(25 ILCS 5/9) (from Ch. 63, par. 9)
Sec. 9.
The manner of effecting imprisonment of any person by either
house for disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence, shall be
by a warrant, under the signature of the presiding officer for the time being
of the house ordering the imprisonment, countersigned by the acting
secretary or clerk, running in the name of the People of the State of
Illinois, and may be directed to the sergeant-at-arms or doorkeeper of
the house, or to the sheriff of the county in which the
General Assembly is convened, commanding him or her to commit the prisoner to
the county jail, and deliver the prisoner to the keeper thereof, and the jailer
to receive the prisoner into his or her custody and safely keep the prisoner
for the time for which the prisoner is committed, or until the prisoner
is duly discharged.
(Source: P.A. 84-550.)
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