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720 ILCS 5/12C-50 (2026)

Hazing

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(720 ILCS 5/12C-50)
    Sec. 12C-50. Hazing.
    (a) A person commits hazing when he or she knowingly requires the performance of any act by a student or other person in a school, college, university, or other educational institution of this State, for the purpose of induction or admission into any group, organization, or society associated or connected with that institution, if:
        (1) the act is not sanctioned or authorized by that
    
educational institution; and
        (2) the act results in bodily harm to any person.
    (a-1) It is not a defense to a prosecution under subsection (a) that the person against whom the hazing was directed consented to or acquiesced in the hazing.
    (b) Sentence. Hazing is a Class A misdemeanor, except that hazing that results in death or great bodily harm is a Class 4 felony.
(Source: P.A. 103-765, eff. 1-1-25.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2016–2018 · leading case: Bogenberger v. Pi Kappa Alpha Corp., Inc., 2018 IL 120951 (Ill. 2018).
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Bogenberger v. Pi Kappa Alpha Corp., Inc., 2018 IL 120951 (Ill. 2018). · cites it 2× “" 720 ILCS 5/12C-50 (West 2012). Here, the message conveyed to the pledges, whether by the members or the nonmember women, was the same: Drink the vodka to become a member of the fraternity.”
Bogenberger v. PI KAPPA ALPHA Corp., Inc., 2016 IL App (1st) 150128 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “720 ILCS 5/12C-50 (West 2012). - 19 - No.”
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