96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1951


 
Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Constance A. Howard
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		







  



705 ILCS 35/4
  from Ch. 37, par. 72.4








    Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning
court business.
















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A BILL FOR









 











HB1951

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    AN ACT concerning courts.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
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represented in the General Assembly: 

 
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    Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing 
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Section 4 as follows:
 



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    (705 ILCS 35/4)  (from Ch. 37, par. 72.4)



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    Sec. 4. 
There shall be no stated terms in the
the circuit 
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courts, which shall
always be open for the transaction of all 
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business, subject to adjournment
from time to time. The circuit 
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judges in each circuit shall prescribe by
rule the times of 
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calling grand and petit juries in each of the counties of
the 
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circuit and the periods for which the jurors shall serve.
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(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2642.)