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90_SB0369sam001
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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 369
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 369 by inserting
3 immediately below the enacting clause the following:
4 "Section 3. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended
5 by adding Section 10.5 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 705/10.5 new)
7 Sec. 10.5. Conservators of the Peace training course.
8 The Board shall initiate, administer, and conduct a training
9 course for conservators of the peace. The training course
10 may include all or any part of the subjects enumerated in
11 Section 7. The Board shall issue a certificate to those
12 persons successfully completing the course.
13 For the purposes of this Section, "conservators of the
14 peace" means those persons designated under Section 3.1-15-25
15 of the Illinois Municipal Code and Section 4-7 of the Park
16 District Code."; and
17 by replacing Sections 10 and 15 with the following:
18 "Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
19 changing Section 3.1-15-25 as follows:
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1 (65 ILCS 5/3.1-15-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-15-25)
2 Sec. 3.1-15-25. Conservators of the peace; service of
3 warrants.
4 (a) After receiving a certificate attesting to the
5 successful completion of a training course administered by
6 the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, the
7 mayor, aldermen, president, trustees, marshal, deputy
8 marshals, and policemen in municipalities shall be
9 conservators of the peace. Those persons and others
10 authorized by ordinance shall have power (i) to arrest or
11 cause to be arrested, with or without process, all persons
12 who break the peace or are found violating any municipal
13 ordinance or any criminal law of the State, (ii) to commit
14 arrested persons for examination, (iii) if necessary, to
15 detain arrested persons in custody over night or Sunday in
16 any safe place or until they can be brought before the proper
17 court, and (iv) to exercise all other powers as conservators
18 of the peace prescribed by the corporate authorities.
19 (b) All warrants for the violation of municipal
20 ordinances or the State criminal law, directed to any person,
21 may be served and executed within the limits of a
22 municipality by any policeman or marshal of the municipality.
23 For that purpose, policemen and marshals have all the common
24 law and statutory powers of sheriffs.
25 (Source: P.A. 87-1119.)
26 Section 15. The Park District Code is amended by
27 changing Section 4-7 as follows:
28 (70 ILCS 1205/4-7) (from Ch. 105, par. 4-7)
29 Sec. 4-7. Employees; police force. The board of any
30 park district may employ engineers, attorneys, clerks and
31 other employees, including a police force, as may be
32 required, and may define and prescribe their respective
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1 duties and compensation. After receiving a certificate
2 attesting to the successful completion of a training course
3 administered by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training
4 Standards Board, the members of the board and all police
5 officers appointed by the board shall be conservators of the
6 peace within and upon the parks, boulevards, driveways, and
7 property controlled by that park district, and shall have
8 power to make arrests subject to the provisions of the Park
9 District Police Act. The exercise of such authority shall not
10 permit the possession or use of firearms by members of the
11 board.
12 (Source: P.A. 89-458, eff. 5-24-96.)".
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