(55 ILCS 40/5) (from Ch. 33, par. 33)
Sec. 5.
Any clerk or sheriff, who shall refuse or neglect to
pay over the fees enumerated in Section 1 of
this Act, shall be guilty of a petty offense or business offense
and shall be fined in a sum of twice the amount of the fees so retained and
not reported. Nothing contained in this section shall be
construed to release such clerk or sheriff, or his or her sureties, from any civil
action on his or her official bond.
(Source: P.A. 83-348.)
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