96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2529

 

Introduced 1/12/2010, by Sen. Gary Forby

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/4-7001   from Ch. 34, par. 4-7001

    Amends the Counties Code. In a Section concerning coroner's fees, increases the fee for autopsy reports, cremation permits, transcripts, toxicology reports, and miscellaneous reports. Provides that a coroner may waive the permit fee to cremate a dead human body if the coroner determines that the person is indigent and unable to pay the permit fee or under other special circumstances. Provides that the fee for an electronic file containing a picture obtained by the coroner shall be the actual cost or $3.00, whichever is greater. Effective immediately.


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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
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 Section
5 4-7001 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/4-7001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 4-7001)
7     Sec. 4-7001. Coroner's fees. The fees of the coroner's
8 office shall be as follows:
9     1. For a copy of a transcript of sworn testimony: $5.00
10 $3.00 per page.
11     2. For a copy of an autopsy report (if not included in
12 transcript): $50.00 $30.00.
13     3. For a copy of the verdict of a coroner's jury: $5.00.
14     4. For a copy of a toxicology report: $25.00 $15.00.
15     5. For a print of or an electronic file containing a
16 picture obtained by the coroner: actual cost or $3.00,
17 whichever is greater.
18     6. For each copy of miscellaneous reports, including
19 artist's drawings but not including police reports: actual cost
20 or $25.00 $15.00, whichever is greater.
21     7. For a coroner's or medical examiner's permit to cremate
22 a dead human body: $50.00 $10.00. The coroner may waive, at his
23 or her discretion, the permit fee if the coroner determines

 

 

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1 that the person is indigent and unable to pay the permit fee or
2 under other special circumstances.
3     All of which fees shall be certified by the court; in the
4 case of inmates of any State charitable or penal institution,
5 the fees shall be paid by the operating department or
6 commission, out of the State Treasury. The coroner shall file
7 his or her claim in probate for his or her fees and he or she
8 shall render assistance to the State's attorney in the
9 collection of such fees out of the estate of the deceased. In
10 counties of less than 1,000,000 population, the State's
11 attorney shall collect such fees out of the estate of the
12 deceased.
13     Except as otherwise provided in this Section, whenever the
14 coroner is required by law to perform any of the duties of the
15 office of the sheriff, the coroner is entitled to the like fees
16 and compensation as are allowed by law to the sheriff for the
17 performance of similar services.
18     Except as otherwise provided in this Section, whenever the
19 coroner of any county is required to travel in the performance
20 of his or her duties, he or she shall receive the same mileage
21 fees as are authorized for the sheriff of such county.
22     All fees under this Section collected by or on behalf of
23 the coroner's office shall be paid over to the county treasurer
24 and deposited into the general fund of the county.
25 (Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)
 
26     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1 becoming law.