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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3773
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3773 on page 1, by | ||||||
| 3 | replacing line 5 with the following: | ||||||
| 4 | "Sections 3 and 4 as follows:"; and | ||||||
| 5 | on page 5, immediately below line 21, by inserting the | ||||||
| 6 | following:
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| 7 | "(425 ILCS 60/4) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 804)
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| 8 | Sec. 4.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c), willful | ||||||
| 9 | Willful failure to install or maintain in operating condition | ||||||
| 10 | any
smoke detector required by this Act shall be a Class B | ||||||
| 11 | misdemeanor.
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| 12 | (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), tampering | ||||||
| 13 | Tampering with, removing, destroying, disconnecting or | ||||||
| 14 | removing the
batteries from any installed smoke detector, | ||||||
| 15 | except in the course of
inspection, maintenance or replacement | ||||||
| 16 | of the detector,
shall be a Class A misdemeanor in the case of | ||||||
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| 1 | a first conviction, and a
Class 4 felony in the case of a | ||||||
| 2 | second or subsequent conviction.
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| 3 | (c) A party in violation of the battery requirements of | ||||||
| 4 | subsection (e) of Section 3 of this Act shall be provided with | ||||||
| 5 | 90 day's warning with which to rectify that violation. If that | ||||||
| 6 | party fails to rectify the violation within that 90 day period, | ||||||
| 7 | he or she shall be assessed a fine of $100, and shall be fined | ||||||
| 8 | $100 every 30 days thereafter until either the violation is | ||||||
| 9 | rectified or the cumulative amount of fines assessed reaches | ||||||
| 10 | $1,500. The provisions of subsection (a) and (b) of this | ||||||
| 11 | Section shall apply only after the penalty provided under this | ||||||
| 12 | subsection (c) has been exhausted to the extent that a | ||||||
| 13 | violating party has reached the $1,500 cumulative fine | ||||||
| 14 | threshold and has failed to rectify the violation. | ||||||
| 15 | (Source: P.A. 85-143.)".
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