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91_SB1062
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1 AN ACT to amend the Firearm Owners Identification Card
2 Act by changing Sections 3.1 and 6.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is
6 amended by changing Sections 3.1 and 6 as follows:
7 (430 ILCS 65/3.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1)
8 Sec. 3.1. Dial up system. The Department of State Police
9 shall provide a dial up telephone system which shall be used
10 by any federally licensed firearm dealer who is to transfer a
11 firearm under the provisions of this Act. The Department of
12 State Police shall utilize existing technology which allows
13 the caller to be charged a fee equivalent to the cost of
14 providing this service but not to exceed $2. Fees collected
15 by the Department of State Police shall be deposited in the
16 State Police Services Fund and used to provide the service.
17 Upon receiving a request from a federally licensed
18 firearm dealer, the Department of State Police shall
19 immediately approve, or within the time period established by
20 Section 24-3 of the Criminal Code of 1961 regarding the
21 delivery of firearms, notify the inquiring dealer of any
22 objection that would disqualify the transferee from acquiring
23 or possessing a firearm. In conducting the inquiry, the
24 Department of State Police shall initiate and complete an
25 automated search of its criminal history record information
26 files and those of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
27 including the National Instant Criminal Background Check
28 System, and of the files of the Department of Human Services
29 relating to mental health and developmental disabilities to
30 obtain any felony conviction or patient hospitalization
31 information which would disqualify a person from obtaining or
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1 require revocation of a currently valid Firearm Owner's
2 Identification Card.
3 The Department of State Police must act as the Illinois
4 Point of Contact for the National Instant Criminal Background
5 Check System.
6 The Department of State Police shall promulgate rules to
7 implement this system.
8 (Source: P.A. 88-535; 88-597, eff. 8-28-94; 89-507, eff.
9 7-1-97.)
10 (430 ILCS 65/6) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-6)
11 Sec. 6. A Firearm Owner's Identification Card, issued by
12 the Department of State Police at such places as the Director
13 of the Department shall specify, shall contain the
14 applicant's name, residence, date of birth, sex, physical
15 description, recent photograph and such other personal
16 identifying information as may be required by the Director.
17 Each Firearm Owner's Identification Card must have the
18 expiration date boldly and conspicuously displayed on the
19 face of the card. Each Firearm Owner's Identification Card
20 issued on or after September 1, 1999 must boldly and
21 conspicuously display an authorization number from the
22 National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Each
23 Firearm Owner's Identification Card must have printed on it
24 the following: "CAUTION - This card does not permit bearer to
25 UNLAWFULLY carry or use firearms."
26 (Source: P.A. 88-680, eff. 1-1-95.)
27 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
28 becoming law.
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