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1    AN ACT concerning local government.

 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly: 



 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended  by 
5changing Section 3.1-15-25 as follows:
 



6    (65 ILCS 5/3.1-15-25)  (from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-15-25)



7    Sec. 3.1-15-25. Conservators of the peace; service of 
8warrants. 

9    (a) After receiving a certificate attesting to the 
10successful completion
of
a training course administered by the 
11Illinois Law Enforcement Training
Standards Board, the mayor, 
12aldermen,
president, trustees, marshal, deputy
marshals, and 
13policemen in municipalities shall be conservators
of the peace.  
14Conservators of the peace Those persons and others authorized 
15by
ordinance shall have power (i) to arrest or cause to be 
16arrested, with or
without process, all persons who break the 
17peace or are found violating
any municipal ordinance or any 
18criminal law of the State, (ii) to commit
arrested persons for 
19examination, (iii) if necessary, to detain arrested
persons in 
20custody over night or Sunday in any safe place or until they

21can be brought before the proper court, and (iv) to exercise 
22all other
powers as conservators of the peace prescribed by the 
23corporate authorities.

 
 
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1    (b) All warrants for the violation of municipal ordinances 
2or the State
criminal law, directed to any person, may be 
3served and executed within the
limits of a municipality by any 
4policeman or marshal of the
municipality. For that purpose, 
5policemen and marshals have all the
common law and statutory 
6powers of sheriffs. 

7(Source: P.A. 90-540, eff. 12-1-97.)

 

8    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
9becoming law.