93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4928

 

Introduced 02/04/04, by Dan Brady

 

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 counties.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5 3-3001 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/3-3001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 3-3001)
7     Sec. 3-3001. Commission; training; duties performed by
8 other county officer.
9     (a) Every coroner coroner shall be commissioned by the
10 Governor, but no commission shall issue except upon the
11 certificate of the county clerk of the proper county of the due
12 election or appointment of the coroner and that the coroner has
13 filed his or her bond and taken the oath of office as provided
14 in 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
24     shall be evidenced by a certificate issued to the coroner
25     by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board.
26     All coroners shall complete the training program at least
27     once while serving as coroner.
28         (2) In developing the coroner training program, the
29     Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall
30     consult with the Illinois Coroners Association and the
31     Illinois Necropsy Board.
32         (3) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards

 

 

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1     Board shall notify the proper county board of the failure
2     by a coroner to successfully complete this training
3     program.
4     (c) Every coroner shall attend at least 24 hours of
5 accredited continuing education for coroners in each calendar
6 year.
7     (d) In all counties that provide by resolution for the
8 elimination of the office of coroner pursuant to a referendum,
9 the resolution may also provide, as part of the same
10 proposition, that the duties of the coroner be taken over by
11 another county officer specified by the resolution and
12 proposition.
13 (Source: P.A. 87-255; 88-586, eff. 8-12-94.)