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25 ILCS 135/5.04

(25 ILCS 135/5.04) (from Ch. 63, par. 29.4)

Sec. 5.04.

Codification and revision of statutes.

(a) As soon as possible after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1992, the Legislative Reference Bureau shall file with the Index
Division of the Office of the Secretary of State, the General Assembly, the
Governor, and the Supreme Court a compilation of the general Acts of
Illinois.  At that time and at any other time the Legislative Reference
Bureau may file with the Index Division of the Office of the Secretary of
State cross-reference tables comparing the compilation and the Illinois
Revised Statutes.  The Legislative Reference Bureau shall provide copies of
the documents that are filed to each individual or entity that delivers a
written request for copies to the Legislative Reference Bureau; the
Legislative Reference Bureau, by
resolution, may establish and charge a reasonable fee for providing copies.
The compilation shall take effect on January 1, 1993. The compilation shall
be cited as the "Illinois Compiled Statutes" or as "ILCS".  The Illinois
Compiled Statutes, including the statutes themselves and the organizational
and numbering scheme, shall be an official compilation of the general Acts
of Illinois and shall be entirely in the public domain for purposes of
federal copyright law.

(b) The compilation document that is filed under subsection (a) shall
divide the general Acts into major topic areas and into chapters within
those areas; the document shall list the general Acts by title or short
title, but need not contain the text of the statutes or specify individual
Sections of Acts.  Chapters shall be numbered.  Each Act shall be
assigned to a chapter and shall be ordered within that chapter.  An Act
prefix number shall be designated for each Act within each chapter.
Chapters may be divided into subheadings.  Citation to a section
of ILCS shall be in the form "X ILCS Y/Z(A)", where X is the chapter
number, Y is the Act prefix number, Z is the Section number of the Act, Y/Z
is the section number in the chapter of ILCS, and A is the year of
publication, if applicable.

(c) The Legislative Reference Bureau shall make additions, deletions,
and changes to the organizational or numbering scheme of the Illinois
Compiled Statutes by filing appropriate documents with the Index Division
of the Office of the Secretary of State. The Legislative Reference Bureau
shall also provide copies of the documents that are filed to each
individual or entity that delivers a written request for copies to the
Legislative Reference Bureau; the Legislative Reference Bureau, by
resolution, may establish and charge a reasonable fee for providing copies.
The additions, deletions, and changes to the organizational or numbering
scheme of the Illinois Compiled Statutes shall take effect 30 days after
filing with the Index Division.

(d) Omission of an effective Act or Section of an Act from ILCS does not
alter the effectiveness of that Act or Section.  Inclusion of a repealed
Act or Section of an Act in ILCS does not affect the repeal of that Act or Section.

(e) In order to allow for an efficient transition to the organizational
and numbering scheme of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, the State, units of
local government, school districts, and other governmental entities may,
for a reasonable period of time, continue to use forms, computer software,
systems, and data, published rules, and any other electronically stored
information and printed documents that contain references to the Illinois
Revised Statutes.
However, reports of criminal, traffic, and other offenses and violations
that are part of a state-wide reporting system shall continue to be made by
reference to the Illinois Revised Statutes until July 1, 1994, and on and
after that date shall be made by reference to the Illinois Compiled
Statutes, except that an earlier conversion date may be established
by agreement among all of the following:  the Supreme Court, the Secretary
of State, the Director of State Police, the Circuit Clerk of Cook County,
and the Circuit Clerk of DuPage County, or the designee of
each.  References to the Illinois Revised Statutes
are deemed to be references to the
corresponding provisions of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.

(f) The Legislative Reference Bureau, with the assistance of the Legislative
Information System, shall make its electronically stored  database of the
statutes and the compilation available in an electronically stored medium to
those who request it; the Legislative Reference Bureau, by resolution,
shall establish and charge a reasonable fee for providing the information.

(g) Amounts received under this Section shall be
deposited into the General Assembly Computer Equipment Revolving
Fund.

(h) The Legislative Reference Bureau shall select subjects and chapters of
the statutory law that
it considers most in need of a revision and present
to the next regular session of the General Assembly bills covering
those revisions. In connection with those
revisions, the Legislative Reference Bureau has full authority and responsibility
to recommend the revision,
simplification, and rearrangement of existing statutory law and the
elimination from that law of obsolete, superseded,
duplicated, and unconstitutional statutes or parts of statutes, but
shall make no other changes in the substance of existing statutes, except
to the extent those changes in substance are necessary for coherent
revision, simplification, rearrangement, or elimination.
Revisions reported to the General Assembly may be accompanied by
explanatory statements of changes in existing statutes or parts of statutes
that those revisions, if enacted, would effect.

(Source: P.A. 86-523; 87-1005.)