Bill Text: IL SB3163 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section that prohibits the possession of burglary tools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB3163 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB3163-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB3163 Introduced 2/1/2012, by Sen. Dan Kotowski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/19-2 from Ch. 38, par. 19-2
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section that prohibits the possession of burglary tools.
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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 1961 is amended by changing
Section 19-2 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/19-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 19-2)
Sec. 19-2. Possession of burglary tools.
(a) A person commits the the offense of possession of
burglary tools when he possesses any key, tool, instrument,
device, or any explosive, suitable for use in breaking into a
building, housetrailer, watercraft, aircraft, motor vehicle as
defined in The Illinois Vehicle Code, railroad car, or any
depository designed for the safekeeping of property, or any
part thereof, with intent to enter any such place and with
intent to commit therein a felony or theft. The trier of fact
may infer from the possession of a key designed for lock
bumping an intent to commit a felony or theft; however, this
inference does not apply to any peace officer or other employee
of a law enforcement agency, or to any person or agency
licensed under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. For
the purposes of this Section, "lock bumping" means a lock
picking technique for opening a pin tumbler lock using a

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specially-crafted bumpkey.
(b) Sentence.
Possession of burglary tools in violation of this Section
is a Class 4 felony.
(Source: P.A. 95-883, eff. 1-1-09.)