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92_HB5648

 
                                               LRB9214591RCcd

 1        AN ACT in relation to 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    adding Section 21-8 as follows:

 6        (720 ILCS 5/21-8 new)
 7        Sec. 21-8. Criminal trespass to a nuclear facility.
 8        (a)  A person commits the offense of criminal trespass to
 9    a nuclear facility if he or she knowingly and without  lawful
10    authority:
11             (1)  enters  or remains within a nuclear facility or
12        on the grounds of a  nuclear  facility,  after  receiving
13        notice before entry that entry to the nuclear facility is
14        forbidden; or
15             (2)  remains  within  the facility or on the grounds
16        of the facility after    receiving notice from the  owner
17        or  manager of the facility or other person authorized by
18        the owner or manager of the facility to give that  notice
19        to depart from the facility or grounds of the facility.
20        (b)  A  person  has  received  notice  from  the owner or
21    manager of the facility or other  person  authorized  by  the
22    owner  or  manager  of  the  facility  within  the meaning of
23    subsection (a) if he or she  has  been  notified  personally,
24    either  orally  or  in  writing,  or  if a printed or written
25    notice forbidding the entry has been conspicuously posted  or
26    exhibited  at the main entrance to the facility or grounds of
27    the facility or the forbidden part of the facility.
28        (c)  In this Section, "nuclear facility" has the  meaning
29    ascribed  to  it  in Section 3 of the Illinois Nuclear Safety
30    Preparedness Act.
31        (d)  Sentence. Criminal trespass to a nuclear facility is
 
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 1    a Class 4 felony.

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