HB1041sam001 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Don Harmon

Filed: 5/11/2004

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1041

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1041 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Uniform Commercial Code is amended by changing Section 9-525 as follows:

(810 ILCS 5/9-525)

Sec. 9-525. Fees.

(a) Initial financing statement or other record: general rule. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), the fee for filing and indexing a record under this Part, other than an initial financing statement of the kind described in subsection (b), is:

(1) $20 if the record is communicated in writing and consists of one or two pages;

(2) $20 if the record is communicated in writing and consists of more than two pages; and

(3) $20 if the record is communicated by another medium authorized by filing-office rule.

(b) Initial financing statement: public-finance and manufactured-housing transactions. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), the fee for filing and indexing an initial financing statement of the following kind is:

(1) $20 if the financing statement indicates that it is filed in connection with a public-finance transaction;

(2) $20 if the financing statement indicates that it is filed in connection with a manufactured-home transaction.

(c) Number of names. The number of names required to be indexed does not affect the amount of the fee in subsections (a) and (b).

(d) Response to information request. The fee for responding to a request for information from the filing office, including for issuing a certificate showing communicating whether there is on file any financing statement naming a particular debtor, is:

(1) $10 if the request is communicated in writing; and

(2) $10 if the request is communicated by another medium authorized by filing-office rule.

(e) Record of mortgage. This Section does not require a fee with respect to a record of a mortgage which is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut under Section 9-502(c). However, the recording and satisfaction fees that otherwise would be applicable to the record of the mortgage apply.

(f) Of the total money collected for each filing with the Secretary of State of an original financing statement, amended statement, continuation, or assignment, or for a release of collateral, $12 of the filing fee shall be paid into the Secretary of State Special Services Fund. The remaining $8 shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund in the State treasury.

(Source: P.A. 91-893, eff. 7-1-01.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on July 1, 2004.".