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      55 ILCS 5/5-39001         from Ch. 34, par. 5-39001
          Amends the Counties Code.  Provides that in a county with
      more than 2,000,000 (now 1,000,000) inhabitants,  the  county
      board  shall  order disbursements from the County Law Library
      Fund.  Provides that in single county circuits with 2,000,000
      or fewer inhabitants, disbursements shall be  made  from  the
      Fund  on the order of the chief judge of the circuit court of
      the county.  Provides that in those  single  county  circuits
      the number of personnel necessary to operate and maintain the
      county  law library shall be set by and those personnel shall
      be appointed by the chief judge.  Provides that  law  library
      personnel  shall  serve  at  the  pleasure  of the appointing
      authority.   Provides  that  the  salaries  of  law   library
      personnel  shall  be  fixed  by  the county board.  Effective
      immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Counties  Code  by  changing  Section
 2    5-39001.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Counties Code  is  amended  by  changing
 6    Section 5-39001 as follows:
 7        (55 ILCS 5/5-39001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-39001)
 8        Sec.  5-39001.   Establishment  and  use; fee. The county
 9    board of any county may establish and maintain a  county  law
10    library, to be located in any county building or privately or
11    publicly  owned  building  at  the county seat of government.
12    The term "county building" includes premises  leased  by  the
13    county  from  a  public building commission created under the
14    Public Building Commission Act. After  August  2,  1976,  the
15    county  board  of  any  county  may  establish and maintain a
16    county law library at the county seat of government  and,  in
17    addition,  branch  law  libraries   in other locations within
18    that county as the county board deems necessary.
19        The  facilities  of  those  libraries  shall  be   freely
20    available  to all licensed Illinois attorneys, judges,  other
21    public officers of the county, and all members of the public,
22    whenever the court house is open.
23        The  expense  of  establishing  and   maintaining   those
24    libraries  shall  be  borne  by  the  county.  To defray that
25    expense, in  any  county  having  established  a  county  law
26    library  or  libraries, the clerk of all trial courts located
27    at the county seat of government shall charge and  collect  a
28    county  law  library  fee  of  $2,  and  the county board may
29    authorize a county law library fee of not to exceed  $10,  to
30    be  charged  and  collected by the clerks of all trial courts
31    located in the county.  The fee shall be paid at the time  of
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 1    filing  the  first pleading, paper, or other appearance filed
 2    by each party in all civil cases, but no additional fee shall
 3    be required if more than one party is represented in a single
 4    pleading, paper, or other appearance.
 5        Each clerk shall commence those charges  and  collections
 6    upon  receipt  of  written  notice  from  the chairman of the
 7    county board that the board has acted under this Division  to
 8    establish and maintain a law library.
 9        The  fees  shall  be  in  addition  to all other fees and
10    charges of the clerks, assessable as costs, remitted  by  the
11    clerks  monthly  to the county treasurer, and retained by the
12    county treasurer in a special fund designated as  the  County
13    Law  Library  Fund.   Except  as  otherwise  provided in this
14    paragraph, disbursements from the fund shall be by the county
15    treasurer, on order of a majority  of  the  resident  circuit
16    judges  of  the  circuit court of the county., except that In
17    any county with having a population of  more  than  2,000,000
18    1,000,000   inhabitants,   the   county   board  shall  order
19    disbursements from the fund and the presiding officer of  the
20    county  board,  with  the  advice  and  consent of the county
21    board, may appoint a library committee of  not  less  than  9
22    members,  who,  by majority vote, may recommend to the county
23    board as to disbursements of the fund and  the  operation  of
24    the  library.   In  single  county circuits with 2,000,000 or
25    fewer inhabitants, disbursements from the County Law  Library
26    Fund  shall  be  made by the county treasurer on the order of
27    the chief judge of the circuit court of the county.  In those
28    single county circuits, the number of personnel necessary  to
29    operate  and  maintain the county law library shall be set by
30    and those personnel shall be appointed by  the  chief  judge.
31    The  county law library personnel shall serve at the pleasure
32    of the appointing authority.  The salaries of those personnel
33    shall be fixed by the county board of  the  county.    Orders
34    shall  be  pre-audited,  funds shall be audited by the county
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 1    auditor, and a report  of  the  orders  and  funds  shall  be
 2    rendered to the county board and to the judges.
 3        Fees   shall   not   be   charged   in  any  criminal  or
 4    quasi-criminal case, in any matter coming  to  the  clerk  on
 5    change  of venue, or in any proceeding to review the decision
 6    of any administrative officer, agency, or body.
 7    (Source: P.A. 90-92, eff. 1-1-98.)
 8        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 9    becoming law.

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