Rep. John M. Cabello
Filed: 3/14/2013
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1711
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1711 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 3.1-15-25 as follows:
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| 6 | (65 ILCS 5/3.1-15-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-15-25)
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| 7 | Sec. 3.1-15-25. Conservators of the peace; service of | ||||||
| 8 | warrants.
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| 9 | (a) After receiving a certificate attesting to the | ||||||
| 10 | successful completion
of
a training course administered by the | ||||||
| 11 | Illinois Law Enforcement Training
Standards Board, the mayor, | ||||||
| 12 | aldermen,
president, trustees, marshal, deputy
marshals, and | ||||||
| 13 | policemen in municipalities with a population of less than | ||||||
| 14 | 1,000,000 shall be conservators
of the peace. After receiving a | ||||||
| 15 | certificate attesting to the successful completion of a | ||||||
| 16 | training course administered by the Illinois Law Enforcement | ||||||
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| 1 | Training Standards Board, policemen in municipalities with a | ||||||
| 2 | population of 1,000,000 or more shall be conservators of the | ||||||
| 3 | peace. Conservators of the peace Those persons and others | ||||||
| 4 | authorized by
ordinance shall have power (i) to arrest or cause | ||||||
| 5 | to be arrested, with or
without process, all persons who break | ||||||
| 6 | the peace or are found violating
any municipal ordinance or any | ||||||
| 7 | criminal law of the State, (ii) to commit
arrested persons for | ||||||
| 8 | examination, (iii) if necessary, to detain arrested
persons in | ||||||
| 9 | custody over night or Sunday in any safe place or until they
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| 10 | can be brought before the proper court, and (iv) to exercise | ||||||
| 11 | all other
powers as conservators of the peace prescribed by the | ||||||
| 12 | corporate authorities.
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| 13 | (b) All warrants for the violation of municipal ordinances | ||||||
| 14 | or the State
criminal law, directed to any person, may be | ||||||
| 15 | served and executed within the
limits of a municipality by any | ||||||
| 16 | policeman or marshal of the
municipality. For that purpose, | ||||||
| 17 | policemen and marshals have all the
common law and statutory | ||||||
| 18 | powers of sheriffs.
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| 19 | (Source: P.A. 90-540, eff. 12-1-97.)".
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