Public Act 097-0100
 
HB0177 EnrolledLRB097 02985 KMW 43012 b


  
    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended  by changing 
Section 3 as follows:
 



    (50 ILCS 205/3)  (from Ch. 116, par. 43.103)



    Sec. 3. 
Except where the context indicates otherwise, the 
terms used in
this Act are defined as follows:

    "Agency" means any court, and all parts, boards, 
departments, bureaus
and commissions of any county, municipal 
corporation or political
subdivision.

    "Archivist" means the Secretary of State.

    "Commission" means a Local Records Commission.

    "Court" means a court, other than the Supreme Court.

    "Officer" means any elected or appointed official of a 
court, county,
municipal corporation or political subdivision.

    "Public record" means any book, paper, map, photograph, 
digitized
electronic material, or other official documentary 
material, regardless of
physical form or
characteristics, 
made, produced, executed or received by any agency or
officer 
pursuant to law or in connection with the transaction of public

business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by such 
agency or
officer, or any successor thereof, as evidence of the 
organization,
function, policies, decisions, procedures, or 
other activities thereof, or
because of the informational data 
contained therein. Library and museum
material made or acquired 
and preserved solely for reference or exhibition
purposes, 
extra copies of documents preserved only for convenience of

reference, and stocks of publications and of processed 
documents are not
included within the definition of public 
record. Paper copies of registration records, as defined in 
Section 1 of the Library Records Confidentiality Act (75 ILCS 
70/1), shall not be considered public records once the 
information contained in the paper registration records is 
transferred into a secure electronic format and checked for 
accuracy. 

(Source: P.A. 89-272, eff. 8-10-95.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.