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91_HB2306
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1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
2 Section 12-9.
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 12-9 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 5/12-9) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-9)
8 Sec. 12-9. Threatening public officials.
9 (a) A person commits the offense of threatening a public
10 official when:
11 (1) that person knowingly and willfully delivers or
12 conveys, directly or indirectly, to a public official any
13 telephone communication, letter, paper, writing, print,
14 missive, or document containing a threat to take the life
15 of or to inflict great bodily harm upon the public
16 official or a member of his immediate family and
17 (2) the threat was conveyed because of the
18 performance or nonperformance of some public duty,
19 because of hostility of the person making the threat
20 toward the status or position of the public official, or
21 because of some other factor related to the official's
22 public existence.
23 (b) For purposes of this Section: (1) "public official"
24 means a person who is elected to office in accordance with a
25 statute or who is appointed to an office which is
26 established, and the qualifications and duties of which are
27 prescribed, by statute, to discharge a public duty for the
28 State or any of its political subdivisions or in the case of
29 an elective office any person who has filed the required
30 documents for nomination or election to such office; "public
31 official" includes a duly appointed assistant State's
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1 Attorney; (2) "immediate family" means a public official's
2 spouse, child or children.
3 (c) Threatening a public official is a Class 3 4 felony.
4 (Source: P.A. 87-238.)