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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2098
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2098 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT in relation to courts."; and
5 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
6 following:
7 "Section 5. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by
8 changing Section 15 as follows:
9 (705 ILCS 105/15) (from Ch. 25, par. 15)
10 Sec. 15. Any clerk who fails to enter of record any
11 order or judgment of his or her court within 45 days after
12 the same is made or rendered, or any clerk having the duty to
13 forward to the Department of Public Health the record of any
14 judgment of dissolution of marriage or declaration of
15 invalidity of marriage, who wilfully fails to do so within 45
16 days after the close of the month in which the same is made
17 or rendered, shall be guilty of a petty offense and shall be
18 fined by the court not exceeding $100, and for any subsequent
19 offense he or she may be fined in a like amount or proceeded
20 against as for a Class A misdemeanor in office and removed
21 from office. In any county of less than 3,000,000 500,000
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1 inhabitants, when it appears to the majority of judges of
2 such court that there are an insufficient number of persons
3 employed in the office of the clerk of the court to properly
4 make the entries in accordance with this Section, the
5 majority of judges of such court shall thereupon determine
6 and fix the number of deputies they find necessary to so
7 properly maintain the records, and their reasonable
8 compensation shall be paid out of the earnings of the office.
9 (Source: P.A. 83-346.)
10 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law.".