CHAPTER 133:
Offenses Against Public Justice and Administration

Section

133.01    Resisting or obstructing a peace officer or correctional institution employee

133.02    Refusing to aid an officer

133.03    Tampering with public notice

133.01 RESISTING OR OBSTRUCTING A PEACE OFFICER OR CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION EMPLOYEE.

(A) No person shall knowingly resist or obstruct the performance by one known to the person to be a peace officer or correctional institution employee of any authorized act within his official capacity.

(B) For purposes of this section, the term CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION EMPLOYEE shall mean any person employed to supervise and control inmates incarcerated in a penitentiary, state farm, reformatory, prison, jail, house of correction, police detention area, half-way house, or other institution or place for the incarceration or custody of persons under sentence for offenses or awaiting trial or sentence for offenses, under arrest for an offense, a violation of probation, a violation of parole, or a violation of mandatory supervised release, or awaiting a bail setting hearing or preliminary hearing, or who are sexually dangerous persons or who are sexually violent persons.

(ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 31-1) Penalty, see § 130.99

133.02 REFUSING TO AID AN OFFICER.

No person, upon command, shall refuse or knowingly reasonably fail to aid a person known by him to be a police officer in:

(A) Apprehending a person whom the officer is authorized to apprehend; or

(B) Preventing the commission by another of any offense.

(ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 31-8) Penalty, see § 130.99

133.03 TAMPERING WITH PUBLIC NOTICE.

No person shall knowingly and without lawful authority alter, destroy, deface, remove, or conceal any public notice posted according to law, during the time for which the notice was to remain posted.

(ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 32-9) Penalty, see § 130.99