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Ill. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 17.49A

Definition Of Telecommunications Device

activein force · 2026-09-10 – presentas-observed

The term

“telecommunications device” means a device which is portable or which may

be installed in a motor vehicle, boat, or other means of transportation, and which is capable of

receiving or transmitting speech, data, signals, or other information, including but not limited to

paging devices, cellular and mobile telephones, and radio transceivers, transmitters, and

receivers, but not including radios designed to receive only standard AM and FM broadcasts.

Committ

ee Note

720 ILCS

5/44- 1 (West, 1999) (formerly Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 38, §44- 1 (1991)), added by

P.A. 86-811, effective January 1, 1990.

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