2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53a - Penal Code
Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses
Section 53a-224 - Recruiting a member of a criminal gang: Class A misdemeanor.
(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Criminal gang” means a formal or informal organization, association or group of three or more persons that has: (A) As one of its primary activities the commission of one or more criminal acts; (B) members who individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in one or more criminal acts; and (C) an identifying name, sign or symbol, or an identifiable leadership or hierarchy; and (2) “criminal act” means conduct constituting a felony, as defined in section 53a-25, or a misdemeanor, as defined in section 53a-26, other than a violation of this section.
(b) A person is guilty of recruiting a member of a criminal gang when, with knowledge that membership or continued membership in such criminal gang is conditioned upon the commission of a criminal act, or with intent to facilitate the criminal acts of such criminal gang, such person knowingly causes, encourages, solicits, recruits, intimidates or coerces a person under eighteen years of age to join, participate in or remain a member of such criminal gang.
(c) Recruiting a member of a criminal gang is a class A misdemeanor.
(P.A. 13-302, S. 1.)
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