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91_HB3809
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1 AN ACT to amend the Code of Civil Procedure by changing
2 Section 2-101.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
6 changing Section 2-101 as follows:
7 (735 ILCS 5/2-101) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-101)
8 Sec. 2-101. Generally. Except as otherwise provided in
9 this Act, every action must be commenced (1) in the county of
10 residence of any defendant who is joined in good faith and
11 with probable cause for the purpose of obtaining a judgment
12 against him or her and not solely for the purpose of fixing
13 venue in that county, or (2) in the county in which the
14 transaction or some part thereof occurred out of which the
15 cause of action arose.
16 If a check, draft, money order, or other instrument for
17 the payment of child support payable to or delivered to the
18 State Disbursement Unit established under Section 10-26 of
19 the Illinois Public Aid Code is returned by the bank or
20 depository for any reason, venue for the enforcement of any
21 criminal proceedings or civil cause of action for recovery
22 and attorney fees shall be in the county where the principal
23 office of the State Disbursement Unit is located.
24 If all defendants are nonresidents of the State, an
25 action may be commenced in any county.
26 If the corporate limits of a city, village or town extend
27 into more than one county, then the venue of an action or
28 proceeding instituted by that municipality to enforce any
29 fine, imprisonment, penalty or forfeiture for violation of
30 any ordinance of that municipality, regardless of the county
31 in which the violation was committed or occurred, may be in
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1 the appropriate court (i) in the county in which wherein the
2 office of the clerk of the municipality is located or (ii) in
3 any county in which at least 35% of the territory within the
4 municipality's corporate limits is located.
5 (Source: P.A. 91-212, eff. 7-20-99.)