HB1843 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1843

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Jonathan Carroll

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

70 ILCS 810/15

from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6418

Amends the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. Provides that 91 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act: (1) the forest preserve district board's authority to appoint and maintain a police force is terminated; and (2) the Cook County Sheriff's Department shall exercise primary jurisdiction over the territory within the forest preserve district. Effective immediately.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Cook County Forest Preserve District Act is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:

(70 ILCS 810/15) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6418)

Sec. 15. Police powers in the district.

(a) Until 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, the The board shall have the right and power to appoint and maintain a sufficient police force, the members of which may have and exercise police powers over the territory within such forest preserves for the preservation of the public peace, and the observance and enforcement of the ordinances and laws, such as are conferred upon and exercised by the police of organized cities and villages; but such police force, when acting within the limits of any city or village, but outside the territory owned, leased, or licensed by the district and property over which the district has easement rights, shall act in aid of the regular police force of such city or village and shall then be subject to the direction of its chief of police, city or village marshals, or other head thereof.

(b) 91 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly:

(1) the board's authority to appoint and maintain a police force under subsection (a) is terminated; and

(2) the Cook County Sheriff's Department shall exercise primary jurisdiction over the territory within the district.

(Source: P.A. 99-312, eff. 1-1-16.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.