Public Act 094-0596
 		





SB1444 Enrolled
LRB094 09120 LCB 39350 b






    AN ACT concerning courts.

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

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



    (705 ILCS 105/27.3c)  (from Ch. 25, par. 27.3c)



    Sec. 27.3c. Document storage system. 

    (a) The expense of establishing and maintaining a document 
storage
system in the offices of the circuit court clerks in 
the several counties
of this State shall be borne by the 
county.  To defray the expense in any
county that elects to 
establish a document storage system and convert the
records of 
the circuit court clerk to electronic or micrographic storage,

the county board may require the clerk of the circuit court in 
its county
to collect a court document fee of not less than $1 
nor more than $15
$5, to
be charged and collected by the clerk 
of the court.  The 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,

misdemeanor, traffic, ordinance, or conservation matter on a 
judgment of
guilty or grant of supervision, provided that the 
document storage system
is in place or has been authorized by 
the county board and further that no
additional fee shall be 
required if more than one party is presented in a
single 
pleading, paper, or other appearance.  The fee shall
be 
collected in the manner in which all other fees or costs are

collected.  The court document fee provided in this subsection 
(a) shall
not apply to any petty offense moving violation 
written by a municipal
police department in counties having a 
population of more than 650,000 but
less than 3,000,000 
inhabitants whether written under the Illinois Vehicle
Code or 
under any municipal ordinance.

    (b) Each clerk shall commence charges and collections of a 
court
document fee 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 or her office.

    (c) Court document fees shall be in addition to other fees 
and charges
of the clerk, shall be assessable as costs, and may 
be waived only if the
judge specifically provides for the 
waiver of the court document storage
fee. The fees shall be 
remitted monthly
by the clerk to the county treasurer, to be 
retained by the treasurer in a
special fund designated as the 
Court Document Storage Fund.  The fund shall
be audited by the 
county auditor, and the board shall make expenditures
from the 
fund in payment of any costs relative to the storage of court 
records,
including hardware, software, research and 
development costs, and related
personnel, provided that the 
expenditure is approved by the clerk of the
circuit court.

    (d) A court document fee shall not be charged in any matter 
coming to
the clerk on change of venue or in any proceeding to 
review the
decision of any administrative officer, agency, or 
body.

(Source: P.A. 86-1386; 87-670.)





Effective Date:  1/1/2006