Bill Text: IL HB1978 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the unlawful sale of public conveyance travel tickets to a minor.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1978 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1978-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1978 Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Constance A. Howard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/10-8 from Ch. 38, par. 10-8
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the unlawful sale of public conveyance travel tickets to a minor.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing
Section 10-8 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/10-8) (from Ch. 38, par. 10-8)
Sec. 10-8. Unlawful sale of a public conveyance travel
ticket to a minor.
(a) A person commits the the offense of unlawful sale of a
public conveyance travel ticket to a minor when the person
sells a ticket for travel on any public conveyance to an
unemancipated minor under 17 years of age without the consent
of the minor's parents or guardian for passage to a destination
outside this state and knows the minor's age or fails to take
reasonable measures to ascertain the minor's age.
(b) Evidence. The fact that the defendant demanded, was
shown, and reasonably relied upon written evidence of a
person's age in any transaction forbidden by this Section is
competent evidence, and may be considered in any criminal
prosecution for a violation of this Section.
(c) Definition. "Public Conveyance", includes an airplane,
boat, bus, railroad, train, taxicab or other vehicle used for
the transportation of passengers for hire.

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(d) Sentence. Unlawful sale of a public conveyance travel
ticket to a minor is a Class C misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 86-336.)