93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6291

 

Introduced 02/06/04, by Tom Cross

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/5-101   from Ch. 110, par. 5-101

    Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning security for costs.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT in relation to civil procedure.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5 changing Section 5-101 as follows:
 
6     (735 ILCS 5/5-101)  (from Ch. 110, par. 5-101)
7     Sec. 5-101. Security for costs. In all actions in any court
8 on official bonds for the use of any person, actions on the
9 bonds of executors, administrators or guardians, qui tam
10 actions, actions on a penal statute, and in all civil actions,
11 in which where the plaintiff, or person for whose use an action
12 is to be commenced, is not a resident of this State, the
13 plaintiff, or person for whose use the action is to be
14 commenced, shall, before he or she institutes the such action,
15 file, or cause to be filed, with the clerk of the court in
16 which the action is to be commenced, security for costs,
17 substantially in the following form:
18     A B v. C D - (Title of court.)
19     I, (E.F.) enter myself security for all costs which may
20 accrue in the above entitled action.
21     Dated this .... day of ...., .....
22
(Signed) E.F.
23 (Source: P.A. 83-707.)