610 ILCS 90/ - Railroad Intoxicating Liquor Act.

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(610 ILCS 90/0.01) (from Ch. 114, par. 100d.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Railroad Intoxicating Liquor Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(610 ILCS 90/1) (from Ch. 114, par. 100e) Sec. 1. Any person who shall drink any intoxicating liquor, or who shall be intoxicated, in or upon any railroad, smoking car, parlor car, day coach, interurban car or caboose car, in use for the transportation of passengers, or in or about any railroad station or platform, shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 77-2200.)

(610 ILCS 90/2) (from Ch. 114, par. 100f) Sec. 2. Every railroad conductor, while on duty, is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise in any county of this state, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act, all the common law and statutory powers conferred upon sheriffs and it is hereby made the duty of all such conductors to enforce the preceding section of this act, and to arrest without process any person who violates any provision thereof, and in so doing they shall be held to be acting for the state and not as employees of the company. Any person or persons so arrested shall be delivered by such conductor to some judge, sheriff or police officer at some station or place within the county in which the offense was committed, for trial, according to law. Provided, that if the car on which such arrest is made does not stop within the county within which such offense was committed, then such conductor shall deliver the person so arrested to some sheriff or police officer of the county wherein such car shall first stop after such arrest, who shall deliver the person so arrested to some judge of the county in which the offense was committed, for trial. (Source: P.A. 77-1276.)

(610 ILCS 90/3) (from Ch. 114, par. 100g) Sec. 3. Any such railroad conductor, who shall refuse or fail to comply with section two of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a petty offense and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten ($10.00) dollars, nor more than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. (Source: P.A. 77-2200.)

(610 ILCS 90/4) (from Ch. 114, par. 100h) Sec. 4. The several railroad companies in this state shall, without unnecessary delay, cause printed copies of the three preceding sections of this act to be kept posted in conspicuous places at all their stations along their lines of railroad in this state. Every railroad company that shall neglect to post, and keep posted, such notices as required by this section, shall for each offense, forfeit the sum of fifty ($50.00) dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the People of the State of Illinois. (Source: Laws 1935, p. 720.)