Public Act 099-0629
 
SB2876 EnrolledLRB099 18984 SLF 43373 b


  
    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is 
amended  by changing Section 111-4 as follows:
 
 

    (725 ILCS 5/111-4)

 
    Sec. 111-4. Joinder of offenses and defendants. 

    (a) Two or more offenses may be charged in the same 
indictment,
information or complaint in a separate count for 
each offense if the
offenses charged, whether felonies or 
misdemeanors or both, are based on
the same act or on 2 or more 
acts which are part of the same comprehensive
transaction.

    (b) Two or more defendants may be charged in the same 
indictment,
information or complaint if they are alleged to 
have participated in the
same act or in the same comprehensive 
transaction out of which the offense
or offenses arose. Such 
defendants may be charged in one or more counts
together or 
separately and all of the defendants need not be charged in

each count.

    (c) Two or more acts or transactions in violation of any 
provision or
provisions of Sections 8A-2, 8A-3, 8A-4, 8A-4A and 
8A-5 of the Illinois
Public Aid Code, Section 14 of the 
Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, Sections 16-1, 
16-1.3, 16-2, 16-3, 16-5, 16-7, 16-8, 16-10, 16-25, 16-30, 
16A-3,
16B-2, 16G-15, 16G-20, 16H-15, 16H-20, 16H-25, 16H-30, 
16H-45, 16H-50, 16H-55, 17-1, 17-3, 17-6, 17-30, 17-56, or 
17-60, or 29B-1, or item (ii) of subsection (a) or (b) of 
Section 17-9, or subdivision (a)(2) of Section 17-10.5, or 
subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), (g), (h), or (i) of Section 
17-10.6, or subsection (a) of Section 17-32 of the Criminal 
Code of
1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 and Section 118 of 
Division I of the Criminal Jurisprudence Act, may
be charged as 
a single offense in a single count of the same indictment,

information or complaint, if such acts or transactions by one 
or more
defendants are in furtherance of a single intention and 
design or if the
property, labor or services obtained are of 
the same person or are of
several persons having a common 
interest in such property, labor or
services. In such a charge, 
the period between the dates of the first and
the final such 
acts or transactions may be alleged as the date of the
offense 
and, if any such act or transaction by any defendant was 
committed
in the county where the prosecution was commenced, 
such county may be
alleged as the county of the offense.

(Source: P.A. 96-354, eff. 8-13-09; 96-1207, eff. 7-22-10; 
96-1407, eff. 1-1-11; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-333, eff. 
8-12-11; 97-597, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)