96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1615

 

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Patrick J Verschoore

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/3-8017   from Ch. 34, par. 3-8017

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the Sheriff's Merit System Law.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5 3-8017 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/3-8017)  (from Ch. 34, par. 3-8017)
7     Sec. 3-8017. Enforcement of orders. If any provision of
8 this Division or any order of the the Merit Commission is
9 violated by any person, regardless of whether that person's
10 employment is under the jurisdiction of the Division, the
11 Commission may apply to the circuit court for relief by
12 injunction, mandamus or any other proper relief. The State's
13 Attorney of the county where the violation occurred shall
14 prosecute such action. Whenever the State's Attorney for the
15 county where a violation is alleged to have occurred refuses to
16 prosecute the action, or fails to begin to prosecute such
17 action within 30 days after the date the Commission brings the
18 matter to his attention, the Commission may retain special
19 counsel of its own choice to prosecute such action.
20 (Source: P.A. 86-962.)