Public Act 099-0010
 
HB0299 EnrolledLRB099 03643 AWJ 23651 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 
3-6012.1 as follows:
 



    (55 ILCS 5/3-6012.1)



    Sec. 3-6012.1. Court security officers. The sheriff of any 
county in
Illinois with
less than 3,000,000 inhabitants may 
hire court security officers in such
number as the county
board 
shall from time to time deem necessary.  Court security officers 
may be
designated by the Sheriff to attend courts and perform 
the functions set forth
in
3-6023.  Court security officers 
shall have the authority to arrest; however,
such arrest powers 
shall be limited to performance of their official duties as

court security officers.  Court security officers may carry 
weapons, upon which
they have been trained and qualified as 
permitted by law, at their place of
employment and to and from 
their place of employment with the consent of the
Sheriff.  The 
court security officers shall be sworn officers of the Sheriff

and shall be primarily responsible for the security of the 
courthouse and its
courtrooms.  The court security officers 
shall be under the sole control of
the sheriff of the county in 
which they are hired.  No court security officer shall be 
subject to the jurisdiction of a Sheriff's Merit Commission 
unless the officer was hired through the Sheriff's Merit 
Commission's certified applicant process under Section 3-8010 
of the Counties Code. If a county has a Sheriff's
Merit 
Commission, court security officers shall be subject to its 
jurisdiction
for disciplinary purposes.  They are not regular 
appointed deputies under
Section 3-6008.  The position of court 
security officer shall not be considered
a rank when seeking 
initial appointment as deputy sheriff under Section
3-8011.

    Every court security officer hired on or after the 
effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1996
shall serve a 
probationary period of 12 months during which time they may
be 
discharged at the will of the Sheriff.

(Source: P.A. 89-685, eff. 6-1-97.)