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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.