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1    AN ACT concerning courts.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Circuit Court Clerk Regulation Act is
5amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (705 ILCS 110/1)  (from Ch. 37, par. 328)
7    Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any clerk or deputy clerk
8of a circuit court to prepare or draft any document which is to
9be filed or recorded in the court in which he or she is clerk
10or deputy clerk, except such documents as such clerks are by
11statute or supreme court order law required, or by some
12statute authorized to draft or prepare; and that it shall be
13unlawful for any such clerk or deputy clerk to act as an
14administrator, executor or guardian, or to act as a trustee by
15appointment (of any court of which he or she is clerk or deputy
16clerk) or of the last will of any person who is not a family
17member of the clerk or deputy clerk.
18    For purposes of this Section, "family member" shall mean a
19spouse; child, natural or adopted; parent; brother; or sister
20of the clerk or deputy clerk.
21(Source: P.A. 87-713.)