Illinois Compiled Statutes

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The Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) are the codified statutes of a general and permanent nature of Illinois. [1] [2] The compilation organizes the general Acts of Illinois into 67 chapters arranged within 9 major topic areas. [3] The ILCS took effect in 1993, replacing the previous numbering scheme generally known as the Illinois Revised Statutes (Ill. Rev. Stat.), the latest of which had been adopted in 1874 but appended by private publishers since. [3]

Contents

Additions, deletions, and changes to the ILCS are done through the Illinois Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB), which files the changes as provided for by Public Act 87-1005. [3]

The compilation is an official compilation by the state and is entirely in the public domain for purposes of federal copyright law; anyone may publish the statutes. [3] There is no official version of the ILCS, but there are several unofficial versions: West's Illinois Compiled Statutes endorsed by the Illinois State Bar Association, West's Smith–Hurd Illinois Compiled Statutes Annotated, and LexisNexis's Illinois Compiled Statutes Annotated. [4]

History

Illinois officially revised its laws in 1807, 1809–12, 1819, 1827–29, 1833, 1845, and 1874. [5]

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References

  1. Decker, John F.; Kopacz, Christopher (2012). Illinois Criminal Law: A Survey of Crimes and Defenses (5th ed.). LexisNexis. § 1.01. ISBN   978-0-7698-5284-3.
  2. Smith, Lori L.; Barkley, Daniel C.; Cornwall, Daniel C.; Johnson, Eric W.; Malcomb, J. Louise (2003). Tapping State Government Information Sources. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 126. ISBN   1-57356-387-0. LCCN   2002044846.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Organization of the Illinois Compiled Statutes". Illinois Legislative Reference Bureau. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  4. Wojcik, Mark E. (2003). Illinois Legal Research. Carolina Academic Press. pp.  78–79. ISBN   0-89089-339-X. LCCN   2003110318. OCLC   52972867.
  5. Illinois 1918, p. 7.