Bill Text: IL SB1975 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that, in matters a sheriff deems essential to preventing or assisting with disasters or events of civil disorder, the sheriff may authorize plain clothes to be worn by auxiliary deputies as long as the auxiliary deputies are carrying proper identification while performing this function. Provides that auxiliary deputies may only carry firearms while in the performance of their assigned duties (rather than while in uniform and in the performance of their assigned duties).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-09 - Referred to Assignments [SB1975 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1975-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1975 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Terri Bryant SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/3-6013 from Ch. 34, par. 3-6013
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that, in matters a sheriff deems essential to preventing or assisting with disasters or events of civil disorder, the sheriff may authorize plain clothes to be worn by auxiliary deputies as long as the auxiliary deputies are carrying proper identification while performing this function. Provides that auxiliary deputies may only carry firearms while in the performance of their assigned duties (rather than while in uniform and in the performance of their assigned duties).
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
Section 3-6013 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/3-6013) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-6013)
Sec. 3-6013. Duties, training and compensation of
auxiliary deputies. Auxiliary deputies shall not supplement
members of the regular county police department or regular
deputies in the performance of their assigned and normal
duties, except as provided herein. Auxiliary deputies may be
assigned and directed by the sheriff to perform the following
duties in the county:
To aid or direct traffic within the county, to aid in
control of natural or human made disasters, to aid in case of
civil disorder as assigned and directed by the sheriff,
provided, that in emergency cases which render it impractical
for members of the regular county police department or regular
deputies to perform their assigned and normal duties, the
sheriff is hereby authorized to assign and direct auxiliary
deputies to perform such regular and normal duties.
Identification symbols worn by such auxiliary deputies shall
be different and distinct from those used by members of the

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regular county police department or regular deputies. In
matters the sheriff deems essential to preventing or assisting
with disasters or events of civil disorder, the sheriff may
authorize plain clothes to be worn by auxiliary deputies as
long as the auxiliary deputies are carrying proper
identification while performing this function. Such auxiliary
deputies shall at all times during the performance of their
duties be subject to the direction and control of the sheriff
of the county. Such auxiliary deputies shall not carry
firearms, except with the permission of the sheriff, and only
while in uniform and in the performance of their assigned
duties.
Auxiliary deputies, prior to entering upon any of their
duties, shall receive a course of training in the use of
weapons and other police procedures as shall be appropriate in
the exercise of the powers conferred upon them under this
Division, which training and course of study shall be
determined and provided by the sheriff of each county
utilizing auxiliary deputies, provided that, before being
permitted to carry a firearm an auxiliary deputy must have the
same course of training as required of peace officers in
Section 2 of the Peace Officer and Probation Officer Firearm
Training Act. The county authorities shall require that all
auxiliary deputies be residents of the county served by them.
Prior to the appointment of any auxiliary deputy his or her
fingerprints shall be taken and no person shall be appointed

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as such auxiliary deputy if he or she has been convicted of a
felony or other crime involving moral turpitude.
Auxiliary deputies may receive such compensation as is set
by the County Board, with the advice and consent of the
Sheriff, not to exceed the lowest hourly pay of a full-time
sworn member of the regular county police or sheriff's
department and not be paid a salary, except as provided in
Section 3-6036, but may be reimbursed for actual expenses
incurred in performing their assigned duty. The County Board
must approve such actual expenses and arrange for payment.
Nothing in this Division shall preclude an auxiliary
deputy from holding a simultaneous appointment as an auxiliary
police officer pursuant to Section 3-6-5 of the Illinois
Municipal Code.
(Source: P.A. 97-379, eff. 8-15-11; 98-725, eff. 1-1-15.)