HB1952 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1952

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.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning courts.

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

Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing Section 4 as follows:

(705 ILCS 35/4) (from Ch. 37, par. 72.4)

Sec. 4. There shall be no stated terms in the the circuit courts, which shall always be open for the transaction of all business, subject to adjournment from time to time. The circuit judges in each circuit shall prescribe by rule the times of calling grand and petit juries in each of the counties of the circuit and the periods for which the jurors shall serve.

(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2642.)