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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Belden Fields <<a href="mailto:a-fields@illinois.edu">a-fields@illinois.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 30, 2011 6:42:58 PM CDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">CUCPJ <<a href="mailto:discuss@communitycourtwatch.org">discuss@communitycourtwatch.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Fwd: revised ordinance</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Belden Fields <<a href="mailto:a-fields@illinois.edu">a-fields@illinois.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 30, 2011 6:42:05 PM CDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Eric Jakobsson <<a href="mailto:councileric@gmail.com">councileric@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:relewis@city.urbana.il.us">relewis@city.urbana.il.us</a>, Dianne Pinderhughes <<a href="mailto:dpinderh@uiuc.edu">dpinderh@uiuc.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Brandon Bowersox <<a href="mailto:brandonbowersox@gmail.com">brandonbowersox@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:dwmarlin@city.urbana.il.us">dwmarlin@city.urbana.il.us</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>revised ordinance</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <br><div><div>Dear Council Members,</div><div><br></div><div>I had intended initially offering my detailed criticisms of the revised draft of the ordinance on solicitation.</div><div><br></div><div>Those suggestions were:</div><div>(1) It needs to be specified that this solicitation is for money, not petition signatures, sex, or anything other than money;</div><div>(2) Sec 15-68 (5) should be worded "Threatening, through word or physical gesture, any person because they refuse to make a donation";</div><div>(3) In section 2, make clear that remunerated community service will be provided as an alternative to paying a fine or serving time in jail.</div><div><br></div><div>HOWEVER, after viewing two sets of data, I am convinced that it would be a mistake to enact this ordinance.</div><div><br></div><div>The first set of data is that which the police department has provided to Durl Cruse on incidences of calls and arrests for panhandling from 2008 to the present.</div><div>Those data, plus what a few people who attended the city council meetings to express their concerns about such solicitation. do not make a strong case for the enactment of the ordinance. With the exception of the banging on a car, the few people supporting this ordinance have not provided instances of aggression. They perhaps were fearful, but that in itself does not constitute aggression. Nor does lack what some would regard as good manners constitute aggression.</div><div><br></div><div>Since the last council meeting a research group has gone over existing city ordinances. It found that the behavior that the proposed ordinance is targeting is already covered in existing body of city ordinances. Given that over 300 people have signed petitions against that proposed ordinance (many of them living near Phil Road), that councilwoman Stevenson reported strong opposition to such an ordinance from her constituents, that the overwhelming view of those who attended the council meetings opposed the ordinance, and that there is already enough on the statute books for the police to prevent aggression against people from any source, I ask that you not rush into this. At least look at the evidence before you adopt an ordinance aimed specifically at the poorest among us and which risks confusion between real threats of aggression and preexisting fears that some people will bring to interactions with the poor and people of a different race. Remember that those who are accused </div><div>in city court do not have a right to confront those who have made the complaint, nor do they have the right to a public defender or a jury trial with paying for it. In the Champaign City court sessions that I have observed, they are overwhelmingly African American.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are the relevant already existing Urbana ordinances:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><u><b>(1)</b></u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><b>Touching another person without that person’s consent;</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>Urbana City Offense Sec. 15-17. Battery.</b> <b>$200.00 fine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(a) A person commits battery if such person </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(2) <u>Makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature</u> with an individual.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>Urbana City offense, Sec. 15-16. Assault.</b> <b>$200.00</b> <b>fine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(a) A person commits an assault when, without lawful authority, such person <u>engages in conduct which places another in reasonable</u> <u>apprehension</u> of receiving a<u> battery. (See above)</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b>State of Illinois offenses (720 ILCS 5/12‑1)</b></font><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b>Sec. 12‑1. </b></font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"><b>Assault.</b> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New">(a) A person commits an assault when, without lawful authority, he engages in conduct which places another in reasonable apprehension of receiving a battery. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New">(b) Sentence. Assault is a <u>Class C misdemeanor</u>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b>Sec. 12‑2. </b></font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"><b>Aggravated assault.</b> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New">(a) A person commits an aggravated assault, when, in committing an assault, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> (9) the individual assaulted is on or about <i>a public way</i>, <i>public property</i> or <i>public place</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"><i> of accomodation or amusement.</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> 11) commits an assault on a <i>physically handicapped person</i>. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> 12) commits an assault on a <i>person 60 years of age or older</i>. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> b) Sentence. Aggravated assault is a <u>Class A misdemeanor.</u> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b>(720 ILCS 5/12‑3)</b></font><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> <b> </b></font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b>Sec. 12‑3. Battery. </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New">(a) A person commits battery if he intentionally </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> (2)<u> makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature</u> with an individual.</font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New">(b) Sentence. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New">Battery is a <u>Class A misdemeanor.</u></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> <b>Sec. 12-3.05. Aggravated Battery.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> (c) Offense based on locaton of conduct. <u>A person commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery,</u> he or she is or the person battered is on or about the public way, public </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New">property, or a place of accommodation or amusement. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> (d) Offense based on status of the victim. <u>A person commits aggravated battery when he or she knows the individual battered to be any of the following</u>:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> (1) A person <i>60 years of age or older</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> (2) A person who is <i>pregnant or physically handicapped.</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> (h) Sentence. Aggravated battery is a<u> class 3 felony.</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><u><b>2) </b></u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><u><b>Blocking the path of a person solicited or blocking the entrance to any building or vehicle</b></u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>Urbana City Offense Sec. 15-59. Loitering.</b> <b>$50.00 fine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(b) It shall be unlawful for any person <u>to stand or remain idle</u> either along or in consort with others in a public place in such manner so as to:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(1) <u>Obstruct</u> any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building <u>by hindering or impeding the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles, traffic or pedestrians;</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(2) Commit in or upon any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building any act or thing which is an obstruction or interference to the free and uninterrupted use of property or with any business lawfully conducted by anyone in or upon or facing or fronting on any such public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building, all of which prevents the free and uninterrupted ingress, egress and regress, therein, thereon and thereto;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(3) Obstruct the entrance to any business establishment, without so doing for some lawful purpose, if contrary to the expressed wish of the owner, lessee, managing agent or person in control or charge of the building or premises.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>Urbana Sec. 15-18. Reckless conduct. (As it applies to blocking vehicles) $135.00 Fine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(a) A person who endangers the bodily safety of an individual by any means commits reckless conduct if such person performs recklessly the acts which endanger safety, whether they otherwise are lawful or unlawful.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b> State of Illinois Law (720 ILCS 5/10‑3)</b></font><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b>Sec. 10‑3. Unlawful restraint. </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New">(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful restraint when he or she knowingly without legal authority detains another. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New">(b) Sentence. Unlawful restraint is a <u>Class 4 felony.</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><b>(3)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><b>Continuing to solicit or to request a donation from a person after that person has refused an earlier request;</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>Urbana City Offense Sec. 15-60. Disorderly conduct.</b> <b>$50.00 fine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(a) A person commits disorderly conduct when such person knowingly:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(1) Does <u>any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another</u> and to provoke a breach of the peace;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">State of Illinois Law (720 ILCS 5/26-1)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"> Sec. 26-1. Disorderly conduct.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"> (a) A person commits disorderly conduct when he knowingly does any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"> (b) Sentence. Class C misdemeanor.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><b>(4)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><b>Following or remaining alongside a person who walks away from the panhandler after being solicited;</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>Urbana City offense, Sec. 15-60. Disorderly conduct.</b> <b>$50.00 fine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(a) A person commits disorderly conduct when such person knowingly:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(1) Does any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>State of Illinois Law (720 ILCS 5/26-1)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b> Sec. 26-1. Disorderly conduct.</b> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"> (a) A person commits disorderly conduct when he knowingly does any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"> (b) Sentence. <u>Class C Misdemeanor. </u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><u><b>(5)</b></u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><u><b>Making any statement, gesture, or other communication that would cause a reasonable person to feel threatened</b></u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>Urbana City offense, Sec. 15-16. Assault.</b> <b>$200.00 fine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(a) A person commits an assault when, without lawful authority, such person engages in conduct which places another in <u>reasonable</u> <u>apprehension</u> of receiving a battery.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Courier New'; min-height: 11px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b>State of Illinois offense (720 ILCS 5/12‑1)</b></font><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b>Sec. 12‑1. </b></font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"><b>Assault.</b> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New">(a) A person commits an assault when, without lawful authority, he engages in conduct which places another in reasonable apprehension of receiving a battery. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New">(b) Sentence. Assault is a <u>Class C misdemeanor.</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier New"><b>Sec. 12‑2. </b></font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"><b>Aggravated assault.</b> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New">(a) A person commits an aggravated assault, when, in committing an assault, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> (9) the individual assaulted is on or about <i>a public way</i>, <i>public property</i> or <i>public place</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"><i> of accomodation or amusement.</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> 11) commits an assault on a <i>physically handicapped person</i>. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> 12) commits an assault on a <i>person 60 years of age or older</i>. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> b) Sentence. Aggravated assault is a <u>Class A misdemeanor.</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><b>(6)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Tahoma"><b>Using profane or abusive language during the solicitation or following a refusal to make a donation.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>Urbana City Offense Sec. 15-60. Disorderly conduct.</b> <b>$50.00 fine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(a) A person commits disorderly conduct when such person knowingly:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">(1) Does any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b>State of Illinois Law (720 ILCS 5/26-1)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"><b> Sec. 26-1. Disorderly conduct.</b> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"> (a) A person commits disorderly conduct when he knowingly does any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma"> (b) Sentence. <u>Class C Misdemeanor. </u></font></div> <br><br><br>Sincerely yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Belden Fields<br><table width="792.0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 792.0px; margin: 0.0px 62.0px 0.0px 62.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 396.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </td> <td valign="top" style="width: 396.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div></div></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>