Illinois Compiled Statutes
55 ILCS 5/3-6019 (2026)
Duties of sheriff; office quarters and hours
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(55 ILCS 5/3-6019)
(from Ch. 34, par. 3-6019)
Sec. 3-6019.
Duties of sheriff; office quarters and
hours. Sheriffs shall serve and execute, within their respective
counties, and return all warrants, process, orders and judgments of
every description that may be legally directed or delivered to them.
A sheriff of a county with a population of less than 1,000,000 may employ
civilian personnel to serve process in civil matters. If an arrest warrant upon complaint under Section 107-9 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, or a warrant of arrest due to failure to appear under Section 107-12 of the Code, originated from a law enforcement agency other than the county sheriff's office, then the county sheriff of a county with a population of more than 600,000 may require that law enforcement agency to store and maintain the warrant. That law enforcement agency is responsible for entering the warrant into the Illinois Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) and the National Crime Information Center Database (NCIC). The county sheriff may require the originating law enforcement agency to arrange for transportation of the wanted person to the county jail. Originating agencies may contract with the county sheriff or another law enforcement agency to store, maintain, and provide transportation of the wanted person to the county jail. Any law enforcement agency or regional dispatch center may act as holder of the warrant for an originating agency that has no telecommunications equipment.
Each sheriff shall keep and maintain his or her office at the county seat of
the county for which he or she is the sheriff, and shall in counties having a
population of less than 500,000 keep his or her office open and attend to
the duties thereof from 8 o'clock in the forenoon to 5 o'clock in
the afternoon of each working day, excepting such days and half days as,
under any law, are or may be legal holidays, or half holidays.
The hours of opening and closing of the office of the
sheriff may be changed and otherwise fixed and determined by the county
board of such county. Such action taken by the county board
shall be by an appropriate resolution passed at a regular meeting.
(Source: P.A. 98-250, eff. 8-9-13.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 11
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1994–2025 · leading case: Prough v. Madison Cnty., 2013 IL App (5th) 110146 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013).
Prough v. Madison Cnty., 2013 IL App (5th) 110146 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013). “In his response, the plaintiff argued that the defendants owed a statutory duty to “return all warrants, processes, orders and judgments” pursuant to section 3-6019 of the Counties Code (55 ILCS 5/3-6019 (West 2010)), that the Tort Immunity Act did not protect the defendants…”
In Re Sumpter, 171 B.R. 835 (Bankr. N.D. Ill. 1994). “The State Court Order was directed to the Sheriff, and under 55 ILCS 5/3-6019 and 5/3-6020, the Sheriff and his deputies had a statutory nondiseretionary duty to execute it.”
Hvorcik v. Sheahan, 847 F. Supp. 1414 (N.D. Ill. 1994). “*1426 Contempt of Court Count III seeks to tar Sheahan with violations of the combined provisions of 55 ILCS 5/3-6019 and 55 ILCS 5/3-6020: Sheriffs shall serve and execute, within their respective counties, and return all warrants, process, orders and judgments of every…”
Jankovich v. Illinois State Police, 2017 IL App (1st) 160706 (Ill. App. Ct. 2017). “, 50 ILCS 722/10(a)(3)(A) (West 2014) (missing persons information); 55 ILCS 5/3-6019 (West 2014) (warrants); 740 ILCS 22/302(a) (West 2014) (civil no contact orders); 750 ILCS 60/302(a) (West 2014) (orders of protection).”
Thomas v. Sheahan, 370 F. Supp. 2d 704 (N.D. Ill. 2005). “See 55 ILCS 5/3-6019; 735 ILCS 5/15-1102. Thus, when executing a state court order for eviction, a county sheriff acts pursuant to state control and enjoys Eleventh Amendment immunity- However, this does not mean that any action taken by the sheriff or his deputies related to…”
Jankovich v. The Illinois State Police, 2017 IL App (1st) 160706 (Ill. App. Ct. 2017). “, 50 ILCS 722/10(a)(3)(A) (West 2014) (missing persons information); 55 ILCS 5/3-6019 (West 2014) (warrants); 740 ILCS 22/302(a) (West 2014) (civil no contact orders); 750 ILCS 60/302(a) (West 2014) (orders of protection).”
Williams v. Dart (N.D. Ill. 2019). “Count V: Illinois Statutory Claim The relevant provision of 55 ILCS 5/3-6019 states: “Sheriffs shall serve and execute .”
Williams v. Dart (N.D. Ill. 2018). “See 55 ILCS 5/3-6019; People v. Campa, 840 N.”
McDuffie v. Sgt. Loney (N.D. Ill. 2018). “6, 2017) (citing 55 ILCS 5/3-6019 and Kernats v. O’ Sullivan, 35 F.”
Kalmuk v. Baird (N.D. Ill. 2025). “Instead, plaintiffs contend that defendant was bound by the legal notice contained in the service of their motion to defendant. But Illinois law does not task defendant with the duty to evaluate the merits of plaintiffs’ unilateral legal contention that enforcement of the…”
Gibbs v. Madison Cnty. Sheriff's Dep't (Ill. App. Ct. 2001). “55 ILCS 5/3-6019 (West 1996). The sheriff is also a conservator of the peace in his county.”
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