Bill Text: IL HB1123 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section that prohibits the possession of burglary tools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-24 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1123 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB1123-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 19-2 as follows:
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6 | (720 ILCS 5/19-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 19-2)
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7 | Sec. 19-2. Possession of burglary tools.
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8 | (a) A person commits
possession of burglary tools when he
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9 | or she possesses any key, tool, instrument, device, or any | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | explosive, suitable for
use in breaking into a building, | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | housetrailer, watercraft, aircraft, motor
vehicle, railroad | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | car, or any
depository designed for the
the safekeeping of | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | property, or any part thereof,
with intent to enter that place | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | and with intent to commit therein a
felony or theft. The trier | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | of fact may infer from the possession of a key designed for | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | lock bumping an intent to commit a felony or theft; however, | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | this inference does not apply to any peace officer or other | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | employee of a law enforcement agency, or to any person or | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | agency licensed under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | 2004. For the purposes of this Section, "lock bumping" means a | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | lock picking technique for opening a pin tumbler lock using a | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | specially-crafted bumpkey. |
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1 | (b) Sentence.
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2 | Possession of burglary tools is a Class 4
felony.
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3 | (Source: P.A. 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13.)
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