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Public Act 91-0359

SB1042 Enrolled                                LRB9106082KScd

    AN ACT to amend  the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code  by  adding
Section 12-612.

    Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5.  The  Illinois  Vehicle  code  is  amended  by
adding Section 12-612 as follows:

    (625 ILCS 5/12-612 new)
    Sec.  12-612.  False  or  secret  compartment  in a motor
vehicle.
    (a)  Offenses.  It is unlawful for any person to  own  or
operate  any motor vehicle he or she knows to contain a false
or secret compartment. It  is  unlawful  for  any  person  to
knowingly  install,  create, build, or fabricate in any motor
vehicle a false or secret compartment.
    (b)  Definitions.  For purposes of this Section, a "false
or secret compartment" means any enclosure that  is  intended
and  designed  to  be  used  to  conceal,  hide,  and prevent
discovery by law enforcement officers of the false or  secret
compartment,  or its contents, and which is integrated into a
vehicle.   For purpose of this Section, a person's  intention
to  use a false or secret compartment to conceal the contents
of the compartment from a  law  enforcement  officer  may  be
inferred  from  factors  including,  but  not limited to, the
discovery of a  person,  firearm,  controlled  substance,  or
other  contraband  within the false or secret compartment, or
from the discovery of evidence of the previous placement of a
person, firearm, controlled substance,  or  other  contraband
within the false or secret compartment.
    (c)  Forfeiture.  Any motor vehicle containing a false or
secret   compartment,  as  well  as  any  items  within  that
compartment, shall be subject to seizure by the Department of
State  Police  or  by  any  municipal  or  other  local   law
enforcement agency within whose jurisdiction that property is
found  as  provided in Sections 36-1 and 36-2 of the Criminal
Code of 1961 (720 ILCS 5/36-1 and 5/36-2).
    (d)  Sentence.  A violation of this Section is a Class  C
misdemeanor.

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