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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
55-1114 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/5-1114)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1114)
7    Sec. 5-1114. Violation of ordinance.
8    (a) Except as provided in Section 10-302.5 of the Illinois
9Highway Code or subsection (b) of this Section, in all actions
10for the violation of any county ordinance, the first process
11shall be a summons or a warrant. A warrant or summons for the
12arrest of an accused person may issue from the circuit court
13upon the affidavit of any person that an ordinance has been
14violated, and that the person making the complaint has
15reasonable grounds to believe that the party charged is guilty
16thereof. Every person arrested upon a warrant or summons shall
17be taken, without unnecessary delay, before the proper judicial
18officer for trial.
19    (b) In the case of a violation of the property maintenance
20code of the county by a repeat offender, service of process
21against the owner of the property that is the subject of the
22violation may be a notice to appear. The notice to appear
23shall, at a minimum, state the address of the property that is

 

 

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1the subject of the code violation, the language and citation of
2the code provision that was violated, the facts that the
3violation is based on, and the date, time, and location for the
4appearance by the property owner. The notice to appear shall be
5served upon the property owner, either personally, or by
6delivery confirmation mail and first class mail. The violation
7notice shall be sent to the address where the violation is
8observed and to the property owner's address on file with the
9Supervisor of Assessments office. The county shall
10simultaneously post the notice on the property where the
11violation occurred. If the owner of the property fails to
12appear in response to the notice, the Court may issue a warrant
13or summons in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section.
14For the purposes of this Section, "repeat offender" means a
15person who has been found guilty of 2 or more violations of a
16property maintenance code.
17(Source: P.A. 89-120, eff. 7-7-95.)