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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4915

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 4915  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT concerning local government."; and

 5    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 6    following:

 7        "Section 5.  The Illinois Municipal Code  is  amended  by
 8    changing Section 1-4-6 as follows:

 9        (65 ILCS 5/1-4-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 1-4-6)
10        Sec. 1-4-6.  In case any injury to the person or property
11    of  another is caused by a member of the police department of
12    a municipality having a population of less than 500,000 while
13    the member is engaged in the performance of his or her duties
14    as a police officer, and without the contributory  negligence
15    of  the  injured person or the owner of the injured property,
16    or the agent or servant of the injured person or  owner,  the
17    municipality  in  whose  behalf  the  member of the municipal
18    police department is performing his or her duties  as  police
19    officer  shall  indemnify the police officer for any judgment
20    recovered against him or her as the result  of  such  injury,
21    except where the injury results from the wilful misconduct of
 
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 1    the police officer, to the extent of not to exceed $1,000,000
 2    $500,000  including costs of the action.  Any police officer,
 3    or any person who, at the time  of  performing  such  an  act
 4    complained  of,  was  a  police  officer, who is made a party
 5    defendant to any such action shall,  within  20  10  days  of
 6    service  of  process upon him or her, notify the municipality
 7    by whom he or she is or was employed, of the  fact  that  the
 8    action  has been instituted, and that he or she has been made
 9    a party defendant to the  same.   Such  notice  shall  be  in
10    writing,  and  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of the city
11    attorney or corporation counsel, if there is a city  attorney
12    or  corporation  counsel,  and  also  in  the  office  of the
13    municipal clerk, either by himself,  his  or  her  agent,  or
14    attorney.   The  notice  shall  state in substance, that such
15    police officer, (naming him or her),  has  been  served  with
16    process and made a party defendant to an action wherein it is
17    claimed  that  a  person  has  suffered  injury to his or her
18    person or property caused by such police officer; stating the
19    title and number of the case; the court wherein the  same  is
20    pending;  and  the  date  such police officer was served with
21    process in such action, and made a party  defendant  thereto.
22    The  municipality  which is or may be liable to indemnify the
23    police officer shall have the right to intervene in the  suit
24    against  the police officer, and shall be permitted to appear
25    and defend. The duty  of  the  city  to  indemnify  any  such
26    policeman  for  any  judgment  recovered against him shall be
27    conditioned upon receiving notice of the filing of  any  such
28    action in the manner and form hereinabove described.
29        For  the  purposes  of  this Section, no civilian defense
30    worker, nor any member of any agency engaged in any  civilian
31    defense  activity,  performing  services  as  a  part  of any
32    civilian defense program, shall be considered to be a  member
33    of a municipal police department.
34        If  any  person  in  obeying  the  command  of  any  such
 
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 1    policeman  to  assist in arresting or securing an offender is
 2    killed or injured, or his or her property or that of  his  or
 3    her  employer  is  damaged,  and such death, injury or damage
 4    arises out of and in the course of aiding such  policeman  in
 5    arresting,  or endeavoring to arrest, a person or retaking or
 6    endeavoring to re-take a person who has  escaped  from  legal
 7    custody, the person or employer so injured, or whose property
 8    is  so damaged, or the personal representatives of the person
 9    so killed, shall have a cause of action to recover the amount
10    of such damage or injury against the municipal corporation by
11    which such police  officer  is  employed  at  the  time  such
12    command is obeyed.
13        If a police officer is acting within a municipality other
14    than  his  or  her  employing municipality under an agreement
15    pursuant to Section 11-1-2.1, the liability or obligation  to
16    indemnify  imposed  by  this  Section does not extend to both
17    municipalities.  Only that  municipality  designated  by  the
18    agreement  is  subject  to  such  liability  or obligation to
19    indemnify, but,  if  the  agreement  is  silent  as  to  such
20    liability  or  obligation, then the municipality by which the
21    police officer is employed is subject to  such  liability  or
22    obligation.
23        If a police officer is acting within a municipality other
24    than  his  or her employing municipality under the provisions
25    of Section 1-4-8, the liability or  obligation  to  indemnify
26    imposed  by this Section shall be the liability or obligation
27    of the requesting municipality only.  The notice required  in
28    this  Section  1-4-6  shall  be  given to the municipality in
29    which he was acting if other than his employing municipality.
30    (Source: P.A. 86-470.)

31        Section 10.   The  Local  Governmental  and  Governmental
32    Employees  Tort  Immunity  Act is amended by changing Section
33    9-102 as follows:
 
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 1        (745 ILCS 10/9-102) (from Ch. 85, par. 9-102)
 2        Sec. 9-102.  A  local  public  entity  is  empowered  and
 3    directed   to   pay  any  tort  judgment  or  settlement  for
 4    compensatory damages, including attorney fees and costs,  for
 5    which  it or an employee while acting within the scope of his
 6    employment is liable in the manner provided in this  Article.
 7    All  other  provisions  of  this  Article,  including but not
 8    limited to  the  payment  of  judgments  and  settlements  in
 9    installments, the issuance of bonds, the maintenance of rates
10    and   charges,  and  the  levy  of  taxes  shall  be  equally
11    applicable to judgments or settlements  relating  to  both  a
12    local  public  entity  or  an employee and those undertakings
13    assumed by a local public entity in  intergovernmental  joint
14    self-insurance  contracts.  A  local  public  entity may make
15    payments to settle or compromise a claim or action which  has
16    been  or  might  be  filed  or instituted against it when the
17    governing body or person vested  by  law  or  ordinance  with
18    authority  to  make over-all policy decisions for such entity
19    considers it advisable to enter into  such  a  settlement  or
20    compromise.
21    (Source: P.A. 84-1431.)".

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