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90_SB0865
745 ILCS 10/6A-101
745 ILCS 10/6A-105
Amends the Public and Community Service Programs Article
of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort
Immunity Act. Provides that neither a local public entity
nor a public employee is liable for injury a person might
receive while performing services as a volunteer for a local
public entity. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Local Governmental and Governmental
2 Employees Tort Immunity Act by changing Sections 6A-101 and
3 6A-105.
4 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
5 represented in the General Assembly:
6 Section 5. The Local Governmental and Governmental
7 Employees Tort Immunity Act is amended by changing Sections
8 6A-101 and 6A-105 as follows:
9 (745 ILCS 10/6A-101)
10 Sec. 6A-101. Definitions. As used in this Article:,
11 "Public or community service" means uncompensated labor
12 for a non-profit organization or public body whose purpose is
13 to enhance physical or mental stability, environmental
14 quality or the social welfare and which agrees to accept
15 public or community service from offenders or those adjudged
16 liable for civil violations of a local public entity and to
17 report on the progress of the public or community service to
18 the court.
19 "Volunteer" means a person performing uncompensated
20 services for a local public entity.
21 (Source: P.A. 89-7, eff. 3-9-95.)
22 (745 ILCS 10/6A-105)
23 Sec. 6A-105. Exemption from liability. Neither a local
24 public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope
25 of his or her employment is liable for any injury or loss a
26 person might receive while performing public or community
27 service as ordered by the court or performing services as a
28 volunteer for a local public entity, nor shall a local public
29 entity or a public employee acting within the scope of his or
30 her employment be liable for any tortious acts of any person
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1 performing public or community service for a violation of a
2 penal, quasi-criminal, or civil ordinance of a local public
3 entity, except for willful and wanton misconduct or gross
4 negligence on the part of the local public entity or public
5 employee.
6 (Source: P.A. 89-7, eff. 3-9-95.)
7 Section 99. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.