Section 1230.10  Definitions

As used in this Part, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:

"Act" means Firearm Owner's Identification Card Act [430 ILCS 65].

            “Antique firearm” means, for the purpose of 430 ILCS 65/1.1(4), any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system manufactured in or before 1898, provided it is not likely to be used as a weapon.

"Applicant" means an applicant for a Firearm Owner's Identification Card.

"Department" means the Department of State Police.

"Director" means the Director of State Police or designee.

"Firearm" and "firearm ammunition" mean the terms as defined in Section 1.1 of the Act.

"Firearm Owner's Identification Card" means the term as defined in Section 6 of the Act.

"Law enforcement official" means any peace officer, warden, superintendent, or keeper of prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and other institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of a criminal offense, and employees of police laboratories having a department or section of forensic firearm identification.

"Mental institution" means any medical facility or part of any medical facility used primarily for the care or treatment of persons for mental illness.

"Mentally retarded" means a person who has significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning which exists concurrently with impairment in adaptive behavior and which originates before the age of 18 years.

"Narcotics" means any substance controlled by the Controlled Substances Act.

(Source:  Amended at 27 Ill. Reg. 10308, effective June 26, 2003)