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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Private College Campus Police Act is amended
5 by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 1020/1)  (from Ch. 144, par. 1951)
7     Sec. 1. The Board of Trustees of a private college or
8 private university, may appoint persons to be members of a
9 campus police department. The Board shall assign duties,
10 including the enforcement of college or university
11 regulations, and prescribe the oath of office. With respect to
12 any such campus police department established for police
13 protection, the members of such campus police department shall
14 be persons who have successfully completed the Minimum
15 Standards Basic Law Enforcement Training Course offered at a
16 police training school established under the Illinois Police
17 Training Act, as such Act may be now or hereafter amended. All
18 members of such campus police departments must also
19 successfully complete the Firearms Training for Peace Officers
20 established under an Act in Relation To Firearms Training for
21 Peace Officers, as such Act may be now or hereafter amended.
22 Members of the campus police department shall have the powers
23 of municipal peace officers and county sheriffs, including the

 

 

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1 power to make arrests under the circumstances prescribed in
2 Section 107-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, as
3 amended, for violations of state statutes or , municipal or
4 county ordinances, including the ability to regulate and
5 control traffic on the public way contiguous to the provided,
6 however, that such powers may be exercised only on college or
7 university property, for the protection of students,
8 employees, visitors and their property, and the property
9 branches, and interests of the college or university, in the
10 county where the college or university is located of the
11 college or university, unless otherwise authorized by a county
12 or municipality. Campus police shall have no authority to serve
13 civil process.
14     Members of the campus police department at a private
15 college or private university shall not be eligible to
16 participate in any State, county or municipal retirement fund
17 and shall not be reimbursed for training with state funds. the
18 uniforms, vehicles, and badges of such officers shall be
19 distinctive from those of the local law enforcement agency
20 where the main campus is located.
21     The Board of Trustees shall provide liability insurance
22 coverage for each member of the campus police department
23 without cost to the member, which insures the member against
24 any liability which arises out of or in the course of the
25 member's employment for no less than $250,000 of coverage,
26 unless such indemnification is provided by a program of

 

 

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1 self-insurance.
2     For the purposes of this Section, "private college" or
3 "private university" means: (1) any college or university which
4 is not owned or controlled by the State or any political
5 subdivision thereof, and (2) which provides a program of
6 education in residence leading to a baccalaureate degree, or
7 which provides a program of education in residence, for which
8 the baccalaureate degree is a prerequisite, leading to an
9 academic or professional degree, and (3) which is accredited by
10 the North Central Association or other nationally recognized
11 accrediting agency.
12 (Source: P.A. 85-1440.)