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Public Act 095-0883
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| HB2859 Enrolled |
LRB095 06090 RLC 26183 b |
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing |
Section 19-2 as follows:
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(720 ILCS 5/19-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 19-2)
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Sec. 19-2. Possession of burglary tools.
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(a) A person commits
the offense of possession of burglary |
tools when he
possesses any key, tool, instrument, device, or |
any explosive, suitable for
use in breaking into a building, |
housetrailer, watercraft, aircraft, motor
vehicle as defined |
in The Illinois Vehicle Code, railroad car, or any
depository |
designed for the safekeeping of property, or any part thereof,
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with intent to enter any such place and with intent to commit |
therein a
felony or theft. The trier of fact may infer from the |
possession of a key designed for lock bumping an intent to |
commit a felony or theft; however, this inference does not |
apply to any peace officer or other employee of a law |
enforcement agency, or to any person or agency licensed under |
the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, |
Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. For the purposes |
of this Section, "lock bumping" means a lock picking technique |
for opening a pin tumbler lock using a specially-crafted |