Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of Public Act 093-0596
Illinois General Assembly

Previous General Assemblies

Public Act 093-0596


 

Public Act 93-0596 of the 93rd General Assembly


Public Act 93-0596

HB2843 Enrolled                      LRB093 06698 RLC 06832 b

    AN ACT in relation to criminal law.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section  2.   The  Criminal  Code  of  1961 is amended by
changing Section 21-1.5 as follows:

    (720 ILCS 5/21-1.5)
    Sec. 21-1.5.  Anhydrous  ammonia  equipment,  containers,
and facilities.
    (a)  It  is  unlawful  for  any  person  to  tamper  with
anhydrous   ammonia   equipment,   containers,   or   storage
facilities.
    (b)  Tampering    with   anhydrous   ammonia   equipment,
containers, or storage facilities occurs when any person  who
is  not  authorized  by  the  owner of the anhydrous ammonia,
anhydrous ammonia equipment, storage containers,  or  storage
facilities   transfers  or  attempts  to  transfer  anhydrous
ammonia to another container, causes damage to the  anhydrous
ammonia equipment, storage container, or storage facility, or
vents   or  attempts  to  vent  anhydrous  ammonia  into  the
environment.
    (b-5)  It  is  unlawful  for  any  person  to   transport
anhydrous ammonia in a portable container if the container is
not a package authorized for anhydrous ammonia transportation
as  defined  in  rules  adopted  under the Illinois Hazardous
Materials  Transportation  Act.    For   purposes   of   this
subsection  (b-5),  an  authorized package includes a package
previously authorized under the Illinois Hazardous  Materials
Transportation Act.
    (b-10)  For purposes of this Section:
    "Anhydrous   ammonia"   means  the  compound  defined  in
paragraph (d) of Section 3 of the Illinois Fertilizer Act  of
1961.
    "Anhydrous ammonia equipment", "anhydrous ammonia storage
containers",  and  "anhydrous ammonia storage facilities" are
defined in rules adopted under the Illinois Fertilizer Act of
1961.
    (c)  Sentence.  A violation of subsection (a) or  (b)  of
this  Section  is  a  Class  A  misdemeanor.   A violation of
subsection (b-5) of this Section is a Class 4 felony.
(Source: P.A.  91-402,  eff.  1-1-00;  91-889,  eff.  1-1-01;
92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)

    Section  5.  The  Illinois  Controlled  Substances Act is
amended by changing Section 102 and adding Section  405.3  as
follows:

    (720 ILCS 570/102) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1102)
    Sec.  102.  Definitions.  As used in this Act, unless the
context otherwise requires:
    (a)  "Addict" means any person who  habitually  uses  any
drug,  chemical,  substance  or  dangerous  drug  other  than
alcohol  so  as to endanger the public morals, health, safety
or welfare or who  is  so  far  addicted  to  the  use  of  a
dangerous  drug or controlled substance other than alcohol as
to have lost the power of self control with reference to  his
addiction.
    (b)  "Administer"  means  the  direct  application  of  a
controlled   substance,  whether  by  injection,  inhalation,
ingestion, or any other means, to the body of  a  patient  or
research subject by:
         (1)  a  practitioner  (or,  in  his presence, by his
    authorized agent), or
         (2)  the patient or research subject at  the  lawful
    direction of the practitioner.
    (c)  "Agent"  means  an  authorized  person  who  acts on
behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor,
or dispenser.  It does  not  include  a  common  or  contract
carrier,  public  warehouseman  or employee of the carrier or
warehouseman.
    (c-1)  "Anabolic Steroids" means  any  drug  or  hormonal
substance,   chemically   and  pharmacologically  related  to
testosterone   (other   than   estrogens,   progestins,   and
corticosteroids) that promotes muscle growth, and includes:
              (i)  boldenone,
              (ii)  chlorotestosterone,
              (iii)  chostebol,
              (iv)  dehydrochlormethyltestosterone,
              (v)  dihydrotestosterone,
              (vi)  drostanolone,
              (vii)  ethylestrenol,
              (viii)  fluoxymesterone,
              (ix)  formebulone,
              (x)  mesterolone,
              (xi)  methandienone,
              (xii)  methandranone,
              (xiii)  methandriol,
              (xiv)  methandrostenolone,
              (xv)  methenolone,
              (xvi)  methyltestosterone,
              (xvii)  mibolerone,
              (xviii)  nandrolone,
              (xix)  norethandrolone,
              (xx)  oxandrolone,
              (xxi)  oxymesterone,
              (xxii)  oxymetholone,
              (xxiii)  stanolone,
              (xxiv)  stanozolol,
              (xxv)  testolactone,
              (xxvi)  testosterone,
              (xxvii)  trenbolone, and
              (xxviii)  any salt, ester, or isomer of a  drug
         or  substance described or listed in this paragraph,
         if that  salt,  ester,  or  isomer  promotes  muscle
         growth.
    Any  person who is otherwise lawfully in possession of an
anabolic steroid, or  who  otherwise  lawfully  manufactures,
distributes, dispenses, delivers, or possesses with intent to
deliver  an  anabolic  steroid,  which  anabolic  steroid  is
expressly   intended   for   and   lawfully   allowed  to  be
administered through implants to livestock or other  nonhuman
species, and which is approved by the Secretary of Health and
Human  Services for such administration, and which the person
intends to  administer  or  have  administered  through  such
implants,  shall  not  be  considered  to  be in unauthorized
possession  or   to   unlawfully   manufacture,   distribute,
dispense,  deliver,  or  possess  with intent to deliver such
anabolic steroid for purposes of this Act.
    (d)  "Administration"   means   the   Drug    Enforcement
Administration,  United  States Department of Justice, or its
successor agency.
    (e)  "Control" means to add a drug or other substance, or
immediate precursor, to a Schedule under Article II  of  this
Act whether by transfer from another Schedule or otherwise.
    (f)  "Controlled  Substance"  means a drug, substance, or
immediate precursor in the Schedules of Article  II  of  this
Act.
    (g)  "Counterfeit    substance"    means   a   controlled
substance, which, or the  container  or  labeling  of  which,
without  authorization  bears  the  trademark, trade name, or
other identifying mark, imprint, number  or  device,  or  any
likeness   thereof,   of   a  manufacturer,  distributor,  or
dispenser other than the person  who  in  fact  manufactured,
distributed, or dispensed the substance.
    (h)  "Deliver"    or   "delivery"   means   the   actual,
constructive  or  attempted  transfer  of  possession  of   a
controlled  substance, with or without consideration, whether
or not there is an agency relationship.
    (i)  "Department" means the Illinois Department of  Human
Services  (as  successor  to the Department of Alcoholism and
Substance Abuse) or its successor agency.
    (j)  "Department of State Police" means the Department of
State Police of  the  State  of  Illinois  or  its  successor
agency.
    (k)  "Department  of Corrections" means the Department of
Corrections of the State of Illinois or its successor agency.
    (l)  "Department of Professional  Regulation"  means  the
Department   of  Professional  Regulation  of  the  State  of
Illinois or its successor agency.
    (m)  "Depressant" or "stimulant substance" means:
         (1)  a drug  which  contains  any  quantity  of  (i)
    barbituric  acid  or  any of the salts of barbituric acid
    which has been designated as habit forming under  section
    502  (d)  of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21
    U.S.C. 352 (d)); or
         (2)  a drug  which  contains  any  quantity  of  (i)
    amphetamine  or  methamphetamine and any of their optical
    isomers; (ii) any salt of amphetamine or  methamphetamine
    or any salt of an optical isomer of amphetamine; or (iii)
    any  substance which the Department, after investigation,
    has found to be, and by rule designated as, habit forming
    because of its depressant  or  stimulant  effect  on  the
    central nervous system; or
         (3)  lysergic acid diethylamide; or
         (4)  any  drug  which  contains  any  quantity  of a
    substance which the Department, after investigation,  has
    found  to  have,  and  by  rule  designated  as having, a
    potential  for  abuse  because  of  its   depressant   or
    stimulant  effect  on  the  central nervous system or its
    hallucinogenic effect.
    (n)  (Blank).
    (o)  "Director" means the Director of the  Department  of
State  Police or the Department of Professional Regulation or
his designated agents.
    (p)  "Dispense" means to deliver a  controlled  substance
to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the
lawful  order  of  a  prescriber,  including the prescribing,
administering, packaging, labeling, or compounding  necessary
to prepare the substance for that delivery.
    (q)  "Dispenser" means a practitioner who dispenses.
    (r)  "Distribute"   means   to  deliver,  other  than  by
administering or dispensing, a controlled substance.
    (s)  "Distributor" means a person who distributes.
    (t)  "Drug" means (1) substances recognized as  drugs  in
the    official   United   States   Pharmacopoeia,   Official
Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States,  or  official
National  Formulary,  or  any  supplement to any of them; (2)
substances intended for use in diagnosis,  cure,  mitigation,
treatment,  or  prevention  of disease in man or animals; (3)
substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure
of any function of  the  body  of  man  or  animals  and  (4)
substances  intended  for  use  as a component of any article
specified in clause (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection.   It
does  not  include  devices  or  their  components, parts, or
accessories.
    (t-5)  "Euthanasia agency" means an entity  certified  by
the  Department of Professional Regulation for the purpose of
animal euthanasia  that  holds  an  animal  control  facility
license  or  animal  shelter license under the Animal Welfare
Act.  A euthanasia agency is authorized to  purchase,  store,
possess, and utilize Schedule II nonnarcotic and Schedule III
nonnarcotic drugs for the sole purpose of animal euthanasia.
    (u)  "Good  faith" means the prescribing or dispensing of
a controlled substance  by  a  practitioner  in  the  regular
course  of professional treatment to or for any person who is
under his treatment for a pathology or condition  other  than
that  individual's  physical or psychological dependence upon
or addiction to a controlled substance,  except  as  provided
herein:   and  application  of the term to a pharmacist shall
mean the dispensing of a controlled substance pursuant to the
prescriber's order which in the professional judgment of  the
pharmacist  is  lawful.   The  pharmacist  shall be guided by
accepted professional standards including, but not limited to
the following, in making the judgment:
         (1)  lack   of   consistency    of    doctor-patient
    relationship,
         (2)  frequency of prescriptions for same drug by one
    prescriber for large numbers of patients,
         (3)  quantities beyond those normally prescribed,
         (4)  unusual dosages,
         (5)  unusual  geographic  distances between patient,
    pharmacist and prescriber,
         (6)  consistent prescribing of habit-forming drugs.
    (u-1)  "Home infusion services" means  services  provided
by   a   pharmacy   in   compounding   solutions  for  direct
administration to a patient in a private residence, long-term
care facility, or hospice setting  by  means  of  parenteral,
intravenous,   intramuscular,  subcutaneous,  or  intraspinal
infusion.
    (v)  "Immediate precursor" means a substance:
         (1)  which the Department has found  to  be  and  by
    rule  designated  as  being a principal compound used, or
    produced primarily for  use,  in  the  manufacture  of  a
    controlled substance;
         (2)  which  is  an  immediate  chemical intermediary
    used or likely to be used  in  the  manufacture  of  such
    controlled substance; and
         (3)  the  control  of which is necessary to prevent,
    curtail or  limit  the  manufacture  of  such  controlled
    substance.
    (w)  "Instructional   activities"   means   the  acts  of
teaching, educating or  instructing  by  practitioners  using
controlled  substances within educational facilities approved
by the State Board of Education or its successor agency.
    (x)  "Local authorities" means a  duly  organized  State,
County or Municipal peace unit or police force.
    (y)  "Look-alike substance" means a substance, other than
a  controlled  substance  which  (1)  by  overall dosage unit
appearance, including shape, color, size,  markings  or  lack
thereof,   taste,   consistency,  or  any  other  identifying
physical  characteristic  of  the  substance,  would  lead  a
reasonable  person  to  believe  that  the  substance  is   a
controlled  substance,  or  (2)  is  expressly  or  impliedly
represented  to  be  a controlled substance or is distributed
under circumstances which would lead a reasonable  person  to
believe that the substance is a controlled substance. For the
purpose  of  determining  whether the representations made or
the circumstances of the distribution would lead a reasonable
person to believe the substance to be a controlled  substance
under  this  clause (2) of subsection (y), the court or other
authority may consider the following factors in  addition  to
any other factor that may be relevant:
         (a)  statements  made  by  the  owner  or  person in
    control of the substance concerning its  nature,  use  or
    effect;
         (b)  statements  made to the buyer or recipient that
    the substance may be resold for profit;
         (c)  whether the substance is packaged in  a  manner
    normally  used for the illegal distribution of controlled
    substances;
         (d)  whether   the   distribution    or    attempted
    distribution  included an exchange of or demand for money
    or other  property  as  consideration,  and  whether  the
    amount  of  the  consideration  was substantially greater
    than the reasonable retail market value of the substance.
    Clause (1) of this subsection (y) shall not  apply  to  a
noncontrolled  substance in its finished dosage form that was
initially introduced  into  commerce  prior  to  the  initial
introduction  into  commerce of a controlled substance in its
finished dosage form which it may substantially resemble.
    Nothing in this subsection (y) prohibits  the  dispensing
or   distributing  of  noncontrolled  substances  by  persons
authorized to dispense and distribute  controlled  substances
under  this Act, provided that such action would be deemed to
be carried out in good faith  under  subsection  (u)  if  the
substances involved were controlled substances.
    Nothing  in  this subsection (y) or in this Act prohibits
the  manufacture,  preparation,   propagation,   compounding,
processing,  packaging, advertising or distribution of a drug
or drugs by any person registered pursuant to Section 510  of
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360).
    (y-1)  "Mail-order  pharmacy"  means  a  pharmacy that is
located in a state of the United States, other than Illinois,
that delivers, dispenses or distributes, through  the  United
States  Postal  Service  or other common carrier, to Illinois
residents, any substance which requires a prescription.
    (z)  "Manufacture"  means  the  production,  preparation,
propagation,  compounding,  conversion  or  processing  of  a
controlled  substance,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  by
extraction   from   substances   of   natural   origin,    or
independently  by  means  of  chemical  synthesis,  or  by  a
combination   of   extraction  and  chemical  synthesis,  and
includes any packaging or repackaging  of  the  substance  or
labeling  of  its  container,  except that this term does not
include:
         (1)  by  an  ultimate  user,  the   preparation   or
    compounding of a controlled substance for his own use; or
         (2)  by  a  practitioner,  or  his  authorized agent
    under  his  supervision,  the  preparation,  compounding,
    packaging, or labeling of a controlled substance:
              (a)  as an incident  to  his  administering  or
         dispensing  of  a controlled substance in the course
         of his professional practice; or
              (b)  as  an  incident   to   lawful   research,
         teaching or chemical analysis and not for sale.
    (z-1)  "Methamphetamine manufacturing chemical" means any
of  the  following  chemicals or substances containing any of
the following chemicals:  benzyl  methyl  ketone,  ephedrine,
methyl  benzyl  ketone, phenylacetone, phenyl-2-propanone, or
pseudoephedrine, or red phosphorous  or  any  of  the  salts,
optical   isomers,   or  salts  of  optical  isomers  of  the
above-listed chemicals.
    (aa)  "Narcotic drug" means any of the following, whether
produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances
of natural origin, or  independently  by  means  of  chemical
synthesis,  or  by  a  combination of extraction and chemical
synthesis:
         (1)  opium  and  opiate,  and  any  salt,  compound,
    derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate;
         (2)  any  salt,  compound,  isomer,  derivative,  or
    preparation thereof which  is  chemically  equivalent  or
    identical  with  any  of  the  substances  referred to in
    clause (1), but not including the isoquinoline  alkaloids
    of opium;
         (3)  opium poppy and poppy straw;
         (4)  coca  leaves  and  any salts, compound, isomer,
    salt of an isomer, derivative,  or  preparation  of  coca
    leaves  including  cocaine  or  ecgonine,  and  any salt,
    compound,  isomer,  derivative,  or  preparation  thereof
    which is chemically equivalent or identical with  any  of
    these  substances,  but  not  including decocainized coca
    leaves or extractions of coca leaves which do not contain
    cocaine or ecgonine (for the purpose of  this  paragraph,
    the   term  "isomer"  includes  optical,  positional  and
    geometric isomers).
    (bb)  "Nurse" means a registered nurse licensed under the
Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act.
    (cc)  (Blank).
    (dd)  "Opiate" means any substance  having  an  addiction
forming or addiction sustaining liability similar to morphine
or  being  capable of conversion into a drug having addiction
forming or addiction sustaining liability.
    (ee)  "Opium  poppy"  means  the  plant  of  the  species
Papaver somniferum L., except its seeds.
    (ff)  "Parole and Pardon  Board"  means  the  Parole  and
Pardon  Board  of  the  State  of  Illinois  or its successor
agency.
    (gg)  "Person"   means   any   individual,   corporation,
mail-order pharmacy, government or  governmental  subdivision
or  agency,  business  trust,  estate,  trust, partnership or
association, or any other entity.
    (hh)  "Pharmacist"  means  any   person   who   holds   a
certificate  of  registration  as  a registered pharmacist, a
local  registered  pharmacist  or  a   registered   assistant
pharmacist under the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987.
    (ii)  "Pharmacy"  means any store, ship or other place in
which pharmacy  is  authorized  to  be  practiced  under  the
Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987.
    (jj)  "Poppy straw" means all parts, except the seeds, of
the opium poppy, after mowing.
    (kk)  "Practitioner"   means   a  physician  licensed  to
practice medicine in all its branches,  dentist,  podiatrist,

veterinarian,  scientific investigator, pharmacist, physician
assistant, advanced practice nurse, licensed practical nurse,
registered nurse, hospital, laboratory, or pharmacy, or other
person licensed, registered, or otherwise lawfully  permitted
by  the  United States or this State to distribute, dispense,
conduct research  with  respect  to,  administer  or  use  in
teaching  or chemical analysis, a controlled substance in the
course of professional practice or research.
    (ll)  "Pre-printed   prescription"   means   a    written
prescription   upon   which  the  designated  drug  has  been
indicated prior to the time of issuance.
    (mm)  "Prescriber" means a physician licensed to practice
medicine  in  all  its  branches,  dentist,   podiatrist   or
veterinarian who issues a prescription, a physician assistant
who  issues  a  prescription  for  a  Schedule  III, IV, or V
controlled substance in accordance with  Section  303.05  and
the  written  guidelines  required  under  Section 7.5 of the
Physician Assistant Practice Act  of  1987,  or  an  advanced
practice nurse with prescriptive authority in accordance with
Section  303.05  and  a written collaborative agreement under
Sections 15-15 and 15-20 of the Nursing and Advanced Practice
Nursing Act.
    (nn)  "Prescription" means a lawful  written,  facsimile,
or  verbal order of a physician licensed to practice medicine
in all its branches, dentist, podiatrist or veterinarian  for
any  controlled  substance,  of  a  physician assistant for a
Schedule III, IV, or V  controlled  substance  in  accordance
with Section 303.05 and the written guidelines required under
Section  7.5 of the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987,
or of an advanced practice nurse who  issues  a  prescription
for  a  Schedule  III,  IV,  or  V  controlled  substance  in
accordance  with  Section  303.05 and a written collaborative
agreement under Sections 15-15 and 15-20 of the  Nursing  and
Advanced Practice Nursing Act.
    (oo)  "Production"   or   "produce"   means  manufacture,
planting, cultivating, growing, or harvesting of a controlled
substance.
    (pp)  "Registrant" means every person who is required  to
register under Section 302 of this Act.
    (qq)  "Registry number" means the number assigned to each
person  authorized  to handle controlled substances under the
laws of the United States and of this State.
    (rr)  "State" includes the  State  of  Illinois  and  any
state,  district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession
thereof, and any area subject to the legal authority  of  the
United States of America.
    (ss)  "Ultimate   user"   means  a  person  who  lawfully
possesses a controlled substance for his own use or  for  the
use  of  a member of his household or for administering to an
animal owned by him or by a member of his household.
(Source: P.A.  91-403,  eff.  1-1-00;  91-714,  eff.  6-2-00;
92-449, eff. 1-1-02.)

    (720 ILCS 570/405.3 new)
    Sec.   405.3.   Criminal   synthetic  drug  manufacturing
conspiracy.
    (a)   A   person   commits   criminal   synthetic    drug
manufacturing   conspiracy  when,  with  the  intent  that  a
controlled substance be manufactured or produced in violation
of any provision of Section 401, 402, 406.1, or  407,  he  or
she  aids  in  the  manufacture  or production of a synthetic
controlled substance. No person may be convicted of  criminal
synthetic  drug  manufacturing  conspiracy  unless  an act in
furtherance to aid in the  manufacture  or  production  of  a
synthetic  controlled substance is alleged and proved to have
been committed by the person or a co-conspirator.
    (b) Aiding in the manufacture of a  synthetic  controlled
substance    may    be   accomplished   by:   (1)   providing
methamphetamine    manufacturing    chemicals,    precursors,
essential ingredients, or apparatus required to  produce  the
synthetic  controlled substance; or (2) permitting the use of
any structure  for  the  purpose  of  the  manufacture  of  a
synthetic controlled substance.
    (c)  Apparatus  required  to  manufacture  the  synthetic
controlled  substance  may  include  laboratory glassware and
apparatus or other common or household items used or modified
for use  in  the  manufacture  of  the  synthetic  controlled
substance.
    (d)   In  this  Section,  "structure"  means  any  house,
apartment building, shop, barn, warehouse, building,  vessel,
railroad  car,  cargo  container,  motor  vehicle,  housecar,
trailer,   trailer   coach,   camper,  mine,  floating  home,
watercraft, any structure capable of  holding  a  clandestine
laboratory or any real property.
    (e)  It is not a defense to conspiracy that the person or
persons with whom the accused is alleged to have conspired:
         (1) have not been prosecuted or convicted; or
         (2) have been convicted of a different offense; or
         (3) are not amenable to justice; or
         (4) have been acquitted; or
         (5) lacked the capacity to commit the offense.
    (f) Sentence. A person convicted  of  criminal  synthetic
drug  manufacturing  conspiracy may be fined or imprisoned or
both, but any fines or term of imprisonment imposed  may  not
be  less  than the minimum nor more than the maximum provided
for the offense that is the object of the conspiracy.

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act  takes  effect  upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 08/26/03