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20 ILCS 2610/16
(20 ILCS 2610/16) (from Ch. 121, par. 307.16)
Sec. 16.
State policemen shall enforce the provisions of the Illinois
Vehicle Code, approved September 29, 1969, as amended,
and Article 9 of the "Illinois Highway Code" as amended; and shall patrol the
public highways and rural districts to make arrests for violations of the
provisions of such Acts. They are conservators of the peace and as such
have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, except that
they may exercise such powers anywhere in this State. The State policemen
shall cooperate with the police of cities, villages and incorporated towns,
and with the police officers of any county, in enforcing the laws of the
State and in making arrests and recovering property. They may be equipped
with standardized and tested devices for weighing motor vehicles and may
stop and weigh, acting reasonably, or cause to be weighed, any motor
vehicle which appears to weigh in excess of the weight permitted by law. It
shall also be the duty of the Illinois State Police to determine, whenever possible,
the person or persons or the causes responsible for the breaking or
destruction of any improved hard-surfaced roadway; to arrest all persons
criminally responsible for such breaking or destruction and bring them
before the proper officer for trial. The Illinois State Police
shall divide the State into zones, troops, or regions and assign each zone, troop, or region to one or
more policemen. No person employed under this Act, however, shall serve or
execute civil process, except for process issued under the authority of the
General Assembly, or a committee or commission thereof vested with subpoena
powers when the county sheriff refuses or fails to serve such process, and
except for process allowed by statute or issued under the authority of the Illinois Department of Revenue.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 103-34, eff. 6-9-23.)
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