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Public Act 91-0288
HB0727 Enrolled LRB9101677RCks
AN ACT to amend the County Jail Act by changing Section
20.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The County Jail Act is amended by changing
Section 20 as follows:
(730 ILCS 125/20) (from Ch. 75, par. 120)
Sec. 20. Cost and expense; commissary fund.
(a) The cost and expense of keeping, maintaining and
furnishing the jail of each county, and of keeping and
maintaining the prisoner thereof, except as otherwise
provided by law, shall be paid from the county treasury, the
account therefor being first settled and allowed by the
county board.
The county board may require convicted persons confined
in its jail to reimburse the county for the expenses incurred
by their incarceration to the extent of their ability to pay
for such expenses. The warden of the jail shall establish by
regulation criteria for a reasonable deduction from money
credited to any account of an inmate to defray the costs to
the county for an inmate's medical care. The State's Attorney
of the county in which such jail is located may, if requested
by the County Board, institute civil actions in the circuit
court of the county in which the jail is located to recover
from such convicted confined persons the expenses incurred by
their confinement. The Such funds recovered shall be paid
into the county treasury.
(b) When a prisoner is released from the county jail
after the completion of his or her sentence and has money
credited to his or her account in the commissary fund, the
sheriff or a person acting on the authority of the sheriff
must mail a check in the amount credited to the prisoner's
account to the prisoner's last known address. If after 30
days from the date of mailing of the check, the check is
returned undelivered, the sheriff must transmit the amount of
the check to the county treasurer for deposit into the
commissary fund. Nothing in this subsection (b) constitutes
a forfeiture of the prisoner's right to claim the money
accredited to his or her account after the 30-day period.
(Source: P.A. 89-676, eff. 8-14-96.)
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