Full Text of HB6327 99th General Assembly
HB6327 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 HB6327 Introduced 2/11/2016, by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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735 ILCS 5/2-202 | from Ch. 110, par. 2-202 |
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Amends the Civil Practice Law of the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that in counties with a population of 3,000,000 or more, a special process server shall wear a body camera while serving process. Provides that a special process server shall record all attempts to serve process. Provides that the individual process server or company that employs the process server shall store the video data from the body camera of the attempt or successful service of process until the case in which the service was required has been fully adjudicated. Provides that the custodian of the body camera video data shall make the data available only to the plaintiff or defendant in the case in which service was required, the court, or any law enforcement agency.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil law.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 2-202 as follows:
| 6 | | (735 ILCS 5/2-202) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-202)
| 7 | | Sec. 2-202. Persons authorized to serve process; place of
| 8 | | service; failure to make return. | 9 | | (a) Process shall be served by a
sheriff, or if the sheriff | 10 | | is disqualified, by a coroner of some county of the
State. In | 11 | | matters where the county or State is an interested party, | 12 | | process may be served by a special investigator appointed by | 13 | | the State's Attorney of the county, as defined in Section | 14 | | 3-9005 of the Counties Code. A sheriff of a county with a | 15 | | population of less than 2,000,000
may employ civilian personnel | 16 | | to serve process. In
counties with a population of less than | 17 | | 2,000,000, process may
be served, without special appointment, | 18 | | by a person who is licensed or
registered as a private | 19 | | detective under the Private Detective, Private
Alarm, Private
| 20 | | Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004 or by a | 21 | | registered
employee of a private detective
agency certified | 22 | | under that Act as defined in Section (a-5). A private detective | 23 | | or licensed
employee must supply the sheriff of any county in |
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| 1 | | which he serves process
with a copy of his license or | 2 | | certificate; however, the failure of a person
to supply the | 3 | | copy shall not in any way impair the validity of process
served | 4 | | by the person. The court may, in its discretion upon motion, | 5 | | order
service to be made by a private person over 18 years of | 6 | | age and not a party
to the action.
It is not necessary that | 7 | | service be made by a sheriff or
coroner of the county in which | 8 | | service is made. If served or sought to be
served by a sheriff | 9 | | or coroner, he or she shall endorse his or her return
thereon, | 10 | | and if by a private person the return shall be by affidavit.
| 11 | | (a-5) Upon motion and in its discretion, the court may | 12 | | appoint as a
special process
server a
private detective agency | 13 | | certified under the Private Detective, Private Alarm,
Private
| 14 | | Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. Under | 15 | | the appointment,
any employee of
the
private detective agency | 16 | | who is registered under that Act may serve the
process. The
| 17 | | motion and the order of appointment must contain the number of | 18 | | the certificate
issued to
the private detective agency by the | 19 | | Department of Professional Regulation under
the
Private | 20 | | Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint | 21 | | Vendor, and Locksmith Act of
2004. A private detective or | 22 | | private detective agency shall send, one time only, a copy of | 23 | | his, her, or its individual private detective license or | 24 | | private detective agency certificate to the county sheriff in | 25 | | each county in which the detective or detective agency or his, | 26 | | her, or its employees serve process, regardless of size of the |
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| 1 | | population of the county. As long as the license or certificate | 2 | | is valid and meets the requirements of the Department of | 3 | | Financial and Professional Regulation, a new copy of the | 4 | | current license or certificate need not be sent to the sheriff. | 5 | | A private detective agency shall maintain a list of its | 6 | | registered employees. Registered employees shall consist of: | 7 | | (1) an employee who works for the agency holding a | 8 | | valid Permanent Employee Registration Card;
| 9 | | (2) a person who has applied for a Permanent Employee | 10 | | Registration Card, has had his or her fingerprints | 11 | | processed and cleared by the Department of State Police and | 12 | | the FBI, and as to whom the Department of Financial and | 13 | | Professional Regulation website shows that the person's | 14 | | application for a Permanent Employee Registration Card is | 15 | | pending; | 16 | | (3) a person employed by a private detective agency who | 17 | | is exempt from a Permanent Employee Registration Card | 18 | | requirement because the person is a current peace officer; | 19 | | and | 20 | | (4) a private detective who works for a private | 21 | | detective agency as an employee.
| 22 | | A detective agency shall maintain this list and forward it to | 23 | | any sheriff's department that requests this list within 5 | 24 | | business days after the receipt of the request. | 25 | | (b) Summons may be served upon the defendants wherever they | 26 | | may be
found in the State, by any person authorized to serve |
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| 1 | | process. An officer
may serve summons in his or her official | 2 | | capacity outside his or her county,
but fees for mileage | 3 | | outside the county of the officer cannot be taxed
as costs. The | 4 | | person serving the process in a foreign county may make
return | 5 | | by mail.
| 6 | | (c) If any sheriff, coroner, or other person to whom any | 7 | | process is
delivered, neglects or refuses to make return of the | 8 | | same, the plaintiff
may petition the court to enter a rule | 9 | | requiring the sheriff, coroner,
or other person, to make return | 10 | | of the process on a day to be fixed by
the court, or to show | 11 | | cause on that day why that person should not be attached
for | 12 | | contempt of the court. The plaintiff shall then cause a written
| 13 | | notice of the rule to be served on the sheriff, coroner, or | 14 | | other
person. If good and sufficient cause be not shown to | 15 | | excuse the officer
or other person, the court shall adjudge him | 16 | | or her guilty of a contempt, and
shall impose punishment as in | 17 | | other cases of contempt.
| 18 | | (d) If process is served by a sheriff, coroner, or special | 19 | | investigator appointed by the State's Attorney, the court may | 20 | | tax
the fee of the sheriff, coroner, or State's Attorney's | 21 | | special investigator as costs in the proceeding. If process
is | 22 | | served by a private person or entity, the court may establish a | 23 | | fee
therefor and tax such fee as costs in the proceedings.
| 24 | | (e) In addition to the powers stated in Section 8.1a of the | 25 | | Housing
Authorities Act, in counties with a population of | 26 | | 3,000,000 or more
inhabitants,
members of a housing authority |
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| 1 | | police force may serve process for forcible
entry and detainer | 2 | | actions commenced by that housing authority and may execute
| 3 | | orders of possession for that housing authority.
| 4 | | (f) In counties with a population of 3,000,000 or more, | 5 | | process may be
served, with special appointment by the court,
| 6 | | by a private process server or
a law enforcement agency other | 7 | | than the county sheriff
in proceedings instituted under the
| 8 | | Forcible Entry and Detainer Article of this Code as a result of | 9 | | a lessor or
lessor's assignee declaring a lease void pursuant | 10 | | to Section 11 of the
Controlled Substance and Cannabis Nuisance | 11 | | Act.
| 12 | | (g) In counties with a population of 3,000,000 or more, a | 13 | | special process server appointed under subsection (a-5) of this | 14 | | Section shall wear a body camera while serving process. A | 15 | | person serving process under subsection (a-5) of this Section | 16 | | shall record all attempts to serve process. The individual | 17 | | process server or company that employs the process server shall | 18 | | store the video data from the body camera of the attempt or | 19 | | successful service of process until the case in which the | 20 | | service was required has been fully adjudicated. The custodian | 21 | | of the body camera video data collected under this Section | 22 | | shall make the data available only to the plaintiff or | 23 | | defendant in the case in which service was required, the court, | 24 | | or any law enforcement agency. | 25 | | (Source: P.A. 99-169, eff. 7-28-15.)
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