Chapter 705 — COURTS

(705 ILCS 405/2-4) (from Ch. 37, par. 802-4) Sec. 2-4. Dependent minor. (1) Those who are dependent include any minor under 18 years of age or a minor 18 years of age or older for whom the court has made a finding of probable cause to believe that the minor is abused, neglected, …

(705 ILCS 405/2-4a) Sec. 2-4a. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 102-588, eff. 8-20-21. Repealed by P.A. 102-259, eff. 8-6-21.)

(705 ILCS 405/2-4b) Sec. 2-4b. Publicly funded community and residential services; hearing. (a) The purpose of this Section is to ensure that minors who come to the attention of the court because they need treatment for complex behavioral and mental health needs are removed from …

(705 ILCS 405/2-5) (from Ch. 37, par. 802-5) Sec. 2-5. Taking into custody. (1) A law enforcement officer may, without a warrant, take into temporary custody a minor (a) whom the officer with reasonable cause believes to be a person described in Section 2-3 or 2-4; (b) who has be…

(705 ILCS 405/2-6) (from Ch. 37, par. 802-6) Sec. 2-6. Duty of officer. A law enforcement officer who takes a minor into custody under Section 2-5 shall immediately make a reasonable attempt to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the minor's care or the pers…

(705 ILCS 405/2-7) (from Ch. 37, par. 802-7) Sec. 2-7. Temporary custody. "Temporary custody" means the temporary placement of the minor out of the custody of the minor's guardian or parent, and includes the following: (1) "Temporary protective custody" means custody within a hos…

(705 ILCS 405/2-8) (from Ch. 37, par. 802-8) Sec. 2-8. Investigation; release. When a minor is delivered to the court, or to the place designated by the court under Section 2-7 of this Act, a probation officer or such other public officer designated by the court shall immediately…

(705 ILCS 405/2-9) (from Ch. 37, par. 802-9) Sec. 2-9. Setting of temporary custody hearing; notice; release. (1) Unless sooner released, a minor, as defined in Section 2-3 or 2-4 of this Act, taken into temporary protective custody must be brought before a judicial officer withi…

(705 ILCS 405/3-1) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-1) Sec. 3-1. Jurisdictional facts. Proceedings may be instituted under this Article concerning minors who require authoritative intervention as defined in Section 3-3, who are truant minors in need of supervision as defined in Section 3-3…

(705 ILCS 405/3-10) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-10) Sec. 3-10. Investigation; release. When a minor is delivered to the court, or to the place designated by the court under Section 3-9 of this Act, a probation officer or such other public officer designated by the court shall immediat…

(705 ILCS 405/3-11) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-11) Sec. 3-11. Setting of shelter care hearing; notice; release. (1) Unless sooner released, a minor requiring authoritative intervention, taken into temporary custody, must be brought before a judicial officer within 48 hours, exclusive…

(705 ILCS 405/3-12) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-12) Sec. 3-12. Shelter care hearing. At the appearance of the minor before the court at the shelter care hearing, all witnesses present shall be examined before the court in relation to any matter connected with the allegations made in t…

(705 ILCS 405/3-13) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-13) Sec. 3-13. Medical and dental treatment and care. At all times during temporary custody or shelter care, the court may authorize a physician, a hospital or any other appropriate health care provider to provide medical, dental or surg…

(705 ILCS 405/3-14) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-14) Sec. 3-14. Preliminary conferences. (1) The court may authorize the probation officer to confer in a preliminary conference with any person seeking to file a petition under Section 3-15, the prospective respondents and other interest…

(705 ILCS 405/3-15) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-15) Sec. 3-15. Petition; supplemental petitions. (1) Any adult person, any agency or association by its representative may file, or the court on its own motion may direct the filing through the State's Attorney of a petition in respect t…

(705 ILCS 405/3-16) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-16) Sec. 3-16. Date for adjudicatory hearing. (a) (Blank). (b)(1)(A) When a petition has been filed alleging that the minor requires authoritative intervention, an adjudicatory hearing shall be held within 120 days of a demand made by an…

(705 ILCS 405/3-17) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-17) Sec. 3-17. Summons. (1) When a petition is filed, the clerk of the court shall issue a summons with a copy of the petition attached. The summons shall be directed to the minor's legal guardian or custodian and to each person named as…

(705 ILCS 405/3-18) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-18) Sec. 3-18. Notice by certified mail or publication. (1) If service on individuals as provided in Section 3-17 is not made on any respondent within a reasonable time or if it appears that any respondent resides outside the State, serv…

(705 ILCS 405/3-19) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-19) Sec. 3-19. Guardian ad litem. (1) Immediately upon the filing of a petition alleging that the minor requires authoritative intervention, the court may appoint a guardian ad litem for the minor if: (a) such petition alleges that the m…

(705 ILCS 405/3-2) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-2) Sec. 3-2. (1) Venue under this Article lies in the county where the minor resides or is found. (2) If proceedings are commenced in any county other than that of the minor's residence, the court in which the proceedings were initiated m…

(705 ILCS 405/3-20) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-20) Sec. 3-20. Evidence. At the adjudicatory hearing, the court shall first consider only the question whether the minor is a person requiring authoritative intervention. The standard of proof and the rules of evidence in the nature of c…

(705 ILCS 405/3-21) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-21) Sec. 3-21. Continuance under supervision. (1) The court may enter an order of continuance under supervision (a) upon an admission or stipulation by the appropriate respondent or minor respondent of the facts supporting the petition a…

(705 ILCS 405/3-22) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-22) Sec. 3-22. Findings and adjudication. (1) After hearing the evidence the court shall make and note in the minutes of the proceeding a finding of whether or not the person is a minor requiring authoritative intervention. If it finds t…

(705 ILCS 405/3-23) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-23) Sec. 3-23. Dispositional hearing; evidence; continuance. (1) At the dispositional hearing, the court shall determine whether it is in the best interests of the minor and the public that the minor be made a ward of the court, and, if …

(705 ILCS 405/3-24) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-24) Sec. 3-24. Kinds of dispositional orders. (1) The following kinds of orders of disposition may be made in respect to wards of the court: A minor found to be requiring authoritative intervention under Section 3-3 may be (a) committed …

(705 ILCS 405/3-25) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-25) Sec. 3-25. Protective supervision. If the order of disposition releases the minor to the custody of the minor's parents, guardian or legal custodian, or continues the minor in such custody, the court may place the person having custo…

(705 ILCS 405/3-26) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-26) Sec. 3-26. Order of protection. (1) The court may make an order of protection in assistance of or as a condition of any other order authorized by this Act. The order of protection may set forth reasonable conditions of behavior to be…

(705 ILCS 405/3-27) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-27) Sec. 3-27. Enforcement of orders of protective supervision or of protection. (1) Orders of protective supervision and orders of protection may be enforced by citation to show cause for contempt of court by reason of any violation the…

(705 ILCS 405/3-28) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-28) Sec. 3-28. Placement; legal custody or guardianship. (1) If the court finds that the parents, guardian or legal custodian of a minor adjudged a ward of the court are unfit or are unable, for some reason other than financial circumsta…

(705 ILCS 405/3-29) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-29) Sec. 3-29. Court review. (1) The court may require any legal custodian or guardian of the person appointed under this Act to report periodically to the court or may cite the legal custodian or guardian into court and require the lega…

(705 ILCS 405/3-3) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-3) Sec. 3-3. Minor requiring authoritative intervention. Those requiring authoritative intervention include any minor under 18 years of age (1) who is (a) absent from home without consent of parent, guardian or custodian, or (b) beyond th…

(705 ILCS 405/3-30) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-30) Sec. 3-30. Adoption; appointment of guardian with power to consent. (1) A ward of the court under this Act, with the consent of the court, may be the subject of a petition for adoption under the Adoption Act, or with like consent the…

(705 ILCS 405/3-31) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-31) Sec. 3-31. Notice to putative father; service. 1. Upon the written request to any Clerk of any Circuit Court by any interested party, including persons intending to adopt a child, a child welfare agency with whom the mother has place…

(705 ILCS 405/3-32) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-32) Sec. 3-32. Duration of wardship and discharge of proceedings. (1) All proceedings under this Act in respect to any minor for whom a petition was filed after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1991 automatically terminate up…

(705 ILCS 405/3-33) Sec. 3-33. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98. Repealed by P.A. 94-1011, eff. 7-7-06.)

(705 ILCS 405/3-33.5) Sec. 3-33.5. Truant minors in need of supervision. (a) Definition. A minor who is reported by the office of the regional superintendent of schools as a chronic truant may be subject to a petition for adjudication and adjudged a truant minor in need of superv…

(705 ILCS 405/3-4) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-4) Sec. 3-4. Taking into limited custody. (a) A law enforcement officer may, without a warrant, take into limited custody a minor who the law enforcement officer reasonably determines is (i) absent from home without consent of the minor's…

(705 ILCS 405/3-40) Sec. 3-40. Minors involved in electronic dissemination of indecent visual depictions in need of supervision. (a) For the purposes of this Section: "Computer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 17-0.5 of the Criminal Code of 2012. "Electronic communicati…

(705 ILCS 405/3-5) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-5) Sec. 3-5. Interim crisis intervention services. (a) Any minor who is taken into limited custody, or who independently requests or is referred for assistance, may be provided crisis intervention services by an agency or association, as …

(705 ILCS 405/3-6) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-6) Sec. 3-6. Alternative voluntary residential placement. (a) A minor and the minor's parent, guardian or custodian may agree to an arrangement for alternative voluntary residential placement, in compliance with the Child Care Act of 1969…

(705 ILCS 405/3-7) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-7) Sec. 3-7. Taking into temporary custody. (1) A law enforcement officer may, without a warrant, take into temporary custody a minor (a) whom the officer with reasonable cause believes to be a minor requiring authoritative intervention; …

(705 ILCS 405/3-8) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-8) Sec. 3-8. Duty of officer; admissions by minor. (1) A law enforcement officer who takes a minor into custody with a warrant shall immediately make a reasonable attempt to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the mi…

(705 ILCS 405/3-9) (from Ch. 37, par. 803-9) Sec. 3-9. Temporary custody; shelter care. Any minor taken into temporary custody pursuant to this Act who requires care away from the minor's home but who does not require physical restriction shall be given temporary care in a foster…

(705 ILCS 405/4-1) (from Ch. 37, par. 804-1) Sec. 4-1. Jurisdictional facts. Proceedings may be instituted under the provisions of this Article concerning children who are addicted as defined in Section 4-3. (Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23.)

(705 ILCS 405/4-10) (from Ch. 37, par. 804-10) Sec. 4-10. Medical and dental treatment and care. At all times during temporary custody or shelter care, the court may authorize a physician, a hospital or any other appropriate health care provider to provide medical, dental or surg…

(705 ILCS 405/4-11) (from Ch. 37, par. 804-11) Sec. 4-11. Preliminary conferences. (1) The court may authorize the probation officer to confer in a preliminary conference with any person seeking to file a petition under this Article, the prospective respondents and other interest…

(705 ILCS 405/4-12) (from Ch. 37, par. 804-12) Sec. 4-12. Petition; supplemental petitions. (1) Any adult person, any agency or association by its representative may file, or the court on its own motion may direct the filing through the State's Attorney of a petition in respect t…

(705 ILCS 405/4-13) (from Ch. 37, par. 804-13) Sec. 4-13. Date for adjudicatory hearing. (a) (Blank). (b)(1)(A) When a petition has been filed alleging that the minor is an addict under this Article, an adjudicatory hearing shall be held within 120 days of a demand made by any pa…

(705 ILCS 405/4-14) (from Ch. 37, par. 804-14) Sec. 4-14. Summons. (1) When a petition is filed, the clerk of the court shall issue a summons with a copy of the petition attached. The summons shall be directed to the minor's legal guardian or custodian and to each person named as…

(705 ILCS 405/4-15) (from Ch. 37, par. 804-15) Sec. 4-15. Notice by certified mail or publication. (1) If service on individuals as provided in Section 4-14 is not made on any respondent within a reasonable time or if it appears that any respondent resides outside the State, serv…