94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB2969

 

Introduced 1/20/2006, by Sen. J. Bradley Burzynski

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 205/3   from Ch. 116, par. 43.103

    Amends the Local Records Act. Includes video recordings within the definition of "public record".


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended by changing
5 Section 3 as follows:
 
6     (50 ILCS 205/3)  (from Ch. 116, par. 43.103)
7     Sec. 3. Except where the context indicates otherwise, the
8 terms used in this Act are defined as follows:
9     "Agency" means any court, and all parts, boards,
10 departments, bureaus and commissions of any county, municipal
11 corporation or political subdivision.
12     "Archivist" means the Secretary of State.
13     "Commission" means a Local Records Commission.
14     "Court" means a court, other than the Supreme Court.
15     "Officer" means any elected or appointed official of a
16 court, county, municipal corporation or political subdivision.
17     "Public record" means any book, paper, map, photograph,
18 video recording, digitized electronic material, or other
19 official documentary material, regardless of physical form or
20 characteristics, made, produced, executed or received by any
21 agency or officer pursuant to law or in connection with the
22 transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for
23 preservation by such agency or officer, or any successor
24 thereof, as evidence of the organization, function, policies,
25 decisions, procedures, or other activities thereof, or because
26 of the informational data contained therein. Library and museum
27 material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or
28 exhibition purposes, extra copies of documents preserved only
29 for convenience of reference, and stocks of publications and of
30 processed documents are not included within the definition of
31 public record.
32 (Source: P.A. 89-272, eff. 8-10-95.)