of the
 6    assault.
 7    (Source: P.A. 90-406,  eff.  8-15-97;  90-651,  eff.  1-1-99;
 8    91-672, eff. 1-1-00.)

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