These provisions shall not apply to or affect any of the following:
(A) Peace officers or any person summoned by any such officers to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while he is actually engaged in assisting such officer;
(B) Wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other such institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of an offense, while in the performance of their official duty or commuting between their homes and places of employment;
(C) Members of the armed services or reserve forces of the United States or the Illinois national guard or the reserved officers training corps, while in the performance of their official duty;
(D) Special agents employed by a railroad to perform police functions, or employees of a detective agency, watchman-guard or patrolman agency, licensed by the state of Illinois, while actually engaged in the performance of the duties of their employment or commuting between their homes and places of employment;
(E) Agents and investigators of the Illinois crime investigating commission authorized by the commission to carry weapons, while on duty in the course of any investigation for the commission;
(F) Manufacture or transportation of weapons which are not immediately accessible to any person, sale of weapons to persons authorized under law to possess them;
(G) Persons licensed as private security contractors, private detectives or private alarm contractors or employed by an agency certified by the Illinois department of professional regulation who have documentation on their person, if their duties include the carrying of a weapon under the provisions of a private detective, private alarm and private security act of 1983 1 , while actually engaged in the performance of the duties of their employment;
(H) Any person regularly employed in a commercial or industrial operation as a security guard for the protection of persons employed and private property related to such commercial or industrial operation, while actually engaged in the performance of his or her duty or traveling between sites or properties belonging to the employer, and who, as a security guard, is a member of a security force of at least five (5) persons registered with the Illinois department of professional regulation; provided that such security guard has successfully completed a course of study, approved by and supervised by the Illinois department of professional regulation, consisting of not less than forty (40) hours of training that includes the theory of law enforcement, liability for acts and the handling of weapons;
(I) Agents and investigators of the Illinois legislative investigating commission authorized by the commission to carry the weapons while on duty in the course of any investigation for the commission;
(J) Persons employed by a financial institution for the protection of other employees and property related to such financial institution, while actually engaged in the performance of their duties, commuting between their homes and places of employment, or traveling between sites or properties owned by such financial institution, provided that any person so employed has successfully completed a course of study, approved by and supervised by the Illinois department of professional regulation, consisting of not less than forty (40) hours of training which includes theory of law enforcement, liability for acts and the handling of weapons;
(K) Any person employed by an armored car company to drive an armored car, while actually engaged in the performance of his duties;
(L) Investigators of the office of the state's attorney's appellate prosecutor authorized by the board of governors of the office of the state's attorney's appellate prosecutor to carry weapons pursuant to the state's attorney's appellate prosecutor's act 2 ;
(M) Special investigators appointed by a state's attorney under section 3-9005 of the county's code 1 ;
(N) Members of any club or organization organized for the purpose of practicing shooting at targets upon established target ranges, whether public or private, while such members are using their firearms on such target ranges;
(O) Duly authorized military or civil organizations while parading, with the special permission of the governor;
(P) Licensed hunters or fishermen while engaged in hunting or fishing;
(Q) Transportation of weapons broken down in a nonfunctioning state; or
(R) Such other exceptions as approved by the Illinois general assembly. (Ord. 02-04-15-1, 4-15-2002, eff. 4-15-2002)
Notes
| 1 | 1. 225 ILCS 445/1 et seq. |
| 2 | 2. 725 ILCS 210/1 et seq. |
| 1 | 1. 55 ILCS 5/3-9005. |