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90_HB2391eng

      225 ILCS 446/30
          Amends the  Private  Detective,  Private  Alarm,  Private
      Security,  and  Locksmith Act of 1993.  Provides that the Act
      does not apply to a  person,  firm,  or  corporation  engaged
      solely  and  exclusively  in tracing and compiling lineage or
      ancestry.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the  Private  Detective,  Private  Alarm,
 2    Private  Security,  and  Locksmith  Act  of  1993 by changing
 3    Section 30.
 4        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 5    represented in the General Assembly:
 6        Section 5.  The Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
 7    Security,  and  Locksmith  Act of 1993 is amended by changing
 8    Section 30 as follows:
 9        (225 ILCS 446/30)
10        Sec. 30.  Exemptions.
11        (a)  This Act does not apply to:
12             (1)  An officer or employee of  the  United  States,
13        this  State, or any political subdivision of either while
14        the officer or employee is engaged in the performance  of
15        his or her official duties within the course and scope of
16        his or her employment with the United States, this State,
17        or  any  political  subdivision  of either.  However, any
18        person who offers  his  or  her  services  as  a  private
19        detective  or  private  security contractor, or any title
20        when similar services  are  performed  for  compensation,
21        fee,  or  other  valuable consideration, whether received
22        directly or indirectly, is subject to this  Act  and  its
23        licensing requirements.
24             (2)  An  attorney-at-law  licensed  to  practice  in
25        Illinois while engaging in the practice of law.
26             (3)  A person engaged exclusively in the business of
27        obtaining  and furnishing information as to the financial
28        rating or credit worthiness of persons; and a person  who
29        provides consumer reports in connection with:
30                  (i)  Credit transactions involving the consumer
31             on  whom  the  information  is  to  be furnished and
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 1             involving the extensions of credit to the consumer.
 2                  (ii)  Information for employment purposes.
 3                  (iii)  Information  for  the  underwriting   of
 4             insurance involving the consumer.
 5             (4)  Insurance  adjusters  legally employed or under
 6        contract  as  adjusters  and  who  engage  in  no   other
 7        investigative   activities   other  than  those  directly
 8        connected with adjustment of claims against an  insurance
 9        company  or  self-insured  by  which they are employed or
10        with which they have a contract.  No  insurance  adjuster
11        or  company  may  utilize the term "investigation" or any
12        derivative  thereof  in  its  company  name  or  in   its
13        advertising  other  than  for  the  handling of insurance
14        claims.
15        For the  purposes  of  this  Code,  "insurance  adjuster"
16    includes  any person expressly authorized to act on behalf of
17    an insurance company or self-insured and any employee thereof
18    who acts or appears to act on behalf of the insurance company
19    or self-insured in matters relating to claims, including  but
20    not limited to independent contractors while performing claim
21    services at the direction of the company.
22             (5)  A  person engaged exclusively and employed by a
23        person, firm, association, or corporation in the business
24        of  transporting  persons  or  property   in   interstate
25        commerce  and  making  an  investigation  related  to the
26        business of that employer.
27             (6)  Any  person,  watchman,   or   guard   employed
28        exclusively  and  regularly by one employer in connection
29        with the affairs of that employer only and  there  exists
30        an employer/employee relationship.
31             (7)  Any  law enforcement officer, as defined in the
32        Illinois  Police  Training  Act,  who  has   successfully
33        completed  the  requirements of basic law enforcement and
34        firearms training  as  prescribed  by  the  Illinois  Law
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 1        Enforcement  Training  Standards  Board,  employed  by an
 2        employer in connection with the affairs of that employer,
 3        provided  he  or  she  is  exclusively  employed  by  the
 4        employer during the hours or times he or she is scheduled
 5        to work for that employer, and there exists  an  employer
 6        and employee relationship.
 7        In  this  subsection  an  "employee"  is  a person who is
 8    employed by an employer who has  the  right  to  control  and
 9    direct  the  employee  who performs the services in question,
10    not only as to the result to be accomplished by the work, but
11    also as to the details and means by which the result is to be
12    accomplished; and an "employer" is any person or entity, with
13    the exception  of  a  private  detective,  private  detective
14    agency,   private   security   contractor,  private  security
15    contractor agency, private alarm contractor, or private alarm
16    contractor agency, whose purpose it is  to  hire  persons  to
17    perform   the   business  of  a  private  detective,  private
18    detective  agency,  private  security   contractor,   private
19    security  contractor  agency,  private  alarm  contractor, or
20    private alarm contractor agency.
21             (8)  A person who sells burglar  alarm  systems  and
22        does  not  install,  monitor,  maintain,  alter,  repair,
23        service, or respond to burglar alarm systems at protected
24        premises or premises to be protected, provided:
25                       (i)  The   burglar   alarm   systems   are
26                  approved either by Underwriters Laboratories or
27                  another  authoritative source recognized by the
28                  Department and are identified  by  a  federally
29                  registered trademark.
30                       (ii)  The   owner  of  the  trademark  has
31                  expressly authorized the  person  to  sell  the
32                  trademark  owner's  products,  and  the  person
33                  provides  proof  of this authorization upon the
34                  request of the Department.
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 1                       (iii)  The   owner   of   the    trademark
 2                  maintains,  and  provides upon the Department's
 3                  request, a certificate evidencing insurance for
 4                  bodily injury or property damage  arising  from
 5                  faulty  or  defective products in an amount not
 6                  less than  $1,000,000  combined  single  limit;
 7                  provided  that the policy of insurance need not
 8                  relate exclusively to burglar alarm systems.
 9             (9)  A person who  sells,  installs,  maintains,  or
10        repairs automobile alarm systems.
11             (9-5)  A person, firm, or corporation engaged solely
12        and  exclusively  in  tracing  and  compiling  lineage or
13        ancestry.
14        (b) (10)  Nothing  in  this  Act  prohibits  any  of  the
15    following:
16             (A)  Servicing, installing, repairing, or rebuilding
17        automotive  locks  by automotive service dealers, as long
18        as they do not hold  themselves  out  to  the  public  as
19        locksmiths.
20             (B)  Police, fire, or other municipal employees from
21        opening a lock in an emergency situation, as long as they
22        do not hold themselves out to the public as locksmiths.
23             (C)  Any  merchant  or retail or hardware store from
24        duplicating keys, from installing, servicing,  repairing,
25        rebuilding,   reprogramming,  or  maintaining  electronic
26        garage door devices or  from  selling  locks  or  similar
27        security  accessories  not  prohibited  from  sale by the
28        State of Illinois, as long as they do not hold themselves
29        out to the public as locksmiths.
30             (D)  The installation or removal of  complete  locks
31        or locking devices by members of the building trades when
32        doing  so  in the course of residential or commercial new
33        construction or remodeling, as long as they do  not  hold
34        themselves out to the public as locksmiths.
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 1             (E)  The employees of towing services, repossessors,
 2        or auto clubs from opening automotive locks in the normal
 3        course  of  their  duties,  as  long  as they do not hold
 4        themselves out to the public as locksmiths. Additionally,
 5        this Act shall not prohibit employees of towing  services
 6        from  opening  motor vehicle locks to enable a vehicle to
 7        be moved without towing, provided that the towing service
 8        does not hold itself out to the public,  by  yellow  page
 9        advertisement,  through  a  sign at the facilities of the
10        towing service, or  by  any  other  advertisement,  as  a
11        locksmith.
12             (F)  The practice of locksmithing by students in the
13        course  of  study in programs approved by the Department,
14        provided that the students do not hold themselves out  to
15        the public as locksmiths.
16             (G)  Servicing, installing, repairing, or rebuilding
17        locks by a lock manufacturer or anyone employed by a lock
18        manufacturer,  as long as they do not hold themselves out
19        to the public as locksmiths.
20             (H)  The  provision  of  any  of  the  products   or
21        services in the practice of locksmithing as identified in
22        Section 5 of this Act by a business licensed by the State
23        of  Illinois  as  a  private  alarm contractor or private
24        alarm contractor agency, as long as the principal purpose
25        of the  services  provided  to  a  customer  is  not  the
26        practice  of  locksmithing and the business does not hold
27        itself out to the public as a locksmith agency.
28             (I)  Any  maintenance   employee   of   a   property
29        management company at a multi-family residential building
30        from  servicing,  installing, repairing, or opening locks
31        for tenants as long as the maintenance employee does  not
32        hold himself or herself out to the public as a locksmith.
33             (J)   (11)  A  person,  firm,  or  corporation  from
34        engaging  engaged   in   fire   protection   engineering,
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 1        including  the  design,  testing,  and inspection of fire
 2        protection systems.
 3             (K) (12)  The practice of  professional  engineering
 4        as  defined  in the Professional Engineering Practice Act
 5        of 1989.
 6             (L) (13)  The practice of structural engineering  as
 7        defined  in  the  Structural Engineering Licensing Act of
 8        1989.
 9             (M) (14)  The practice of architecture as defined in
10        the Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989.
11             (N)  (15)  The  activities  of  persons   or   firms
12        licensed  under  the  Illinois  Public  Accounting Act if
13        performed in the course of their professional practice.
14        (c) (16)  This Act does not prohibit any persons  legally
15    regulated  in this State under any other Act from engaging in
16    the practice for which they are licensed, provided that  they
17    do  not  represent themselves by any title prohibited by this
18    Act. (Source: P.A. 89-366, eff. 1-1-96; 90-436, eff. 1-1-98.)
19        Section 99. Effective date.  This Act takes  effect  upon
20    becoming law.

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