Bill Text: IL SB2308 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Battery-Charged Fence Alarm Act. Provides that a municipality or county may not: (1) require a permit or fee for the installation or use of a battery-charged fence alarm that is in addition to an alarm system permit issued by the municipality or county; (2) impose installation or operational requirements for the battery-charged fence that are inconsistent with the Act; or (3) prohibit the installation or use of a battery-charged fence. Defines terms. Limits home rule powers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2308 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB2308-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB2308 Introduced 11/13/2019, by Sen. Terry Link SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Battery-Charged Fence Alarm Act. Provides that a municipality or county may not: (1) require a permit or fee for the installation or use of a battery-charged fence alarm that is in addition to an alarm system permit issued by the municipality or county; (2) impose installation or operational requirements for the battery-charged fence that are inconsistent with the Act; or (3) prohibit the installation or use of a battery-charged fence. Defines terms. Limits home rule powers.
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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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Battery-Charged Fence Alarm Act.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Alarm system" has the meaning given to that term in
Section 5-10 of the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004.
"Battery-charged fence alarm" means a new or existing alarm
system and ancillary components or equipment attached to such a
system including but not limited to a fence, an energizer
powered by a commercial storage battery not exceeding 12 volts
which produces a short electric pulsed charge upon contact with
the fence and battery charging device used exclusively to
charge the battery.
Section 10. Regulation of battery-charged fence alarms.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a municipality or
county may not:
(1) require a permit or fee for the installation or use
of a battery-charged fence alarm that is in addition to an
alarm system permit issued by the municipality or county;

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(2) imposes installation or operational requirements
for a battery-charged fence alarm other than the following
requirements:
(A) interfaces with a monitored alarm device in a
manner that enables the alarm system to transmit a
signal intended to summon the business or law
enforcement in response to an intrusion or burglary;
(B) is located on property that is not designated
by a municipality or county exclusively for
residential use;
(C) has an energizer that is driven by a commercial
storage battery that is not more than 12 volts of
direct current;
(D) produces an electric charge on contact that
does not exceed energizer characteristics set for
electric fence energizers by the International
Electrotechnical Commission Standard 60335.2.76,
Current Edition;
(E) is completely surrounded by a non-electric
perimeter fence or wall that is not less than 5 feet in
height;
(F) is not more than the higher of:
(A) ten feet in height, or
(B) two feet higher than the height of the
non-electric perimeter fence or wall; and
(G) is marked with conspicuous warning signs that

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are located on the battery-charged fence at not more
than 40-foot intervals and that reads:
"WARNING—ELECTRIC FENCE"; or
(3) prohibit the installation or use of a
battery-charged fence alarm.
Section 15. Home Rule. A home rule unit may not regulate
battery-charged fence alarms in a manner inconsistent with this
Act. This Act is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6
of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent
exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised
by the State.