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92_HB0415
LRB9202764RCdv
1 AN ACT concerning municipalities.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 3.1-15-25 as follows:
6 (65 ILCS 5/3.1-15-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-15-25)
7 Sec. 3.1-15-25. Conservators of the peace; service of
8 warrants.
9 (a) After receiving a certificate attesting to the
10 successful completion of a training course administered by
11 the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, the
12 mayor, aldermen, president, trustees, marshal, deputy
13 marshals, and policemen in municipalities shall be
14 conservators of the peace. Those persons and others
15 authorized by ordinance shall have power (i) to arrest or
16 cause to be arrested, with or without process, all persons
17 who break the peace or are found violating any municipal
18 ordinance or any criminal law of the State, (ii) to commit
19 arrested persons for examination, (iii) if necessary, to
20 detain arrested persons in custody over night or Sunday in
21 any safe place or until they can be brought before the proper
22 court, and (iv) to exercise all other powers as conservators
23 of the peace prescribed by the corporate authorities.
24 (b) All warrants for the violation of municipal
25 ordinances or the State criminal law, directed to any person,
26 may be served and executed within the limits of a
27 municipality by any policeman or marshal of the municipality.
28 For that purpose, policemen and marshals have all the common
29 law and statutory powers of sheriffs.
30 (Source: P.A. 90-540, eff. 12-1-97.)
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1 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2 becoming law.