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92_HB0215

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning counties.

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

 4        Section  5.   The  Counties  Code  is amended by changing
 5    Section 5-39001 as follows:

 6        (55 ILCS 5/5-39001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-39001)
 7        Sec. 5-39001.  Establishment and  use;  fee.  The  county
 8    board  of  any county may establish and maintain a county law
 9    library, to be located in any county building or privately or
10    publicly owned building at the  county  seat  of  government.
11    The  term  "county  building" includes premises leased by the
12    county from a public building commission  created  under  the
13    Public  Building  Commission  Act.  After August 2, 1976, the
14    county board of any  county  may  establish  and  maintain  a
15    county  law  library at the county seat of government and, in
16    addition, branch law libraries   in  other  locations  within
17    that county as the county board deems necessary.
18        The   facilities  of  those  libraries  shall  be  freely
19    available to all licensed Illinois attorneys, judges,   other
20    public officers of the county, and all members of the public,
21    whenever the court house is open.
22        The   expense   of  establishing  and  maintaining  those
23    libraries shall be borne  by  the  county.   To  defray  that
24    expense,  in  any  county  having  established  a  county law
25    library or libraries, the clerk of all trial  courts  located
26    at  the  county seat of government shall charge and collect a
27    county law library fee  of  $2,  and  the  county  board  may
28    authorize  a county law library fee of not to exceed $25 $10,
29    to be charged and collected by the clerks of all trial courts
30    located in the county.  The fee shall be paid at the time  of
31    filing  the  first pleading, paper, or other appearance filed
 
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 1    by each party in all civil cases, but no additional fee shall
 2    be required if more than one party is represented in a single
 3    pleading, paper, or other appearance.
 4        Each clerk shall commence those charges  and  collections
 5    upon  receipt  of  written  notice  from  the chairman of the
 6    county board that the board has acted under this Division  to
 7    establish and maintain a law library.
 8        The  fees  shall  be  in  addition  to all other fees and
 9    charges of the clerks, assessable as costs, remitted  by  the
10    clerks  monthly  to the county treasurer, and retained by the
11    county treasurer in a special fund designated as  the  County
12    Law  Library  Fund.   Except  as  otherwise  provided in this
13    paragraph, disbursements from the fund shall be by the county
14    treasurer, on order of a majority  of  the  resident  circuit
15    judges of the circuit court of the county. In any county with
16    more than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the county board shall order
17    disbursements  from the fund and the presiding officer of the
18    county board, with the  advice  and  consent  of  the  county
19    board,  may  appoint  a  library committee of not less than 9
20    members, who, by majority vote, may recommend to  the  county
21    board  as  to  disbursements of the fund and the operation of
22    the library.  In single county  circuits  with  2,000,000  or
23    fewer  inhabitants, disbursements from the County Law Library
24    Fund shall be made by the county treasurer on  the  order  of
25    the chief judge of the circuit court of the county.  In those
26    single  county circuits, the number of personnel necessary to
27    operate and maintain the county law library shall be  set  by
28    and  those  personnel  shall be appointed by the chief judge.
29    The county law library personnel shall serve at the  pleasure
30    of the appointing authority.  The salaries of those personnel
31    shall  be  fixed  by  the county board of the county.  Orders
32    shall be pre-audited, funds shall be audited  by  the  county
33    auditor,  and  a  report  of  the  orders  and funds shall be
34    rendered to the county board and to the judges.
 
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 1        Fees  shall  not  be   charged   in   any   criminal   or
 2    quasi-criminal  case,  in  any  matter coming to the clerk on
 3    change of venue, or in any proceeding to review the  decision
 4    of any administrative officer, agency, or body.
 5    (Source: P.A. 90-92, eff. 1-1-98; 90-589, eff. 6-5-98.)

 6        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 7    becoming law.

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