70 ILCS 1320

in effect

70 ILCS 1320/0.01

(70 ILCS 1320/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 327z) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park Ordinance Violation Incarceration Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(70 ILCS 1320/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 328) Sec. 1. That every board of public park commissioners in this state shall have full power and authority to enter into an agreement with the legislative authorities of any city, town or village in the county in which the park system under the control of such board of public park commissioners may be situated, or with any authorized officer thereof in behalf of such city, town or village which now has or which may hereafter have a house of correction, to receive and keep in said house of correction any person or persons who may be sentenced or committed thereto by any court in such county for the violation of any ordinance of said board of public park commissioners, or failure to pay the fine imposed for such violation. (Source: Laws 1907, p. 440.)

70 ILCS 1320/2

(70 ILCS 1320/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 329) Sec. 2. After such agreement shall have been entered into it shall be the duty of the court finding any person guilty of the violation of any ordinance of any such board of public park commissioners punishable by imprisonment to sentence the person so found guilty to such house of correction, and for the violation of any ordinance of such board of public park commissioners punishable by fine, it shall be the duty of the court to commit any person who shall wilfully refuse to pay any fine so imposed by the said court, to the said house of correction under Section 5-9-3 of the Unified Code of Corrections, there to be received and kept for the time and in the manner prescribed by law and subject to the discipline of said house of correction, and it shall be the further duty of said court by warrant of commitment duly issued to cause such person so sentenced or committed to be forthwith conveyed by some proper officer to said house of correction. (Source: P.A. 77-2830.)

70 ILCS 1320/3

(70 ILCS 1320/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 330) Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the officer to whom such warrant of commitment is delivered to convey such person so sentenced or committed to the said house of correction, and there deliver such person to the keeper or other proper officer of said house of correction, whose duty it shall be to receive such person so sentenced or committed and to safely keep and employ such person for the term mentioned in the warrant of commitment, according to the laws of said house of correction; and the officer thus conveying and so delivering the person so sentenced or committed shall be allowed such fees, as compensation therefor, as are or shall be prescribed or allowed by law. (Source: Laws 1907, p. 440.)

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