2005 Illinois Code - Chapter 720 Criminal Offenses 720 ILCS 245/ Construction Equipment Identification Defacement Act.

(720 ILCS 245/0.01) (from Ch. 38, par. 71)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Construction Equipment Identification Defacement Act.

(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)

(720 ILCS 245/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 71‑1)

Sec. 1.

(a) Any person who shall intentionally or knowingly change,
alter, remove, mutilate or
obliterate a permanently affixed serial number, product identification number,
part number, component identification number owner‑applied identification
or other mark of identification attached to or stamped, inscribed, molded
or etched into a machine or other equipment, whether stationary or mobile
or self‑propelled, or a part of such machine or equipment used in the construction,
maintenance or demolition of buildings, structures, bridges, tunnels, sewers,
utility pipes or lines, ditches or open cuts, roads, highways, dams, airports
or waterways or material handling for such projects commits a Class A misdemeanor.

(b) Possession of any machine or other equipment or a part of such machine
or equipment used in the construction, maintenance or demolition of buildings,
structures, bridges, tunnels, sewers, utility pipes or lines, ditches or
open cuts, roads, highways, dams, airports or waterways or material handling
for such projects upon which any such serial number, product identification
number, part number, component identification number, owner‑applied identification
number or other mark of identification shall have been changed, altered,
removed, or obliterated shall raise a rebuttable  presumption  that the
possessor has intentionally
or knowingly changed, altered, removed, or obliterated the same.

(Source: P.A. 82‑578.)

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