Full Text of SB2031 95th General Assembly
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Rep. Joseph M. Lyons
Filed: 5/29/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2031
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2031, AS AMENDED, | 3 |
| by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 4 |
| following:
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| "Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended | 6 |
| by changing Sections 1, 2.06a, 15.3, and 15.4 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 750/1) (from Ch. 134, par. 31)
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| Sec. 1. The General Assembly finds and declares that it is | 9 |
| in the public
interest to shorten the time required for a | 10 |
| citizen to request and receive
emergency aid. There currently | 11 |
| exist thousands of different emergency
phone numbers | 12 |
| throughout the state, and present telephone exchange
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| boundaries and central office service areas do not necessarily | 14 |
| correspond
to public safety and political boundaries. | 15 |
| Provision
of a single, primary three-digit emergency number | 16 |
| through which emergency
services can be quickly and efficiently |
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| obtained would provide a significant
contribution to law | 2 |
| enforcement and other public service efforts by making
it less | 3 |
| difficult to quickly notify public safety personnel. Such a
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| simplified means of procuring emergency services will result in | 5 |
| the saving
of life, a reduction in the destruction of property, | 6 |
| quicker apprehension
of criminals, and ultimately the saving of | 7 |
| money. The General Assembly
further finds and declares that the | 8 |
| establishment
of a uniform, statewide emergency number is a | 9 |
| matter of statewide
concern and interest to all inhabitants and | 10 |
| citizens of this State. It is the
purpose of this Act to | 11 |
| establish the number "9-1-1" as the primary emergency
telephone | 12 |
| number for use in this State , and to encourage units of local
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| government and combinations of such units to develop and | 14 |
| improve emergency
communication procedures and facilities in | 15 |
| such a manner as to be able to quickly respond
to any person | 16 |
| calling the telephone number "9-1-1" seeking
police, fire, | 17 |
| medical, rescue, and other emergency services , and to | 18 |
| coordinate the delivery of emergency services among the | 19 |
| responders .
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| (Source: P.A. 85-978.)
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| (50 ILCS 750/2.06a) (from Ch. 134, par. 32.06a)
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| Sec. 2.06a. System. "System" means the communications | 23 |
| equipment
and the facilities required to produce a response by | 24 |
| the appropriate emergency public safety
agency as a result of | 25 |
| an emergency call being placed to 9-1-1 and to coordinate the |
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| delivery of emergency services among the responders .
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| (Source: P.A. 87-1244; 88-604, eff. 9-1-94.)
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| (50 ILCS 750/15.3) (from Ch. 134, par. 45.3)
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| Sec. 15.3. Surcharge. | 5 |
| (a) The corporate authorities of any municipality or any
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| county may, subject to the limitations of subsections (c), (d), | 7 |
| and (h),
and in addition to any tax levied pursuant to the | 8 |
| Simplified Municipal
Telecommunications Tax Act, impose a | 9 |
| monthly surcharge on billed subscribers
of network connection | 10 |
| provided by telecommunication carriers engaged in the
business | 11 |
| of transmitting messages by means of electricity originating | 12 |
| within
the corporate limits of the municipality or county | 13 |
| imposing the surcharge at
a rate per network connection | 14 |
| determined in accordance with subsection (c) , however the | 15 |
| monthly surcharge shall not apply to a network connection | 16 |
| provided for use with pay telephone services .
Provided, | 17 |
| however, that where multiple voice grade communications | 18 |
| channels
are connected between the subscriber's premises and a | 19 |
| public switched network
through private branch exchange (PBX) | 20 |
| or centrex type service, a municipality
imposing a surcharge at | 21 |
| a rate per network connection, as determined in
accordance with | 22 |
| this Act, shall impose 5 such surcharges per network
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| connection, as determined in accordance with subsections (a) | 24 |
| and (d) of
Section 2.12 of this Act.
For mobile | 25 |
| telecommunications services, if a surcharge is imposed it shall |
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| be
imposed based upon the municipality or county that | 2 |
| encompasses the customer's
place of primary use as defined in | 3 |
| the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing
Conformity Act. A | 4 |
| municipality may enter into an intergovernmental
agreement | 5 |
| with any county in which it is partially located, when the | 6 |
| county
has adopted an ordinance to impose a surcharge as | 7 |
| provided in subsection
(c), to include that portion of the | 8 |
| municipality lying outside the county
in that county's | 9 |
| surcharge referendum. If the county's surcharge
referendum is | 10 |
| approved, the portion of the municipality identified in the
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| intergovernmental agreement shall automatically be | 12 |
| disconnected from the
county in which it lies and connected to | 13 |
| the county which approved the
referendum for purposes of a | 14 |
| surcharge on telecommunications carriers.
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| (b) For purposes of computing the surcharge imposed by | 16 |
| subsection (a),
the network connections to which the surcharge | 17 |
| shall apply shall be those
in-service network connections, | 18 |
| other than those network connections
assigned to the | 19 |
| municipality or county, where the service address for each
such | 20 |
| network connection or connections is located within the | 21 |
| corporate
limits of the municipality or county levying the | 22 |
| surcharge. Except for mobile
telecommunication services, the | 23 |
| "service address" shall mean the location of
the primary use of | 24 |
| the network connection or connections. For mobile
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| telecommunication services, "service address" means the | 26 |
| customer's place of
primary use as defined in the Mobile |
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| Telecommunications Sourcing Conformity
Act. With respect to | 2 |
| network connections provided for
use with pay telephone | 3 |
| services for which there is no billed subscriber,
the | 4 |
| telecommunications carrier providing the network connection | 5 |
| shall be
deemed to be its own billed subscriber for purposes of | 6 |
| applying the surcharge.
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| (c) Upon the passage of an ordinance to impose a surcharge | 8 |
| under this
Section the clerk of the municipality or county | 9 |
| shall certify the question
of whether the surcharge may be | 10 |
| imposed to the proper election authority
who shall submit the | 11 |
| public question to the electors of the municipality or
county | 12 |
| in accordance with the general election law; provided that such
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| question shall not be submitted at a consolidated primary | 14 |
| election. The
public question shall be in substantially the | 15 |
| following form:
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| Shall the county (or city, village
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| or incorporated town) of ..... impose YES
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| a surcharge of up to ...˘ per month per
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| network connection, which surcharge will
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| be added to the monthly bill you receive ------------------
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| for telephone or telecommunications
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| charges, for the purpose of installing
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| (or improving) a 9-1-1 Emergency NO
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| Telephone System?
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| If a majority of the votes cast upon the public question | 2 |
| are in favor
thereof, the surcharge shall be imposed.
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| However, if a Joint Emergency Telephone System Board is to | 4 |
| be created
pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement under | 5 |
| Section 15.4, the
ordinance to impose the surcharge shall be | 6 |
| subject to the approval of a
majority of the total number of | 7 |
| votes cast upon the public question by the
electors of all of | 8 |
| the municipalities or counties, or combination thereof,
that | 9 |
| are parties to the intergovernmental agreement.
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| The referendum requirement of this subsection (c) shall not | 11 |
| apply
to any municipality with a population over 500,000 or to | 12 |
| any
county in which a proposition as to whether a sophisticated | 13 |
| 9-1-1 Emergency
Telephone System should be installed in the | 14 |
| county, at a cost not to
exceed a specified monthly amount per | 15 |
| network connection, has previously
been approved by a majority | 16 |
| of the electors of the county voting on the
proposition at an | 17 |
| election conducted before the effective date of this
amendatory | 18 |
| Act of 1987.
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| (d) A county may not impose a surcharge, unless requested | 20 |
| by a
municipality, in any incorporated area which has | 21 |
| previously approved a
surcharge as provided in subsection (c) | 22 |
| or in any incorporated area where
the corporate authorities of | 23 |
| the municipality have previously entered into
a binding | 24 |
| contract or letter of intent with a telecommunications carrier | 25 |
| to
provide sophisticated 9-1-1 service through municipal | 26 |
| funds.
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| (e) A municipality or county may at any time by ordinance | 2 |
| change the
rate of the surcharge imposed under this Section if | 3 |
| the new rate does not
exceed the rate specified in the | 4 |
| referendum held pursuant to subsection (c).
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| (f) The surcharge authorized by this Section shall be | 6 |
| collected from
the subscriber by the telecommunications | 7 |
| carrier providing the subscriber
the network connection as a | 8 |
| separately stated item on the subscriber's bill.
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| (g) The amount of surcharge collected by the | 10 |
| telecommunications carrier
shall be paid to the particular | 11 |
| municipality or county or Joint Emergency
Telephone System | 12 |
| Board not later than 30 days after the surcharge is
collected, | 13 |
| net of any network or other 9-1-1 or sophisticated 9-1-1 system
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| charges then due the particular telecommunications carrier, as | 15 |
| shown on an
itemized bill. The telecommunications carrier | 16 |
| collecting the surcharge
shall also be entitled to deduct 3% of | 17 |
| the gross amount of surcharge
collected to reimburse the | 18 |
| telecommunications carrier for the expense of
accounting and | 19 |
| collecting the surcharge.
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| (h) Except as expressly provided in subsection (a) of this | 21 |
| Section, a
municipality with a population over 500,000 may not | 22 |
| impose a
monthly surcharge in excess of $2.50
per network | 23 |
| connection.
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| (i) Any municipality or county or joint emergency telephone | 25 |
| system
board that has imposed a surcharge pursuant to this | 26 |
| Section prior to the
effective date of this amendatory Act of |
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| 1990 shall hereafter impose the
surcharge in accordance with | 2 |
| subsection (b) of this Section.
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| (j) The corporate authorities of any municipality or county | 4 |
| may issue,
in accordance with Illinois law, bonds, notes or | 5 |
| other obligations secured
in whole or in part by the proceeds | 6 |
| of the surcharge described in this
Section. Notwithstanding any | 7 |
| change in law subsequent to the issuance of
any bonds, notes or | 8 |
| other obligations secured by the surcharge, every
municipality | 9 |
| or county issuing such bonds, notes or other obligations shall
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| be authorized to impose the surcharge as though the laws | 11 |
| relating to the
imposition of the surcharge in effect at the | 12 |
| time of issuance of the
bonds, notes or other obligations were | 13 |
| in full force and effect until the
bonds, notes or other | 14 |
| obligations are paid in full.
The State of Illinois pledges and | 15 |
| agrees that it will not limit or alter
the rights and powers | 16 |
| vested in municipalities and counties by this Section
to impose | 17 |
| the surcharge so as to impair the terms of or affect the
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| security for bonds, notes or other obligations secured in whole | 19 |
| or in part
with the proceeds of the surcharge described in this | 20 |
| Section.
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| (k) Any surcharge collected by or imposed on a | 22 |
| telecommunications
carrier pursuant to this Section shall be | 23 |
| held to be a special fund in
trust for the municipality, county | 24 |
| or Joint Emergency Telephone Board
imposing the surcharge. | 25 |
| Except for the 3% deduction provided in subsection
(g) above, | 26 |
| the special fund shall not be subject to the claims of
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| creditors of the telecommunication carrier.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-698, eff. 1-1-08.)
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| (50 ILCS 750/15.4) (from Ch. 134, par. 45.4)
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| Sec. 15.4. Emergency Telephone System Board; powers.
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| (a) The corporate authorities of any county or municipality
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| that imposes a surcharge under Section 15.3 shall establish an | 7 |
| Emergency
Telephone System Board. The corporate authorities | 8 |
| shall provide for the
manner of appointment and the number of | 9 |
| members of the Board, provided that
the board shall consist of | 10 |
| not fewer than 5 members, one of whom
must be a
public member | 11 |
| who is a resident of the local exchange service territory
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| included in the 9-1-1 coverage area, one of whom (in counties | 13 |
| with a
population less than 100,000) must be a member of the | 14 |
| county
board, and
at least 3 of whom shall be representative of | 15 |
| the 9-1-1 public safety agencies,
including but not limited to | 16 |
| police departments, fire departments, emergency
medical | 17 |
| services providers, and emergency services and disaster | 18 |
| agencies, and
appointed on the basis of their ability or | 19 |
| experience. Elected officials are
also eligible to serve on the | 20 |
| board. Members of the board shall serve without
compensation | 21 |
| but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary
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| expenses. Any 2 or more municipalities, counties, or | 23 |
| combination thereof,
that impose a surcharge under Section 15.3 | 24 |
| may, instead of establishing
individual boards, establish by | 25 |
| intergovernmental agreement a Joint
Emergency Telephone System |
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| Board pursuant to this Section. The manner of
appointment of | 2 |
| such a joint board shall be prescribed in the agreement.
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| (b) The powers and duties of the board shall be defined by | 4 |
| ordinance
of the municipality or county, or by | 5 |
| intergovernmental agreement in the
case of a joint board. The | 6 |
| powers and duties shall include, but need not
be limited to the | 7 |
| following:
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| (1) Planning a 9-1-1 system.
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| (2) Coordinating and supervising the implementation, | 10 |
| upgrading, or
maintenance of the system, including the | 11 |
| establishment of equipment
specifications and coding | 12 |
| systems.
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| (3) Receiving moneys
from the surcharge imposed under | 14 |
| Section 15.3, and
from any other source, for deposit into | 15 |
| the Emergency Telephone System Fund.
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| (4) Authorizing all disbursements from the fund.
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| (5) Hiring any staff necessary for the implementation | 18 |
| or upgrade of the
system.
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| (c) All moneys
received by a board pursuant to a surcharge | 20 |
| imposed under
Section 15.3 shall be deposited into a separate | 21 |
| interest-bearing
Emergency Telephone System Fund account. The | 22 |
| treasurer of the municipality or
county that has established | 23 |
| the board or, in the case of a joint board, any
municipal or | 24 |
| county treasurer designated in the intergovernmental | 25 |
| agreement,
shall be custodian of the fund. All interest | 26 |
| accruing on the fund shall remain
in the fund. No expenditures |
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| may be made from such fund except upon the
direction of the | 2 |
| board by resolution passed by a majority of all members of the
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| board. Expenditures may be made only to pay for the costs | 4 |
| associated with the
following:
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| (1) The design of the Emergency Telephone System.
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| (2) The coding of an initial Master Street Address | 7 |
| Guide data base, and
update and maintenance thereof.
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| (3) The repayment of any moneys
advanced for the | 9 |
| implementation of
the system.
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| (4) The charges for Automatic Number Identification | 11 |
| and Automatic
Location Identification equipment,
a | 12 |
| computer aided dispatch system that records, maintains, | 13 |
| and integrates
information,
mobile data transmitters | 14 |
| equipped with
automatic vehicle locators, and maintenance, | 15 |
| replacement and
update thereof
to increase operational | 16 |
| efficiency and improve the provision of emergency
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| services.
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| (5) The non-recurring charges related to installation | 19 |
| of the Emergency
Telephone System and the ongoing network | 20 |
| charges.
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| (6) The acquisition and installation, or the | 22 |
| reimbursement of costs
therefor to other governmental | 23 |
| bodies that have incurred those costs, of road
or street | 24 |
| signs that are essential to the implementation of the | 25 |
| emergency
telephone system and that are not duplicative of | 26 |
| signs that are the
responsibility of the jurisdiction |
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| charged with maintaining road and street
signs.
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| (7) Other products and services necessary for the | 3 |
| implementation,
upgrade, and maintenance of the system and | 4 |
| any other purpose related to the
operation of
the system, | 5 |
| including : (i) costs attributable directly to the | 6 |
| construction, leasing,
or maintenance of any buildings or | 7 |
| facilities , (ii) or costs of personnel
attributable | 8 |
| directly to the operation of the system , and (iii) costs | 9 |
| associated with the purchase and maintenance of a | 10 |
| computerized record-keeping system . Costs attributable
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| directly to the operation of an emergency telephone system | 12 |
| do not include the
costs of public safety agency personnel | 13 |
| who are and equipment that is
dispatched in response to an | 14 |
| emergency call. Costs attributable directly to the | 15 |
| operation of an emergency telephone system include the cost | 16 |
| of the communication equipment necessary to coordinate the | 17 |
| delivery of emergency services among responders. | 18 |
| (8) In the case of a municipality that imposes a | 19 |
| surcharge under subsection (h) of Section 15.3, moneys may | 20 |
| also be used for any anti-terrorism or emergency | 21 |
| preparedness measures, including, but not limited to, | 22 |
| preparedness planning, providing local matching funds for | 23 |
| federal or State grants, personnel training, and | 24 |
| specialized equipment, including surveillance cameras as | 25 |
| needed to deal with natural and terrorist-inspired | 26 |
| emergency situations or events.
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| Moneys in the fund may also be transferred to a | 2 |
| participating fire protection district to reimburse volunteer | 3 |
| firefighters who man remote telephone switching facilities | 4 |
| when dedicated 9-1-1 lines are down.
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| (d) The board shall complete the data base before | 6 |
| implementation of the
9-1-1 system. The error ratio of the data | 7 |
| base shall not at any time
exceed 1% of the total data base.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-698, eff. 1-1-08.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 10 |
| becoming law.".
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