Public Act 098-0250
 
HB2664 EnrolledLRB098 10788 OMW 41222 b


  
    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended  by changing Section 
3-6019 as follows:
 



    (55 ILCS 5/3-6019)  (from Ch. 34, par. 3-6019)



    Sec. 3-6019. 
Duties of sheriff; office quarters and
hours. 
Sheriffs shall serve and execute, within their respective

counties, and return all warrants, process, orders and 
judgments of
every description that may be legally directed or 
delivered to them.
A sheriff of a county with a population of 
less than 1,000,000 may employ
civilian personnel to serve 
process in civil matters. If an arrest warrant upon complaint 
under Section 107-9 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963,  
or a warrant of arrest due to failure to appear under Section 
107-12 of the Code, originated from a law enforcement agency 
other than the county sheriff's office, then the county sheriff 
of a county with a population of more than 600,000 may require 
that law enforcement agency to store and maintain the warrant. 
That law enforcement agency is responsible for entering the 
warrant into the Illinois Law Enforcement Agencies Data System 
(LEADS) and the National Crime Information Center Database 
(NCIC). The county sheriff may require the originating law 
enforcement agency to arrange for transportation of the wanted 
person to the county jail. Originating agencies may contract 
with the county sheriff or another law enforcement agency to 
store, maintain, and provide transportation of the wanted 
person to the county jail. Any law enforcement agency or 
regional dispatch center may act as holder of the warrant for 
an originating agency that has no telecommunications 
equipment. 

    Each sheriff shall keep and maintain his or her office at 
the county seat of
the county for which he or she is the 
sheriff, and shall in counties having a
population of less than 
500,000 keep his or her office open and attend to
the duties 
thereof from 8 o'clock in the forenoon to 5 o'clock in
the 
afternoon of each working day, excepting such days and half 
days as,
under any law, are or may be legal holidays, or half 
holidays.
The hours of opening and closing of the office of the

sheriff may be changed and otherwise fixed and determined by 
the county
board of such county. Such action taken by the 
county board
shall be by an appropriate resolution passed at a 
regular meeting.

(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.