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.]