Full Text of SB0995 96th General Assembly
SB0995 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 SB0995
Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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705 ILCS 105/27.3c |
from Ch. 25, par. 27.3c |
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Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Makes a technical change in a Section
concerning fees for the document storage system.
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A BILL FOR
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LRB096 07064 AJO 17150 b |
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| AN ACT concerning courts.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 27.3c as follows:
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| (705 ILCS 105/27.3c) (from Ch. 25, par. 27.3c)
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| Sec. 27.3c. Document storage system.
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| (a) The
The expense of establishing and maintaining a | 9 |
| document storage
system in the offices of the circuit court | 10 |
| clerks in the several counties
of this State shall be borne by | 11 |
| the 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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| 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 $15, to
be charged and collected by the clerk of | 17 |
| the court. The fee shall be paid
at the time of filing the | 18 |
| first pleading, paper, or other appearance filed
by each party | 19 |
| in all civil cases or by the defendant in any felony,
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| misdemeanor, traffic, ordinance, or conservation matter on a | 21 |
| judgment of
guilty or grant of supervision, provided that the | 22 |
| document storage system
is in place or has been authorized by | 23 |
| the county board and further that no
additional fee shall be |
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| required if more than one party is presented in a
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| pleading, paper, or other appearance. The fee shall
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| collected in the manner in which all other fees or costs are
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| collected. | 5 |
| (b) Each clerk shall commence charges and collections of a | 6 |
| court
document fee upon receipt of written notice from the | 7 |
| chairman of
the county board together with a certified copy of | 8 |
| the board's resolution,
which the clerk shall file of record in | 9 |
| his or her office.
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| (c) Court document fees shall be in addition to other fees | 11 |
| and charges
of the clerk, shall be assessable as costs, and may | 12 |
| be waived only if the
judge specifically provides for the | 13 |
| waiver of the court document storage
fee. The fees shall be | 14 |
| remitted monthly
by the clerk to the county treasurer, to be | 15 |
| retained by the treasurer in a
special fund designated as the | 16 |
| Court Document Storage Fund. The fund shall
be audited by the | 17 |
| county auditor, and the board shall make expenditures
from the | 18 |
| fund in payment of any costs relative to the storage of court | 19 |
| records,
including hardware, software, research and | 20 |
| development costs, and related
personnel, provided that the | 21 |
| expenditure is approved by the clerk of the
circuit court.
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| (d) A court document fee shall not be charged in any matter | 23 |
| coming to
the clerk on change of venue or in any proceeding to | 24 |
| review the
decision of any administrative officer, agency, or | 25 |
| body.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-596, eff. 1-1-06.)
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