98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB4966
 
Introduced , by Rep. Jim Durkin
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 





55 ILCS 5/3-3001  from Ch. 34, par. 3-3001
    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning coroners.



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A BILL FOR
 


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1    AN ACT concerning local government.

 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:

 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section 
53-3001 as follows:
 



6    (55 ILCS 5/3-3001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 3-3001)



7    Sec. 3-3001. Commission; training; duties performed by 
8other county officer. 

9    (a) Every coroner shall be commissioned by the
the 
10Governor, but no
commission shall issue except upon the 
11certificate of the county clerk of
the proper county of the due 
12election or appointment of the coroner and
that the coroner has 
13filed his or her bond and taken the oath of office as
provided 
14in this Division.

15    (b) (1) Within 30 days of assuming office, a coroner 
16    elected to that office
for the first time shall apply for 
17    admission to the Illinois Law Enforcement
Training 
18    Standards Board coroners training program. Completion of 
19    the training
program shall be within 6 months of 
20    application. Any coroner may direct the
chief deputy 
21    coroner or a deputy coroner, or both, to attend the 
22    training
program, provided the coroner has completed the 
23    training program. Satisfactory
completion of the program 
 
 
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1    shall be evidenced by a certificate issued to the
coroner 
2    by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board.  
3    All coroners
shall complete the training program at least 
4    once while serving as coroner.


5        (2) In developing the coroner training program, the 
6    Illinois Law
Enforcement Training Standards Board shall 
7    consult with the
Illinois Coroners Association and the 
8    Illinois Necropsy Board.


9        (3) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards 
10    Board shall notify the
proper county board of the failure 
11    by a coroner to successfully complete this
training 
12    program.

13    (c) Every coroner shall attend at least 24 hours of 
14accredited
continuing education for coroners in each calendar 
15year.

16    (d) In all counties that provide by resolution for the 
17elimination of
the office of coroner pursuant to a referendum, 
18the resolution may also
provide, as part of the same 
19proposition, that the duties of the coroner be
taken over by 
20another county officer specified by the resolution and

21proposition.

22(Source: P.A. 87-255; 88-586, eff. 8-12-94.)