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Sen. Don Harmon
Filed: 4/8/2016
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3162
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3162 on page 4, |
| 3 | | line 19, by changing "$7" to "$9"; and
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| 4 | | on page 7, by inserting immediately below line 12 the |
| 5 | | following:
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| 6 | | "(705 ILCS 105/27.3c) (from Ch. 25, par. 27.3c)
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| 7 | | Sec. 27.3c. Document storage system.
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| 8 | | (a) The expense of establishing and maintaining a document |
| 9 | | storage
system in the offices of the circuit court clerks in |
| 10 | | the several counties
of this State shall be borne by the |
| 11 | | county. To defray the expense in any
county that elects to |
| 12 | | establish a document storage system and convert the
records of |
| 13 | | the circuit court clerk to electronic or micrographic storage,
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| 14 | | the county board may require the clerk of the circuit court in |
| 15 | | its county
to collect a court document fee of not less than $1 |
| 16 | | nor more than $25, to
be charged and collected by the clerk of |
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| 1 | | the court. The fee shall be paid
at the time of filing the |
| 2 | | first pleading, paper, or other appearance filed
by each party |
| 3 | | in all civil cases or by the defendant in any felony,
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| 4 | | misdemeanor, traffic, ordinance, or conservation matter on a |
| 5 | | judgment of
guilty or grant of supervision, provided that the |
| 6 | | document storage system
is in place or has been authorized by |
| 7 | | the county board and further that no
additional fee shall be |
| 8 | | required if more than one party is presented in a
single |
| 9 | | pleading, paper, or other appearance. The fee shall
be |
| 10 | | collected in the manner in which all other fees or costs are
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| 11 | | collected.
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| 12 | | (b) Each clerk shall commence charges and collections of a |
| 13 | | court
document fee upon receipt of written notice from the |
| 14 | | chairman of
the county board together with a certified copy of |
| 15 | | the board's resolution,
which the clerk shall file of record in |
| 16 | | his or her office.
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| 17 | | (c) Court document fees shall be in addition to other fees |
| 18 | | and charges
of the clerk, shall be assessable as costs, and may |
| 19 | | be waived only if the
judge specifically provides for the |
| 20 | | waiver of the court document storage
fee. The fees shall be |
| 21 | | remitted monthly
by the clerk to the county treasurer, to be |
| 22 | | retained by the treasurer in a
special fund designated as the |
| 23 | | Court Document Storage Fund. The fund shall
be audited by the |
| 24 | | county auditor, and the board shall make expenditures
from the |
| 25 | | fund in payment of any costs relative to the storage of court |
| 26 | | records,
including hardware, software, research and |
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| 1 | | development costs, and related
personnel, provided that the |
| 2 | | expenditure is approved by the clerk of the
circuit court.
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| 3 | | (d) A court document fee shall not be charged in any matter |
| 4 | | coming to
the clerk on change of venue or in any proceeding to |
| 5 | | review the
decision of any administrative officer, agency, or |
| 6 | | body.
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| 7 | | (e) The court document fee authorized by this Section may |
| 8 | | not be charged and collected by the clerk of the court on or |
| 9 | | after January 1, 2022. |
| 10 | | (Source: P.A. 98-606, eff. 6-1-14.)".
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