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90_SB1946

      225 ILCS 446/30
      720 ILCS 5/24-2           from Ch. 38, par. 24-2
          Amends the  Private  Detective,  Private  Alarm,  Private
      Security,  and Locksmith Act of 1993.  Exempts from the Act a
      person employed as either an armed or unarmed security  guard
      at  a nuclear energy, storage, weapons or development site or
      facility regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory  Commission  who
      has  completed  the  background  and training mandated by the
      rules and regulations of the Nuclear  Regulatory  Commission.
      Amends  the  Criminal  Code  of  1961.   Exempts these guards
      (armed only) from certain unlawful use of weapons  provisions
      of the Code.
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 1        AN ACT in relation to security guards.
 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section 5.  The Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
 5    Security, and Locksmith Act of 1993 is  amended  by  changing
 6    Section 30 as follows:
 7        (225 ILCS 446/30)
 8        Sec. 30.  Exemptions. This Act does not apply to:
 9        (1)  An  officer  or  employee of the United States, this
10    State, or any  political  subdivision  of  either  while  the
11    officer  or  employee is engaged in the performance of his or
12    her official duties within the course and scope of his or her
13    employment  with  the  United  States,  this  State,  or  any
14    political subdivision of either.   However,  any  person  who
15    offers  his or her services as a private detective or private
16    security contractor, or any title when similar  services  are
17    performed   for   compensation,   fee,   or   other  valuable
18    consideration, whether received directly  or  indirectly,  is
19    subject to this Act and its licensing requirements.
20        (2)  An  attorney-at-law licensed to practice in Illinois
21    while engaging in the practice of law.
22        (3)  A person engaged  exclusively  in  the  business  of
23    obtaining  and  furnishing  information  as  to the financial
24    rating or credit worthiness of  persons;  and  a  person  who
25    provides consumer reports in connection with:
26             (i)  Credit  transactions  involving the consumer on
27        whom the information is to be furnished and involving the
28        extensions of credit to the consumer.
29             (ii)  Information for employment purposes.
30             (iii)  Information for the underwriting of insurance
31        involving the consumer.
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 1        (4)  Insurance  adjusters  legally  employed   or   under
 2    contract   as   adjusters   and   who   engage  in  no  other
 3    investigative activities other than those directly  connected
 4    with  adjustment  of  claims  against an insurance company or
 5    self-insured by which they are employed or  with  which  they
 6    have  a  contract.   No  insurance  adjuster  or  company may
 7    utilize the term "investigation" or any derivative thereof in
 8    its company name or in its advertising  other  than  for  the
 9    handling of insurance claims.
10        For  the  purposes  of  this  Code,  "insurance adjuster"
11    includes any person expressly authorized to act on behalf  of
12    an insurance company or self-insured and any employee thereof
13    who acts or appears to act on behalf of the insurance company
14    or  self-insured in matters relating to claims, including but
15    not limited to independent contractors while performing claim
16    services at the direction of the company.
17        (5)  A person  engaged  exclusively  and  employed  by  a
18    person,  firm, association, or corporation in the business of
19    transporting persons or property in interstate  commerce  and
20    making  an  investigation  related  to  the  business of that
21    employer.
22        (6)  Any person, watchman, or guard employed  exclusively
23    and  regularly by one employer in connection with the affairs
24    of that employer only and there exists  an  employer/employee
25    relationship.
26        (7)  Any  law  enforcement  officer,  as  defined  in the
27    Illinois Police Training Act, who has successfully  completed
28    the  requirements  of  basic  law  enforcement  and  firearms
29    training  as  prescribed  by  the  Illinois  Law  Enforcement
30    Training   Standards   Board,  employed  by  an  employer  in
31    connection with the affairs of that employer, provided he  or
32    she  is exclusively employed by the employer during the hours
33    or times he or she is scheduled to work  for  that  employer,
34    and there exists an employer and employee relationship.
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 1        In  this  subsection  an  "employee"  is  a person who is
 2    employed by an employer who has  the  right  to  control  and
 3    direct  the  employee  who performs the services in question,
 4    not only as to the result to be accomplished by the work, but
 5    also as to the details and means by which the result is to be
 6    accomplished; and an "employer" is any person or entity, with
 7    the exception  of  a  private  detective,  private  detective
 8    agency,   private   security   contractor,  private  security
 9    contractor agency, private alarm contractor, or private alarm
10    contractor agency, whose purpose it is  to  hire  persons  to
11    perform   the   business  of  a  private  detective,  private
12    detective  agency,  private  security   contractor,   private
13    security  contractor  agency,  private  alarm  contractor, or
14    private alarm contractor agency.
15        (8)  A person who sells burglar alarm  systems  and  does
16    not  install,  monitor,  maintain, alter, repair, service, or
17    respond to burglar alarm systems  at  protected  premises  or
18    premises to be protected, provided:
19             (i)  The  burglar  alarm systems are approved either
20        by Underwriters  Laboratories  or  another  authoritative
21        source recognized by the Department and are identified by
22        a federally registered trademark.
23             (ii)  The  owner  of  the  trademark  has  expressly
24        authorized  the  person  to  sell  the  trademark owner's
25        products,  and  the  person  provides   proof   of   this
26        authorization upon the request of the Department.
27             (iii)  The  owner  of  the  trademark maintains, and
28        provides upon the  Department's  request,  a  certificate
29        evidencing insurance for bodily injury or property damage
30        arising  from  faulty  or defective products in an amount
31        not less than $1,000,000 combined single limit;  provided
32        that  the policy of insurance need not relate exclusively
33        to burglar alarm systems.
34        (9)  A person who sells, installs, maintains, or  repairs
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 1    automobile alarm systems.
 2        (10)  Nothing in this Act prohibits any of the following:
 3             (A)  Servicing, installing, repairing, or rebuilding
 4        automotive  locks  by automotive service dealers, as long
 5        as they do not hold  themselves  out  to  the  public  as
 6        locksmiths.
 7             (B)  Police, fire, or other municipal employees from
 8        opening a lock in an emergency situation, as long as they
 9        do not hold themselves out to the public as locksmiths.
10             (C)  Any  merchant  or retail or hardware store from
11        duplicating keys, from installing, servicing,  repairing,
12        rebuilding,   reprogramming,  or  maintaining  electronic
13        garage door devices or  from  selling  locks  or  similar
14        security  accessories  not  prohibited  from  sale by the
15        State of Illinois, as long as they do not hold themselves
16        out to the public as locksmiths.
17             (D)  The installation or removal of  complete  locks
18        or locking devices by members of the building trades when
19        doing  so  in the course of residential or commercial new
20        construction or remodeling, as long as they do  not  hold
21        themselves out to the public as locksmiths.
22             (E)  The employees of towing services, repossessors,
23        or auto clubs from opening automotive locks in the normal
24        course  of  their  duties,  as  long  as they do not hold
25        themselves out to the public as locksmiths. Additionally,
26        this Act shall not prohibit employees of towing  services
27        from  opening  motor vehicle locks to enable a vehicle to
28        be moved without towing, provided that the towing service
29        does not hold itself out to the public,  by  yellow  page
30        advertisement,  through  a  sign at the facilities of the
31        towing service, or  by  any  other  advertisement,  as  a
32        locksmith.
33             (F)  The practice of locksmithing by students in the
34        course  of  study in programs approved by the Department,
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 1        provided that the students do not hold themselves out  to
 2        the public as locksmiths.
 3             (G)  Servicing, installing, repairing, or rebuilding
 4        locks by a lock manufacturer or anyone employed by a lock
 5        manufacturer,  as long as they do not hold themselves out
 6        to the public as locksmiths.
 7             (H)  The  provision  of  any  of  the  products   or
 8        services in the practice of locksmithing as identified in
 9        Section 5 of this Act by a business licensed by the State
10        of  Illinois  as  a  private  alarm contractor or private
11        alarm contractor agency, as long as the principal purpose
12        of the  services  provided  to  a  customer  is  not  the
13        practice  of  locksmithing and the business does not hold
14        itself out to the public as a locksmith agency.
15             (I)  Any  maintenance   employee   of   a   property
16        management company at a multi-family residential building
17        from  servicing,  installing, repairing, or opening locks
18        for tenants as long as the maintenance employee does  not
19        hold himself or herself out to the public as a locksmith.
20        (11)  A  person,  firm,  or  corporation  engaged in fire
21    protection engineering, including the  design,  testing,  and
22    inspection of fire protection systems.
23        (12)  The practice of professional engineering as defined
24    in the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989.
25        (13)  The  practice  of structural engineering as defined
26    in the Structural Engineering Licensing Act of 1989.
27        (14)  The practice of  architecture  as  defined  in  the
28    Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989.
29        (15)  The  activities  of persons or firms licensed under
30    the Illinois Public Accounting Act if performed in the course
31    of their professional practice.
32        (15.5)  A person employed as either an armed  or  unarmed
33    security  guard  at  a  nuclear  energy,  storage, weapons or
34    development  site  or  facility  regulated  by  the   Nuclear
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 1    Regulatory   Commission  who  has  completed  the  background
 2    screening and training mandated by the rules and  regulations
 3    of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
 4        (16)  This  Act  does  not  prohibit  any persons legally
 5    regulated in this State under any other Act from engaging  in
 6    the  practice for which they are licensed, provided that they
 7    do not represent themselves by any title prohibited  by  this
 8    Act.
 9    (Source: P.A. 89-366, eff. 1-1-96; 90-436, eff. 1-1-98.)
10        Section  10.   The  Criminal  Code  of 1961 is amended by
11    changing Section 24-2 as follows:
12        (720 ILCS 5/24-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-2)
13        Sec. 24-2.  Exemptions.
14        (a)  Subsections 24-1(a)(3), 24-1(a)(4)  and  24-1(a)(10)
15    do not apply to or affect any of the following:
16             (1)  Peace  officers,  and  any person summoned by a
17        peace officer to assist in making arrests  or  preserving
18        the  peace,  while  actually  engaged  in  assisting such
19        officer.
20             (2)  Wardens,   superintendents   and   keepers   of
21        prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for
22        the detention of  persons  accused  or  convicted  of  an
23        offense, while in the performance of their official duty,
24        or  while  commuting  between  their  homes and places of
25        employment.
26             (3)  Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces
27        of the United States or the Illinois  National  Guard  or
28        the   Reserve  Officers  Training  Corps,  while  in  the
29        performance of their official duty.
30             (4)  Special agents employed  by  a  railroad  or  a
31        public utility to perform police functions, and guards of
32        armored  car  companies,  while  actually  engaged in the
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 1        performance  of  the  duties  of  their   employment   or
 2        commuting  between  their homes and places of employment;
 3        and watchmen while actually engaged in the performance of
 4        the duties of their employment.
 5             (5)  Persons   licensed    as    private    security
 6        contractors,   private   detectives,   or  private  alarm
 7        contractors, or employed by an agency  certified  by  the
 8        Department  of  Professional  Regulation, if their duties
 9        include the carrying of a weapon under the provisions  of
10        the   Private   Detective,  Private  Alarm,  and  Private
11        Security Act of  1983,  while  actually  engaged  in  the
12        performance   of   the  duties  of  their  employment  or
13        commuting between their homes and places  of  employment,
14        provided  that  such commuting is accomplished within one
15        hour from departure from home or place of employment,  as
16        the case may be.  Persons exempted under this subdivision
17        (a)(5)  shall  be required to have completed  a course of
18        study in firearms  handling  and  training  approved  and
19        supervised  by  the Department of Professional Regulation
20        as prescribed by Section 28  of  the  Private  Detective,
21        Private Alarm, and Private Security Act of 1983, prior to
22        becoming  eligible for this exemption.  The Department of
23        Professional   Regulation    shall    provide    suitable
24        documentation  demonstrating the successful completion of
25        the prescribed  firearms  training.   Such  documentation
26        shall  be  carried  at all times when such persons are in
27        possession of a concealable weapon.
28             (6)  Any person regularly employed in  a  commercial
29        or  industrial  operation  as  a  security  guard for the
30        protection  of  persons  employed  and  private  property
31        related to such commercial or industrial operation, while
32        actually engaged in the performance of his or her duty or
33        traveling between sites or properties  belonging  to  the
34        employer,  and who, as a security guard, is a member of a
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 1        security force of at least 5 persons registered with  the
 2        Department of Professional Regulation; provided that such
 3        security  guard  has  successfully  completed a course of
 4        study, approved by and supervised by  the  Department  of
 5        Professional  Regulation,  consisting of not less than 40
 6        hours  of  training  that  includes  the  theory  of  law
 7        enforcement, liability for  acts,  and  the  handling  of
 8        weapons.   A person shall be considered eligible for this
 9        exemption if he or she  has  completed  the  required  20
10        hours  of training for a security officer and 20 hours of
11        required firearm training, and has been issued a  firearm
12        authorization  card  by  the  Department  of Professional
13        Regulation.   Conditions  for  the  renewal  of   firearm
14        authorization  cards  issued under the provisions of this
15        Section shall be the same as for those cards issued under
16        the provisions of the Private  Detective,  Private  Alarm
17        and   Private   Security   Act  of  1983.   Such  firearm
18        authorization card shall be carried by the security guard
19        at all times when  he  or  she  is  in  possession  of  a
20        concealable weapon.
21             (7)  Agents   and   investigators  of  the  Illinois
22        Legislative Investigating Commission  authorized  by  the
23        Commission  to carry the weapons specified in subsections
24        24-1(a)(3) and 24-1(a)(4), while on duty in the course of
25        any investigation for the Commission.
26             (8)  Persons employed by a financial institution for
27        the protection of other employees and property related to
28        such financial institution, while actually engaged in the
29        performance of  their  duties,  commuting  between  their
30        homes  and  places  of  employment,  or traveling between
31        sites or properties owned or operated by  such  financial
32        institution,  provided  that  any  person so employed has
33        successfully completed a course of study, approved by and
34        supervised by the Department of Professional  Regulation,
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 1        consisting  of  not  less than 40 hours of training which
 2        includes theory of law enforcement, liability  for  acts,
 3        and the handling of weapons. A person shall be considered
 4        to  be  eligible  for  this  exemption  if  he or she has
 5        completed  the  required  20  hours  of  training  for  a
 6        security  officer  and  20  hours  of  required   firearm
 7        training,  and  has  been  issued a firearm authorization
 8        card  by  the  Department  of  Professional   Regulation.
 9        Conditions  for  renewal  of  firearm authorization cards
10        issued under the provisions of this Section shall be  the
11        same  as  for  those  issued  under the provisions of the
12        Private Detective, Private Alarm and Private Security Act
13        of  1983.   Such  firearm  authorization  card  shall  be
14        carried by the person so trained at all times  when  such
15        person  is  in  possession  of a concealable weapon.  For
16        purposes  of  this  subsection,  "financial  institution"
17        means a bank, savings and loan association, credit  union
18        or company providing armored car services.
19             (9)  Any  person  employed by an armored car company
20        to drive an armored car, while actually  engaged  in  the
21        performance of his duties.
22             (10)  Persons  who  have  been  classified  as peace
23        officers pursuant to the Peace Officer Fire Investigation
24        Act.
25             (11)  Investigators of the  Office  of  the  State's
26        Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor authorized by the board of
27        governors   of   the  Office  of  the  State's  Attorneys
28        Appellate Prosecutor to carry weapons pursuant to Section
29        7.06 of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
30             (12)  Special investigators appointed by  a  State's
31        Attorney under Section 3-9005 of the Counties Code.
32             (13)  Court   Security   Officers   while   in   the
33        performance  of their official duties, or while commuting
34        between their homes and places of  employment,  with  the
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 1        consent of the Sheriff.
 2             (13.5)  A person employed as an armed security guard
 3        at a nuclear energy, storage, weapons or development site
 4        or   facility   regulated   by   the  Nuclear  Regulatory
 5        Commission who has completed the background screening and
 6        training mandated by the rules  and  regulations  of  the
 7        Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
 8             (14)  Manufacture,   transportation,   or   sale  of
 9        weapons to  persons  authorized  under  subdivisions  (1)
10        through  (13.5)  (13) of this subsection to possess those
11        weapons.
12        (b)  Subsections 24-1(a)(4) and 24-1(a)(10) do not  apply
13    to or affect any of the following:
14             (1)  Members  of  any club or organization organized
15        for the purpose of practicing shooting  at  targets  upon
16        established target ranges, whether public or private, and
17        patrons of such ranges, while such members or patrons are
18        using their firearms on those target ranges.
19             (2)  Duly authorized military or civil organizations
20        while  parading,  with  the  special  permission  of  the
21        Governor.
22             (3)  Licensed  hunters,  trappers or fishermen while
23        engaged in hunting, trapping or fishing.
24             (4)  Transportation of weapons that are broken  down
25        in   a  non-functioning  state  or  are  not  immediately
26        accessible.
27        (c)  Subsection 24-1(a)(7) does not apply  to  or  affect
28    any of the following:
29             (1)  Peace  officers  while  in performance of their
30        official duties.
31             (2)  Wardens,   superintendents   and   keepers   of
32        prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for
33        the detention of  persons  accused  or  convicted  of  an
34        offense.
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 1             (3)  Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces
 2        of  the  United  States  or  the Illinois National Guard,
 3        while in the performance of their official duty.
 4             (4)  Manufacture, transportation, or sale of machine
 5        guns to persons authorized under subdivisions (1) through
 6        (3) of this subsection to possess machine  guns,  if  the
 7        machine  guns  are broken down in a non-functioning state
 8        or are not immediately accessible.
 9             (5)  Persons   licensed   under   federal   law   to
10        manufacture any weapon from which  8  or  more  shots  or
11        bullets  can  be  discharged  by a single function of the
12        firing  device,  or  ammunition  for  such  weapons,  and
13        actually engaged in the business  of  manufacturing  such
14        weapons   or   ammunition,   but  only  with  respect  to
15        activities which are within  the  lawful  scope  of  such
16        business,  such  as  the  manufacture, transportation, or
17        testing of such weapons or  ammunition.   This  exemption
18        does  not authorize the general private possession of any
19        weapon from which 8 or  more  shots  or  bullets  can  be
20        discharged by a single function of the firing device, but
21        only  such  possession  and  activities as are within the
22        lawful  scope  of  a  licensed   manufacturing   business
23        described in this paragraph.
24             During  transportation, such weapons shall be broken
25        down  in  a  non-functioning  state  or  not  immediately
26        accessible.
27             (6)  The manufacture, transport, testing,  delivery,
28        transfer   or   sale,   and   all  lawful  commercial  or
29        experimental activities  necessary  thereto,  of  rifles,
30        shotguns,  and  weapons  made from rifles or shotguns, or
31        ammunition for such rifles, shotguns  or  weapons,  where
32        engaged  in  by  a  person  operating  as a contractor or
33        subcontractor pursuant to a contract or  subcontract  for
34        the  development  and  supply  of  such rifles, shotguns,
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 1        weapons or ammunition to the United States government  or
 2        any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States, when
 3        such  activities are necessary and incident to fulfilling
 4        the terms of such contract.
 5             The exemption granted under this subdivision  (c)(6)
 6        shall  also  apply  to  any  authorized agent of any such
 7        contractor or subcontractor who is operating  within  the
 8        scope  of his employment, where such activities involving
 9        such weapon, weapons  or  ammunition  are  necessary  and
10        incident to fulfilling the terms of such contract.
11             During  transportation,  any  such  weapon  shall be
12        broken  down  in  a   non-functioning   state,   or   not
13        immediately accessible.
14        (d)  Subsection   24-1(a)(1)   does   not  apply  to  the
15    purchase,  possession  or  carrying  of   a   black-jack   or
16    slung-shot by a peace officer.
17        (e)  Subsection  24-1(a)(8)  does not apply to any owner,
18    manager or authorized employee of any place specified in that
19    subsection nor to any law enforcement officer.
20        (f)  Subsection 24-1(a)(4) and subsection 24-1(a)(10)  do
21    not  apply  to  members of any club or organization organized
22    for the  purpose  of  practicing  shooting  at  targets  upon
23    established  target  ranges, whether public or private, while
24    using their firearms on those target ranges.
25        (g)  Subsections  24-1(a)(11)  and  24-3.1(a)(6)  do  not
26    apply to:
27             (1)  Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces
28        of the United States  or  the  Illinois  National  Guard,
29        while in the performance of their official duty.
30             (2)  Bonafide   collectors  of  antique  or  surplus
31        military ordinance.
32             (3)  Laboratories having a  department  of  forensic
33        ballistics,   or   specializing  in  the  development  of
34        ammunition or explosive ordinance.
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 1             (4)  Commerce, preparation, assembly  or  possession
 2        of  explosive  bullets  by  manufacturers  of  ammunition
 3        licensed  by  the  federal government, in connection with
 4        the supply of those organizations and persons exempted by
 5        subdivision (g)(1) of this Section, or like organizations
 6        and persons outside this State, or the transportation  of
 7        explosive  bullets to any organization or person exempted
 8        in this Section by a common carrier or by a vehicle owned
 9        or leased by an exempted manufacturer.
10        (h)  An information or indictment based upon a  violation
11    of  any  subsection  of  this  Article  need not negative any
12    exemptions contained in this Article.   The  defendant  shall
13    have the burden of proving such an exemption.
14        (i)  Nothing in this Article shall prohibit, apply to, or
15    affect  the  transportation,  carrying, or possession, of any
16    pistol  or  revolver,  stun  gun,  taser,  or  other  firearm
17    consigned to a common carrier operating under license of  the
18    State  of  Illinois  or  the  federal  government, where such
19    transportation, carrying, or possession is  incident  to  the
20    lawful   transportation  in  which  such  common  carrier  is
21    engaged; and nothing in this Article  shall  prohibit,  apply
22    to,  or affect the transportation, carrying, or possession of
23    any pistol, revolver, stun gun, taser, or other firearm,  not
24    the  subject  of  and  regulated  by subsection 24-1(a)(7) or
25    subsection 24-2(c) of this Article,  which  is  unloaded  and
26    enclosed  in  a  case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or
27    other container, by the possessor of a valid  Firearm  Owners
28    Identification Card.
29    (Source: P.A. 89-685, eff. 6-1-97.)

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