93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2178

 

Introduced 1/14/2004, by Dale A. Righter

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
430 ILCS 65/13.3

    Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that it is an affirmative defense to a violation of a municipal ordinance that regulates the acquisition, possession, sale, or transfer of firearms that the municipality has failed to submit a copy of that ordinance to the Department of State Police. Effective immediately.


LRB093 14731 RLC 40276 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

SB2178 LRB093 14731 RLC 40276 b

1     AN ACT in relation to firearms.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is
5 amended by changing Section 13.3 as follows:
 
6     (430 ILCS 65/13.3)
7     Sec. 13.3. Municipal ordinance submission; affirmative
8 defense.
9     (a) Within 6 months after the effective date of this
10 amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, every municipality
11 must submit to the Department of State Police a copy of every
12 ordinance adopted by the municipality that regulates the
13 acquisition, possession, sale, or transfer of firearms within
14 the municipality and must submit, 30 days after adoption, every
15 such ordinance adopted after its initial submission of
16 ordinances under this Section. The Department of State Police
17 shall compile these ordinances and publish them in a form
18 available to the public free of charge and shall periodically
19 update this compilation of ordinances in a manner prescribed by
20 the Director of State Police.
21     (b) It is an affirmative defense to a violation of a
22 municipal ordinance that regulates the acquisition,
23 possession, sale, or transfer of firearms that the municipality
24 has failed to submit a copy of that ordinance to the Department
25 of State Police.
26 (Source: P.A. 92-238, eff. 8-3-01.)
 
27     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
28 becoming law.