(225 ILCS 447/15-5)

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 103-309)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2029)

Sec. 15-5. Exemptions; private detective.

The provisions
of this Act relating to the licensure of private detectives do
not apply to any of the following:

(1) An employee of the United States, Illinois, or a political subdivision of either

while the employee is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties within the scope of his or her employment. However, any such person who offers his or her services as a private detective or uses a similar title when these services are performed for compensation or other consideration, whether received directly or indirectly, is subject to this Act.

(2) A person, firm, or other entity engaged exclusively in tracing and compiling lineage

or ancestry who does not hold himself or herself out to be a private detective.

(3) A person engaged exclusively in obtaining and furnishing information, including

providing reports, as to the financial rating or creditworthiness of persons in connection with (i) consumer credit transactions, (ii) information for employment purposes, or (iii) information for the underwriting of consumer insurance.

(4) Insurance adjusters employed or under contract as adjusters who engage in no other

investigative activities other than those directly connected with adjustment of claims against an insurance company or a self-insured entity by which they are employed or with which they have a contract. No insurance adjuster or company may use the term "investigation" or any derivative thereof, in its name or in its advertising.

(5) A person, firm, or other entity engaged in providing computer forensics services so

long as the person, firm, or other entity does not hold himself or herself out to be a private detective. For the purposes of this item (5), "computer forensics services" means a branch of forensic science pertaining to the recovery and analysis of electronically stored information.

(6) A person employed as an investigator exclusively by only one employer in connection

with the exclusive activities of that employer and who does not hold himself or herself out to be a private detective.

(7) A person appointed by the circuit court pursuant to the Code of Civil Procedure to

make service of process in a specific case, provided that such person is not otherwise engaged in the business of serving process.

(8) A person appointed by the circuit court pursuant to the Code of Civil Procedure who

is an honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces of the United States and is self-employed as a process server.

(Source: P.A. 98-253, eff. 8-9-13.)

(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 103-309)