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91_HB0727
LRB9101677RCks
1 AN ACT to amend the County Jail Act by changing Section
2 20.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The County Jail Act is amended by changing
6 Section 20 as follows:
7 (730 ILCS 125/20) (from Ch. 75, par. 120)
8 Sec. 20. The cost and expense of keeping, maintaining
9 and furnishing the jail of each county, and of keeping and
10 maintaining the prisoner thereof, except as otherwise
11 provided by law, shall be paid from the county treasury, the
12 account therefor being first settled and allowed by the
13 county board.
14 The county board may require convicted persons confined
15 in its jail to reimburse the county for the expenses incurred
16 by their incarceration to the extent of their ability to pay
17 for such expenses. The warden of the jail shall establish by
18 regulation criteria for a reasonable deduction from money
19 credited to any account of an inmate to defray the costs to
20 the county for an inmate's medical care. The State's Attorney
21 of the county in which such jail is located may, if requested
22 by the County Board, institute civil actions in the circuit
23 court of the county in which the jail is located to recover
24 from such convicted confined persons the expenses incurred by
25 their confinement. The Such funds recovered shall be paid
26 into the county treasury.
27 (Source: P.A. 89-676, eff. 8-14-96.)