(610 ILCS 90/2) (from Ch. 114, par. 100f)
Sec. 2.
Every railroad conductor, while on duty, is hereby authorized and
empowered to exercise in any county of this state, for the purpose of
enforcing the provisions of this act, all the common law and statutory
powers conferred upon sheriffs and it is hereby made the duty of all such
conductors to enforce the preceding section of this act, and to arrest
without process any person who violates any provision thereof, and in so
doing they shall be held to be acting for the state and not as employees of
the company. Any person or persons so arrested shall be delivered by such
conductor to some judge, sheriff or police officer at some station or place
within the county in which the offense was committed, for trial, according
to law. Provided, that if the car on which such arrest is made does not
stop within the county within which such offense was committed, then such
conductor shall deliver the person so arrested to some sheriff or police
officer of the county wherein such car shall first stop after such arrest,
who shall deliver the person so arrested to some judge of the county in
which the offense was committed, for trial.
(Source: P.A. 77-1276.)
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