Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 General Provisions: Article -

• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 0.01
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Statute on Statutes. (Source: P.A. 86-4; 86-451.)
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1
  In the construction of statutes, this Act shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the General Assembly...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.01
  All general provisions, terms, phrases and expressions shall be liberally construed in order that the true intent and meaning of the General Assembly may...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.02
  Words in the present tense include the future. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 1717.)
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.03
  Words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things, and words importing the plural number may include the...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.04
  Words importing the masculine gender may be applied to females. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 1717.)
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.05
  "Person" or "persons" as well as all words referring to or importing persons, may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.06
  "Person under legal disability" means a person 18 years or older who (a) because of mental deterioration or physical incapacity is not fully able...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.07
  "County board" means the board of county commissioners in counties not under township organization, and the board of supervisors in counties under township organization,...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.08
  "Sheriff," "coroner," "clerk," or other words used for an executive or ministerial officer may include any deputy or other person performing the duties of...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.09
  Words purporting to give a joint authority to three or more public officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.10
  "Month" means a calendar month, and the word "year," a calendar year unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" alone, is equivalent to the...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.11
  The time within which any act provided by law is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.12
  The word "oath" shall be deemed to include an affirmation, and the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed." (Source: Laws...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.13
  "Wills" includes codicils. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 1717.)
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.14
  "State," when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.15
  "Written" and "in writing" may include printing, electronic, and any other mode of representing words and letters; but when the written signature of any...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.16
  "Highway," "road," or "street" may include any road laid out by authority of the United States, or of this State, or of any town...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.17
  "Heretofore" means any time previous to the day on which the statute takes effect; and the word "hereafter," at any time after such day....
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.18
  "Laws now in force," and words of similar import, mean the laws in force at the time the Act containing the words shall take...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.20
  "General superintendent of police," "secretary of the general superintendent of police," "assistant general superintendent of police," "first deputy superintendent of police," "chief of police,"...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.22
  "Other civil cases" and "ordinary civil cases" or any equivalent expression, when used with reference to practice, procedure, or appeal, shall be deemed to...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.23
  The "General Revenue Law of Illinois", or any equivalent expression, when used with reference to revenue, shall be deemed to refer to the Property...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.24
  The word "decree" is synonymous with the word "judgment". (Source: Laws 1963, p. 2710.)
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.25
  Unless an Act otherwise specifically provides, any writing of any kind or description required or authorized to be filed with, and any payment of any...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.26
  "Circuit clerk" means clerk of the circuit court. (Source: P.A. 76-2300.)
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.27
  "Municipalities" has the meaning established in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970. (Source: P.A. 78-354.)
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.28
  "Units of local government" has the meaning established in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970....
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.29
  "Special districts" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.30
  "Town trustees" means the members of the township board required by Section 80-5 of the Township Code. (Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.31
  If any provision of an Act enacted after the effective date of this amendatory Act or application thereof to any person or circumstance is...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.32
  "Surviving spouse" means "widow" or "widower", as the case may be. (Source: P.A. 80-356.)
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.33
  Whenever there is a reference in any Act to the Capital Development Bond Act of 1972, Transportation Bond Act, School Construction Bond Act, Anti-Pollution...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.34
  This Section applies to citations in one Act to another Act or to the general law on a subject, whether or not the citation...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.35
  Paralegal. "Paralegal" means a person who is qualified through education, training, or work experience and is employed by a lawyer, law office, governmental agency,...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.36
  Born alive infant. (a) In determining the meaning of any statute or of any rule, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative agencies of this...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.37
  Intellectual disability. Except where the context indicates otherwise, in any rule, contract, or other document a reference to the term "mental retardation" shall be considered...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.38
  Physical disability. Except where the context indicates otherwise, in any rule, contract, or other document a reference to the term "crippled" shall be considered a...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 1.39
  Criminal Code of 2012. Whenever there is a reference in any Act to the Criminal Code or Criminal Code of 1961, that reference shall be...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 2
  The provisions of any statute, so far as they are the same as those of any prior statute, shall be construed as a continuation...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 3
  No act or part of an act repealed by the General Assembly shall be deemed to be revived by the repeal of the repealing...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 4
  No new law shall be construed to repeal a former law, whether such former law is expressly repealed or not, as to any offense...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 5
  In construing an amendatory Act printed in any volume of the session laws published after January 1, 1969, matter printed in italics shall be...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 6
  Two or more Acts which relate to same subject matter and which are enacted by the same General Assembly shall be construed together in...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 7
  No law enacted after January 12, 1977, denies or limits any power or function of a home rule unit, pursuant to paragraphs (g), (h),...
• Illinois Statute on Statutes. - 5 ILCS 70, Section 8
  Omnibus Bond Acts. (a) A citation to the Omnibus Bond Acts is a citation to all of the following Acts, collectively, as amended from time...

Last modified: February 18, 2015