96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1951

 

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Constance A. Howard

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
705 ILCS 35/4   from Ch. 37, par. 72.4

    Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning court business.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning courts.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing
5 Section 4 as follows:
 
6     (705 ILCS 35/4)  (from Ch. 37, par. 72.4)
7     Sec. 4. There shall be no stated terms in the the circuit
8 courts, which shall always be open for the transaction of all
9 business, subject to adjournment from time to time. The circuit
10 judges in each circuit shall prescribe by rule the times of
11 calling grand and petit juries in each of the counties of the
12 circuit and the periods for which the jurors shall serve.
13 (Source: Laws 1963, p. 2642.)