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Public Act 099-0629
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is |
amended by changing Section 111-4 as follows:
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(725 ILCS 5/111-4)
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Sec. 111-4. Joinder of offenses and defendants.
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(a) Two or more offenses may be charged in the same |
indictment,
information or complaint in a separate count for |
each offense if the
offenses charged, whether felonies or |
misdemeanors or both, are based on
the same act or on 2 or more |
acts which are part of the same comprehensive
transaction.
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(b) Two or more defendants may be charged in the same |
indictment,
information or complaint if they are alleged to |
have participated in the
same act or in the same comprehensive |
transaction out of which the offense
or offenses arose. Such |
defendants may be charged in one or more counts
together or |
separately and all of the defendants need not be charged in
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each count.
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(c) Two or more acts or transactions in violation of any |
provision or
provisions of Sections 8A-2, 8A-3, 8A-4, 8A-4A and |
8A-5 of the Illinois
Public Aid Code, Section 14 of the |
Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, Sections 16-1, |
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16-1.3, 16-2, 16-3, 16-5, 16-7, 16-8, 16-10, 16-25, 16-30, |
16A-3,
16B-2, 16G-15, 16G-20, 16H-15, 16H-20, 16H-25, 16H-30, |
16H-45, 16H-50, 16H-55, 17-1, 17-3, 17-6, 17-30, 17-56, or |
17-60, or 29B-1, or item (ii) of subsection (a) or (b) of |
Section 17-9, or subdivision (a)(2) of Section 17-10.5, or |
subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), (g), (h), or (i) of Section |
17-10.6, or subsection (a) of Section 17-32 of the Criminal |
Code of
1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 and Section 118 of |
Division I of the Criminal Jurisprudence Act, may
be charged as |
a single offense in a single count of the same indictment,
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information or complaint, if such acts or transactions by one |
or more
defendants are in furtherance of a single intention and |
design or if the
property, labor or services obtained are of |
the same person or are of
several persons having a common |
interest in such property, labor or
services. In such a charge, |
the period between the dates of the first and
the final such |
acts or transactions may be alleged as the date of the
offense |
and, if any such act or transaction by any defendant was |
committed
in the county where the prosecution was commenced, |
such county may be
alleged as the county of the offense.
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(Source: P.A. 96-354, eff. 8-13-09; 96-1207, eff. 7-22-10; |
96-1407, eff. 1-1-11; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-333, eff. |
8-12-11; 97-597, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
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