Public Act 102-0198
 
HB1742 EnrolledLRB102 15094 LNS 20449 b


  
    AN ACT concerning civil law.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Civil No Contact Order Act is amended  by 
changing Section 201 as follows:
 



    (740 ILCS 22/201)



    Sec. 201. Persons protected by this Act. 
    (a) The following persons are protected by this Act:
        (1) any victim of non-consensual sexual conduct or 
    non-consensual sexual penetration on whose behalf the 
    petition is brought;
        (2) any family or household member of the named 
    victim; and
        (3) any employee of  or volunteer at a rape crisis 
    center that is providing services to the petitioner or the 
    petitioner's family or household member. 
    (b) A petition for a civil no contact order may be filed:


        (1) by any person who is a victim of non-consensual 
    sexual conduct or
non-consensual sexual penetration, 
    including a single incident of
non-consensual
sexual 
    conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration; or


        (2) by a
person on behalf of a minor child or an adult 
    who is a victim of
non-consensual sexual conduct or 
    non-consensual sexual penetration but,
because of age, 
    disability, health, or inaccessibility, cannot file the

    petition; or
        (3) only after receiving consent from the victim, by 
    any family or household member of a victim of 
    non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual 
    penetration, and the petition shall include a statement 
    that the victim has consented to the family or household 
    member filing the petition.

(Source: P.A. 96-311, eff. 1-1-10.)