MODEL PENAL CODE ANNOTATED

ILLINOIS COMPILED STATUTES
CHAPTER 720.  CRIMINAL OFFENSES
ACT 5. CRIMINAL CODE OF 1961


 § 25-1. Mob action.

 (a) Mob action consists of any of the following:

  (1) The use of force or violence disturbing the public peace by 2 or more persons acting together and without authority of law;  or

  (2) The assembly of 2 or more persons to do an unlawful act;  or

  (3) The assembly of 2 or more persons, without authority of law, for the purpose of doing violence to the person or property of any one supposed to have been guilty of a violation of the law, or for the purpose of exercising correctional powers or regulative powers over any person by violence.

 (b) Mob action as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) is a Class 4 felony.

 (c) Mob action as defined in paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a) is a Class C misdemeanor.

 (d) Any participant in a mob action which shall by violence inflict injury to the person or property of another commits a Class 4 felony.

 (e) Any participant in a mob action who does not withdraw on being commanded to do so by any peace officer commits a Class A misdemeanor.

 (f) In addition to any other sentence that may be imposed, a court shall order any person convicted of mob action to perform community service for not less than 30 and not more than 120 hours, if community service is available in the jurisdiction and is funded and approved by the county board of the county where the offense was committed.  In addition, whenever any person is placed on supervision for an alleged offense under this Section, the supervision shall be conditioned upon the performance of the community service.

 This subsection does not apply when the court imposes a sentence of incarceration.