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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing 
5Section 3-2007 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/3-2007)  (from Ch. 34, par. 3-2007)
7    Sec. 3-2007. Office quarters and hours; violation.  
8    (a) The county clerk shall keep the clerk's office at the 
9court house of the county, or at such other place as may be 
10provided for the clerk by the authorities of such county seat 
11and shall keep the office open and attend to the duties 
12thereof:
13        (1) (a) In counties of 500,000 or more population from 
14    9 a. m. to 5 p. m. of each working day except Saturday 
15    afternoons and legal holidays, but the clerk may open the 
16    office at 8 a. m. on each working day:
17        (2) (b) In counties of less than 500,000 population 
18    from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. of each working day except 
19    Saturdays and legal holidays, but in such counties the 
20    office shall remain open until noon the Saturday before 
21    general, primary or special election days.
22    Except as otherwise required under subsection (b), all 
23county clerk's offices must be closed for all legal holidays. 
 
 
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1The Provided, that the days on which the county clerk's such 
2office shall be open and the hours of opening and closing of 
3the office of the county clerk, except for any day that is a 
4legal holiday, may be changed and otherwise fixed and 
5determined by the county board of any county. Any such action 
6taken by the county board shall be by an appropriate 
7resolution passed at a regular meeting.
8    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, 
9when any election is held and the results of such election are 
10required by law to be returned to the county clerk, the office 
11of the county clerk shall remain open for the purpose of 
12receiving such results from the time of opening of the polls 
13until the returns from each precinct have been received.
14    (c) Any county clerk who fails to keep the clerk's office 
15open for the purpose of receiving election returns as required 
16by this Section commits a business offense, and shall be fined 
17not less than $500 nor more than $5,000.
18(Source: P.A. 101-253, eff. 8-9-19.)