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 1        AN ACT to amend  the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code  by  adding
 2    Section 12-612.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Vehicle  code  is  amended  by
 6    adding Section 12-612 as follows:

 7        (625 ILCS 5/12-612 new)
 8        Sec.  12-612.  False  or  secret  compartment  in a motor
 9    vehicle.
10        (a)  Offenses.  It is unlawful for any person to  own  or
11    operate  any motor vehicle he or she knows to contain a false
12    or secret compartment. It  is  unlawful  for  any  person  to
13    knowingly  install,  create, build, or fabricate in any motor
14    vehicle a false or secret compartment.
15        (b)  Definitions.  For purposes of this Section, a "false
16    or secret compartment" means any enclosure that  is  intended
17    and  designed  to  be  used  to  conceal,  hide,  and prevent
18    discovery by law enforcement officers of the false or  secret
19    compartment,  or its contents, and which is integrated into a
20    vehicle.   For purpose of this Section, a person's  intention
21    to  use a false or secret compartment to conceal the contents
22    of the compartment from a  law  enforcement  officer  may  be
23    inferred  from  factors  including,  but  not limited to, the
24    discovery of a  person,  firearm,  controlled  substance,  or
25    other  contraband  within the false or secret compartment, or
26    from the discovery of evidence of the previous placement of a
27    person, firearm, controlled substance,  or  other  contraband
28    within the false or secret compartment.
29        (c)  Forfeiture.  Any motor vehicle containing a false or
30    secret   compartment,  as  well  as  any  items  within  that
31    compartment, shall be subject to seizure by the Department of
 
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 1    State  Police  or  by  any  municipal  or  other  local   law
 2    enforcement agency within whose jurisdiction that property is
 3    found  as  provided in Sections 36-1 and 36-2 of the Criminal
 4    Code of 1961 (720 ILCS 5/36-1 and 5/36-2).
 5        (d)  Sentence.  A violation of this Section is a Class  C
 6    misdemeanor.

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