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Public Act 096-0594
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LRB096 09090 NHT 19231 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Private College Campus Police Act is amended |
by changing Section 1 as follows:
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(110 ILCS 1020/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 1951)
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Sec. 1.
The Board of Trustees of a private college or |
private
university, may appoint persons to be members of a |
campus police
department. The Board shall assign duties, |
including the enforcement of
college or university |
regulations, and prescribe the oath of office. With
respect to |
any such campus police department established for police
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protection, the members of such campus police department shall |
be persons
who have successfully completed the Minimum |
Standards Basic Law Enforcement
Training Course offered at a |
police training school established under the
Illinois Police |
Training Act, as such Act may be now or hereafter amended.
All |
members of such campus police departments must also |
successfully
complete the Firearms Training for Peace Officers |
established under an Act
in Relation To Firearms Training for |
Peace Officers, as such Act may be now
or hereafter amended.
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Members of the campus police department shall have the powers |
of municipal
peace officers and county sheriffs, including the |
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power to make arrests
under the circumstances prescribed in |
Section 107-2 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure of 1963, as |
amended, for violations of state statutes or ,
municipal or |
county ordinances, including the ability to regulate and |
control traffic on the public way contiguous to the provided, |
however, that such powers may be
exercised only on college or |
university property, for the protection of
students, |
employees, visitors and their property, and the property |
branches, and interests of the college or university, in the |
county where the college or university is located of the
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college or university, unless otherwise authorized by a county |
or
municipality. Campus police shall have no authority to serve |
civil process.
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Members of the campus police department at a private |
college or private
university shall not be eligible to |
participate in any State, county or
municipal retirement fund |
and shall not be reimbursed for training with
state funds. the |
uniforms, vehicles, and badges of such officers shall be
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distinctive from those of the local law enforcement agency |
where the main campus is located.
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The Board of Trustees shall provide liability insurance |
coverage for each
member of the campus police department |
without cost to the member, which
insures the member against |
any liability which arises out of or in the
course of the |
member's employment for no less than $250,000 of coverage,
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unless such indemnification is provided by a program of |
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self-insurance.
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For the purposes of this Section, "private college" or |
"private
university" means: (1) any college or university which |
is not owned or
controlled by the State or any political |
subdivision thereof, and (2) which
provides a program of |
education in residence leading to a baccalaureate
degree, or |
which provides a program of education in residence, for which
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the baccalaureate degree is a prerequisite, leading to an |
academic or
professional degree, and (3) which is accredited by |
the
North Central Association or other nationally recognized |
accrediting agency.
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(Source: P.A. 85-1440.)
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