SB 2680 — PEACE OFFICERS-VARIOUS

SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b AN ACT concerning law enforcement.

(c) The Board shall cause the training courses to be conducted twice each year within each of the Mobile Team SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 2 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b Regions, but no training course need be held when there are no police officers requiring the training.

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 SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 3 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b deputies to perform such regular and normal duties.

87-895.) SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 4 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b Section 15.

The SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 5 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b township enforcement officer shall not carry firearms and will not be required to comply with the Peace Officer Firearm Training Act.

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but the term of office, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Code, shall not exceed that of the mayor or president of the SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 7 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b municipality.

Auxiliary police officers policemen shall at all times during the SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 8 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b performance of their duties be subject to the direction and control of the chief of police of the municipality.

Auxiliary police officers policemen, when on duty, shall also be conservators of the peace and shall have the powers specified in Section 3.1-15-25.

The examination shall be public, competitive, SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 9 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b and open to all citizens of the United States, with specified limitations as to residence, age, health, habits and moral character.

(e) All employees of a municipality of less than 500,000 population (except those who would be excluded from the classified service as provided in this Division 1) who are holding that employment as of the date a municipality adopts this Division 1, or as of July 17, 1959, whichever date is the SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 10 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b later, and who have held that employment for at least 2 years immediately before that later date, and all firemen and policemen regardless of length of service who were either appointed to their respective positions by the board of fire and police commissioners under the provisions of Division 2 of this Article or who are serving in a position (except as a temporary employee) in the fire or police department in the municipality on the date a municipality adopts this Division 1, or as of July 17, 1959, whichever date is the later, shall become members of the classified civil service of the municipality without examination.

If the appointed examiners are in the official service of the municipality, the examiners shall not receive extra SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 11 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b compensation for conducting the examinations.

SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 12 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b The limitation on periods of probationary employment provided in this amendatory Act of 1989 is an exclusive power and function of the State.

In such case the appointing authority shall file with the corporate authorities the reasons for such SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 13 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b removal or discharge, which removal or discharge shall not become effective unless confirmed by a majority vote of the corporate authorities.

SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 14 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b The term "policemen" as used in this Division does not include auxiliary police officers policemen except as provided for in Section 10-2.1-6.

The deputy chief position SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 15 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b shall be an exempt rank immediately below that of Chief.

(a) All applicants for a position in either the fire or SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 16 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b police department of the municipality shall be under 35 years of age, shall be subject to an examination that shall be public, competitive, and open to all applicants (unless the council or board of trustees by ordinance limit applicants to electors of the municipality, county, state or nation) and shall be subject to reasonable limitations as to residence, health, habits, and moral character.

(d) The age limitation in subsection (a) does not apply (i) to any person previously employed as a policeman or fireman in a regularly constituted police or fire department of (I) any municipality or (II) a fire protection district whose obligations were assumed by a municipality under Section 21 of the Fire Protection District Act, (ii) to any person who has served a municipality as a regularly enrolled volunteer fireman for 5 years immediately preceding the time that municipality begins to use full time firemen to provide all or part of its fire protection service, or (iii) to any person who has served SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 17 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b as an auxiliary police officer policeman under Section 3.1-30-20 for at least 5 years and is under 40 years of age, (iv) to any person who has served as a deputy under Section 3-6008 of the Counties Code and otherwise meets necessary training requirements, or (v) to any person who has served as a sworn officer as a member of the Illinois Department of State Police.

No person shall be appointed to the police or fire department if he or she has suffered the amputation of any limb unless the applicant’s duties will be SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 18 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b only clerical or as a radio operator.

In this Section 10-3-1 "policeman" means any member of a SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 19 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b regularly constituted police department of a municipality, sworn and commissioned to perform police duties, and includes the chief of police, assistant chief of police, chief of detectives, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, plain clothes men and patrolmen.

(a-5) A person commits a false personation when he or she falsely represents himself or herself to be a veteran in SB2680 EngrossedEnrolled - 20 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b seeking employment or public office.

(b-10) No person may use, in the title of any organization, magazine, or other publication, the words "officer", "peace officer", "police", "law enforcement", "trooper", "sheriff", "deputy", "deputy sheriff", or "state police",police" orin combination with the name of any otherstate, wordstate agency, public university, or wordsunit thatof wouldlocal reasonablygovernment bewithout understoodthe toexpress implywritten authorization of that anstate, organizationstate isagency, composedor unit of lawlocal enforcementgovernment. personnel.

This subsection does not apply to:

(1) any organization that is authorized to use those terms under subsection (d-2) of Section 11 of the Solicitation for Charities Act;

(2) any public or private institution of higher education that is authorized to grant degrees under Illinois law if the terms are used to describe the expertise or activities of the institution or any department, unit, or program of that institution;

or (3) any unit of local government or other public body created under Illinois law.

SB2680 Engrossed - 21 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b (c-1) No person may claim or represent that he or she is acting on behalf of any police department, chief of a police department, fire department, chief of a fire department, sheriff’s department, or sheriff when soliciting financial contributions or selling or delivering or offering to sell or deliver any merchandise, goods, services, memberships, or advertisements unless the chief of the police department, fire department, and the corporate or municipal authority thereof, or the sheriff has first entered into a written agreement with SB2680 Enrolled - 21 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b the person or with an organization with which the person is affiliated and the agreement permits the activity.

(c-3) No person may solicit financial contributions or sell or deliver or offer to sell or deliver any merchandise, goods, services, memberships, or advertisements on behalf of a police, sheriff, or other law enforcement department unless that person is actually representing or acting on behalf of the department SB2680 Engrossed - 22 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b or governmental organization and has entered into a written contract with the police chief, or head of the law enforcement department, and the corporate or municipal authority thereof, or the sheriff, which specifies and states clearly and fully the purposes for which the proceeds of the solicitation, contribution, or sale will be used.

(c-4) No person, when soliciting financial contributions or selling or delivering or offering to sell or deliver any merchandise, goods, services, memberships, or advertisements, SB2680 Enrolled - 22 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b may claim or represent that he or she is representing or acting on behalf of any nongovernmental organization by any name which includes the term "fireman", "fire fighter", "paramedic", or any other word or words which would reasonably be understood to imply that the organization is composed of fire fighter or paramedic personnel unless the person is actually representing or acting on behalf of the nongovernmental organization, and the nongovernmental organization is controlled by and governed by a membership of and represents a group or association of active duty, retired, or injured fire fighters (for the purposes of this Section, "fire fighter" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 2 of the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act) or active duty, retired, or injured emergency medical technicians - ambulance, emergency medical technicians - intermediate, emergency medical technicians - paramedic, ambulance drivers, or other medical assistance or first aid personnel, and before commencing the solicitation or the sale or delivery or the offers to sell or deliver any merchandise, goods, services, memberships, or advertisements, a written contract between the soliciting or selling person and the nongovernmental organization has been entered into.

(c-5) No person may solicit financial contributions or sell or deliver or offer to sell or deliver any merchandise, goods, services, memberships, or advertisements on behalf of a department or departments of fire fighters unless that person is actually representing or acting on behalf of the department or departments and has entered into a written contract with the SB2680 Engrossed - 23 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b department chief and corporate or municipal authority thereof which specifies and states clearly and fully the purposes for which the proceeds of the solicitation, contribution, or sale will be used.

(c-6) No person may claim or represent that he or she is an airman, airline employee, airport employee, or contractor at an airport in order to obtain the uniform, identification card, license, or other identification paraphernalia of an airman, airline employee, airport employee, or contractor at an SB2680 Enrolled - 23 - LRB094 18997 BDD 54480 b airport.