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 1        AN ACT concerning fees.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Clerks  of  Courts  Act  is amended by
 5    changing Section 27.3b as follows:

 6        (705 ILCS 105/27.3b) (from Ch. 25, par. 27.3b)
 7        Sec. 27.3b.  The clerk of court  may  accept  payment  of
 8    fines,  penalties,  or  costs  by  credit  card or debit card
 9    approved by the clerk from an offender who has been convicted
10    of or placed on court  supervision  for  a  traffic  offense,
11    petty  offense,  ordinance offense, or misdemeanor or who has
12    been convicted of a felony offense.  The clerk of  the  court
13    may also accept payment of statutory fees by a credit card or
14    debit  card.    The  clerk  of  the court may also accept the
15    credit card or debit card for the cash deposit of  bail  bond
16    fees up to $300.
17        The  clerk  of  the  circuit court is authorized to enter
18    into contracts with  credit  card  or  debit  card  companies
19    approved  by  the  clerk  and  to  negotiate  the  payment of
20    convenience and administrative fees pay those companies  fees
21    normally charged by those companies for allowing the clerk of
22    the circuit court to accept their credit cards or debit cards
23    in  payment  as  authorized  herein. The clerk of the circuit
24    court is authorized to enter into contracts with third  party
25    fund  guarantors,  facilitators,  and service providers under
26    which those entities may contract directly with customers  of
27    the  clerk  of  the circuit court and guarantee and remit the
28    payments to  the  clerk  of  the  circuit  court.  Where  the
29    offender  pays  fines,  penalties, or costs by credit card or
30    debit  card  or  through  a  third  party   fund   guarantor,
31    facilitator,  or service provider, or anyone paying statutory
 
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 1    fees of the circuit court clerk or the posting of cash  bail,
 2    the  clerk  shall  collect  a  service fee of up to $5 or the
 3    amount charged to the clerk for use of its  services  by  the
 4    credit card or debit card issuer, third party fund guarantor,
 5    facilitator,  or service provider.  This service fee shall be
 6    in addition to any other  fines,  penalties,  or  costs.  The
 7    clerk  of  the  circuit  court is authorized to negotiate the
 8    assessment of convenience  and  administrative  fees  by  the
 9    third   party  fund  guarantors,  facilitators,  and  service
10    providers, with the  revenue  earned  by  the  clerk  of  the
11    circuit  court  to  be remitted to the county general revenue
12    fund.
13    (Source: P.A. 91-733, eff. 1-1-01.)