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90_SB0596eng
Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Adds a caption to a
Section concerning election of clerks.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Clerks of Courts Act by changing
2 Section 27.7.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by
6 changing Section 27.7 as follows:
7 (705 ILCS 105/27.7)
8 (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a
9 delayed effective date)
10 Sec. 27.7. Children's waiting room. The expense of
11 establishing and maintaining a children's waiting room for
12 children whose parents or guardians are attending a court
13 hearing as a litigant or witness in counties over 180,000
14 500,000 and under 3,000,000 in population shall be borne by
15 the county. To defray that expense in any county having
16 established a children's waiting room or that elects to
17 establish such a system, the county board may require the
18 clerk of the circuit court in the county to charge and
19 collect a children's waiting room fee of not less than $2 nor
20 more than $5. The fee shall be paid at the time of filing the
21 first pleading, paper, or other appearance filed by each
22 party in all civil cases. No additional fee shall be required
23 if more than one party is presented in a single pleading,
24 paper, or other appearance. The fee shall be collected in
25 the manner in which all other fees or costs are collected.
26 Each clerk shall commence the charges and collection upon
27 receipt of written notice from the chairman of the county
28 board together with a certified copy of the board's
29 resolution. The clerk shall file the resolution of record in
30 his or her office.
31 The fees shall be in addition to all other fees and
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1 charges of the clerks, shall be assessable as costs, and may
2 be waived only if the judge specifically provides for the
3 waiver of the children's waiting room fee. The fees shall be
4 remitted monthly by the clerk to the county treasurer, to be
5 retained by the treasurer in a special fund designated as the
6 children's waiting room fund. The fund shall be audited by
7 the county auditor, and the county board shall make
8 expenditure from the fund in payment of any cost related to
9 the establishment and maintenance of the children's waiting
10 room, including personnel, heat, light, telephone, security,
11 rental of space, or any other item in connection with the
12 operation of a children's waiting room.
13 The fees shall not be charged in any matter coming to the
14 clerk on a change of venue, nor in any proceeding to review
15 the decision of any administrative officer, agency, or body.
16 (Source: P.A. 89-717, eff. 1-1-98.)
17 Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act
18 makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
19 text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a
20 Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that
21 text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i)
22 the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from
23 any other Public Act.
24 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 January 1, 1998.