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Sen. Kwame Raoul
Filed: 3/13/2018
 
 
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| 1 |  | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1467 
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| 2 |  |  AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1467 by replacing  | 
| 3 |  | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 |  |  "Section 5. The Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is  | 
| 5 |  | amended by changing Section 13.1 as follows:
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| 6 |  |  (430 ILCS 65/13.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-13.1)
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| 7 |  |  Sec. 13.1. Preemption. 
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| 8 |  |  (a) Except as otherwise provided in the Firearm Concealed  | 
| 9 |  | Carry Act and subsections (b) and (c) of this Section, the  | 
| 10 |  | provisions of any ordinance enacted by any municipality which
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| 11 |  | requires registration or imposes greater restrictions or  | 
| 12 |  | limitations on the
acquisition, possession and transfer of  | 
| 13 |  | firearms than are imposed by this
Act, are not invalidated or  | 
| 14 |  | affected by this Act.
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| 15 |  |  (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Section, the  | 
| 16 |  | regulation, licensing, possession, and registration of  | 
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| 1 |  | handguns and ammunition for a handgun, and the transportation  | 
| 2 |  | of any firearm and ammunition by a holder of a valid Firearm  | 
| 3 |  | Owner's Identification Card issued by the Department of State  | 
| 4 |  | Police under this Act are exclusive powers and functions of  | 
| 5 |  | this State. Any ordinance or regulation, or portion of that  | 
| 6 |  | ordinance or regulation, enacted on or before the effective  | 
| 7 |  | date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly that  | 
| 8 |  | purports to impose regulations or restrictions on a holder of a  | 
| 9 |  | valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card issued by the  | 
| 10 |  | Department of State Police under this Act in a manner that is  | 
| 11 |  | inconsistent with this Act, on the effective date of this  | 
| 12 |  | amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, shall be invalid  | 
| 13 |  | in its application to a holder of a valid Firearm Owner's  | 
| 14 |  | Identification Card issued by the Department of State Police  | 
| 15 |  | under this Act. | 
| 16 |  |  (c) A municipality, including a home rule unit, may not  | 
| 17 |  | regulate the possession and ownership of assault weapons in a  | 
| 18 |  | manner less restrictive than the regulation by the State of the  | 
| 19 |  | possession and ownership of assault weapons under this Act.  | 
| 20 |  | This subsection (c) is a limitation under subsection (i) of  | 
| 21 |  | Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the  | 
| 22 |  | concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions  | 
| 23 |  | exercised by the State. A municipality, including a home rule  | 
| 24 |  | unit, may regulate the possession and ownership of assault  | 
| 25 |  | weapons in a manner more restrictive than the regulation by the  | 
| 26 |  | State under this Act. Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this  | 
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| 1 |  | Section, the regulation of the possession or ownership of  | 
| 2 |  | assault weapons are exclusive powers and functions of this  | 
| 3 |  | State. Any ordinance or regulation, or portion of that  | 
| 4 |  | ordinance or regulation, that purports to regulate the  | 
| 5 |  | possession or ownership of assault weapons in a manner that is  | 
| 6 |  | inconsistent with this Act, shall be invalid unless the  | 
| 7 |  | ordinance or regulation is enacted on, before, or within 10  | 
| 8 |  | days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the  | 
| 9 |  | 98th General Assembly. Any ordinance or regulation described in  | 
| 10 |  | this subsection (c) enacted more than 10 days after the  | 
| 11 |  | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General  | 
| 12 |  | Assembly is invalid. An ordinance enacted on, before, or within  | 
| 13 |  | 10 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the  | 
| 14 |  | 98th General Assembly may be amended. The enactment or  | 
| 15 |  | amendment of ordinances under this subsection (c) are subject  | 
| 16 |  | to the submission requirements of Section 13.3. For the  | 
| 17 |  | purposes of this subsection, "assault weapons" means firearms  | 
| 18 |  | designated by either make or model or by a test or list of  | 
| 19 |  | cosmetic features that cumulatively would place the firearm  | 
| 20 |  | into a definition of "assault weapon" under the ordinance. | 
| 21 |  |  (d) For the purposes of this Section, "handgun" has the  | 
| 22 |  | meaning ascribed to it in Section 5 of the Firearm Concealed  | 
| 23 |  | Carry Act.  | 
| 24 |  |  (e) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this  | 
| 25 |  | Section, this This Section is a denial and limitation of home  | 
| 26 |  | rule powers and functions under subsection (h) of Section 6 of  | 
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| 1 |  | Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.  | 
| 2 |  | (Source: P.A. 98-63, eff. 7-9-13.)
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| 3 |  |  Section 10. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by  | 
| 4 |  | changing Section 24-1 as follows:
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| 5 |  |  (720 ILCS 5/24-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-1)
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| 6 |  |  Sec. 24-1. Unlawful use of weapons. 
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| 7 |  |  (a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons  | 
| 8 |  | when
he knowingly:
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| 9 |  |   (1) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or  | 
| 10 |  | carries any bludgeon,
black-jack, slung-shot, sand-club,  | 
| 11 |  | sand-bag, metal knuckles or other knuckle weapon  | 
| 12 |  | regardless of its composition, throwing star,
or any knife,  | 
| 13 |  | commonly referred to as a switchblade knife, which has a
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| 14 |  | blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to  | 
| 15 |  | a button,
spring or other device in the handle of the  | 
| 16 |  | knife, or a ballistic knife,
which is a device that propels  | 
| 17 |  | a knifelike blade as a projectile by means
of a coil  | 
| 18 |  | spring, elastic material or compressed gas; or
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| 19 |  |   (2) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same  | 
| 20 |  | unlawfully
against another, a dagger, dirk, billy,  | 
| 21 |  | dangerous knife, razor,
stiletto, broken bottle or other  | 
| 22 |  | piece of glass, stun gun or taser or
any other dangerous or  | 
| 23 |  | deadly weapon or instrument of like character; or
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| 24 |  |   (3) Carries on or about his person or in any vehicle, a  | 
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| 1 |  | tear gas gun
projector or bomb or any object containing  | 
| 2 |  | noxious liquid gas or
substance, other than an object  | 
| 3 |  | containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas
or substance  | 
| 4 |  | designed solely for personal defense carried by a person 18
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| 5 |  | years of age or older; or
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| 6 |  |   (4) Carries or possesses in any vehicle or concealed on  | 
| 7 |  | or about his
person except when on his land or in his own  | 
| 8 |  | abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of
business, or on  | 
| 9 |  | the land or in the legal dwelling of another person as an  | 
| 10 |  | invitee with that person's permission, any pistol,  | 
| 11 |  | revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except
that
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| 12 |  | this subsection (a) (4) does not apply to or affect  | 
| 13 |  | transportation of weapons
that meet one of the following  | 
| 14 |  | conditions:
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| 15 |  |    (i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
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| 16 |  |    (ii) are not immediately accessible; or
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| 17 |  |    (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm  | 
| 18 |  | carrying box,
shipping box, or other container by a  | 
| 19 |  | person who has been issued a currently
valid Firearm  | 
| 20 |  | Owner's
Identification Card; or | 
| 21 |  |    (iv) are carried or possessed in accordance with  | 
| 22 |  | the Firearm Concealed Carry Act by a person who has  | 
| 23 |  | been issued a currently valid license under the Firearm  | 
| 24 |  | Concealed Carry Act; or 
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| 25 |  |   (5) Sets a spring gun; or
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| 26 |  |   (6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind  | 
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| 1 |  | designed, used or
intended for use in silencing the report  | 
| 2 |  | of any firearm; or
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| 3 |  |   (7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or  | 
| 4 |  | carries:
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| 5 |  |    (i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the  | 
| 6 |  | purposes of this
subsection as any weapon,
which  | 
| 7 |  | shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily  | 
| 8 |  | restored to shoot,
automatically more than one shot  | 
| 9 |  | without manually reloading by a single
function of the  | 
| 10 |  | trigger, including the frame or receiver
of any such  | 
| 11 |  | weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses,  | 
| 12 |  | or
carries any combination of parts designed or  | 
| 13 |  | intended for
use in converting any weapon into a  | 
| 14 |  | machine gun, or any combination or
parts from which a  | 
| 15 |  | machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the
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| 16 |  | possession or under the control of a person;
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| 17 |  |    (ii) any rifle having one or
more barrels less than  | 
| 18 |  | 16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or more
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| 19 |  | barrels less than 18 inches in length or any weapon  | 
| 20 |  | made from a rifle or
shotgun, whether by alteration,  | 
| 21 |  | modification, or otherwise, if such a weapon
as  | 
| 22 |  | modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches;  | 
| 23 |  | or
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| 24 |  |    (iii) any
bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or  | 
| 25 |  | other container containing an
explosive substance of  | 
| 26 |  | over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such
as, but  | 
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| 1 |  | not limited to, black powder bombs and Molotov  | 
| 2 |  | cocktails or
artillery projectiles; or
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| 3 |  |   (8) Carries or possesses any firearm, stun gun or taser  | 
| 4 |  | or other
deadly weapon in any place which is licensed to  | 
| 5 |  | sell intoxicating
beverages, or at any public gathering  | 
| 6 |  | held pursuant to a license issued
by any governmental body  | 
| 7 |  | or any public gathering at which an admission
is charged,  | 
| 8 |  | excluding a place where a showing, demonstration or lecture
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| 9 |  | involving the exhibition of unloaded firearms is  | 
| 10 |  | conducted.
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| 11 |  |   This subsection (a)(8) does not apply to any auction or  | 
| 12 |  | raffle of a firearm
held pursuant to
a license or permit  | 
| 13 |  | issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to persons
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| 14 |  | engaged
in firearm safety training courses; or
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| 15 |  |   (9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about  | 
| 16 |  | his person any
pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or  | 
| 17 |  | firearm or ballistic knife, when
he is hooded, robed or  | 
| 18 |  | masked in such manner as to conceal his identity; or
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| 19 |  |   (10) Carries or possesses on or about his person, upon  | 
| 20 |  | any public street,
alley, or other public lands within the  | 
| 21 |  | corporate limits of a city, village
or incorporated town,  | 
| 22 |  | except when an invitee thereon or therein, for the
purpose  | 
| 23 |  | of the display of such weapon or the lawful commerce in  | 
| 24 |  | weapons, or
except when on his land or in his own abode,  | 
| 25 |  | legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or on the land  | 
| 26 |  | or in the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee  | 
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| 1 |  | with that person's permission, any
pistol, revolver, stun  | 
| 2 |  | gun or taser or other firearm, except that this
subsection  | 
| 3 |  | (a) (10) does not apply to or affect transportation of  | 
| 4 |  | weapons that
meet one of the following conditions:
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| 5 |  |    (i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
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| 6 |  |    (ii) are not immediately accessible; or
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| 7 |  |    (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm  | 
| 8 |  | carrying box,
shipping box, or other container by a  | 
| 9 |  | person who has been issued a currently
valid Firearm  | 
| 10 |  | Owner's
Identification Card; or
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| 11 |  |    (iv) are carried or possessed in accordance with  | 
| 12 |  | the Firearm Concealed Carry Act by a person who has  | 
| 13 |  | been issued a currently valid license under the Firearm  | 
| 14 |  | Concealed Carry Act.  | 
| 15 |  |   A "stun gun or taser", as used in this paragraph (a)  | 
| 16 |  | means (i) any device
which is powered by electrical  | 
| 17 |  | charging units, such as, batteries, and
which fires one or  | 
| 18 |  | several barbs attached to a length of wire and
which, upon  | 
| 19 |  | hitting a human, can send out a current capable of  | 
| 20 |  | disrupting
the person's nervous system in such a manner as  | 
| 21 |  | to render him incapable of
normal functioning or (ii) any  | 
| 22 |  | device which is powered by electrical
charging units, such  | 
| 23 |  | as batteries, and which, upon contact with a human or
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| 24 |  | clothing worn by a human, can send out current capable of  | 
| 25 |  | disrupting
the person's nervous system in such a manner as  | 
| 26 |  | to render him incapable
of normal functioning; or
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| 1 |  |   (11) Sells, manufactures or purchases any explosive  | 
| 2 |  | bullet. For purposes
of this paragraph (a) "explosive  | 
| 3 |  | bullet" means the projectile portion of
an ammunition  | 
| 4 |  | cartridge which contains or carries an explosive charge  | 
| 5 |  | which
will explode upon contact with the flesh of a human  | 
| 6 |  | or an animal.
"Cartridge" means a tubular metal case having  | 
| 7 |  | a projectile affixed at the
front thereof and a cap or  | 
| 8 |  | primer at the rear end thereof, with the
propellant  | 
| 9 |  | contained in such tube between the projectile and the cap;  | 
| 10 |  | or
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| 11 |  |   (12) (Blank); or
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| 12 |  |   (13) Carries or possesses on or about his or her person  | 
| 13 |  | while in a building occupied by a unit of government, a  | 
| 14 |  | billy club, other weapon of like character, or other  | 
| 15 |  | instrument of like character intended for use as a weapon.  | 
| 16 |  | For the purposes of this Section, "billy club" means a  | 
| 17 |  | short stick or club commonly carried by police officers  | 
| 18 |  | which is either telescopic or constructed of a solid piece  | 
| 19 |  | of wood or other man-made material; or | 
| 20 |  |   (14) 90 days after the effective date of this  | 
| 21 |  | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, imports,  | 
| 22 |  | sells, manufactures, transfers, or possesses, in this  | 
| 23 |  | State, a bump-fire stock or trigger crank for a  | 
| 24 |  | semi-automatic firearm that does not convert the  | 
| 25 |  | semi-automatic firearm into a machine gun. For purposes of  | 
| 26 |  | this paragraph (14): | 
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| 1 |  |    "Bump-fire stock" means a butt stock designed to be  | 
| 2 |  | attached to a semi-automatic firearm and designed,  | 
| 3 |  | made, or altered, and intended to increase the rate of  | 
| 4 |  | fire achievable with the firearm to that of a fully  | 
| 5 |  | automatic firearm by using the energy from the recoil  | 
| 6 |  | of the firearm to generate reciprocating action that  | 
| 7 |  | facilitates repeated activation of the trigger. | 
| 8 |  |    "Trigger crank" means any device that can be  | 
| 9 |  | externally fitted to the trigger guard or stock of a  | 
| 10 |  | firearm that actuates the firearm using a crank.  | 
| 11 |  |  (b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of  | 
| 12 |  | subsection 24-1(a)(1)
through (5), subsection 24-1(a)(10),
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| 13 |  | subsection 24-1(a)(11), or subsection 24-1(a)(13) commits a  | 
| 14 |  | Class A
misdemeanor.
A person convicted of a violation of  | 
| 15 |  | subsection
24-1(a)(8), or 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(14) commits a
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| 16 |  | Class 4 felony; a person
convicted of a violation of subsection  | 
| 17 |  | 24-1(a)(6) or 24-1(a)(7)(ii) or (iii)
commits a Class 3 felony.  | 
| 18 |  | A person convicted of a violation of subsection
24-1(a)(7)(i)  | 
| 19 |  | commits a Class 2 felony and shall be sentenced to a term of  | 
| 20 |  | imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 7  | 
| 21 |  | years, unless the weapon is possessed in the
passenger  | 
| 22 |  | compartment of a motor vehicle as defined in Section 1-146 of  | 
| 23 |  | the
Illinois Vehicle Code, or on the person, while the weapon  | 
| 24 |  | is loaded, in which
case it shall be a Class X felony. A person  | 
| 25 |  | convicted of a
second or subsequent violation of subsection  | 
| 26 |  | 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(8),
24-1(a)(9), or
24-1(a)(10) commits a  | 
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| 1 |  | Class 3 felony. The possession of each weapon in violation of  | 
| 2 |  | this Section constitutes a single and separate violation.
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| 3 |  |  (c) Violations in specific places.
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| 4 |  |   (1) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(6) or  | 
| 5 |  | 24-1(a)(7) in any
school, regardless of the time of day or  | 
| 6 |  | the time of year, in residential
property owned, operated  | 
| 7 |  | or managed by a public housing agency or
leased by
a public  | 
| 8 |  | housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income
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| 9 |  | development, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real  | 
| 10 |  | property comprising any school,
regardless of the
time of  | 
| 11 |  | day or the time of year, on residential property owned,  | 
| 12 |  | operated
or
managed by a public housing agency
or leased by  | 
| 13 |  | a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
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| 14 |  | mixed-income development,
on the real property comprising  | 
| 15 |  | any
public park, on the real property comprising any  | 
| 16 |  | courthouse, in any conveyance
owned, leased or contracted  | 
| 17 |  | by a school to
transport students to or from school or a  | 
| 18 |  | school related activity, in any conveyance
owned, leased,  | 
| 19 |  | or contracted by a public transportation agency, or on any
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| 20 |  | public way within 1,000 feet of the real property  | 
| 21 |  | comprising any school,
public park, courthouse, public  | 
| 22 |  | transportation facility, or residential property owned,  | 
| 23 |  | operated, or managed
by a public housing agency
or leased  | 
| 24 |  | by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
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| 25 |  | mixed-income development
commits a Class 2 felony and shall  | 
| 26 |  | be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 3  | 
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| 1 |  | years and not more than 7 years.
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| 2 |  |   (1.5) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(4),  | 
| 3 |  | 24-1(a)(9), or
24-1(a)(10) in any school, regardless of the  | 
| 4 |  | time of day or the time of year,
in residential property  | 
| 5 |  | owned, operated, or managed by a public
housing
agency
or  | 
| 6 |  | leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered  | 
| 7 |  | site or
mixed-income development,
in
a public
park, in a  | 
| 8 |  | courthouse, on the real property comprising any school,  | 
| 9 |  | regardless
of the time of day or the time of year, on  | 
| 10 |  | residential property owned,
operated, or managed by a  | 
| 11 |  | public housing agency
or leased by a public housing agency  | 
| 12 |  | as part of a scattered site or
mixed-income development,
on  | 
| 13 |  | the real property
comprising any public park, on the real  | 
| 14 |  | property comprising any courthouse, in
any conveyance  | 
| 15 |  | owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport  | 
| 16 |  | students
to or from school or a school related activity, in  | 
| 17 |  | any conveyance
owned, leased, or contracted by a public  | 
| 18 |  | transportation agency, or on any public way within
1,000  | 
| 19 |  | feet of the real property comprising any school, public  | 
| 20 |  | park, courthouse,
public transportation facility, or  | 
| 21 |  | residential property owned, operated, or managed by a  | 
| 22 |  | public
housing agency
or leased by a public housing agency  | 
| 23 |  | as part of a scattered site or
mixed-income development
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| 24 |  | commits a Class 3 felony.
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| 25 |  |   (2) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(1),  | 
| 26 |  | 24-1(a)(2), or
24-1(a)(3)
in any school, regardless of the  | 
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| 1 |  | time of day or the time of year, in
residential property  | 
| 2 |  | owned, operated or managed by a public housing
agency
or  | 
| 3 |  | leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered  | 
| 4 |  | site or
mixed-income development,
in
a public park, in a  | 
| 5 |  | courthouse, on the real property comprising any school,
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| 6 |  | regardless of the time of day or the time of year, on  | 
| 7 |  | residential property
owned, operated or managed by a public  | 
| 8 |  | housing agency
or leased by a public housing agency as part  | 
| 9 |  | of a scattered site or
mixed-income development,
on the  | 
| 10 |  | real property
comprising any public park, on the real  | 
| 11 |  | property comprising any courthouse, in
any conveyance  | 
| 12 |  | owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport  | 
| 13 |  | students
to or from school or a school related activity, in  | 
| 14 |  | any conveyance
owned, leased, or contracted by a public  | 
| 15 |  | transportation agency, or on any public way within
1,000  | 
| 16 |  | feet of the real property comprising any school, public  | 
| 17 |  | park, courthouse,
public transportation facility, or  | 
| 18 |  | residential property owned, operated, or managed by a  | 
| 19 |  | public
housing agency or leased by a public housing agency  | 
| 20 |  | as part of a scattered
site or mixed-income development  | 
| 21 |  | commits a Class 4 felony. "Courthouse"
means any building  | 
| 22 |  | that is used by the Circuit, Appellate, or Supreme Court of
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| 23 |  | this State for the conduct of official business.
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| 24 |  |   (3) Paragraphs (1), (1.5), and (2) of this subsection  | 
| 25 |  | (c) shall not
apply to law
enforcement officers or security  | 
| 26 |  | officers of such school, college, or
university or to  | 
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| 1 |  | students carrying or possessing firearms for use in  | 
| 2 |  | training
courses, parades, hunting, target shooting on  | 
| 3 |  | school ranges, or otherwise with
the consent of school  | 
| 4 |  | authorities and which firearms are transported unloaded
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| 5 |  | enclosed in a suitable case, box, or transportation  | 
| 6 |  | package.
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| 7 |  |   (4) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "school"  | 
| 8 |  | means any public or
private elementary or secondary school,  | 
| 9 |  | community college, college, or
university.
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| 10 |  |   (5) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "public  | 
| 11 |  | transportation agency" means a public or private agency  | 
| 12 |  | that provides for the transportation or conveyance of
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| 13 |  | persons by means available to the general public, except  | 
| 14 |  | for transportation
by automobiles not used for conveyance  | 
| 15 |  | of the general public as passengers; and "public  | 
| 16 |  | transportation facility" means a terminal or other place
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| 17 |  | where one may obtain public transportation.
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| 18 |  |  (d) The presence in an automobile other than a public  | 
| 19 |  | omnibus of any
weapon, instrument or substance referred to in  | 
| 20 |  | subsection (a)(7) is
prima facie evidence that it is in the  | 
| 21 |  | possession of, and is being
carried by, all persons occupying  | 
| 22 |  | such automobile at the time such
weapon, instrument or  | 
| 23 |  | substance is found, except under the following
circumstances:  | 
| 24 |  | (i) if such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is
found upon  | 
| 25 |  | the person of one of the occupants therein; or (ii) if such
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| 26 |  | weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile  | 
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| 1 |  | operated for
hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful  | 
| 2 |  | and proper pursuit of
his trade, then such presumption shall  | 
| 3 |  | not apply to the driver.
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| 4 |  |  (e) Exemptions. | 
| 5 |  |   (1) Crossbows, Common or Compound bows and Underwater
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| 6 |  | Spearguns are exempted from the definition of ballistic  | 
| 7 |  | knife as defined in
paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this  | 
| 8 |  | Section. | 
| 9 |  |   (2) The provision of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of  | 
| 10 |  | this Section prohibiting the sale, manufacture, purchase,  | 
| 11 |  | possession, or carrying of any knife, commonly referred to  | 
| 12 |  | as a switchblade knife, which has a
blade that opens  | 
| 13 |  | automatically by hand pressure applied to a button,
spring  | 
| 14 |  | or other device in the handle of the knife, does not apply  | 
| 15 |  | to a person who possesses a currently valid Firearm Owner's  | 
| 16 |  | Identification Card previously issued in his or her name by  | 
| 17 |  | the Department of State Police or to a person or an entity  | 
| 18 |  | engaged in the business of selling or manufacturing  | 
| 19 |  | switchblade knives. 
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| 20 |  | (Source: P.A. 99-29, eff. 7-10-15; 100-82, eff. 8-11-17.)
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| 21 |  |  Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon  | 
| 22 |  | becoming law.". 
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