RECRUITING CRIMINAL GANG MEMBERS.

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.]