Bill Text: IL HB4561 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Repeals the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the unlawful use of weapons and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon statutes do not apply to or affect any person carrying a concealed pistol, revolver, or handgun and the person has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card under the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-05 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4561 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4561-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4561 Introduced , by Rep. Allen Skillicorn SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42
5 ILCS 140/7.5
15 ILCS 305/13.5 rep.
20 ILCS 2605/2605-300 was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part
20 ILCS 2605/2605-595
30 ILCS 105/6z-99
235 ILCS 5/10-1 from Ch. 43, par. 183
430 ILCS 65/2 from Ch. 38, par. 83-2
430 ILCS 65/3 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3
430 ILCS 65/13.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-13.1
430 ILCS 66/Act rep.
720 ILCS 5/24-1 from Ch. 38, par. 24-1
720 ILCS 5/24-1.6
720 ILCS 5/24-2
720 ILCS 5/24-3 from Ch. 38, par. 24-3
730 ILCS 5/5-6-1 from Ch. 38, par. 1005-6-1
Repeals the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the unlawful use of weapons and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon statutes do not apply to or affect any person carrying a concealed pistol, revolver, or handgun and the person has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card under the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes.
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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 Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
Section 2 as follows:
(5 ILCS 120/2) (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
Sec. 2. Open meetings.
(a) Openness required. All meetings of public bodies shall
be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c) and
closed in accordance with Section 2a.
(b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained
in subsection (c) are in derogation of the requirement that
public bodies meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions
are to be strictly construed, extending only to subjects
clearly within their scope. The exceptions authorize but do not
require the holding of a closed meeting to discuss a subject
included within an enumerated exception.
(c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to
consider the following subjects:
(1) The appointment, employment, compensation,
discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific
employees, specific individuals who serve as independent
contractors in a park, recreational, or educational

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setting, or specific volunteers of the public body or legal
counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on
a complaint lodged against an employee, a specific
individual who serves as an independent contractor in a
park, recreational, or educational setting, or a volunteer
of the public body or against legal counsel for the public
body to determine its validity. However, a meeting to
consider an increase in compensation to a specific employee
of a public body that is subject to the Local Government
Wage Increase Transparency Act may not be closed and shall
be open to the public and posted and held in accordance
with this Act.
(2) Collective negotiating matters between the public
body and its employees or their representatives, or
deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more
classes of employees.
(3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public
office, when the public body is given power to appoint
under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or
removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public
body is given power to remove the occupant under law or
ordinance.
(4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or
in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law, to
a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided

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that the body prepares and makes available for public
inspection a written decision setting forth its
determinative reasoning.
(5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use
of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose
of discussing whether a particular parcel should be
acquired.
(6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of
property owned by the public body.
(7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or
investment contracts. This exception shall not apply to the
investment of assets or income of funds deposited into the
Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund.
(8) Security procedures, school building safety and
security, and the use of personnel and equipment to respond
to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably potential
danger to the safety of employees, students, staff, the
public, or public property.
(9) Student disciplinary cases.
(10) The placement of individual students in special
education programs and other matters relating to
individual students.
(11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
when the public body finds that an action is probable or

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imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
meeting.
(12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
claims as provided in the Local Governmental and
Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the
disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
risk management information, records, data, advice or
communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
public body or any intergovernmental risk management
association or self insurance pool of which the public body
is a member.
(13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair housing
practices and creating a commission or administrative
agency for their enforcement.
(14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or
future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
(15) Professional ethics or performance when
considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
advisory body's field of competence.

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(16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or
professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
a statewide association of which the public body is a
member.
(17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or
formal peer review of physicians or other health care
professionals, or for the discussion of matters protected
under the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Act of 2005, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
including 42 C.F.R. Part 3 (73 FR 70732), or the federal
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
including 45 C.F.R. Parts 160, 162, and 164, by a hospital,
or other institution providing medical care, that is
operated by the public body.
(18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner
Review Board.
(19) Review or discussion of applications received
under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
Act.
(20) The classification and discussion of matters
classified as confidential or continued confidential by
the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
(21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as

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mandated by Section 2.06.
(22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
(23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or
municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
(i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
conclusions of load forecast studies.
(24) Meetings of a residential health care facility
resident sexual assault and death review team or the
Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review Team
Act.
(25) Meetings of an independent team of experts under
Brian's Law.
(26) Meetings of a mortality review team appointed
under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review
Team Act.
(27) (Blank).
(28) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
the Illinois Public Aid Code.
(29) Meetings between internal or external auditors
and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and
their equivalents, when the discussion involves internal

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control weaknesses, identification of potential fraud risk
areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews
conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards of the United States of America.
(30) Those meetings or portions of meetings of a
fatality review team or the Illinois Fatality Review Team
Advisory Council during which a review of the death of an
eligible adult in which abuse or neglect is suspected,
alleged, or substantiated is conducted pursuant to Section
15 of the Adult Protective Services Act.
(31) (Blank). Meetings and deliberations for decisions
of the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board under the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
(32) Meetings between the Regional Transportation
Authority Board and its Service Boards when the discussion
involves review by the Regional Transportation Authority
Board of employment contracts under Section 28d of the
Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and Sections 3A.18 and
3B.26 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act.
(33) Those meetings or portions of meetings of the
advisory committee and peer review subcommittee created
under Section 320 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act
during which specific controlled substance prescriber,
dispenser, or patient information is discussed.
(34) Meetings of the Tax Increment Financing Reform
Task Force under Section 2505-800 of the Department of

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Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
(35) Meetings of the group established to discuss
Medicaid capitation rates under Section 5-30.8 of the
Illinois Public Aid Code.
(36) Those deliberations or portions of deliberations
for decisions of the Illinois Gaming Board in which there
is discussed any of the following: (i) personal,
commercial, financial, or other information obtained from
any source that is privileged, proprietary, confidential,
or a trade secret; or (ii) information specifically
exempted from the disclosure by federal or State law.
(d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
"Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
relationship with the public body constitutes an
employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
"Public office" means a position created by or under the
Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
members of the public body, but it shall not include
organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
assist the body in the conduct of its business.
"Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct

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hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
determinations based thereon, but does not include local
electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
challenges.
(e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed
meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of
the nature of the matter being considered and other information
that will inform the public of the business being conducted.
(Source: P.A. 100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 100-465, eff. 8-31-17;
100-646, eff. 7-27-18; 101-31, eff. 6-28-19; 101-459, eff.
8-23-19; revised 9-27-19.)
Section 10. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
changing Section 7.5 as follows:
(5 ILCS 140/7.5)
Sec. 7.5. Statutory exemptions. To the extent provided for
by the statutes referenced below, the following shall be exempt
from inspection and copying:
(a) All information determined to be confidential
under Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and
Development Act.
(b) Library circulation and order records identifying
library users with specific materials under the Library
Records Confidentiality Act.
(c) Applications, related documents, and medical

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records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
Procedures Board and any and all documents or other records
prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it
has received.
(d) Information and records held by the Department of
Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
disease or any information the disclosure of which is
restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
Disease Control Act.
(e) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
(f) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
Qualifications Based Selection Act.
(g) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
and exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid
Tuition Act.
(h) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, and
records of any lawfully created State or local inspector
general's office that would be exempt if created or
obtained by an Executive Inspector General's office under
that Act.
(i) Information contained in a local emergency energy

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plan submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local
emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under
Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
(j) Information and data concerning the distribution
of surcharge moneys collected and remitted by carriers
under the Emergency Telephone System Act.
(k) Law enforcement officer identification information
or driver identification information compiled by a law
enforcement agency or the Department of Transportation
under Section 11-212 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
(l) Records and information provided to a residential
health care facility resident sexual assault and death
review team or the Executive Council under the Abuse
Prevention Review Team Act.
(m) Information provided to the predatory lending
database created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential
Real Property Disclosure Act, except to the extent
authorized under that Article.
(n) Defense budgets and petitions for certification of
compensation and expenses for court appointed trial
counsel as provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the Capital
Crimes Litigation Act. This subsection (n) shall apply
until the conclusion of the trial of the case, even if the
prosecution chooses not to pursue the death penalty prior
to trial or sentencing.
(o) Information that is prohibited from being

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disclosed under Section 4 of the Illinois Health and
Hazardous Substances Registry Act.
(p) Security portions of system safety program plans,
investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of
the Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair
County Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety
Act.
(q) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
Personnel Record Review Act.
(r) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
Illinois School Student Records Act.
(s) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
(t) All identified or deidentified health information
in the form of health data or medical records contained in,
stored in, submitted to, transferred by, or released from
the Illinois Health Information Exchange, and identified
or deidentified health information in the form of health
data and medical records of the Illinois Health Information
Exchange in the possession of the Illinois Health
Information Exchange Authority due to its administration
of the Illinois Health Information Exchange. The terms
"identified" and "deidentified" shall be given the same
meaning as in the Health Insurance Portability and

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Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191, or any
subsequent amendments thereto, and any regulations
promulgated thereunder.
(u) Records and information provided to an independent
team of experts under the Developmental Disability and
Mental Health Safety Act (also known as Brian's Law).
(v) Names and information of people who have applied
for or received Firearm Owner's Identification Cards under
the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act or applied for
or received a concealed carry license under the Firearm
Concealed Carry Act, unless otherwise authorized by the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act; and databases under the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act, records of the Concealed Carry
Licensing Review Board under the Firearm Concealed Carry
Act, and law enforcement agency objections under the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
(w) Personally identifiable information which is
exempted from disclosure under subsection (g) of Section
19.1 of the Toll Highway Act.
(x) Information which is exempted from disclosure
under Section 5-1014.3 of the Counties Code or Section
8-11-21 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
(y) Confidential information under the Adult
Protective Services Act and its predecessor enabling
statute, the Elder Abuse and Neglect Act, including
information about the identity and administrative finding

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against any caregiver of a verified and substantiated
decision of abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation of an
eligible adult maintained in the Registry established
under Section 7.5 of the Adult Protective Services Act.
(z) Records and information provided to a fatality
review team or the Illinois Fatality Review Team Advisory
Council under Section 15 of the Adult Protective Services
Act.
(aa) Information which is exempted from disclosure
under Section 2.37 of the Wildlife Code.
(bb) Information which is or was prohibited from
disclosure by the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
(cc) Recordings made under the Law Enforcement
Officer-Worn Body Camera Act, except to the extent
authorized under that Act.
(dd) Information that is prohibited from being
disclosed under Section 45 of the Condominium and Common
Interest Community Ombudsperson Act.
(ee) Information that is exempted from disclosure
under Section 30.1 of the Pharmacy Practice Act.
(ff) Information that is exempted from disclosure
under the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.
(gg) Information that is prohibited from being
disclosed under Section 7-603.5 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code.
(hh) Records that are exempt from disclosure under

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Section 1A-16.7 of the Election Code.
(ii) Information which is exempted from disclosure
under Section 2505-800 of the Department of Revenue Law of
the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
(jj) Information and reports that are required to be
submitted to the Department of Labor by registering day and
temporary labor service agencies but are exempt from
disclosure under subsection (a-1) of Section 45 of the Day
and Temporary Labor Services Act.
(kk) Information prohibited from disclosure under the
Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act.
(ll) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
and exempted under Section 5-30.8 of the Illinois Public
Aid Code.
(mm) Records that are exempt from disclosure under
Section 4.2 of the Crime Victims Compensation Act.
(nn) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
Section 70 of the Higher Education Student Assistance Act.
(oo) Communications, notes, records, and reports
arising out of a peer support counseling session prohibited
from disclosure under the First Responders Suicide
Prevention Act.
(pp) Names and all identifying information relating to
an employee of an emergency services provider or law
enforcement agency under the First Responders Suicide
Prevention Act.

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(qq) Information and records held by the Department of
Public Health and its authorized representatives collected
under the Reproductive Health Act.
(rr) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.
(ss) Data reported by an employer to the Department of
Human Rights pursuant to Section 2-108 of the Illinois
Human Rights Act.
(tt) Recordings made under the Children's Advocacy
Center Act, except to the extent authorized under that Act.
(uu) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
Section 50 of the Sexual Assault Evidence Submission Act.
(vv) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
subsections (f) and (j) of Section 5-36 of the Illinois
Public Aid Code.
(ww) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
Section 16.8 of the State Treasurer Act.
(xx) Information that is exempt from disclosure or
information that shall not be made public under the
Illinois Insurance Code.
(yy) (oo) Information prohibited from being disclosed
under the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
(zz) (pp) Information prohibited from being disclosed
under the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act.
(aaa) (qq) Information prohibited from being disclosed
under Section 1-167 of the Illinois Pension Code.

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(Source: P.A. 100-20, eff. 7-1-17; 100-22, eff. 1-1-18;
100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 100-373, eff. 1-1-18; 100-464, eff.
8-28-17; 100-465, eff. 8-31-17; 100-512, eff. 7-1-18; 100-517,
eff. 6-1-18; 100-646, eff. 7-27-18; 100-690, eff. 1-1-19;
100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 100-887, eff. 8-14-18; 101-13, eff.
6-12-19; 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 101-221,
eff. 1-1-20; 101-236, eff. 1-1-20; 101-375, eff. 8-16-19;
101-377, eff. 8-16-19; 101-452, eff. 1-1-20; 101-466, eff.
1-1-20; 101-600, eff. 12-6-19; 101-620, eff 12-20-19; revised
1-6-20.)
(15 ILCS 305/13.5 rep.)
Section 15. The Secretary of State Act is amended by
repealing Section 13.5.
Section 20. The Department of State Police Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Sections
2605-300 and 2605-595 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-300) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
Sec. 2605-300. Records; crime laboratories; personnel. To
do the following:
(1) Be a central repository and custodian of criminal
statistics for the State.
(2) Be a central repository for criminal history record
information.

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(3) Procure and file for record information that is
necessary and helpful to plan programs of crime prevention,
law enforcement, and criminal justice.
(4) Procure and file for record copies of fingerprints
that may be required by law.
(5) Establish general and field crime laboratories.
(6) Register and file for record information that may
be required by law for the issuance of firearm owner's
identification cards under the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act and concealed carry licenses under
the Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
(7) Employ laboratory technicians and other specially
qualified persons to aid in the identification of criminal
activity, and may employ polygraph operators.
(8) Undertake other identification, information,
laboratory, statistical, or registration activities that
may be required by law.
(Source: P.A. 98-63, eff. 7-9-13; 99-801, eff. 1-1-17.)
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-595)
Sec. 2605-595. State Police Firearm Services Fund.
(a) There is created in the State treasury a special fund
known as the State Police Firearm Services Fund. The Fund shall
receive revenue under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act and
Section 5 of the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. The
Fund may also receive revenue from grants, pass-through grants,

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donations, appropriations, and any other legal source.
(b) The Department of State Police may use moneys in the
Fund to finance any of its lawful purposes, mandates,
functions, and duties under the Firearm Owners Identification
Card Act and the Firearm Concealed Carry Act, including the
cost of sending notices of expiration of Firearm Owner's
Identification Cards, concealed carry licenses, the prompt and
efficient processing of applications under the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act and the Firearm Concealed Carry Act,
the improved efficiency and reporting of the LEADS and federal
NICS law enforcement data systems, and support for
investigations required under that Act these Acts and law. Any
surplus funds beyond what is needed to comply with the
aforementioned purposes shall be used by the Department to
improve the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) and
criminal history background check system.
(c) Investment income that is attributable to the
investment of moneys in the Fund shall be retained in the Fund
for the uses specified in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 98-63, eff. 7-9-13; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14.)
Section 25. The State Finance Act is amended by changing
Section 6z-99 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/6z-99)
Sec. 6z-99. The Mental Health Reporting Fund.

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(a) There is created in the State treasury a special fund
known as the Mental Health Reporting Fund. The Fund shall
receive revenue under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. The Fund
may also receive revenue from grants, pass-through grants,
donations, appropriations, and any other legal source.
(b) The Department of State Police and Department of Human
Services shall coordinate to use moneys in the Fund to finance
their respective duties of collecting and reporting data on
mental health records and ensuring that mental health firearm
possession prohibitors are enforced as set forth under the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act and the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act. Any surplus in the Fund beyond what is
necessary to ensure compliance with mental health reporting
under that Act these Acts shall be used by the Department of
Human Services for mental health treatment programs.
(c) Investment income that is attributable to the
investment of moneys in the Fund shall be retained in the Fund
for the uses specified in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 98-63, eff. 7-9-13; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14.)
Section 30. The Liquor Control Act of 1934 is amended by
changing Section 10-1 as follows:
(235 ILCS 5/10-1) (from Ch. 43, par. 183)
Sec. 10-1. Violations; penalties. Whereas a substantial
threat to the sound and careful control, regulation, and

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taxation of the manufacture, sale, and distribution of
alcoholic liquors exists by virtue of individuals who
manufacture, import, distribute, or sell alcoholic liquors
within the State without having first obtained a valid license
to do so, and whereas such threat is especially serious along
the borders of this State, and whereas such threat requires
immediate correction by this Act, by active investigation and
prosecution by the State Commission, law enforcement
officials, and prosecutors, and by prompt and strict
enforcement through the courts of this State to punish
violators and to deter such conduct in the future:
(a) Any person who manufactures, imports for distribution
or use, transports from outside this State into this State, or
distributes or sells 108 liters (28.53 gallons) or more of
wine, 45 liters (11.88 gallons) or more of distilled spirits,
or 118 liters (31.17 gallons) or more of beer at any place
within the State without having first obtained a valid license
to do so under the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a
Class 4 felony for each offense. However, any person who was
duly licensed under this Act and whose license expired within
30 days prior to a violation shall be guilty of a business
offense and fined not more than $1,000 for the first such
offense and shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony for each
subsequent offense.
Any person who manufactures, imports for distribution,
transports from outside this State into this State for sale or

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resale in this State, or distributes or sells less than 108
liters (28.53 gallons) of wine, less than 45 liters (11.88
gallons) of distilled spirits, or less than 118 liters (31.17
gallons) of beer at any place within the State without having
first obtained a valid license to do so under the provisions of
this Act shall be guilty of a business offense and fined not
more than $1,000 for the first such offense and shall be guilty
of a Class 4 felony for each subsequent offense. This
subsection does not apply to a motor carrier or freight
forwarder, as defined in Section 13102 of Title 49 of the
United States Code, an air carrier, as defined in Section 40102
of Title 49 of the United States Code, or a rail carrier, as
defined in Section 10102 of Title 49 of the United States Code.
Any person who: (1) has been issued an initial cease and
desist notice from the State Commission; and (2) for
compensation, does any of the following: (i) ships alcoholic
liquor into this State without a license authorized by Section
5-1 issued by the State Commission or in violation of that
license; or (ii) manufactures, imports for distribution,
transports from outside this State into this State for sale or
resale in this State, or distributes or sells alcoholic liquors
at any place without having first obtained a valid license to
do so is guilty of a Class 4 felony for each offense.
(b) (1) Any retailer, caterer retailer, brew pub, special
event retailer, special use permit holder, homebrewer special
event permit holder, or craft distiller tasting permit holder

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who knowingly causes alcoholic liquors to be imported directly
into the State of Illinois from outside of the State for the
purpose of furnishing, giving, or selling to another, except
when having received the product from a duly licensed
distributor or importing distributor, shall have his license
suspended for 30 days for the first offense and for the second
offense, shall have his license revoked by the Commission.
(2) In the event the State Commission receives a certified
copy of a final order from a foreign jurisdiction that an
Illinois retail licensee has been found to have violated that
foreign jurisdiction's laws, rules, or regulations concerning
the importation of alcoholic liquor into that foreign
jurisdiction, the violation may be grounds for the State
Commission to revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or renew a
license, to impose a fine, or to take any additional action
provided by this Act with respect to the Illinois retail
license or licensee. Any such action on the part of the State
Commission shall be in accordance with this Act and
implementing rules.
For the purposes of paragraph (2): (i) "foreign
jurisdiction" means a state, territory, or possession of the
United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, and (ii) "final order" means an order or judgment
of a court or administrative body that determines the rights of
the parties respecting the subject matter of the proceeding,
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can be taken.
(c) Any person who shall make any false statement or
otherwise violates any of the provisions of this Act in
obtaining any license hereunder, or who having obtained a
license hereunder shall violate any of the provisions of this
Act with respect to the manufacture, possession, distribution
or sale of alcoholic liquor, or with respect to the maintenance
of the licensed premises, or shall violate any other provision
of this Act, shall for a first offense be guilty of a petty
offense and fined not more than $500, and for a second or
subsequent offense shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
(c-5) (Blank). Any owner of an establishment that serves
alcohol on its premises, if more than 50% of the
establishment's gross receipts within the prior 3 months is
from the sale of alcohol, who knowingly fails to prohibit
concealed firearms on its premises or who knowingly makes a
false statement or record to avoid the prohibition of concealed
firearms on its premises under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act
shall be guilty of a business offense with a fine up to $5,000.
(d) Each day any person engages in business as a
manufacturer, foreign importer, importing distributor,
distributor or retailer in violation of the provisions of this
Act shall constitute a separate offense.
(e) Any person, under the age of 21 years who, for the
purpose of buying, accepting or receiving alcoholic liquor from
a licensee, represents that he is 21 years of age or over shall

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be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(f) In addition to the penalties herein provided, any
person licensed as a wine-maker in either class who
manufactures more wine than authorized by his license shall be
guilty of a business offense and shall be fined $1 for each
gallon so manufactured.
(g) A person shall be exempt from prosecution for a
violation of this Act if he is a peace officer in the
enforcement of the criminal laws and such activity is approved
in writing by one of the following:
(1) In all counties, the respective State's Attorney;
(2) The Director of State Police under Section 2605-10,
2605-15, 2605-75, 2605-100, 2605-105, 2605-110, 2605-115,
2605-120, 2605-130, 2605-140, 2605-190, 2605-200,
2605-205, 2605-210, 2605-215, 2605-250, 2605-275,
2605-300, 2605-305, 2605-315, 2605-325, 2605-335,
2605-340, 2605-350, 2605-355, 2605-360, 2605-365,
2605-375, 2605-390, 2605-400, 2605-405, 2605-420,
2605-430, 2605-435, 2605-500, 2605-525, or 2605-550 of the
Department of State Police Law (20 ILCS 2605/2605-10,
2605/2605-15, 2605/2605-75, 2605/2605-100, 2605/2605-105,
2605/2605-110, 2605/2605-115, 2605/2605-120,
2605/2605-130, 2605/2605-140, 2605/2605-190,
2605/2605-200, 2605/2605-205, 2605/2605-210,
2605/2605-215, 2605/2605-250, 2605/2605-275,
2605/2605-300, 2605/2605-305, 2605/2605-315,

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2605/2605-325, 2605/2605-335, 2605/2605-340,
2605/2605-350, 2605/2605-355, 2605/2605-360,
2605/2605-365, 2605/2605-375, 2605/2605-390,
2605/2605-400, 2605/2605-405, 2605/2605-420,
2605/2605-430, 2605/2605-435, 2605/2605-500,
2605/2605-525, or 2605/2605-550); or
(3) In cities over 1,000,000, the Superintendent of
Police.
(Source: P.A. 101-37, eff. 7-3-19.)
Section 35. The Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is
amended by changing Sections 2, 3, and 13.1 as follows:
(430 ILCS 65/2) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-2)
Sec. 2. Firearm Owner's Identification Card required;
exceptions.
(a) (1) No person may acquire or possess any firearm, stun
gun, or taser within this State without having in his or her
possession a Firearm Owner's Identification Card previously
issued in his or her name by the Department of State Police
under the provisions of this Act.
(2) No person may acquire or possess firearm ammunition
within this State without having in his or her possession a
Firearm Owner's Identification Card previously issued in his or
her name by the Department of State Police under the provisions
of this Act.

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(b) The provisions of this Section regarding the possession
of firearms, firearm ammunition, stun guns, and tasers do not
apply to:
(1) United States Marshals, while engaged in the
operation of their official duties;
(2) Members of the Armed Forces of the United States or
the National Guard, while engaged in the operation of their
official duties;
(3) Federal officials required to carry firearms,
while engaged in the operation of their official duties;
(4) Members of bona fide veterans organizations which
receive firearms directly from the armed forces of the
United States, while using the firearms for ceremonial
purposes with blank ammunition;
(5) Nonresident hunters during hunting season, with
valid nonresident hunting licenses and while in an area
where hunting is permitted; however, at all other times and
in all other places these persons must have their firearms
unloaded and enclosed in a case;
(6) Those hunters exempt from obtaining a hunting
license who are required to submit their Firearm Owner's
Identification Card when hunting on Department of Natural
Resources owned or managed sites;
(7) Nonresidents while on a firing or shooting range
recognized by the Department of State Police; however,
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places have their firearms unloaded and enclosed in a case;
(8) Nonresidents while at a firearm showing or display
recognized by the Department of State Police; however, at
all other times and in all other places these persons must
have their firearms unloaded and enclosed in a case;
(9) Nonresidents whose firearms are unloaded and
enclosed in a case;
(10) Nonresidents who are currently licensed or
registered to possess a firearm in their resident state;
(11) Unemancipated minors while in the custody and
immediate control of their parent or legal guardian or
other person in loco parentis to the minor if the parent or
legal guardian or other person in loco parentis to the
minor has a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification
Card;
(12) Color guards of bona fide veterans organizations
or members of bona fide American Legion bands while using
firearms for ceremonial purposes with blank ammunition;
(13) Nonresident hunters whose state of residence does
not require them to be licensed or registered to possess a
firearm and only during hunting season, with valid hunting
licenses, while accompanied by, and using a firearm owned
by, a person who possesses a valid Firearm Owner's
Identification Card and while in an area within a
commercial club licensed under the Wildlife Code where
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upon sites owned or managed by the Department of Natural
Resources;
(14) Resident hunters who are properly authorized to
hunt and, while accompanied by a person who possesses a
valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card, hunt in an area
within a commercial club licensed under the Wildlife Code
where hunting is permitted and controlled;
(15) A person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a
Firearm Owner's Identification Card under this Act and is
under the direct supervision of a holder of a Firearm
Owner's Identification Card who is 21 years of age or older
while the person is on a firing or shooting range or is a
participant in a firearms safety and training course
recognized by a law enforcement agency or a national,
statewide shooting sports organization; and
(16) Competitive shooting athletes whose competition
firearms are sanctioned by the International Olympic
Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the
International Shooting Sport Federation, or USA Shooting
in connection with such athletes' training for and
participation in shooting competitions at the 2016 Olympic
and Paralympic Games and sanctioned test events leading up
to the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
(c) The provisions of this Section regarding the
acquisition and possession of firearms, firearm ammunition,
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of this or any other jurisdiction, while engaged in the
operation of their official duties.
(c-5) (Blank). The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of
subsection (a) of this Section regarding the possession of
firearms and firearm ammunition do not apply to the holder of a
valid concealed carry license issued under the Firearm
Concealed Carry Act who is in physical possession of the
concealed carry license.
(d) Any person who becomes a resident of this State, who is
not otherwise prohibited from obtaining, possessing, or using a
firearm or firearm ammunition, shall not be required to have a
Firearm Owner's Identification Card to possess firearms or
firearms ammunition until 60 calendar days after he or she
obtains an Illinois driver's license or Illinois
Identification Card.
(Source: P.A. 99-29, eff. 7-10-15.)
(430 ILCS 65/3) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-3)
Sec. 3. (a) Except as provided in Section 3a, no person may
knowingly transfer, or cause to be transferred, any firearm,
firearm ammunition, stun gun, or taser to any person within
this State unless the transferee with whom he deals displays
either: (1) a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification
Card which has previously been issued in his or her name by the
Department of State Police under the provisions of this Act; or
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which has previously been issued in his or her name by the
Department of State Police under the Firearm Concealed Carry
Act. In addition, all firearm, stun gun, and taser transfers by
federally licensed firearm dealers are subject to Section 3.1.
(a-5) Any person who is not a federally licensed firearm
dealer and who desires to transfer or sell a firearm while that
person is on the grounds of a gun show must, before selling or
transferring the firearm, request the Department of State
Police to conduct a background check on the prospective
recipient of the firearm in accordance with Section 3.1.
(a-10) Notwithstanding item (2) of subsection (a) of this
Section, any person who is not a federally licensed firearm
dealer and who desires to transfer or sell a firearm or
firearms to any person who is not a federally licensed firearm
dealer shall, before selling or transferring the firearms,
contact the Department of State Police with the transferee's or
purchaser's Firearm Owner's Identification Card number to
determine the validity of the transferee's or purchaser's
Firearm Owner's Identification Card. This subsection shall not
be effective until January 1, 2014. The Department of State
Police may adopt rules concerning the implementation of this
subsection. The Department of State Police shall provide the
seller or transferor an approval number if the purchaser's
Firearm Owner's Identification Card is valid. Approvals issued
by the Department for the purchase of a firearm pursuant to
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(a-15) The provisions of subsection (a-10) of this Section
do not apply to:
(1) transfers that occur at the place of business of a
federally licensed firearm dealer, if the federally
licensed firearm dealer conducts a background check on the
prospective recipient of the firearm in accordance with
Section 3.1 of this Act and follows all other applicable
federal, State, and local laws as if he or she were the
seller or transferor of the firearm, although the dealer is
not required to accept the firearm into his or her
inventory. The purchaser or transferee may be required by
the federally licensed firearm dealer to pay a fee not to
exceed $10 per firearm, which the dealer may retain as
compensation for performing the functions required under
this paragraph, plus the applicable fees authorized by
Section 3.1;
(2) transfers as a bona fide gift to the transferor's
husband, wife, son, daughter, stepson, stepdaughter,
father, mother, stepfather, stepmother, brother, sister,
nephew, niece, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother,
grandson, granddaughter, father-in-law, mother-in-law,
son-in-law, or daughter-in-law;
(3) transfers by persons acting pursuant to operation
of law or a court order;
(4) transfers on the grounds of a gun show under
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(5) the delivery of a firearm by its owner to a
gunsmith for service or repair, the return of the firearm
to its owner by the gunsmith, or the delivery of a firearm
by a gunsmith to a federally licensed firearms dealer for
service or repair and the return of the firearm to the
gunsmith;
(6) temporary transfers that occur while in the home of
the unlicensed transferee, if the unlicensed transferee is
not otherwise prohibited from possessing firearms and the
unlicensed transferee reasonably believes that possession
of the firearm is necessary to prevent imminent death or
great bodily harm to the unlicensed transferee;
(7) transfers to a law enforcement or corrections
agency or a law enforcement or corrections officer acting
within the course and scope of his or her official duties;
(8) transfers of firearms that have been rendered
permanently inoperable to a nonprofit historical society,
museum, or institutional collection; and
(9) transfers to a person who is exempt from the
requirement of possessing a Firearm Owner's Identification
Card under Section 2 of this Act.
(a-20) The Department of State Police shall develop an
Internet-based system for individuals to determine the
validity of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card prior to the
sale or transfer of a firearm. The Department shall have the
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1, 2015. The Department shall adopt rules not inconsistent with
this Section to implement this system.
(b) Any person within this State who transfers or causes to
be transferred any firearm, stun gun, or taser shall keep a
record of such transfer for a period of 10 years from the date
of transfer. Such record shall contain the date of the
transfer; the description, serial number or other information
identifying the firearm, stun gun, or taser if no serial number
is available; and, if the transfer was completed within this
State, the transferee's Firearm Owner's Identification Card
number and any approval number or documentation provided by the
Department of State Police pursuant to subsection (a-10) of
this Section; if the transfer was not completed within this
State, the record shall contain the name and address of the
transferee. On or after January 1, 2006, the record shall
contain the date of application for transfer of the firearm. On
demand of a peace officer such transferor shall produce for
inspection such record of transfer. If the transfer or sale
took place at a gun show, the record shall include the unique
identification number. Failure to record the unique
identification number or approval number is a petty offense.
For transfers of a firearm, stun gun, or taser made on or after
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General
Assembly, failure by the private seller to maintain the
transfer records in accordance with this Section is a Class A
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second or subsequent offense. A transferee shall not be
criminally liable under this Section provided that he or she
provides the Department of State Police with the transfer
records in accordance with procedures established by the
Department. The Department shall establish, by rule, a standard
form on its website.
(b-5) Any resident may purchase ammunition from a person
within or outside of Illinois if shipment is by United States
mail or by a private express carrier authorized by federal law
to ship ammunition. Any resident purchasing ammunition within
or outside the State of Illinois must provide the seller with a
copy of his or her valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card or
valid concealed carry license and either his or her Illinois
driver's license or Illinois State Identification Card prior to
the shipment of the ammunition. The ammunition may be shipped
only to an address on either of those 2 documents.
(c) The provisions of this Section regarding the transfer
of firearm ammunition shall not apply to those persons
specified in paragraph (b) of Section 2 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 99-29, eff. 7-10-15; 100-1178, eff. 1-18-19.)
(430 ILCS 65/13.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-13.1)
Sec. 13.1. Preemption.
(a) (Blank). Except as otherwise provided in the Firearm
Concealed Carry Act and subsections (b) and (c) of this
Section, the provisions of any ordinance enacted by any

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municipality which requires registration or imposes greater
restrictions or limitations on the acquisition, possession and
transfer of firearms than are imposed by this Act, are not
invalidated or affected by this Act.
(b) The Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Section, the
regulation, licensing, possession, and registration of
handguns and ammunition for a handgun, and the transportation
of any firearm and ammunition by a holder of a valid Firearm
Owner's Identification Card issued by the Department of State
Police under this Act are exclusive powers and functions of
this State. Any ordinance or regulation, or portion of that
ordinance or regulation, enacted on or before the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly that
purports to impose regulations or restrictions on a holder of a
valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card issued by the
Department of State Police under this Act in a manner that is
inconsistent with this Act, on the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, shall be invalid
in its application to a holder of a valid Firearm Owner's
Identification Card issued by the Department of State Police
under this Act.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Section, the
regulation of the possession or ownership of assault weapons
are exclusive powers and functions of this State. Any ordinance
or regulation, or portion of that ordinance or regulation, that
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weapons in a manner that is inconsistent with this Act, shall
be invalid unless the ordinance or regulation is enacted on,
before, or within 10 days after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly. Any ordinance or
regulation described in this subsection (c) enacted more than
10 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
98th General Assembly is invalid. An ordinance enacted on,
before, or within 10 days after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly may be amended. The
enactment or amendment of ordinances under this subsection (c)
are subject to the submission requirements of Section 13.3. For
the purposes of this subsection, "assault weapons" means
firearms designated by either make or model or by a test or
list of cosmetic features that cumulatively would place the
firearm into a definition of "assault weapon" under the
ordinance.
(d) For the purposes of this Section, "handgun" means any
device which is designed to expel a projectile or projectiles
by the action of an explosion, expansion of gas, or escape of
gas that is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single
hand. "Handgun" does not include:
(1) a stun gun or taser;
(2) a machine gun as defined in item (i) of paragraph
(7) of subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code
of 2012;
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item (ii) of paragraph (7) of subsection (a) of Section
24-1 of the Criminal Code of 2012; or
(4) any pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball gun, or
B-B gun which expels a single globular projectile not
exceeding .18 inch in diameter, or which has a maximum
muzzle velocity of less than 700 feet per second, or which
expels breakable paint balls containing washable marking
has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 5 of the Firearm
Concealed Carry Act.
(e) This Section is a denial and limitation of home rule
powers and functions under subsection (h) of Section 6 of
Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 98-63, eff. 7-9-13.)
(430 ILCS 66/Act rep.)
Section 40. The Firearm Concealed Carry Act is repealed.
Section 45. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
changing Sections 24-1, 24-1.6, 24-2, and 24-3 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/24-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-1)
Sec. 24-1. Unlawful use of weapons.
(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons
when he knowingly:
(1) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or
carries any bludgeon, black-jack, slung-shot, sand-club,

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sand-bag, metal knuckles or other knuckle weapon
regardless of its composition, throwing star, or any knife,
commonly referred to as a switchblade knife, which has a
blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to
a button, spring or other device in the handle of the
knife, or a ballistic knife, which is a device that propels
a knifelike blade as a projectile by means of a coil
spring, elastic material or compressed gas; or
(2) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same
unlawfully against another, a dagger, dirk, billy,
dangerous knife, razor, stiletto, broken bottle or other
piece of glass, stun gun or taser or any other dangerous or
deadly weapon or instrument of like character; or
(2.5) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same
unlawfully against another, any firearm in a church,
synagogue, mosque, or other building, structure, or place
used for religious worship; or
(3) Carries on or about his person or in any vehicle, a
tear gas gun projector or bomb or any object containing
noxious liquid gas or substance, other than an object
containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas or substance
designed solely for personal defense carried by a person 18
years of age or older; or
(4) Carries or possesses in any vehicle or concealed on
or about his person except when on his land or in his own
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the land or in the legal dwelling of another person as an
invitee with that person's permission, any pistol,
revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except that
this subsection (a) (4) does not apply to or affect
transportation of weapons that meet one of the following
conditions:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm
carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a
person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm
Owner's Identification Card; or
(iv) are carried or possessed in accordance with
the Firearm Concealed Carry Act by a person who has
been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's
Identification Card under the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act license under the Firearm
Concealed Carry Act; or
(5) Sets a spring gun; or
(6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind
designed, used or intended for use in silencing the report
of any firearm; or
(7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or
carries:
(i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the
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shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily
restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot
without manually reloading by a single function of the
trigger, including the frame or receiver of any such
weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses,
or carries any combination of parts designed or
intended for use in converting any weapon into a
machine gun, or any combination or parts from which a
machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the
possession or under the control of a person;
(ii) any rifle having one or more barrels less than
16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or more
barrels less than 18 inches in length or any weapon
made from a rifle or shotgun, whether by alteration,
modification, or otherwise, if such a weapon as
modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches;
or
(iii) any bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or
other container containing an explosive substance of
over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such as, but
not limited to, black powder bombs and Molotov
cocktails or artillery projectiles; or
(8) Carries or possesses any firearm, stun gun or taser
or other deadly weapon in any place which is licensed to
sell intoxicating beverages, or at any public gathering
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or any public gathering at which an admission is charged,
excluding a place where a showing, demonstration or lecture
involving the exhibition of unloaded firearms is
conducted.
This subsection (a)(8) does not apply to any auction or
raffle of a firearm held pursuant to a license or permit
issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to persons
engaged in firearm safety training courses; or
(9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about
his or her person any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser
or firearm or ballistic knife, when he or she is hooded,
robed or masked in such manner as to conceal his or her
identity; or
(10) Carries or possesses on or about his or her
person, upon any public street, alley, or other public
lands within the corporate limits of a city, village, or
incorporated town, except when an invitee thereon or
therein, for the purpose of the display of such weapon or
the lawful commerce in weapons, or except when on his land
or in his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place
of business, or on the land or in the legal dwelling of
another person as an invitee with that person's permission,
any pistol, revolver, stun gun, or taser or other firearm,
except that this subsection (a) (10) does not apply to or
affect transportation of weapons that meet one of the
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(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm
carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a
person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm
Owner's Identification Card; or
(iv) are carried or possessed in accordance with
the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act Concealed
Carry Act by a person who has been issued a currently
valid license under the Firearm Owner's Identification
Card Concealed Carry Act.
A "stun gun or taser", as used in this paragraph (a)
means (i) any device which is powered by electrical
charging units, such as, batteries, and which fires one or
several barbs attached to a length of wire and which, upon
hitting a human, can send out a current capable of
disrupting the person's nervous system in such a manner as
to render him incapable of normal functioning or (ii) any
device which is powered by electrical charging units, such
as batteries, and which, upon contact with a human or
clothing worn by a human, can send out current capable of
disrupting the person's nervous system in such a manner as
to render him incapable of normal functioning; or
(11) Sells, manufactures, or purchases any explosive
bullet. For purposes of this paragraph (a) "explosive
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cartridge which contains or carries an explosive charge
which will explode upon contact with the flesh of a human
or an animal. "Cartridge" means a tubular metal case having
a projectile affixed at the front thereof and a cap or
primer at the rear end thereof, with the propellant
contained in such tube between the projectile and the cap;
or
(12) (Blank); or
(13) Carries or possesses on or about his or her person
while in a building occupied by a unit of government, a
billy club, other weapon of like character, or other
instrument of like character intended for use as a weapon.
For the purposes of this Section, "billy club" means a
short stick or club commonly carried by police officers
which is either telescopic or constructed of a solid piece
of wood or other man-made material.
(b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of
subsection 24-1(a)(1) through (5), subsection 24-1(a)(10),
subsection 24-1(a)(11), or subsection 24-1(a)(13) commits a
Class A misdemeanor. A person convicted of a violation of
subsection 24-1(a)(8) or 24-1(a)(9) commits a Class 4 felony; a
person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(6) or
24-1(a)(7)(ii) or (iii) commits a Class 3 felony. A person
convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(7)(i) commits a
Class 2 felony and shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment
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weapon is possessed in the passenger compartment of a motor
vehicle as defined in Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code, or on the person, while the weapon is loaded, in which
case it shall be a Class X felony. A person convicted of a
second or subsequent violation of subsection 24-1(a)(4),
24-1(a)(8), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 3
felony. A person convicted of a violation of subsection
24-1(a)(2.5) commits a Class 2 felony. The possession of each
weapon in violation of this Section constitutes a single and
separate violation.
(c) Violations in specific places.
(1) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(6) or
24-1(a)(7) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, in residential property owned, operated
or managed by a public housing agency or leased by a public
housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income
development, in a public park, in a courthouse, on the real
property comprising any school, regardless of the time of
day or the time of year, on residential property owned,
operated or managed by a public housing agency or leased by
a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
mixed-income development, on the real property comprising
any public park, on the real property comprising any
courthouse, in any conveyance owned, leased or contracted
by a school to transport students to or from school or a
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or contracted by a public transportation agency, or on any
public way within 1,000 feet of the real property
comprising any school, public park, courthouse, public
transportation facility, or residential property owned,
operated, or managed by a public housing agency or leased
by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
mixed-income development commits a Class 2 felony and shall
be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 3
years and not more than 7 years.
(1.5) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(4),
24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) in any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, in residential property
owned, operated, or managed by a public housing agency or
leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered
site or mixed-income development, in a public park, in a
courthouse, on the real property comprising any school,
regardless of the time of day or the time of year, on
residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real
property comprising any courthouse, in any conveyance
owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport
students to or from school or a school related activity, in
any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a public
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feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, public transportation facility, or
residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development
commits a Class 3 felony.
(2) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(1),
24-1(a)(2), or 24-1(a)(3) in any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, in residential property
owned, operated or managed by a public housing agency or
leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered
site or mixed-income development, in a public park, in a
courthouse, on the real property comprising any school,
regardless of the time of day or the time of year, on
residential property owned, operated or managed by a public
housing agency or leased by a public housing agency as part
of a scattered site or mixed-income development, on the
real property comprising any public park, on the real
property comprising any courthouse, in any conveyance
owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport
students to or from school or a school related activity, in
any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a public
transportation agency, or on any public way within 1,000
feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, public transportation facility, or
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public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development
commits a Class 4 felony. "Courthouse" means any building
that is used by the Circuit, Appellate, or Supreme Court of
this State for the conduct of official business.
(3) Paragraphs (1), (1.5), and (2) of this subsection
(c) shall not apply to law enforcement officers or security
officers of such school, college, or university or to
students carrying or possessing firearms for use in
training courses, parades, hunting, target shooting on
school ranges, or otherwise with the consent of school
authorities and which firearms are transported unloaded
enclosed in a suitable case, box, or transportation
package.
(4) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "school"
means any public or private elementary or secondary school,
community college, college, or university.
(5) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "public
transportation agency" means a public or private agency
that provides for the transportation or conveyance of
persons by means available to the general public, except
for transportation by automobiles not used for conveyance
of the general public as passengers; and "public
transportation facility" means a terminal or other place
where one may obtain public transportation.
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omnibus of any weapon, instrument or substance referred to in
subsection (a)(7) is prima facie evidence that it is in the
possession of, and is being carried by, all persons occupying
such automobile at the time such weapon, instrument or
substance is found, except under the following circumstances:
(i) if such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is found upon
the person of one of the occupants therein; or (ii) if such
weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile
operated for hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful
and proper pursuit of his or her trade, then such presumption
shall not apply to the driver.
(e) Exemptions.
(1) Crossbows, Common or Compound bows and Underwater
Spearguns are exempted from the definition of ballistic
knife as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this
Section.
(2) The provision of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of
this Section prohibiting the sale, manufacture, purchase,
possession, or carrying of any knife, commonly referred to
as a switchblade knife, which has a blade that opens
automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring
or other device in the handle of the knife, does not apply
to a person who possesses a currently valid Firearm Owner's
Identification Card previously issued in his or her name by
the Department of State Police or to a person or an entity
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switchblade knives.
(Source: P.A. 100-82, eff. 8-11-17; 101-223, eff. 1-1-20.)
(720 ILCS 5/24-1.6)
Sec. 24-1.6. Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
(a) A person commits the offense of aggravated unlawful use
of a weapon when he or she knowingly:
(1) Carries on or about his or her person or in any
vehicle or concealed on or about his or her person except
when on his or her land or in his or her abode, legal
dwelling, or fixed place of business, or on the land or in
the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee with
that person's permission, any pistol, revolver, stun gun or
taser or other firearm; or
(2) Carries or possesses on or about his or her person,
upon any public street, alley, or other public lands within
the corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated
town, except when an invitee thereon or therein, for the
purpose of the display of such weapon or the lawful
commerce in weapons, or except when on his or her own land
or in his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place
of business, or on the land or in the legal dwelling of
another person as an invitee with that person's permission,
any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm;
and
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(A) the firearm, other than a pistol, revolver, or
handgun, possessed was uncased, loaded, and
immediately accessible at the time of the offense; or
(A-5) the pistol, revolver, or handgun possessed
was uncased, loaded, and immediately accessible at the
time of the offense and the person possessing the
pistol, revolver, or handgun has not been issued a
currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card
under the Firearm Owners Identification Card license
under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act; or
(B) the firearm, other than a pistol, revolver, or
handgun, possessed was uncased, unloaded, and the
ammunition for the weapon was immediately accessible
at the time of the offense; or
(B-5) the pistol, revolver, or handgun possessed
was uncased, unloaded, and the ammunition for the
weapon was immediately accessible at the time of the
offense and the person possessing the pistol,
revolver, or handgun has not been issued a currently
valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card under the
Firearm Owners Identification Card license under the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act; or
(C) the person possessing the firearm has not been
issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's
Identification Card; or
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previously adjudicated a delinquent minor under the
Juvenile Court Act of 1987 for an act that if committed
by an adult would be a felony; or
(E) the person possessing the weapon was engaged in
a misdemeanor violation of the Cannabis Control Act, in
a misdemeanor violation of the Illinois Controlled
Substances Act, or in a misdemeanor violation of the
Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act;
or
(F) (blank); or
(G) the person possessing the weapon had an order
of protection issued against him or her within the
previous 2 years; or
(H) the person possessing the weapon was engaged in
the commission or attempted commission of a
misdemeanor involving the use or threat of violence
against the person or property of another; or
(I) the person possessing the weapon was under 21
years of age and in possession of a handgun, unless the
person under 21 is engaged in lawful activities under
the Wildlife Code or described in subsection
24-2(b)(1), (b)(3), or 24-2(f).
(a-5) "Handgun" as used in this Section has the meaning
given to it in Section 13.1 of the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Section 5 of the Firearm Concealed Carry
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(b) "Stun gun or taser" as used in this Section has the
same definition given to it in Section 24-1 of this Code.
(c) This Section does not apply to or affect the
transportation or possession of weapons that:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm
carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a person
who has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's
Identification Card.
(d) Sentence.
(1) Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon is a Class 4
felony; a second or subsequent offense is a Class 2 felony
for which the person shall be sentenced to a term of
imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 7
years, except as provided for in Section 5-4.5-110 of the
Unified Code of Corrections.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (3) and
(4) of this subsection (d), a first offense of aggravated
unlawful use of a weapon committed with a firearm by a
person 18 years of age or older where the factors listed in
both items (A) and (C) or both items (A-5) and (C) of
paragraph (3) of subsection (a) are present is a Class 4
felony, for which the person shall be sentenced to a term
of imprisonment of not less than one year and not more than
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(3) Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a person who
has been previously convicted of a felony in this State or
another jurisdiction is a Class 2 felony for which the
person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not
less than 3 years and not more than 7 years, except as
provided for in Section 5-4.5-110 of the Unified Code of
Corrections.
(4) Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon while wearing
or in possession of body armor as defined in Section 33F-1
by a person who has not been issued a valid Firearms
Owner's Identification Card in accordance with Section 5 of
the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is a Class X
felony.
(e) The possession of each firearm in violation of this
Section constitutes a single and separate violation.
(Source: P.A. 100-3, eff. 1-1-18; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17.)
(720 ILCS 5/24-2)
Sec. 24-2. Exemptions.
(a) Subsections 24-1(a)(3), 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(10), and
24-1(a)(13) and Section 24-1.6 do not apply to or affect any of
the following:
(1) Peace officers, and any person summoned by a peace
officer to assist in making arrests or preserving the
peace, while actually engaged in assisting such officer.
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penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the
detention of persons accused or convicted of an offense,
while in the performance of their official duty, or while
commuting between their homes and places of employment.
(3) Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of
the United States or the Illinois National Guard or the
Reserve Officers Training Corps, while in the performance
of their official duty.
(4) Special agents employed by a railroad or a public
utility to perform police functions, and guards of armored
car companies, while actually engaged in the performance of
the duties of their employment or commuting between their
homes and places of employment; and watchmen while actually
engaged in the performance of the duties of their
employment.
(5) Persons licensed as private security contractors,
private detectives, or private alarm contractors, or
employed by a private security contractor, private
detective, or private alarm contractor agency licensed by
the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation,
if their duties include the carrying of a weapon under the
provisions of the Private Detective, Private Alarm,
Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of
2004, while actually engaged in the performance of the
duties of their employment or commuting between their homes
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eligible for this exemption if he or she has completed the
required 20 hours of training for a private security
contractor, private detective, or private alarm
contractor, or employee of a licensed private security
contractor, private detective, or private alarm contractor
agency and 20 hours of required firearm training, and has
been issued a firearm control card by the Department of
Financial and Professional Regulation. Conditions for the
renewal of firearm control cards issued under the
provisions of this Section shall be the same as for those
cards issued under the provisions of the Private Detective,
Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and
Locksmith Act of 2004. The firearm control card shall be
carried by the private security contractor, private
detective, or private alarm contractor, or employee of the
licensed private security contractor, private detective,
or private alarm contractor agency at all times when he or
she is in possession of a concealable weapon permitted by
his or her firearm control card.
(6) Any person regularly employed in a commercial or
industrial operation as a security guard for the protection
of persons employed and private property related to such
commercial or industrial operation, while actually engaged
in the performance of his or her duty or traveling between
sites or properties belonging to the employer, and who, as
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registered with the Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation; provided that such security guard
has successfully completed a course of study, approved by
and supervised by the Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation, consisting of not less than 40
hours of training that includes the theory of law
enforcement, liability for acts, and the handling of
weapons. A person shall be considered eligible for this
exemption if he or she has completed the required 20 hours
of training for a security officer and 20 hours of required
firearm training, and has been issued a firearm control
card by the Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation. Conditions for the renewal of firearm control
cards issued under the provisions of this Section shall be
the same as for those cards issued under the provisions of
the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security,
Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. The firearm
control card shall be carried by the security guard at all
times when he or she is in possession of a concealable
weapon permitted by his or her firearm control card.
(7) Agents and investigators of the Illinois
Legislative Investigating Commission authorized by the
Commission to carry the weapons specified in subsections
24-1(a)(3) and 24-1(a)(4), while on duty in the course of
any investigation for the Commission.
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security guard for the protection of other employees and
property related to such financial institution, while
actually engaged in the performance of their duties,
commuting between their homes and places of employment, or
traveling between sites or properties owned or operated by
such financial institution, and who, as a security guard,
is a member of a security force registered with the
Department; provided that any person so employed has
successfully completed a course of study, approved by and
supervised by the Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation, consisting of not less than 40 hours of
training which includes theory of law enforcement,
liability for acts, and the handling of weapons. A person
shall be considered to be eligible for this exemption if he
or she has completed the required 20 hours of training for
a security officer and 20 hours of required firearm
training, and has been issued a firearm control card by the
Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
Conditions for renewal of firearm control cards issued
under the provisions of this Section shall be the same as
for those issued under the provisions of the Private
Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint
Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. The firearm control card
shall be carried by the security guard at all times when he
or she is in possession of a concealable weapon permitted
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subsection, "financial institution" means a bank, savings
and loan association, credit union or company providing
armored car services.
(9) Any person employed by an armored car company to
drive an armored car, while actually engaged in the
performance of his duties.
(10) Persons who have been classified as peace officers
pursuant to the Peace Officer Fire Investigation Act.
(11) Investigators of the Office of the State's
Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor authorized by the board of
governors of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate
Prosecutor to carry weapons pursuant to Section 7.06 of the
State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
(12) Special investigators appointed by a State's
Attorney under Section 3-9005 of the Counties Code.
(12.5) Probation officers while in the performance of
their duties, or while commuting between their homes,
places of employment or specific locations that are part of
their assigned duties, with the consent of the chief judge
of the circuit for which they are employed, if they have
received weapons training according to requirements of the
Peace Officer and Probation Officer Firearm Training Act.
(13) Court Security Officers while in the performance
of their official duties, or while commuting between their
homes and places of employment, with the consent of the
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(13.5) A person employed as an armed security guard at
a nuclear energy, storage, weapons or development site or
facility regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
who has completed the background screening and training
mandated by the rules and regulations of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
(14) Manufacture, transportation, or sale of weapons
to persons authorized under subdivisions (1) through
(13.5) of this subsection to possess those weapons.
(a-5) Subsections 24-1(a)(4)and 24-1(a)(10) and Section
24-1.6 do not apply to or affect any person carrying a
concealed pistol, revolver, or handgun and the person has been
issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card
under the Firearm Owners Identification Card license under the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act at the time of the commission of
the offense.
(a-6) Subsections 24-1(a)(4) and 24-1(a)(10) do not apply
to or affect a qualified current or retired law enforcement
officer qualified under the laws of this State or under the
federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act.
(b) Subsections 24-1(a)(4) and 24-1(a)(10) and Section
24-1.6 do not apply to or affect any of the following:
(1) Members of any club or organization organized for
the purpose of practicing shooting at targets upon
established target ranges, whether public or private, and
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using their firearms on those target ranges.
(2) Duly authorized military or civil organizations
while parading, with the special permission of the
Governor.
(3) Hunters, trappers or fishermen with a license or
permit while engaged in hunting, trapping or fishing.
(4) Transportation of weapons that are broken down in a
non-functioning state or are not immediately accessible.
(5) Carrying or possessing any pistol, revolver, stun
gun or taser or other firearm on the land or in the legal
dwelling of another person as an invitee with that person's
permission.
(c) Subsection 24-1(a)(7) does not apply to or affect any
of the following:
(1) Peace officers while in performance of their
official duties.
(2) Wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons,
penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the
detention of persons accused or convicted of an offense.
(3) Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of
the United States or the Illinois National Guard, while in
the performance of their official duty.
(4) Manufacture, transportation, or sale of machine
guns to persons authorized under subdivisions (1) through
(3) of this subsection to possess machine guns, if the
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are not immediately accessible.
(5) Persons licensed under federal law to manufacture
any weapon from which 8 or more shots or bullets can be
discharged by a single function of the firing device, or
ammunition for such weapons, and actually engaged in the
business of manufacturing such weapons or ammunition, but
only with respect to activities which are within the lawful
scope of such business, such as the manufacture,
transportation, or testing of such weapons or ammunition.
This exemption does not authorize the general private
possession of any weapon from which 8 or more shots or
bullets can be discharged by a single function of the
firing device, but only such possession and activities as
are within the lawful scope of a licensed manufacturing
business described in this paragraph.
During transportation, such weapons shall be broken
down in a non-functioning state or not immediately
accessible.
(6) The manufacture, transport, testing, delivery,
transfer or sale, and all lawful commercial or experimental
activities necessary thereto, of rifles, shotguns, and
weapons made from rifles or shotguns, or ammunition for
such rifles, shotguns or weapons, where engaged in by a
person operating as a contractor or subcontractor pursuant
to a contract or subcontract for the development and supply
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United States government or any branch of the Armed Forces
of the United States, when such activities are necessary
and incident to fulfilling the terms of such contract.
The exemption granted under this subdivision (c)(6)
shall also apply to any authorized agent of any such
contractor or subcontractor who is operating within the
scope of his employment, where such activities involving
such weapon, weapons or ammunition are necessary and
incident to fulfilling the terms of such contract.
(7) A person possessing a rifle with a barrel or
barrels less than 16 inches in length if: (A) the person
has been issued a Curios and Relics license from the U.S.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; or (B)
the person is an active member of a bona fide, nationally
recognized military re-enacting group and the modification
is required and necessary to accurately portray the weapon
for historical re-enactment purposes; the re-enactor is in
possession of a valid and current re-enacting group
membership credential; and the overall length of the weapon
as modified is not less than 26 inches.
(d) Subsection 24-1(a)(1) does not apply to the purchase,
possession or carrying of a black-jack or slung-shot by a peace
officer.
(e) Subsection 24-1(a)(8) does not apply to any owner,
manager or authorized employee of any place specified in that
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(f) Subsection 24-1(a)(4) and subsection 24-1(a)(10) and
Section 24-1.6 do not apply to members of any club or
organization organized for the purpose of practicing shooting
at targets upon established target ranges, whether public or
private, while using their firearms on those target ranges.
(g) Subsections 24-1(a)(11) and 24-3.1(a)(6) do not apply
to:
(1) Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of
the United States or the Illinois National Guard, while in
the performance of their official duty.
(2) Bonafide collectors of antique or surplus military
ordnance.
(3) Laboratories having a department of forensic
ballistics, or specializing in the development of
ammunition or explosive ordnance.
(4) Commerce, preparation, assembly or possession of
explosive bullets by manufacturers of ammunition licensed
by the federal government, in connection with the supply of
those organizations and persons exempted by subdivision
(g)(1) of this Section, or like organizations and persons
outside this State, or the transportation of explosive
bullets to any organization or person exempted in this
Section by a common carrier or by a vehicle owned or leased
by an exempted manufacturer.
(g-5) Subsection 24-1(a)(6) does not apply to or affect
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attachment of any kind designed, used, or intended for use in
silencing the report of any firearm, firearms, or ammunition
for those firearms equipped with those devices, and actually
engaged in the business of manufacturing those devices,
firearms, or ammunition, but only with respect to activities
that are within the lawful scope of that business, such as the
manufacture, transportation, or testing of those devices,
firearms, or ammunition. This exemption does not authorize the
general private possession of any device or attachment of any
kind designed, used, or intended for use in silencing the
report of any firearm, but only such possession and activities
as are within the lawful scope of a licensed manufacturing
business described in this subsection (g-5). During
transportation, these devices shall be detached from any weapon
or not immediately accessible.
(g-6) Subsections 24-1(a)(4) and 24-1(a)(10) and Section
24-1.6 do not apply to or affect any parole agent or parole
supervisor who meets the qualifications and conditions
prescribed in Section 3-14-1.5 of the Unified Code of
Corrections.
(g-7) Subsection 24-1(a)(6) does not apply to a peace
officer while serving as a member of a tactical response team
or special operations team. A peace officer may not personally
own or apply for ownership of a device or attachment of any
kind designed, used, or intended for use in silencing the
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maintained by lawfully recognized units of government whose
duties include the investigation of criminal acts.
(g-10) Subsections 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(8), and
24-1(a)(10), and Sections 24-1.6 and 24-3.1 do not apply to an
athlete's possession, transport on official Olympic and
Paralympic transit systems established for athletes, or use of
competition firearms sanctioned by the International Olympic
Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the
International Shooting Sport Federation, or USA Shooting in
connection with such athlete's training for and participation
in shooting competitions at the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic
Games and sanctioned test events leading up to the 2016 Olympic
and Paralympic Games.
(h) An information or indictment based upon a violation of
any subsection of this Article need not negative any exemptions
contained in this Article. The defendant shall have the burden
of proving such an exemption.
(i) Nothing in this Article shall prohibit, apply to, or
affect the transportation, carrying, or possession, of any
pistol or revolver, stun gun, taser, or other firearm consigned
to a common carrier operating under license of the State of
Illinois or the federal government, where such transportation,
carrying, or possession is incident to the lawful
transportation in which such common carrier is engaged; and
nothing in this Article shall prohibit, apply to, or affect the
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revolver, stun gun, taser, or other firearm, not the subject of
and regulated by subsection 24-1(a)(7) or subsection 24-2(c) of
this Article, which is unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm
carrying box, shipping box, or other container, by the
possessor of a valid Firearm Owners Identification Card.
(Source: P.A. 100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 101-80, eff. 7-12-19.)
(720 ILCS 5/24-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-3)
Sec. 24-3. Unlawful sale or delivery of firearms.
(A) A person commits the offense of unlawful sale or
delivery of firearms when he or she knowingly does any of the
following:
(a) Sells or gives any firearm of a size which may be
concealed upon the person to any person under 18 years of
age.
(b) Sells or gives any firearm to a person under 21
years of age who has been convicted of a misdemeanor other
than a traffic offense or adjudged delinquent.
(c) Sells or gives any firearm to any narcotic addict.
(d) Sells or gives any firearm to any person who has
been convicted of a felony under the laws of this or any
other jurisdiction.
(e) Sells or gives any firearm to any person who has
been a patient in a mental institution within the past 5
years. In this subsection (e):
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institution, clinic, evaluation facility, mental
health center, or part thereof, which is used primarily
for the care or treatment of persons with mental
illness.
"Patient in a mental institution" means the person
was admitted, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to
a mental institution for mental health treatment,
unless the treatment was voluntary and solely for an
alcohol abuse disorder and no other secondary
substance abuse disorder or mental illness.
(f) Sells or gives any firearms to any person who is a
person with an intellectual disability.
(g) Delivers any firearm, incidental to a sale, without
withholding delivery of the firearm for at least 72 hours
after application for its purchase has been made, or
delivers a stun gun or taser, incidental to a sale, without
withholding delivery of the stun gun or taser for at least
24 hours after application for its purchase has been made.
However, this paragraph (g) does not apply to: (1) the sale
of a firearm to a law enforcement officer if the seller of
the firearm knows that the person to whom he or she is
selling the firearm is a law enforcement officer or the
sale of a firearm to a person who desires to purchase a
firearm for use in promoting the public interest incident
to his or her employment as a bank guard, armed truck
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of a firearm from a federally licensed firearms dealer to a
nonresident of Illinois under which the firearm is mailed
to a federally licensed firearms dealer outside the
boundaries of Illinois; (3) (blank); (4) the sale of a
firearm to a dealer licensed as a federal firearms dealer
under Section 923 of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968
(18 U.S.C. 923); or (5) the transfer or sale of any rifle,
shotgun, or other long gun to a resident registered
competitor or attendee or non-resident registered
competitor or attendee by any dealer licensed as a federal
firearms dealer under Section 923 of the federal Gun
Control Act of 1968 at competitive shooting events held at
the World Shooting Complex sanctioned by a national
governing body. For purposes of transfers or sales under
subparagraph (5) of this paragraph (g), the Department of
Natural Resources shall give notice to the Department of
State Police at least 30 calendar days prior to any
competitive shooting events at the World Shooting Complex
sanctioned by a national governing body. The notification
shall be made on a form prescribed by the Department of
State Police. The sanctioning body shall provide a list of
all registered competitors and attendees at least 24 hours
before the events to the Department of State Police. Any
changes to the list of registered competitors and attendees
shall be forwarded to the Department of State Police as
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destroy the list of registered competitors and attendees no
later than 30 days after the date of the event. Nothing in
this paragraph (g) relieves a federally licensed firearm
dealer from the requirements of conducting a NICS
background check through the Illinois Point of Contact
under 18 U.S.C. 922(t). For purposes of this paragraph (g),
"application" means when the buyer and seller reach an
agreement to purchase a firearm. For purposes of this
paragraph (g), "national governing body" means a group of
persons who adopt rules and formulate policy on behalf of a
national firearm sporting organization.
(h) While holding any license as a dealer, importer,
manufacturer or pawnbroker under the federal Gun Control
Act of 1968, manufactures, sells or delivers to any
unlicensed person a handgun having a barrel, slide, frame
or receiver which is a die casting of zinc alloy or any
other nonhomogeneous metal which will melt or deform at a
temperature of less than 800 degrees Fahrenheit. For
purposes of this paragraph, (1) "firearm" is defined as in
the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act; and (2)
"handgun" is defined as a firearm designed to be held and
fired by the use of a single hand, and includes a
combination of parts from which such a firearm can be
assembled.
(i) Sells or gives a firearm of any size to any person
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Owner's Identification Card.
(j) Sells or gives a firearm while engaged in the
business of selling firearms at wholesale or retail without
being licensed as a federal firearms dealer under Section
923 of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. 923).
In this paragraph (j):
A person "engaged in the business" means a person who
devotes time, attention, and labor to engaging in the
activity as a regular course of trade or business with the
principal objective of livelihood and profit, but does not
include a person who makes occasional repairs of firearms
or who occasionally fits special barrels, stocks, or
trigger mechanisms to firearms.
"With the principal objective of livelihood and
profit" means that the intent underlying the sale or
disposition of firearms is predominantly one of obtaining
livelihood and pecuniary gain, as opposed to other intents,
such as improving or liquidating a personal firearms
collection; however, proof of profit shall not be required
as to a person who engages in the regular and repetitive
purchase and disposition of firearms for criminal purposes
or terrorism.
(k) Sells or transfers ownership of a firearm to a
person who does not display to the seller or transferor of
the firearm either: (1) a currently valid Firearm Owner's
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transferee's name by the Department of State Police under
the provisions of the Firearm Owners Identification Card
Act; or (2) a currently valid license to carry a concealed
firearm that has previously been issued in the transferee's
name by the Department of State Police under the Firearm
Concealed Carry Act. This paragraph (k) does not apply to
the transfer of a firearm to a person who is exempt from
the requirement of possessing a Firearm Owner's
Identification Card under Section 2 of the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act. For the purposes of this Section,
a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card
means (i) a Firearm Owner's Identification Card that has
not expired or (ii) an approval number issued in accordance
with subsection (a-10) of subsection 3 or Section 3.1 of
the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act shall be proof
that the Firearm Owner's Identification Card was valid.
(1) In addition to the other requirements of this
paragraph (k), all persons who are not federally
licensed firearms dealers must also have complied with
subsection (a-10) of Section 3 of the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act by determining the validity of
a purchaser's Firearm Owner's Identification Card.
(2) All sellers or transferors who have complied
with the requirements of subparagraph (1) of this
paragraph (k) shall not be liable for damages in any
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transferee of the firearm transferred, except for
willful or wanton misconduct on the part of the seller
or transferor.
(l) Not being entitled to the possession of a firearm,
delivers the firearm, knowing it to have been stolen or
converted. It may be inferred that a person who possesses a
firearm with knowledge that its serial number has been
removed or altered has knowledge that the firearm is stolen
or converted.
(B) Paragraph (h) of subsection (A) does not include
firearms sold within 6 months after enactment of Public Act
78-355 (approved August 21, 1973, effective October 1, 1973),
nor is any firearm legally owned or possessed by any citizen or
purchased by any citizen within 6 months after the enactment of
Public Act 78-355 subject to confiscation or seizure under the
provisions of that Public Act. Nothing in Public Act 78-355
shall be construed to prohibit the gift or trade of any firearm
if that firearm was legally held or acquired within 6 months
after the enactment of that Public Act.
(C) Sentence.
(1) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (c), (e), (f), (g),
or (h) of subsection (A) commits a Class 4 felony.
(2) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (b) or (i) of
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(3) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (a) of subsection (A)
commits a Class 2 felony.
(4) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (a), (b), or (i) of
subsection (A) in any school, on the real property
comprising a school, within 1,000 feet of the real property
comprising a school, at a school related activity, or on or
within 1,000 feet of any conveyance owned, leased, or
contracted by a school or school district to transport
students to or from school or a school related activity,
regardless of the time of day or time of year at which the
offense was committed, commits a Class 1 felony. Any person
convicted of a second or subsequent violation of unlawful
sale or delivery of firearms in violation of paragraph (a),
(b), or (i) of subsection (A) in any school, on the real
property comprising a school, within 1,000 feet of the real
property comprising a school, at a school related activity,
or on or within 1,000 feet of any conveyance owned, leased,
or contracted by a school or school district to transport
students to or from school or a school related activity,
regardless of the time of day or time of year at which the
offense was committed, commits a Class 1 felony for which
the sentence shall be a term of imprisonment of no less
than 5 years and no more than 15 years.
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of firearms in violation of paragraph (a) or (i) of
subsection (A) in residential property owned, operated, or
managed by a public housing agency or leased by a public
housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income
development, in a public park, in a courthouse, on
residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real
property comprising any courthouse, or on any public way
within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any
public park, courthouse, or residential property owned,
operated, or managed by a public housing agency or leased
by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
mixed-income development commits a Class 2 felony.
(6) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (j) of subsection (A)
commits a Class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent
violation is a Class 4 felony.
(7) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (k) of subsection (A)
commits a Class 4 felony, except that a violation of
subparagraph (1) of paragraph (k) of subsection (A) shall
not be punishable as a crime or petty offense. A third or
subsequent conviction for a violation of paragraph (k) of
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(8) A person 18 years of age or older convicted of
unlawful sale or delivery of firearms in violation of
paragraph (a) or (i) of subsection (A), when the firearm
that was sold or given to another person under 18 years of
age was used in the commission of or attempt to commit a
forcible felony, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, not
to exceed the maximum provided for the most serious
forcible felony so committed or attempted by the person
under 18 years of age who was sold or given the firearm.
(9) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (d) of subsection (A)
commits a Class 3 felony.
(10) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (l) of subsection (A)
commits a Class 2 felony if the delivery is of one firearm.
Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery of
firearms in violation of paragraph (l) of subsection (A)
commits a Class 1 felony if the delivery is of not less
than 2 and not more than 5 firearms at the same time or
within a one year period. Any person convicted of unlawful
sale or delivery of firearms in violation of paragraph (l)
of subsection (A) commits a Class X felony for which he or
she shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not
less than 6 years and not more than 30 years if the
delivery is of not less than 6 and not more than 10
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person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery of firearms
in violation of paragraph (l) of subsection (A) commits a
Class X felony for which he or she shall be sentenced to a
term of imprisonment of not less than 6 years and not more
than 40 years if the delivery is of not less than 11 and
not more than 20 firearms at the same time or within a 3
year period. Any person convicted of unlawful sale or
delivery of firearms in violation of paragraph (l) of
subsection (A) commits a Class X felony for which he or she
shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less
than 6 years and not more than 50 years if the delivery is
of not less than 21 and not more than 30 firearms at the
same time or within a 4 year period. Any person convicted
of unlawful sale or delivery of firearms in violation of
paragraph (l) of subsection (A) commits a Class X felony
for which he or she shall be sentenced to a term of
imprisonment of not less than 6 years and not more than 60
years if the delivery is of 31 or more firearms at the same
time or within a 5 year period.
(D) For purposes of this Section:
"School" means a public or private elementary or secondary
school, community college, college, or university.
"School related activity" means any sporting, social,
academic, or other activity for which students' attendance or
participation is sponsored, organized, or funded in whole or in
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(E) A prosecution for a violation of paragraph (k) of
subsection (A) of this Section may be commenced within 6 years
after the commission of the offense. A prosecution for a
violation of this Section other than paragraph (g) of
subsection (A) of this Section may be commenced within 5 years
after the commission of the offense defined in the particular
paragraph.
(Source: P.A. 99-29, eff. 7-10-15; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15;
99-642, eff. 7-28-16; 100-606, eff. 1-1-19.)
Section 50. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
changing Section 5-6-1 as follows:
(730 ILCS 5/5-6-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 1005-6-1)
Sec. 5-6-1. Sentences of probation and of conditional
discharge and disposition of supervision. The General Assembly
finds that in order to protect the public, the criminal justice
system must compel compliance with the conditions of probation
by responding to violations with swift, certain and fair
punishments and intermediate sanctions. The Chief Judge of each
circuit shall adopt a system of structured, intermediate
sanctions for violations of the terms and conditions of a
sentence of probation, conditional discharge or disposition of
supervision.
(a) Except where specifically prohibited by other
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probation or conditional discharge upon an offender unless,
having regard to the nature and circumstance of the offense,
and to the history, character and condition of the offender,
the court is of the opinion that:
(1) his imprisonment or periodic imprisonment is
necessary for the protection of the public; or
(2) probation or conditional discharge would deprecate
the seriousness of the offender's conduct and would be
inconsistent with the ends of justice; or
(3) a combination of imprisonment with concurrent or
consecutive probation when an offender has been admitted
into a drug court program under Section 20 of the Drug
Court Treatment Act is necessary for the protection of the
public and for the rehabilitation of the offender.
The court shall impose as a condition of a sentence of
probation, conditional discharge, or supervision, that the
probation agency may invoke any sanction from the list of
intermediate sanctions adopted by the chief judge of the
circuit court for violations of the terms and conditions of the
sentence of probation, conditional discharge, or supervision,
subject to the provisions of Section 5-6-4 of this Act.
(b) The court may impose a sentence of conditional
discharge for an offense if the court is of the opinion that
neither a sentence of imprisonment nor of periodic imprisonment
nor of probation supervision is appropriate.
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to a defendant charged with a misdemeanor or felony under the
Illinois Vehicle Code or reckless homicide under Section 9-3 of
the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 if the
defendant within the past 12 months has been convicted of or
pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor or felony under the Illinois
Vehicle Code or reckless homicide under Section 9-3 of the
Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012.
(c) The court may, upon a plea of guilty or a stipulation
by the defendant of the facts supporting the charge or a
finding of guilt, defer further proceedings and the imposition
of a sentence, and enter an order for supervision of the
defendant, if the defendant is not charged with: (i) a Class A
misdemeanor, as defined by the following provisions of the
Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012: Sections
11-9.1; 12-3.2; 11-1.50 or 12-15; 26-5 or 48-1; 31-1; 31-6;
31-7; paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a) of Section 21-1;
paragraph (1) through (5), (8), (10), and (11) of subsection
(a) of Section 24-1; (ii) a Class A misdemeanor violation of
Section 3.01, 3.03-1, or 4.01 of the Humane Care for Animals
Act; or (iii) a felony. If the defendant is not barred from
receiving an order for supervision as provided in this
subsection, the court may enter an order for supervision after
considering the circumstances of the offense, and the history,
character and condition of the offender, if the court is of the
opinion that:
(1) the offender is not likely to commit further

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crimes;
(2) the defendant and the public would be best served
if the defendant were not to receive a criminal record; and
(3) in the best interests of justice an order of
supervision is more appropriate than a sentence otherwise
permitted under this Code.
(c-5) Subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this Section do not
apply to a defendant charged with a second or subsequent
violation of Section 6-303 of the Illinois Vehicle Code
committed while his or her driver's license, permit or
privileges were revoked because of a violation of Section 9-3
of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012,
relating to the offense of reckless homicide, or a similar
provision of a law of another state.
(d) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating Section 11-501 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance when
the defendant has previously been:
(1) convicted for a violation of Section 11-501 of the
Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local
ordinance or any similar law or ordinance of another state;
or
(2) assigned supervision for a violation of Section
11-501 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision
of a local ordinance or any similar law or ordinance of
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(3) pleaded guilty to or stipulated to the facts
supporting a charge or a finding of guilty to a violation
of Section 11-503 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar
provision of a local ordinance or any similar law or
ordinance of another state, and the plea or stipulation was
the result of a plea agreement.
The court shall consider the statement of the prosecuting
authority with regard to the standards set forth in this
Section.
(e) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating Section 16-25 or 16A-3 of the
Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 if said
defendant has within the last 5 years been:
(1) convicted for a violation of Section 16-25 or 16A-3
of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012;
or
(2) assigned supervision for a violation of Section
16-25 or 16A-3 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal
Code of 2012.
The court shall consider the statement of the prosecuting
authority with regard to the standards set forth in this
Section.
(f) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with: (1) violating Sections 15-111, 15-112,
15-301, paragraph (b) of Section 6-104, Section 11-605,
paragraph (d-5) of Section 11-605.1, Section 11-1002.5, or

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Section 11-1414 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar
provision of a local ordinance; or (2) committing a Class A
misdemeanor under subsection (c) of Section 11-907 of the
Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local
ordinance.
(g) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (i) of this
Section, the provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating Section 3-707, 3-708, 3-710,
or 5-401.3 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision
of a local ordinance if the defendant has within the last 5
years been:
(1) convicted for a violation of Section 3-707, 3-708,
3-710, or 5-401.3 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar
provision of a local ordinance; or
(2) assigned supervision for a violation of Section
3-707, 3-708, 3-710, or 5-401.3 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance.
The court shall consider the statement of the prosecuting
authority with regard to the standards set forth in this
Section.
(h) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant under the age of 21 years charged with violating a
serious traffic offense as defined in Section 1-187.001 of the
Illinois Vehicle Code:
(1) unless the defendant, upon payment of the fines,
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successfully complete a traffic safety program approved by
the court under standards set by the Conference of Chief
Circuit Judges. The accused shall be responsible for
payment of any traffic safety program fees. If the accused
fails to file a certificate of successful completion on or
before the termination date of the supervision order, the
supervision shall be summarily revoked and conviction
entered. The provisions of Supreme Court Rule 402 relating
to pleas of guilty do not apply in cases when a defendant
enters a guilty plea under this provision; or
(2) if the defendant has previously been sentenced
under the provisions of paragraph (c) on or after January
1, 1998 for any serious traffic offense as defined in
Section 1-187.001 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
(h-1) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant under the age of 21 years charged with an offense
against traffic regulations governing the movement of vehicles
or any violation of Section 6-107 or Section 12-603.1 of the
Illinois Vehicle Code, unless the defendant, upon payment of
the fines, penalties, and costs provided by law, agrees to
attend and successfully complete a traffic safety program
approved by the court under standards set by the Conference of
Chief Circuit Judges. The accused shall be responsible for
payment of any traffic safety program fees. If the accused
fails to file a certificate of successful completion on or
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supervision shall be summarily revoked and conviction entered.
The provisions of Supreme Court Rule 402 relating to pleas of
guilty do not apply in cases when a defendant enters a guilty
plea under this provision.
(i) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating Section 3-707 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance if the
defendant has been assigned supervision for a violation of
Section 3-707 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar
provision of a local ordinance.
(j) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating Section 6-303 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance when
the revocation or suspension was for a violation of Section
11-501 or a similar provision of a local ordinance or a
violation of Section 11-501.1 or paragraph (b) of Section
11-401 of the Illinois Vehicle Code if the defendant has within
the last 10 years been:
(1) convicted for a violation of Section 6-303 of the
Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local
ordinance; or
(2) assigned supervision for a violation of Section
6-303 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision
of a local ordinance.
(k) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating any provision of the Illinois

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Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance that
governs the movement of vehicles if, within the 12 months
preceding the date of the defendant's arrest, the defendant has
been assigned court supervision on 2 occasions for a violation
that governs the movement of vehicles under the Illinois
Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance. The
provisions of this paragraph (k) do not apply to a defendant
charged with violating Section 11-501 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance.
(l) (Blank).
(m) (Blank).
(n) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to any
person under the age of 18 who commits an offense against
traffic regulations governing the movement of vehicles or any
violation of Section 6-107 or Section 12-603.1 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code, except upon personal appearance of the defendant
in court and upon the written consent of the defendant's parent
or legal guardian, executed before the presiding judge. The
presiding judge shall have the authority to waive this
requirement upon the showing of good cause by the defendant.
(o) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating Section 6-303 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance when
the suspension was for a violation of Section 11-501.1 of the
Illinois Vehicle Code and when:
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the Illinois Vehicle Code, the defendant was a first
offender pursuant to Section 11-500 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code and the defendant failed to obtain a monitoring device
driving permit; or
(2) at the time of the violation of Section 11-501.1 of
the Illinois Vehicle Code, the defendant was a first
offender pursuant to Section 11-500 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code, had subsequently obtained a monitoring device
driving permit, but was driving a vehicle not equipped with
a breath alcohol ignition interlock device as defined in
Section 1-129.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
(p) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating Section 11-601.5 of the
Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local
ordinance when the defendant has previously been:
(1) convicted for a violation of Section 11-601.5 of
the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local
ordinance or any similar law or ordinance of another state;
or
(2) assigned supervision for a violation of Section
11-601.5 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar
provision of a local ordinance or any similar law or
ordinance of another state.
(q) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating subsection (b) of Section
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the defendant was operating a vehicle, in an urban district, at
a speed that is 26 miles per hour or more in excess of the
applicable maximum speed limit established under Chapter 11 of
the Illinois Vehicle Code.
(r) The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not apply to a
defendant charged with violating any provision of the Illinois
Vehicle Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance if the
violation was the proximate cause of the death of another and
the defendant's driving abstract contains a prior conviction or
disposition of court supervision for any violation of the
Illinois Vehicle Code, other than an equipment violation, or a
suspension, revocation, or cancellation of the driver's
license.
(s) (Blank). The provisions of paragraph (c) shall not
apply to a defendant charged with violating subsection (i) of
Section 70 of the Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
(Source: P.A. 100-987, eff. 7-1-19; 101-173, eff. 1-1-20.)