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 1        AN ACT in relation to archives.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Secretary of  State  Act  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 5.5 as follows:

 6        (15 ILCS 305/5.5)
 7        Sec.  5.5.  Secretary  of State fees. There shall be paid
 8    to the Secretary of State the following fees:
 9        For certificate or apostille, with seal: $2.
10        For each certificate, without seal: $1.
11        For each  commission  to  any  officer  or  other  person
12    (except military commissions), with seal: $2.
13        For  copies  of  exemplifications  of  records,  or for a
14    certified copy of any document, instrument, or paper when not
15    otherwise provided by law, and it does not exceed legal size:
16    $0.50 per page or any portion  of a  page;  and  $2  for  the
17    certificate, with seal affixed.
18        For  copies of exemplifications of records or a certified
19    copy  of  any  document,  instrument,  or  paper,  when   not
20    otherwise  provided  for  by law, that exceeds legal size: $1
21    per  page  or  any  portion  of  a  page;  and  $2  for   the
22    certificate, with seal affixed.
23        For  copies  of  bills or other papers: $0.50 per page or
24    any portion of a page; and $2 for the certificate, with  seal
25    affixed,  except  that there shall be no charge for making or
26    certifying copies that  are  furnished  to  any  governmental
27    agency for official use.
28        For  recording  a  duplicate  of an affidavit showing the
29    appointment of trustees of a  religious  corporation:  $0.50;
30    and $2 for the certificate of recording, with seal affixed.
31        For  filing  and  recording an application under the Soil
 
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 1    Conservation  Districts  Law  and  making   and   issuing   a
 2    certificate for the application, under seal: $10.
 3        For  recording  any  other document, instrument, or paper
 4    required or permitted to be recorded with  the  Secretary  of
 5    State,   which  recording  shall  be  done  by  any  approved
 6    photographic or  photostatic  process,  if  the  page  to  be
 7    recorded  does not exceed legal size and the fees and charges
 8    therefor are not otherwise fixed by law: $0.50  per  page  or
 9    any  portion  of  a  page;  and  $2  for  the  certificate of
10    recording, with seal affixed.
11        For recording any other document,  instrument,  or  paper
12    required  or  permitted  to be recorded with the Secretary of
13    State,  which  recording  shall  be  done  by  any   approved
14    photographic  or  photostatic  process,  if  the  page  to be
15    recorded exceeds legal size and the fees and charges therefor
16    are not otherwise fixed by law: $1 per page or any portion of
17    a page; and $2 for the certificate of recording  attached  to
18    the original, with seal affixed.
19        For  each  duplicate  certified  copy  of  a  school land
20    patent: $3.
21        For each photostatic copy of a township plat: $2.
22        For each page of a photostatic copy  of  surveyors  field
23    notes: $2.
24        For  each  page  of  a  photostatic  copy of a state land
25    patent, including certification: $4.
26        For each page of a  photostatic  copy  of  a  swamp  land
27    grant: $2.
28        For   each  page  of  photostatic  copies  of  all  other
29    instruments or documents relating to land records: $2.
30        For each check, money order, or bank  draft  returned  by
31    the Secretary of State when it has not been honored: $2.
32        For copies of non-certified death certificates, civil war
33    muster  records, and census records: $7 per research request.
34    This fee shall be deposited into the Archives Research Fund.
 
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 1        As used in this Section, "legal size" means  a  sheet  of
 2    paper  that is 8.5 inches wide and 14 inches long, or written
 3    or printed matter on a sheet of paper that  does  not  exceed
 4    that width and length, or either of them.
 5    (Source: P.A. 89-233, eff. 1-1-96.)

 6        Section  10.   The State Finance Act is amended by adding
 7    Sections 5.595 and 6z-61 as follows:

 8        (30 ILCS 105/5.595 new)
 9        Sec. 5.595.  The Archives Research Fund.

10        (30 ILCS 105/6z-61 new)
11        Sec. 6z-61.  Archives Research Fund.  There is created in
12    the State Treasury a  special  fund  known  as  the  Archives
13    Research  Fund.   Moneys deposited into the Fund may, subject
14    to appropriation, be used  by  the  Secretary  of  State  for
15    expenses of conducting archival research of Archive records.

16        Section  99.   Effective  date.  This Act takes effect on
17    July 1, 2003.