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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 Local Records Act is amended  by changing 
5Section 3 as follows:
 



6    (50 ILCS 205/3)  (from Ch. 116, par. 43.103)



7    Sec. 3. 
Except where the context indicates otherwise, the 
8terms used in
this Act are defined as follows:

9    "Agency" means any court, and all parts, boards, 
10departments, bureaus
and commissions of any county, municipal 
11corporation or political
subdivision.

12    "Archivist" means the Secretary of State.

13    "Commission" means a Local Records Commission.

14    "Court" means a court, other than the Supreme Court.

15    "Officer" means any elected or appointed official of a 
16court, county,
municipal corporation or political subdivision.

17    "Public record" means any book, paper, map, photograph, 
18digitized
electronic material, or other official documentary 
19material, regardless of
physical form or
characteristics, 
20made, produced, executed or received by any agency or
officer 
21pursuant to law or in connection with the transaction of public

22business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by such 
23agency or
officer, or any successor thereof, as evidence of the 
 
 
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1organization,
function, policies, decisions, procedures, or 
2other activities thereof, or
because of the informational data 
3contained therein. Library and museum
material made or acquired 
4and preserved solely for reference or exhibition
purposes, 
5extra copies of documents preserved only for convenience of

6reference, and stocks of publications and of processed 
7documents are not
included within the definition of public 
8record. Paper copies of registration records, as defined in 
9Section 1 of the Library Records Confidentiality Act (75 ILCS 
1070/1), shall not be considered public records once the 
11information contained in the paper registration records is 
12transferred into a secure electronic format and checked for 
13accuracy. 

14(Source: P.A. 89-272, eff. 8-10-95.)

 
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
16becoming law.