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    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
  
 
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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 Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is 
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amended  by changing Section 111-4 as follows:
 



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    (725 ILCS 5/111-4)  (from Ch. 38, par. 111-4)



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

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

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

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each count.

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    (c) Two or more acts or transactions in violation of any 
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provision or
provisions of Sections 8A-2, 8A-3, 8A-4, 8A-4A and 
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8A-5 of the Illinois
Public Aid Code, Sections 16-1, 16-1.3, 
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16-2, 16-3, 16-5, 16-7, 16-8, 16-10, 16A-3,
16B-2, 16C-2, 
 


 






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16G-15, 16G-20, 16H-15, 16H-20, 16H-25, 16H-30, 16H-45, 
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16H-50, 16H-55, 17-1, 17-3, 17-6, 17-7, 17-8, 17-9 or 17-10 of 
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the Criminal Code of
1961 and Section 118 of Division I of the 
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Criminal Jurisprudence Act, may
be charged as a single offense 
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in a single count of the same indictment,
information or 
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complaint, if such acts or transactions by one or more

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

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(Source: P.A. 95-384, eff. 1-1-08; 96-354, eff. 8-13-09.)

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