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92_SB1501
LRB9202860DJmg
1 AN ACT in relation to civil procedure.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5 changing Section 13-202 as follows:
6 (735 ILCS 5/13-202) (from Ch. 110, par. 13-202)
7 Sec. 13-202. Personal injury; penalty. Actions for
8 damages for an injury to the person, or for false
9 imprisonment, or malicious prosecution, or for a statutory
10 penalty, or for abduction, or for seduction, or for criminal
11 conversation, except damages resulting from first degree
12 murder or the commission of a Class X felony and the
13 perpetrator of the offense thereof is convicted of the such
14 crime, shall be commenced within 2 years next after the cause
15 of action accrued, but such an action against a defendant
16 arising from a crime committed by the defendant in whose name
17 an escrow account was established under the "Criminal
18 Victims' Escrow Account Act" shall be commenced within 2
19 years after the establishment of the such account.
20 (Source: P.A. 84-1450.)
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