Public Act 90-0540 of the 90th General Assembly
Public Act 90-0540
SB369 Re-enrolled LRB9002517PTcw
AN ACT concerning peace officers.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. The Attorney General Act is amended by
changing Section 4c as follows:
(15 ILCS 205/4c) (from Ch. 14, par. 4c)
Sec. 4c. Subject to the qualifications set forth below,
investigators employed by the Attorney General shall be peace
officers and shall have all the powers possessed by policemen
in cities and by sheriffs; provided, that Attorney General's
investigators may shall exercise such powers anywhere in the
State only after contact and in cooperation with and after
contact with the appropriate local law enforcement officials
agencies.
No investigator employed by the Attorney General shall
have peace officer status or exercise police powers unless he
or she successfully completes the basic police training
course mandated and approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement
Training Standards Board or such board waives the training
requirement by reason of the investigator's prior law
enforcement experience or training or both.
The board shall not waive the training requirement unless
the investigator has had a minimum of 5 years experience as a
sworn officer of a local, state or federal law enforcement
agency, 2 of which shall have been in an investigatory
capacity.
(Source: P.A. 88-586, eff. 8-12-94.)
Section 3. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended
by adding Section 10.5 as follows:
(50 ILCS 705/10.5 new)
Sec. 10.5. Conservators of the Peace training course.
The Board shall initiate, administer, and conduct a training
course for conservators of the peace. The training course
may include all or any part of the subjects enumerated in
Section 7. The Board shall issue a certificate to those
persons successfully completing the course.
For the purposes of this Section, "conservators of the
peace" means those persons designated under Section 3.1-15-25
of the Illinois Municipal Code and Section 4-7 of the Park
District Code.
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 11-1-2 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-1-2)
Sec. 11-1-2. Duties and powers of police officers.
(a) Police officers in municipalities shall be
conservators of the peace. They shall have the power (i) to
arrest or cause to be arrested, with or without process, all
persons who break the peace or are found violating any
municipal ordinance or any criminal law of the State, (ii) to
commit arrested persons for examination, (iii) if necessary,
to detain arrested persons in custody over night or Sunday in
any safe place or until they can be brought before the proper
court, and (iv) to exercise all other powers as conservators
of the peace prescribed by the corporate authorities.
(b) All warrants for the violation of municipal
ordinances or the State criminal law, directed to any person,
may be served and executed within the limits of a
municipality by any police officer of the municipality. For
that purpose, police officers have all the common law and
statutory powers of sheriffs.
(c) The corporate authorities of each municipality may
prescribe any additional the duties and powers of the all
police officers.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 3.1-15-25 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/3.1-15-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-15-25)
Sec. 3.1-15-25. Conservators of the peace; service of
warrants.
(a) After receiving a certificate attesting to the
successful completion of a training course administered by
the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, the
mayor, aldermen, president, trustees, marshal, deputy
marshals, and policemen in municipalities shall be
conservators of the peace. Those persons and others
authorized by ordinance shall have power (i) to arrest or
cause to be arrested, with or without process, all persons
who break the peace or are found violating any municipal
ordinance or any criminal law of the State, (ii) to commit
arrested persons for examination, (iii) if necessary, to
detain arrested persons in custody over night or Sunday in
any safe place or until they can be brought before the proper
court, and (iv) to exercise all other powers as conservators
of the peace prescribed by the corporate authorities.
(b) All warrants for the violation of municipal
ordinances or the State criminal law, directed to any person,
may be served and executed within the limits of a
municipality by any policeman or marshal of the municipality.
For that purpose, policemen and marshals have all the common
law and statutory powers of sheriffs.
(Source: P.A. 87-1119.)
Section 15. The Park District Code is amended by
changing Section 4-7 as follows:
(70 ILCS 1205/4-7) (from Ch. 105, par. 4-7)
Sec. 4-7. Employees; police force. The board of any
park district may employ engineers, attorneys, clerks and
other employees, including a police force, as may be
required, and may define and prescribe their respective
duties and compensation. After receiving a certificate
attesting to the successful completion of a training course
administered by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training
Standards Board, the members of the board and all police
officers appointed by the board shall be conservators of the
peace within and upon the parks, boulevards, driveways, and
property controlled by that park district, and shall have
power to make arrests subject to the provisions of the Park
District Police Act. The exercise of such authority shall not
permit the possession or use of firearms by members of the
board.
(Source: P.A. 89-458, eff. 5-24-96.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.