Hazing

(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.)