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765 ILCS 1030/1 (2026)

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 illegally possessed, except property seized during a search, and retained and ultimately returned, destroyed or otherwise disposed of pursuant to order of a court in accordance with Section 108-11, 108-12 or 114-12 of the "Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963" or other law hereafter applicable to property thus retained, and except property of which custody and disposition is prescribed by Article II of Chapter 4 of The Illinois Vehicle Code

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(765 ILCS 1030/1) (from Ch. 141, par. 141)
    Sec. 1. 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 illegally possessed, except property seized during a search, and retained and ultimately returned, destroyed or otherwise disposed of pursuant to order of a court in accordance with Section 108-11, 108-12 or 114-12 of the "Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963" or other law hereafter applicable to property thus retained, and except property of which custody and disposition is prescribed by Article II of Chapter 4 of The Illinois Vehicle Code.
(Source: P.A. 84-505.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1999–2021 · leading case: Blake Conyers v. City of Chicago, 10 F.4th 704 (7th Cir. 2021).
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Blake Conyers v. City of Chicago, 10 F.4th 704 (7th Cir. 2021). “If you do not contact the CPD to get your property back within 30 days of the date on this receipt, it will be con- sidered abandoned under Chicago Municipal Code Section 2-84-160, and the forfeiture process will begin under Illinois Law, 765 ILCS 1030/1, et seq. If you are in…”
People v. Patterson, 721 N.E.2d 797 (Ill. App. Ct. 1999). · cites it 3× “Soon afterwards, the State moved to have the $6,000 defendant used to fraudulently purchase the vehicle disposed of pursuant to section 1 of the Law Enforcement Disposition of Property Act (Act) (765 ILCS 1030/1 (West 1998)). The trial court granted the State’s motion.”
Conyers v. City of Chicago, 162 F. Supp. 3d 737 (N.D. Ill. 2016). “If you do not contact the CPD to get your property back within 30 days of the date on this receipt, it will be considered abandoned under Chicago Municipal Code Section 2-84-160, and the forfeiture process will begin under Illinois Law, 765 ILCS 1030/1, et seq. If you are in…”
People v. Patterson (Ill. App. Ct. 1999). · cites it 3× “Soon afterwards, the State moved to have the $6,000 defendant used to fraudulently purchase the vehicle disposed of pursuant to section 1 of the Law Enforcement Disposition of Property Act (Act) (765 ILCS 1030/1 (West 1998)). The trial court granted the State's motion.”
Blake Conyers v. City of Chicago (7th Cir. 2021). “If you do not contact the CPD to get your property back within 30 days of the date on this receipt, it will be con- sidered abandoned under Chicago Municipal Code Section 2-84-160, and the forfeiture process will begin under Illinois Law, 765 ILCS 1030/1, et seq. If you are in…”
Conyers v. Fitzpatrick (N.D. Ill. 2020). “e If you do not contact the CPD to get your property back within 30 days of the date on your receipt, the property will be considered abandoned under Chicago Municipal Code Section 2-84-160 (click here), and the forfeiture process will begin under Illinois Law, 765 ILCS 1030/1,…”
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