Full Text of HB4992 95th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 4-4001 as follows:
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| (55 ILCS 5/4-4001) (from Ch. 34, par. 4-4001)
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| Sec. 4-4001. County Clerks; counties of first and second | 8 |
| class. The fees of the county clerk in counties of the first | 9 |
| and second
class, except when increased by county ordinance | 10 |
| pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, shall be:
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| For each official copy of any process, file, record or | 12 |
| other
instrument of and pertaining to his office, 50˘ for each | 13 |
| 100 words, and
$1 additional for certifying and sealing the | 14 |
| same.
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| For filing any paper not herein otherwise provided for, $1, | 16 |
| except that
no fee shall be charged for filing a Statement of | 17 |
| economic interest pursuant
to the Illinois Governmental Ethics | 18 |
| Act or reports made pursuant to Article
9 of The Election Code.
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| For issuance of fireworks permits, $2.
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| For issuance of liquor licenses, $5.
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| For filing and recording of the appointment and oath of | 22 |
| each public
official, $3.
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| For officially certifying and sealing each copy of any |
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| process, file,
record or other instrument of and pertaining to | 2 |
| his office, $1.
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| For swearing any person to an affidavit, $1.
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| For issuing each license in all matters except where the | 5 |
| fee for the
issuance thereof is otherwise fixed, $4.
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| For issuing each marriage license, the certificate | 7 |
| thereof, and for
recording the same, including the recording of | 8 |
| the parent's or
guardian's consent where indicated, $15.
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| For taking and certifying acknowledgments to any | 10 |
| instrument, except
where herein otherwise provided for, $1.
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| For issuing each certificate of appointment or commission, | 12 |
| the fee
for which is not otherwise fixed by law, $1.
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| For cancelling tax sale and issuing and sealing | 14 |
| certificates of
redemption, $3.
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| For issuing order to county treasurer for redemption of | 16 |
| forfeited
tax, $2.
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| For trying and sealing weights and measures by county | 18 |
| standard,
together with all actual expenses in connection | 19 |
| therewith, $1.
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| For services in case of estrays, $2.
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| The following fees shall be allowed for services attending | 22 |
| the sale
of land for taxes, and shall be charged as costs | 23 |
| against the delinquent
property and be collected with the taxes | 24 |
| thereon:
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| For services in attending the tax sale and issuing | 26 |
| certificate of
sale and sealing the same, for each tract or |
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| town lot sold, $4.
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| For making list of delinquent lands and town lots sold, to | 3 |
| be filed
with the Comptroller, for each tract or town lot sold, | 4 |
| 10˘.
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| The foregoing fees allowed by this Section are the maximum | 6 |
| fees that
may be collected from any officer, agency, department | 7 |
| or other
instrumentality of the State. The county board may, | 8 |
| however, by ordinance,
increase the fees allowed by this | 9 |
| Section and collect such increased fees
from all persons and | 10 |
| entities other than officers, agencies, departments
and other | 11 |
| instrumentalities of the State if the increase is justified by | 12 |
| an
acceptable cost study showing that the fees allowed by this | 13 |
| Section are not
sufficient to cover the cost of providing the | 14 |
| service.
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| A Statement of the costs of providing each service, program
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| and activity shall be prepared by the county board.
All | 17 |
| supporting documents shall be public record and subject to | 18 |
| public
examination and audit. All direct and indirect costs, as | 19 |
| defined in the
United States Office of Management and Budget | 20 |
| Circular A-87, may be
included in the determination of the | 21 |
| costs of each
service, program and activity.
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| The county clerk in all cases may demand and receive the | 23 |
| payment of
all fees for services in advance so far as the same | 24 |
| can be ascertained.
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| The county board of any county of the first or second class | 26 |
| may by
ordinance authorize the county clerk to impose an |
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| additional $2 charge for
certified copies of vital records as | 2 |
| defined in Section 1 of the Vital
Records Act, for the sole | 3 |
| purpose of developing, maintaining, and improving technology | 4 |
| in the office of the County Clerk defraying the cost of | 5 |
| converting the
county clerk's document storage system for vital | 6 |
| records as defined in
Section 1 of the Vital Records Act to | 7 |
| computers or micrographics, and for
maintaining such system .
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| The county board of any county of the first or second class | 9 |
| may by
ordinance authorize the county treasurer to establish a | 10 |
| special fund for
deposit of the additional charge. Moneys in | 11 |
| the special fund shall be used
solely to provide the equipment, | 12 |
| material and necessary expenses incurred
to help defray the | 13 |
| cost of implementing and maintaining such document
storage | 14 |
| system.
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| (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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