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HB0298 Enrolled                      LRB093 02178 LCB 02185 b

 1        AN ACT concerning vehicles.

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

 4        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Vehicle  Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 4-214.1 as follows:

 6        (625 ILCS 5/4-214.1)
 7        Sec.  4-214.1.  Failure  to pay fines, charges, and costs
 8    on an abandoned vehicle.
 9        (a)  Whenever any resident of this State fails to pay any
10    fine, charge, or cost imposed  for  a  violation  of  Section
11    4-201  of  this  Code,  or  a  similar  provision  of a local
12    ordinance, the clerk may notify the Secretary of State, on  a
13    report  prescribed  by the Secretary, and the Secretary shall
14    prohibit  the  renewal,  reissue,  or  reinstatement  of  the
15    resident's driving privileges until the fine, charge, or cost
16    has been paid in full.  The clerk shall provide notice to the
17    owner driver, at the owner's driver's last known  address  as
18    shown on the court's records, stating that the action will be
19    effective  on  the  46th  day following the date of the above
20    notice if payment is not received in full  by  the  court  of
21    venue.
22        (b)  Following  receipt of the report from the clerk, the
23    Secretary of State shall make  the  proper  notation  to  the
24    owner's  driver's  file  to prohibit the renewal, reissue, or
25    reinstatement of the  owner's  driver's  driving  privileges.
26    Except  as  provided  in  subsection (d) of this Section, the
27    notation shall not  be  removed  from  the  owner's  driver's
28    record until the owner driver satisfies the outstanding fine,
29    charge,   or  cost  and  an  appropriate  notice  on  a  form
30    prescribed by the Secretary is received by the Secretary from
31    the court of venue, stating that the fine,  charge,  or  cost
 
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 1    has  been  paid  in  full.  Upon  payment  in full of a fine,
 2    charge, or court cost  which  has  previously  been  reported
 3    under  this  Section  as unpaid, the clerk of the court shall
 4    present the owner driver with a signed receipt containing the
 5    seal of the court indicating that the fine, charge,  or  cost
 6    has  been  paid in full, and shall forward immediately to the
 7    Secretary of State a notice stating that the fine, charge, or
 8    cost has been paid in full.
 9        (c)  Notwithstanding the receipt of  a  report  from  the
10    clerk  as  prescribed  in  subsection  (a),  nothing  in this
11    Section is intended to  place  any  responsibility  upon  the
12    Secretary of State to provide independent notice to the owner
13    driver  of  any  potential  action  to  disallow the renewal,
14    reissue, or reinstatement of  the  owner's  driver's  driving
15    privileges.
16        (d)  The  Secretary  of  State  shall  renew, reissue, or
17    reinstate an owner's a driver's driving privileges which were
18    previously refused under this Section upon presentation of an
19    original receipt which is signed by the clerk  of  the  court
20    and  contains the seal of the court indicating that the fine,
21    charge, or cost has been paid  in  full.   The  Secretary  of
22    State shall retain the receipt for his or her records.
23    (Source: P.A. 92-654, eff. 1-1-03.)