Illinois General Assembly - Illinois Compiled Statutes

Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process. Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the Guide.

Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes, statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect. If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes made to the current law.

725 ILCS 5/107-11

(725 ILCS 5/107-11) (from Ch. 38, par. 107-11)

Sec. 107-11. When summons may be issued.

(a) When authorized to issue a warrant of arrest, a court may instead
issue a summons.

(b) The summons shall:

(1) Be in writing;

(2) State the name of the person summoned and his or

her address, if known;

(3) Set forth the nature of the offense;

(4) State the date when issued and the municipality

or county where issued;

(5) Be signed by the judge of the court with the

title of his or her office; and

(6) Command the person to appear before a court at a

certain time and place.

(c) The summons may be served in the same manner as the summons in a
civil action or by certified or regular mail, except that police officers may serve summons for violations
of ordinances occurring within their municipalities.

(Source: P.A. 102-1104, eff. 12-6-22.)