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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 Cook County Forest Preserve District Act is
5amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
 
6    (70 ILCS 810/15)  (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6418)
7    Sec. 15. The board shall have the right and power to
8appoint and maintain a sufficient police force, the members of
9which may have and exercise police powers over the territory
10within such forest preserves for the preservation of the public
11peace, and the observance and enforcement of the ordinances and
12laws, such as are conferred upon and exercised by the police of
13organized cities and villages; but such police force, when
14acting within the limits of any city or village, but outside
15the territory owned, leased, or licensed by the district and
16property over which the district has easement rights, shall act
17in aid of the regular police force of such city or village and
18shall then be subject to the direction of its chief of police,
19city or village marshals, or other head thereof.
20(Source: P.A. 80-320.)