Illinois Compiled Statutes 765 ILCS 1030 — Law Enforcement Disposition of Property Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Law Enforcement Disposition of Property Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

This Act is applicable to all personal property of which possession is transferred to a police department or other law enforcement agency of the State or a county, city, village or incorporated town, under circumstances supporting a reasonable belief that such property was abandoned, lost or stolen or otherwise illegal…

(a) Such property believed to be abandoned, lost or stolen or otherwise illegally possessed shall be retained in custody by the sheriff, chief of police or other principal official of the law enforcement agency, which shall make reasonable inquiry and efforts to identify and notify the owner or other person entitled to…

If the identity or location of the owner or other person entitled to possession of the property has not been ascertained within 6 months after the police department or other law enforcement agency obtains such possession, the sheriff, chief of police or other principal official thereof shall effectuate the sale of the…

Proceeds of the sale of the property at public auction, less reimbursement to the law enforcement agency of the reasonable expenses of custody thereof, shall be deposited in the treasury of the county, city, village or incorporated town of which government the law enforcement agency is a branch. (Source: Laws 1963, p.…

The owner or other person entitled to possession of such property may claim and recover possession of the property at any time before its sale at public auction, upon providing reasonable and satisfactory proof of ownership or right to possession and reimbursing the law enforcement agency for all reasonable expenses of…

No person shall be responsible for consequent damages to another occasioned by an act or omission in compliance with this Act

No person shall be responsible for consequent damages to another occasioned by an act or omission in compliance with this Act. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 3287.)