(55 ILCS 5/3-14042) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14042)
Sec. 3-14042.
Comptroller to pay salaries only after certification.
No county clerk, comptroller or other auditing officer of said county shall
approve the payment of, or be in any manner concerned in paying any salary
or wages to any person for services as an officer or employee of said
county unless such person is occupying an office or place of employment
according to the provisions of law and is entitled to payment therefor.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-14043) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14043)
Sec. 3-14043.
Subpoenas; witness fees.
Any person who shall be served
with a subpoena to appear and testify, or to produce books and papers,
issued by the commission or by any commissioners, or by any board or person
acting under the orders of the commission in the course of an investigation
conducted either under the provisions of Section 3-14023 or Section
3-14026, and who shall refuse or neglect to appear or testify, or to
produce books and papers relevant to the investigation as commanded in such
subpoena, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be
punished as provided in Section 3-14044. The fees of witnesses for
attendance and travel shall be the same as the fees of witnesses before the
circuit courts, and shall be paid from the appropriation for the expense of
the commission. And any circuit court, upon application of any such
commissioner or officer or board may, in its discretion, compel the
attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers, and giving of
testimony before the commission, or before any such commissioner,
investigating board or officer by attachment for contempt or otherwise in
the same manner as the production of evidence may be compelled before such
court. Every person who, having taken an oath or made affirmation before a
commissioner or officer appointed by the commission authorized to
administer oaths, shall swear or affirm wilfully, corruptly and falsely,
shall be guilty of perjury, and upon conviction shall be punished accordingly.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-14044) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14044)
Sec. 3-14044.
Penalties.
Any person who shall wilfully, or
through culpable negligence violate any of the provisions of this
Division or any rule promulgated in accordance with the
provisions thereof shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-14045) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14045)
Sec. 3-14045.
Vacancy upon conviction; disqualification.
If
any person shall be convicted under the next preceding Section, any public
office or place of public employment, which such person may hold shall, by
force of such conviction, be rendered vacant, and such person shall be
incapable of holding any office or place of public employment for the
period of five years from the date of such conviction.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-14046) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14046)
Sec. 3-14046.
Prosecution for violations.
Prosecutions for violations
of this Division may be instituted either by the Attorney General, the
State's attorney for the county in which the offense is alleged to have
been committed, or by the commission acting through special counsel. Such
suits shall be conducted and controlled by the prosecuting officers who
institute them, unless they request the aid of other prosecuting officers.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-14047) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14047)
Sec. 3-14047.
Audit committee.
The board of commissioners may
establish an audit committee, and may appoint members of the board or other
appropriate officers to the committee, to review audit reports, financial
reports or any other related document prepared under this Division,
including management letters proposed by or on behalf of the county board.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-14048) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14048)
Sec. 3-14048.
County auditor.
In the County of Cook, there is hereby
created the office of auditor who shall be appointed by the President of
the County Board, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the law in
relation to civil service in said county, and whose compensation and
official bond shall be fixed by said board; and there shall be formulated,
installed and regulated by and under the direction and authority of the
County Board, and subject to the provisions of "The Local Records Act", a
uniform system of books of account, forms, reports
and records to be used in the offices of every county officer of Cook
County which said system of books of account, forms, reports and records so
formulated under the direction of the said County Board and installed and
regulated shall be used by said county officers for the purpose of keeping
an accurate statement of moneys received by them and all the financial and
business transactions of their respective offices; and said auditor shall
audit or cause to be audited from day to day the receipts of the said
several offices and the reports of the said offices of the business
transactions of their respective offices and certify to their correctness
or incorrectness to the County Board. Said auditor shall report monthly to
the County Board a summarized and classified statement of the official
transactions of each of the said offices of each officer of Cook County for
each day of said month; and the said auditor shall further make a
semi-annual report to the County Board containing a recapitulation of the
receipts of the several offices for the preceding 6 months; such report to
include the period covered by the semi-annual report of the several
officers of the County of Cook to the County Board where a semi-annual
report is required by law from said officers.
For the purpose aforesaid the said County Board or any one authorized by
it in addition to the power and authority vested in them by Sections
3-13001 and 3-13002, as heretofore or hereafter amended, are vested with
power and authority to enter the office of any county officer of Cook
County at all times and to have free and unrestricted access to all the
books, papers, forms, reports, accounts and memoranda used by said officers
for the transaction of the business of their respective offices for the
purpose of auditing, checking or correcting the reports when reports to the
County Board are required from said offices by law, or compiling the
records provided herein to be made to the County Board, or auditing the
general business of the offices.
Said auditor may under the direction of the County Board prescribe new
forms, reports, accounts or records to be used by said officers in the
transaction of the said business of their several respective offices, or
change, alter or amend the same from time to time.
The said auditor may with the authority of the President of the County
Board employ assistants, the number and compensation of whom shall be fixed
by the County Board.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-14049) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14049)
Sec. 3-14049. Appointment of physicians and nurses for the poor
and mentally ill persons. The appointment, employment and removal by the
Board of Commissioners of Cook County of all physicians and surgeons, advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and
nurses for the care and treatment of the sick, poor, mentally ill or
persons in need of mental treatment of said county shall be made only in
conformity with rules prescribed by the County Civil Service Commission to
accomplish the purposes of this Section.
The Board of Commissioners of Cook County may provide that all such
physicians and surgeons who serve without compensation shall be appointed
for a term to be fixed by the Board, and that the physicians and surgeons
usually designated and known as interns shall be appointed for a term to
be fixed by the Board: Provided, that there may also, at the discretion of
the board, be a consulting staff of physicians and surgeons, which staff
may be appointed by the president, subject to the approval of the board,
and provided further, that the Board may contract with any recognized
training school or any program for health professionals for health care services of any or all of such sick or mentally ill
or persons in need of mental treatment.
(Source: P.A. 99-581, eff. 1-1-17; 100-513, eff. 1-1-18 .)
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(55 ILCS 5/Div. 3-15 heading) Division 3-15.
County Department of Corrections
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(55 ILCS 5/3-15001) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15001)
Sec. 3-15001.
Subtitle.
This Division shall be subtitled
the County Department of Corrections Law.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-15002) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15002)
Sec. 3-15002.
Creation.
In any county having more than 1,000,000
inhabitants, there is created within the office of the Sheriff a Department
of Corrections, referred to in this Division as the "Department".
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 87-895.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-15003) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15003)
Sec. 3-15003.
Powers and duties.
Under the direction of the Sheriff
the Department shall have the powers and duties enumerated as follows:
(a) To operate and have jurisdiction over the county jail, municipal
houses of correction within the county and any other penal, corrections or
prisoner diagnostic center facility operated by either the county jail or
municipal houses of correction.
(b) To have charge of all prisoners held in any institution, center or
other facility in the county over which it has jurisdiction under
subsection (a) of this Section, whether they are misdemeanants, felons,
persons held for trial, persons held in protective custody, persons held
for transfer to other detention facilities or persons held for non-payment
of fines, for violations of ordinances or any other quasi-criminal charges.
Nothing in this Division applies to minors subject to proceedings under the
Juvenile Court Act of 1987. It may transfer or recommit any prisoner
from one institution, center or other such facility to any other
institution, center or other facility whenever it determines that such
transfer or recommitment would promote the welfare or rehabilitation of the
prisoner, or that such transfer or recommitment is necessary to relieve
overcrowding.
(c) To establish diagnostic, classification and rehabilitation services
and programs at the county jail and such other facilities over which it has
jurisdiction under subsection (a) of this Section as may be appropriate.
(d) To establish, whenever feasible, separate detention and commitment
facilities and utilize the facilities over which it has jurisdiction under
subsection (a) of this Section in a manner which provides separate
detention and commitment facilities.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.3) Sec. 3-15003.3. Voter registration; county jails. Upon discharge of a person who is eligible to vote from a county jail, the county jail shall provide the person with a voter registration application. Each election authority shall collaborate with the county jail within the jurisdiction of the election authority to facilitate voter registration for voters eligible to vote in that county who are confined or detained in the county jail. A county jail shall provide a voter registration application to any person in custody at the jail who requests an application and is eligible to vote.
(Source: P.A. 101-442, eff. 1-1-20 .) |
(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.4) Sec. 3-15003.4. Voting rights; county jails; probation offices. (a) Each county jail and county probation office shall make available current resource materials, maintained by the Illinois State Board of Elections, containing detailed information regarding the voting rights of a person with a criminal conviction in print. (b) The current resource materials described under subsection (a) shall be provided: (1) upon discharge of a person from a county jail; and (2) upon intake of a person by a county probation | ||
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(Source: P.A. 101-442, eff. 1-1-20 .) |
(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.5)
Sec. 3-15003.5.
County impact incarceration
program.
(a) Under the direction of the Sheriff and with the
approval of the County Board of Commissioners, the Sheriff
in any county
with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, shall have the power to operate a
county impact
incarceration program for persons eligible for a term of imprisonment, but
sentenced to a county impact incarceration program by the sentencing court. In order to be eligible to participate in a county impact
incarceration program, a person convicted of a felony
shall
meet the requirements set forth in
subsection (b) of Section 5-8-1.2 of the Unified Code of
Corrections.
(b) (Blank).
(c) The Sheriff, with the approval of the County Board of
Commissioners,
shall have the power to enter into intergovernmental cooperation agreements
with the Illinois Department of Corrections under which persons in the custody
of the Illinois Department may participate in the county
impact
incarceration program. No person shall be eligible for participation who does
not meet the criteria set forth in subsection (b) of Section 5-8-1.1 of the
Unified Code of
Corrections.
Offenders committed to the Illinois Department of Corrections who
successfully complete the county impact incarceration
program shall have their sentence reduced to time considered served upon
certification to the Court by the Illinois Department of Corrections that the
offender has successfully completed the program.
(Source: P.A. 88-469; 89-587, eff. 7-31-96.)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.6)
Sec. 3-15003.6. Pregnant female prisoners. (a) Definitions. For the purpose of this Section and Sections 3-15003.7, 3-15003.8, 3-15003.9, and 3-15003.10: (1) "Restraints" means any physical restraint or | ||
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(2) "Labor" means the period of time before a birth | ||
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(3) "Post-partum" means, as determined by her | ||
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(4) "Correctional institution" means any entity under | ||
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(5) "Corrections official" means the official that is | ||
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(6) "Prisoner" means any person incarcerated or | ||
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(7) "Extraordinary circumstance" means an | ||
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(b) A county department of corrections shall not apply security restraints to a prisoner that has been determined by a qualified medical professional to be pregnant and is known by the county department of corrections to be pregnant or in postpartum recovery, which is the entire period a woman is in the medical facility after birth, unless the corrections official makes an individualized determination that the prisoner presents a substantial flight risk or some other extraordinary circumstance that dictates security restraints be used to ensure the safety and security of the prisoner, her child or unborn child, the staff of the county department of corrections or medical facility, other prisoners, or the public. The protections set out in clauses (b)(3) and (b)(4) of this Section shall apply to security restraints used pursuant to this subsection. The corrections official shall immediately remove all restraints upon the written or oral request of medical personnel. Oral requests made by medical personnel shall be verified in writing as promptly as reasonably possible. (1) Qualified authorized health staff shall have | ||
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(2) Whenever therapeutic restraints are used by | ||
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(3) Leg irons, shackles or waist shackles shall not | ||
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(4) When a pregnant or postpartum prisoner must be | ||
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(5) Upon the pregnant prisoner's entry into a | ||
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(6) The county department of corrections shall | ||
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(7) Where the county department of corrections | ||
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(8) Upon discharge from a medical facility, | ||
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(c) Enforcement.
No later than 30 days before the end of each fiscal year, the county sheriff or corrections official of the correctional institution where a pregnant prisoner has been restrained during that previous fiscal year, shall submit a written report to the Illinois General Assembly and the Office of the Governor that includes an account of every instance of prisoner restraint pursuant to this Section. The written report shall state the date, time, location and rationale for each instance in which restraints are used. The written report shall not contain any individually identifying information of any prisoner. Such reports shall be made available for public inspection.
(Source: P.A. 100-513, eff. 1-1-18; 101-652, eff. 7-1-21 .)
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(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.7) Sec. 3-15003.7. Corrections official training related to pregnant prisoners. (a) A county department of corrections shall provide training relating to medical and mental health care issues applicable to pregnant prisoners to: (1) each corrections official employed by a county | ||
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(2) any other county department of corrections | ||
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(b) The training must include information regarding: (1) appropriate care for pregnant prisoners; and (2) the impact on a pregnant prisoner and the | ||
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(A) the use of restraints; (B) placement in administrative segregation; and (C) invasive searches.
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21 .) |
(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.8) Sec. 3-15003.8. Educational programming for pregnant prisoners. The Illinois Department of Public Health shall provide the county department of corrections with educational programming relating to pregnancy and parenting and the county department of corrections shall provide the programming to pregnant prisoners. The programming must include instruction regarding: (1) appropriate prenatal care and hygiene; (2) the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol and | ||
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(3) parenting skills; and (4) medical and mental health issues applicable to | ||
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(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21; 102-28, eff. 6-25-21.) |
(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.9) Sec. 3-15003.9. Prisoner post-partum recovery requirements. A county department of corrections shall ensure that, for a period of 72 hours after the birth of an infant by a prisoner: (1) the infant is allowed to remain with the | ||
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(2) the prisoner has access to any nutritional or | ||
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(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21 .) |
(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.10) Sec. 3-15003.10. Housing requirements applicable to pregnant prisoners. (a) A county department of corrections may not place in administrative segregation a prisoner who is pregnant or who gave birth during the preceding 30 days unless the director of the county department of corrections or the director's designee determines that the placement is necessary based on a reasonable belief that the prisoner will harm herself, the prisoner's infant, or any other person or will attempt escape. (b) A county department of corrections may not assign a pregnant prisoner to any bed that is elevated more than 3 feet above the floor.
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21 .) |
(55 ILCS 5/3-15004)
Sec. 3-15004. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-448, eff. 1-1-08.)
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