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90_HB2734
15 ILCS 205/4c from Ch. 14, par. 4c
Amends the Attorney General Act. Provides that the
Attorney General's investigators shall cooperate with
municipal police and county police in enforcing the laws of
the State and in making arrests and recovering property.
Effective immediately.
LRB9009447RCcd
LRB9009447RCcd
1 AN ACT to amend the Attorney General Act by changing
2 Section 4c.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Attorney General Act is amended by
6 changing Section 4c as follows:
7 (15 ILCS 205/4c) (from Ch. 14, par. 4c)
8 Sec. 4c. Subject to the qualifications set forth below,
9 investigators employed by the Attorney General shall be peace
10 officers and as such shall have all the powers possessed by
11 policemen in cities, and by sheriffs, except that they ;
12 provided, that Attorney General's investigators may exercise
13 such powers anywhere in the State. The Attorney General's
14 investigators shall in cooperate cooperation with the police
15 of cities, villages and incorporated towns, and with the
16 police officers of any county, in enforcing the laws of the
17 State and in making arrests and recovering property after
18 contact with the local law enforcement officials.
19 No investigator employed by the Attorney General shall
20 have peace officer status or exercise police powers unless he
21 or she successfully completes the basic police training
22 course mandated and approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement
23 Training Standards Board or such board waives the training
24 requirement by reason of the investigator's prior law
25 enforcement experience or training or both.
26 The board shall not waive the training requirement unless
27 the investigator has had a minimum of 5 years experience as a
28 sworn officer of a local, state or federal law enforcement
29 agency, 2 of which shall have been in an investigatory
30 capacity.
31 (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.
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