Public Act 095-0837
 		





HB4992 Enrolled
LRB095 18646 HLH 44733 b






    AN ACT concerning local government.

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


 
    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended  by changing Section 
4-4001 as follows:
 



    (55 ILCS 5/4-4001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 4-4001)



    Sec. 4-4001. County Clerks; counties of first and second 
class. The fees of the county clerk in counties of the first 
and second
class, except when increased by county ordinance 
pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, shall be:

    For each official copy of any process, file, record or 
other
instrument of and pertaining to his office, 50¢ for each 
100 words, and
$1 additional for certifying and sealing the 
same.

    For filing any paper not herein otherwise provided for, $1, 
except that
no fee shall be charged for filing a Statement of 
economic interest pursuant
to the Illinois Governmental Ethics 
Act or reports made pursuant to Article
9 of The Election Code.

    For issuance of fireworks permits, $2.

    For issuance of liquor licenses, $5.

    For filing and recording of the appointment and oath of 
each public
official, $3.

    For officially certifying and sealing each copy of any 
process, file,
record or other instrument of and pertaining to 
his office, $1.

    For swearing any person to an affidavit, $1.

    For issuing each license in all matters except where the 
fee for the
issuance thereof is otherwise fixed, $4.

    For issuing each marriage license, the certificate 
thereof, and for
recording the same, including the recording of 
the parent's or
guardian's consent where indicated, $15.

    For taking and certifying acknowledgments to any 
instrument, except
where herein otherwise provided for, $1.

    For issuing each certificate of appointment or commission, 
the fee
for which is not otherwise fixed by law, $1.

    For cancelling tax sale and issuing and sealing 
certificates of
redemption, $3.

    For issuing order to county treasurer for redemption of 
forfeited
tax, $2.

    For trying and sealing weights and measures by county 
standard,
together with all actual expenses in connection 
therewith, $1.

    For services in case of estrays, $2.

    The following fees shall be allowed for services attending 
the sale
of land for taxes, and shall be charged as costs 
against the delinquent
property and be collected with the taxes 
thereon:

    For services in attending the tax sale and issuing 
certificate of
sale and sealing the same, for each tract or 
town lot sold, $4.

    For making list of delinquent lands and town lots sold, to 
be filed
with the Comptroller, for each tract or town lot sold, 
10¢.

    The foregoing fees allowed by this Section are the maximum 
fees that
may be collected from any officer, agency, department 
or other
instrumentality of the State.  The county board may, 
however, by ordinance,
increase the fees allowed by this 
Section and collect such increased fees
from all persons and 
entities other than officers, agencies, departments
and other 
instrumentalities of the State if the increase is justified by 
an
acceptable cost study showing that the fees allowed by this 
Section are not
sufficient to cover the cost of providing the 
service.

    A Statement of the costs of providing each service, program

and activity shall be prepared by the county board.
All 
supporting documents shall be public record and subject to 
public
examination and audit.  All direct and indirect costs, as 
defined in the
United States Office of Management and Budget 
Circular A-87, may be
included in the determination of the 
costs of each
service, program and activity.

    The county clerk in all cases may demand and receive the 
payment of
all fees for services in advance so far as the same 
can be ascertained.

    The county board of any county of the first or second class 
may by
ordinance authorize the county clerk to impose an 
additional $2 charge for
certified copies of vital records as 
defined in Section 1 of the Vital
Records Act, for the sole 
purpose of developing, maintaining, and improving technology 
in the office of the County Clerk defraying the cost of 
converting the
county clerk's document storage system for vital 
records as defined in
Section 1 of the Vital Records Act to 
computers or micrographics, and for
maintaining such system.

    The county board of any county of the first or second class 
may by
ordinance authorize the county treasurer to establish a 
special fund for
deposit of the additional charge.  Moneys in 
the special fund shall be used
solely to provide the equipment, 
material and necessary expenses incurred
to help defray the 
cost of implementing and maintaining such document
storage 
system.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)