Bill Text: IL SB1019 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the unlawful sale of public conveyance travel tickets to a minor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1019 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB1019-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB1019 Introduced 1/24/2013, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/10-8 from Ch. 38, par. 10-8
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the unlawful sale of public conveyance travel tickets to a minor.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
Section 10-8 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/10-8) (from Ch. 38, par. 10-8)
Sec. 10-8. Unlawful sale of a public conveyance travel
ticket to a minor. (a) A person commits the the offense of
unlawful sale of a public conveyance travel ticket to a minor
when the person sells a ticket for travel on any public
conveyance to an unemancipated minor under 17 years of age
without the consent of the minor's parents or guardian for
passage to a destination outside this state and knows the
minor's age or fails to take reasonable measures to ascertain
the minor's age.
(b) Evidence. The fact that the defendant demanded, was
shown, and reasonably relied upon written evidence of a
person's age in any transaction forbidden by this Section is
competent evidence, and may be considered in any criminal
prosecution for a violation of this Section.
(c) Definition. "Public Conveyance", includes an airplane,
boat, bus, railroad, train, taxicab or other vehicle used for
the transportation of passengers for hire.

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