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725 ILCS 170/12

(725 ILCS 170/12) (from Ch. 60, par. 12)

Sec. 12.

If any person charged with, or convicted of treason, first degree
murder,
criminal sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child,
aggravated criminal sexual assault,
robbery, burglary, arson, theft, forgery, counterfeiting or kidnapping,
shall break prison, escape or flee from justice or abscond or secrete
himself in such cases it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall
judge it necessary, to offer any reward not exceeding $1,000, for
apprehending and delivering such person into the custody of such sheriff or
other officer as he may direct. The person so apprehending or delivering
any such persons as aforesaid and producing to the Governor the receipt of
the sheriff or other proper officer, for the body, it shall be lawful for
the Governor to certify the amount of such claim to the State Comptroller,
who shall issue his warrant on the treasurer for the same.

(Source: P.A. 89-428, eff. 12-13-95; 89-462, eff. 5-29-96.)