Sec. 12C-50. Hazing.
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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.