HB2776 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB2776

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Robert S. Molaro

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

15 ILCS 205/6

from Ch. 14, par. 6

Amends the Attorney General Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appointment of substitute attorneys.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The Attorney General Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:

(15 ILCS 205/6) (from Ch. 14, par. 6)

Sec. 6. Whenever the the attorney general is sick or absent, or unable to attend, or is interested in any cause or proceeding, civil or criminal, which it is or may be his duty to prosecute or defend, the court in which said cause or proceeding is pending may appoint some competent attorney to prosecute or defend such cause or proceeding, and the attorney so appointed shall have the same power and authority in relation to such cause or proceeding as the attorney general would have had if present and attending to the same.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)