TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 85

IDAHO CRIMINAL GANG ENFORCEMENT ACT

18-8504.  Recruiting criminal gang members. (1) A person commits the offense of recruiting criminal gang members by:

(a)  Knowingly soliciting, inviting, encouraging or otherwise causing a person to actively participate in a criminal gang; or

(b)  Knowingly using force, threats, violence or intimidation directed at any person, or by the infliction of bodily injury upon any person, to actively participate in a criminal gang.

(2)  A person convicted of a violation of this section shall be imprisoned for a term not to exceed ten (10) years.

(3)  This section shall not be construed to limit prosecution under any other provision of law.

History:

[18-8504, added 2006, ch. 184, sec. 1, p. 584.]