(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.
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Terms Used In Idaho Code 18-8504

  • Criminal gang: means an ongoing organization, association, or group of three (3) or more persons, whether formal or informal, that has a common name or common identifying sign or symbol, whose members individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal gang activity, having as one (1) of its primary activities the commission of one (1) or more of the criminal acts enumerated in subsection (3) of this section. See Idaho Code 18-8502
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114
(3)  This section shall not be construed to limit prosecution under any other provision of law.