96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1611

 

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Patrick J Verschoore

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/3-4007   from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the compensation to be paid to the Public Defender.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5 3-4007 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/3-4007)  (from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007)
7     Sec. 3-4007. Compensation.
8     (a) The The public defender shall be paid out of the county
9 treasury, and the State treasury as provided in subsection (b),
10 as the sole compensation for his or her services a salary in an
11 amount fixed by the County Board. When a Public Defender in a
12 county of 30,000 or more population is receiving not less than
13 90% of the compensation of the State's Attorney of such county,
14 that Public Defender shall not engage in the private practice
15 of law.
16     (b) The State treasury must pay 66 2/3% of the public
17 defender's annual salary. If the public defender is employed
18 full-time in that capacity, his or her salary must be at least
19 90% of that county's State's attorney's annual compensation.
20 These amounts furnished by the State shall be payable monthly
21 from the State treasury to the county in which each Public
22 Defender is employed.
23     (c) In cases where 2 or more adjoining counties have joined

 

 

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1 to form a common office of Public Defender, the salary of the
2 Public Defender shall be set and paid as provided by a joint
3 resolution of the various county boards involved.
4 (Source: P.A. 92-508, eff. 7-1-02.)