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| | 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB3163 Introduced 2/1/2012, by Sen. Dan Kotowski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 720 ILCS 5/19-2 | from Ch. 38, par. 19-2 |
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Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section
that prohibits the possession of burglary tools.
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| | SB3163 | | LRB097 19743 RLC 65003 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 19-2 as follows:
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| 6 | | (720 ILCS 5/19-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 19-2)
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| 7 | | Sec. 19-2. Possession of burglary tools.
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| 8 | | (a) A person commits
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the offense of possession of |
| 9 | | burglary tools when he
possesses any key, tool, instrument, |
| 10 | | device, or any explosive, suitable for
use in breaking into a |
| 11 | | building, housetrailer, watercraft, aircraft, motor
vehicle as |
| 12 | | defined in The Illinois Vehicle Code, railroad car, or any
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| 13 | | depository designed for the safekeeping of property, or any |
| 14 | | part thereof,
with intent to enter any such place and with |
| 15 | | intent to commit therein a
felony or theft. The trier of fact |
| 16 | | may infer from the possession of a key designed for lock |
| 17 | | bumping an intent to commit a felony or theft; however, this |
| 18 | | inference does not apply to any peace officer or other employee |
| 19 | | of a law enforcement agency, or to any person or agency |
| 20 | | licensed under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private |
| 21 | | Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. For |
| 22 | | the purposes of this Section, "lock bumping" means a lock |
| 23 | | picking technique for opening a pin tumbler lock using a |