Public Act 097-0046
 
SB1703 EnrolledLRB097 05499 RLC 45559 b

    AN ACT concerning fees.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Sections 5.786 and 6z-87 as follows:
 
    (30 ILCS 105/5.786 new)
    Sec. 5.786. The Conservation Police Operations Assistance
Fund.
 
    (30 ILCS 105/6z-87 new)
    Sec. 6z-87. Conservation Police Operations Assistance
Fund.
    (a) There is created in the State treasury a special fund
known as the Conservation Police Operations Assistance Fund.
The Fund shall receive revenue pursuant to Section 27.3a of the
Clerks of Courts Act. The Fund may also receive revenue from
grants, donations, appropriations, and any other legal source.
    (b) The Department of Natural Resources may use moneys in
the Fund to support any lawful operations of the Illinois
Conservation Police.
    (c) Expenditures may be made from the Fund only as
appropriated by the General Assembly by law.
    (d) Investment income that is attributable to the
investment of moneys in the Fund shall be retained in the Fund
for the uses specified in this Section.
    (e) The Conservation Police Operations Assistance Fund
shall not be subject to administrative chargebacks.
 
    Section 10. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by changing
Section 27.3a as follows:
 
    (705 ILCS 105/27.3a)  (from Ch. 25, par. 27.3a)
    Sec. 27.3a. Fees for automated record keeping and State and
Conservation Police operations.
    1. The expense of establishing and maintaining automated
record keeping systems in the offices of the clerks of the
circuit court shall be borne by the county. To defray such
expense in any county having established such an automated
system or which elects to establish such a system, the county
board may require the clerk of the circuit court in their
county to charge and collect a court automation fee of not less
than $1 nor more than $15 to be charged and collected by the
clerk of the court. Such fee shall be paid at the time of
filing the first pleading, paper or other appearance filed by
each party in all civil cases or by the defendant in any
felony, traffic, misdemeanor, municipal ordinance, or
conservation case upon a judgment of guilty or grant of
supervision, provided that the record keeping system which
processes the case category for which the fee is charged is
automated or has been approved for automation by the county
board, and provided further that no additional fee shall be
required if more than one party is presented in a single
pleading, paper or other appearance. Such fee shall be
collected in the manner in which all other fees or costs are
collected.
    1.5. Starting on the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly, a clerk of the circuit court in
any county that imposes a fee pursuant to subsection 1 of this
Section, shall charge and collect an additional fee in an
amount equal to the amount of the fee imposed pursuant to
subsection 1 of this Section. This additional fee shall be paid
by the defendant in any felony, traffic, misdemeanor, or local
ordinance, or conservation case upon a judgment of guilty or
grant of supervision. This fee shall not be paid by the
defendant for any conservation violation listed in subsection
1.6 of this Section.
    1.6. Starting on the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 97th General Assembly, a clerk of the circuit court in
any county that imposes a fee pursuant to subsection 1 of this
Section shall charge and collect an additional fee in an amount
equal to the amount of the fee imposed pursuant to subsection 1
of this Section. This additional fee shall be paid by the
defendant upon a judgment of guilty or grant of supervision for
a conservation violation under the State Parks Act, the
Recreational Trails of Illinois Act, the Illinois Explosives
Act, the Timber Buyers Licensing Act, the Forest Products
Transportation Act, the Firearm Owners Identification Card
Act, the Environmental Protection Act, the Fish and Aquatic
Life Code, the Wildlife Code, the Cave Protection Act, the
Illinois Exotic Weed Act, the Illinois Forestry Development
Act, the Ginseng Harvesting Act, the Illinois Lake Management
Program Act, the Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act, the
Illinois Open Land Trust Act, the Open Space Lands Acquisition
and Development Act, the Illinois Prescribed Burning Act, the
State Forest Act, the Water Use Act of 1983, the Illinois Youth
and Young Adult Employment Act of 1986, the Snowmobile
Registration and Safety Act, the Boat Registration and Safety
Act, the Illinois Dangerous Animals Act, the Hunter and
Fishermen Interference Prohibition Act, the Wrongful Tree
Cutting Act, or Section 11-1426.1, 11-1426.2, 11-1427,
11-1427.1, 11-1427.2, 11-1427.3, 11-1427.4, or 11-1427.5 of
the Illinois Vehicle Code.
    2. With respect to the fee imposed under subsection 1 of
this Section, each clerk shall commence such charges and
collections upon receipt of written notice from the chairman of
the county board together with a certified copy of the board's
resolution, which the clerk shall file of record in his office.
    3. With respect to the fee imposed under subsection 1 of
this Section, such fees shall be in addition to all other fees
and charges of such clerks, and assessable as costs, and may be
waived only if the judge specifically provides for the waiver
of the court automation fee. The fees shall be remitted monthly
by such clerk to the county treasurer, to be retained by him in
a special fund designated as the court automation fund. The
fund shall be audited by the county auditor, and the board
shall make expenditure from the fund in payment of any cost
related to the automation of court records, including hardware,
software, research and development costs and personnel related
thereto, provided that the expenditure is approved by the clerk
of the court and by the chief judge of the circuit court or his
designate.
    4. With respect to the fee imposed under subsection 1 of
this Section, such fees shall not be charged in any matter
coming to any such clerk on change of venue, nor in any
proceeding to review the decision of any administrative
officer, agency or body.
    5. With respect to the additional fee imposed under
subsection 1.5 of this Section, the fee shall be remitted by
the circuit clerk to the State Treasurer within one month after
receipt for deposit into the State Police Operations Assistance
Fund.
    6. With respect to the additional fee imposed under
subsection 1.6 of this Section, the fee shall be remitted by
the circuit clerk to the State Treasurer within one month after
receipt for deposit into the Conservation Police Operations
Assistance Fund.
(Source: P.A. 96-1029, eff. 7-13-10.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2012.