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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.