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720 ILCS 5/33G-8

    (720 ILCS 5/33G-8)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on June 1, 2025)
    Sec. 33G-8. Limitations.

Under this Article, notwithstanding any other provision of law, but otherwise subject to the periods of exclusion from limitation as provided in Section 3-7 of this Code, the following limitations apply:

(a)  Any action, proceeding, or prosecution brought under this Article must commence within 5 years of one of the following dates, whichever is latest:

(1) the date of the commission of the last occurrence

of predicate activity in a pattern of that activity, in the form of an act underlying the alleged violation of this Article; or

(2) in the case of an action, proceeding, or

prosecution, based upon a conspiracy to violate this Article, the date that the last objective of the alleged conspiracy was accomplished, defeated or abandoned (whichever is later); or

(3) the date any minor victim of the violation

attains the age of 18 years or the date any victim of the violation subject to a legal disability thereafter gains legal capacity.

(b) Any action, proceeding, or prosecution brought under this Article may be commenced at any time against all defendants if the conduct of any defendant, or any part of the overall violation, resulted in the unlawful death of any person or persons.

(Source: P.A. 97-686, eff. 6-11-12.)