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92_HB0905
LRB9202618MWcd
1 AN ACT in relation to penal ordinances.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 adding Section 11-1-12 as follows:
6 (65 ILCS 5/11-1-12 new)
7 Sec. 11-1-12. Local retail theft ordinance. The
8 corporate authorities of a municipality may, by ordinance,
9 declare retail theft, as defined by the Criminal Code of
10 1961, to be unlawful. The ordinance, however, may not apply
11 to any individual who has previously been convicted of any
12 type of theft, robbery, armed robbery, burglary, residential
13 burglary, possession of burglary tools, or home invasion, or
14 in any case where the theft is of property with a full retail
15 value in excess of $150.
16 The corporate authorities of any municipality that adopts
17 a retail theft ordinance under this Section shall keep a
18 record of all individuals who are convicted under the
19 ordinance and shall make the record available for public
20 inspection and copying on the payment of the cost of
21 reproducing the record. The municipality must, in a timely
22 manner, furnish a copy of all retail theft ordinance
23 convictions to the office of the State's Attorney of the
24 county in which the municipality is located.