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5 ILCS 70/1.02 (2026)

Words in the present tense include the future

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(5 ILCS 70/1.02) (from Ch. 1, par. 1003)
    Sec. 1.02. Words in the present tense include the future.
(Source: Laws 1945, p. 1717.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2012–2022 · leading case: Snow v. Chicago Transit Auth., 2022 IL App (1st) 201217 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022).
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Snow v. Chicago Transit Auth., 2022 IL App (1st) 201217 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “” 5 ILCS 70/1.02 (West 2020). Moreover, Snow acknowledged the CTA’s authority to change his pension benefit after retirement.”
City of East Peoria v. Palmer, 2012 IL App (3d) 110904 (Ill. App. Ct. 2012). “” 5 ILCS 70/1.02 (West 2010). Section 1.05 provides that “ ‘[p]erson’ or ‘persons’ as well as all words referring to or importing persons, may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as individuals.”
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