Illinois Chapter 720 ILCS 5/12 – Bodily Harm
Chapter 720 ILCS 5/12 of the Illinois Revised Statutes: Criminal Offenses covers a variety of laws that involve hurting other people. These include assault, battery, vehicular endangerment, and several more offenses. Several of these are serious felonies.
What Chapter 5/12 Covers
- Threats or attacks against other people
- Giving someone drugs that cause them to be seriously hurt
- Violating a restraining order
- Stopping someone from reporting a domestic violence incident
The links below will give you a breakdown of individual statutes in chapter 5/12, including what it means to break the laws and the penalties, in plain English.
Chapter 5/12 Statutes Explained
- 720 ILCS 5/12-1 – Assault
- 720 ILCS 5/12-2 – Aggravated Assault
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3 – Battery
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.05 – Aggravated Battery
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.05(a)(2) – Heinous Battery
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.05(a)(4) – Aggravated Battery of a Senior Citizen
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.05(b) – Aggravated Battery of a Child
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.05(e) – Aggravated Battery With A Firearm
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.05(g)(1) – Drug-Induced Infliction of Great Bodily Harm
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.1 – Battery of an unborn child; aggravated battery of an unborn child
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.1(a-5) – Aggravated battery of an unborn child
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.2 Domestic Battery
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.3 Aggravated Domestic Battery
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.4 Violation of an Order of Protection
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.5 Interfering with the Reporting of Domestic Violence
- 720 ILCS 5/12-3.6 Disclosing Location of Domestic Violence Victim
- 720 ILCS 5/12-4.4a – Abuse or Criminal Neglect of a Long-Term Care Facility Resident; Criminal Abuse or Neglect of an Elderly Person or Person with a Disability
- 720 ILCS 5/12-4.5 – Tampering with Food, Drugs or Cosmetics
- 720 ILCS 5/12-5 Reckless Conduct
- 720 ILCS 5/12-5.01 Criminal Transmission of HIV
- 720 ILCS 5/12-5.02 Vehicular Endangerment
- 720 ILCS 5/12-5.1 – Criminal Housing Management
- 720 ILCS 5/12-5.1a Aggravated Criminal Housing Management
- 720 ILCS 5/12-5.3 Use of a Dangerous Place for the Commission of a Controlled Substance or Cannabis Offense
- 720 ILCS 5/12-5.5 Common Carrier Recklessness
- 720 ILCS 5/12-6 – Intimidation
- 720 ILCS 5/12-6.2 Aggravated Intimidation
- 720 ILCS 5/12-6.4 Criminal Street Gang Recruitment on School Grounds or Public Property Adjacent to School Grounds and Criminal Street Gang Recruitment of a Minor
- 720 ILCS 5/12-6.5 – Compelling Organization Membership of Persons
- 720 ILCS 5/12-7 Compelling Confession or Information by Force or Threat
- 720 ILCS 5/12-7.1 Hate Crime
- 720 ILCS 5/12-7.2 Educational Intimidation
- 720 ILCS 5/12-7.3 Stalking
- 720 ILCS 5/12-7.4 – Aggravated Stalking
- 720 ILCS 5/12-7.5 – Cyberstalking
- 720 ILCS 5/12-7.6 – Cross Burning
- 720 ILCS 5/12-9 – Threatening Public Officials; Human Service Providers
- 720 ILCS 5/12-10.2 – Tongue Splitting
- 720 ILCS 5/12-10.3 – False Representation to a Tattoo or Body Piercing Business as the Parent or Legal Guardian of a Minor
- 720 ILCS 5/12-20.5 – Dismembering a Human Body
- 720 ILCS 5/12-20.6 – Abuse of a Corpse
- 720 ILCS 5/12-21.6-5 – Parent or Guardian Leaving Custody or Control of Child With Child Sex Offender
- 720 ILCS 5/12-32 – Ritual Mutilation
- 720 ILCS 5/12-33 – Ritualized Abuse of a Child
- 720 ILCS 5/12-34 – Female Genital Mutilation
- 720 ILCS 5/12-34.5 – Inducement to Commit Suicide
- 720 ILCS 5/12-36 – Possession of Unsterilized or Vicious Dogs by Felons Prohibited
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-5 – Endangering the Life or Health of a Child
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-10 – Child Abandonment
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-30 – Contributing to the Delinquency or Criminal Delinquency of a Minor
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-35 – Tattooing the Body of a Minor
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-40 – Piercing the Body of a Minor
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-45 – Drug Induced Infliction of Harm to a Child Athlete
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-50 – Hazing
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-50.1 – Failure to Report Hazing
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-60 – Curfew
- 720 ILCS 5/12C-65 – Unlawful Transfer of a Telecommunications Device to a Minor
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720 ILCS 5/12-0.1 Definitions
This section explains what certain words mean in this part of the law about crimes against people.
1. “Bona fide labor dispute” means a real disagreement between workers and their bosses about things like pay, hours, benefits, or work conditions.
2. “Coach” means someone officially recognized as the coach for a sports team or contest.
3. “Correctional institution employee” means someone who works in a jail or prison.
4. “Emergency medical services personnel” means anyone who works on an ambulance crew, such as drivers or pilots, who help people in medical emergencies.
5. “Family or household members” means people like spouses, former spouses, parents, children, stepchildren, relatives by blood or marriage, people who live or used to live together, people who have or might have a child together, people dating or engaged, people with disabilities and their helpers; casual friends or coworkers don’t count as dating relationships.
6. “In the presence of a child” means when a child is close enough to see or hear something happen, or when someone knows or should know a child is there.
7. “Park district employee” means anyone who works for a park district, like a supervisor, teacher, or director.
8. “Person with a physical disability” means someone who has a lasting physical problem caused by disease, injury, or a condition they were born with.
9. “Private security officer” means a worker officially registered to provide security services for a private company.
10. “Probation officer” means someone who supervises people placed on probation by the court.
11. “Sports official” means a person like a referee or umpire who makes sure players follow the rules during a game.
12. “Sports venue” means a place like a stadium, arena, or park area used for sports or entertainment events, including the 12 hours before or after an event.
13. “Streetgang,” “streetgang member,” and “criminal street gang” mean the same things as defined in the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
14. “Transit employee” means someone who works for a public transportation system, such as a bus or train driver or station employee.
15. “Transit passenger” means someone who is riding or waiting to ride on public transportation like a bus, train, or subway.
16. “Utility worker” means anyone who works for or with a company that provides electricity, water, cable TV, phone, or internet, including contractors who do this kind of work.
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