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	SB3111 - 104th General Assembly
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		SB3111 Enrolled		LRB104 19013 TRT 32458 b
1    AN ACT concerning local government.
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
5Section 5-39001 as follows:
6    (55 ILCS 5/5-39001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-39001)
7    Sec. 5-39001. Establishment and use; fee. The county board
8of any county may establish and maintain a county law library,
9to be located in any county building or privately or publicly
10owned building at the county seat of government. The term
11"county building" includes premises leased by the county from
12a public building commission created under the Public Building
13Commission Act. After August 2, 1976, the county board of any
14county may establish and maintain a county law library at the
15county seat of government and, in addition, branch law
16libraries in other locations within that county as the county
17board deems necessary.
18    The facilities of those libraries shall be freely
19available to all licensed Illinois attorneys, judges, other
20public officers of the county, and all members of the public,
21whenever the courthouse [court house] is open, and may include
22self-help centers and other legal assistance programs for the
23public as part of the services it provides on-site and online.
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1Law libraries in counties with more than 2,000,000 inhabitants 
2may close, even when the courthouse is open, based on 
3operational necessity or as determined by the county board.
4    The expense of establishing and maintaining those
5libraries shall be borne by the county. To defray that
6expense, including the expense of any attendant self-help
7centers and legal assistance programs, in any county having
8established a county law library or libraries, the clerk of
9all trial courts located at the county seat of government
10shall charge and collect a county law library fee of $2, and
11the county board may authorize a county law library fee of not
12to exceed $21 through December 31, 2021 and $20 on and after
13January 1, 2022, to be charged and collected by the clerks of
14all trial courts located in the county. The fee shall be paid
15at the time of filing the first pleading, paper, or other
16appearance filed by each party in all civil cases, but no
17additional fee shall be required if more than one party is
18represented in a single pleading, paper, or other appearance.
19    Each clerk shall commence those charges and collections
20upon receipt of written notice from the chairman of the county
21board that the board has acted under this Division to
22establish and maintain a law library.
23    The fees shall be in addition to all other fees and charges
24of the clerks, assessable as costs, remitted by the clerks
25monthly to the county treasurer or other appropriate county 
26office, and retained [by the county treasurer] in a special fund
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1designated as the County Law Library Fund. Except as otherwise
2provided in this paragraph, disbursements from the fund shall
3be made [by the county treasurer,] on order of a majority of the
4resident circuit judges of the circuit court of the county. In
5any county with more than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the county
6board shall order disbursements from the fund and the
7presiding officer of the county board, with the advice and
8consent of the county board, may appoint a library committee
9of not less than 9 members, who, by majority vote, may
10recommend to the county board as to disbursements of the fund
11and the operation of the library. In single county circuits
12with 2,000,000 or fewer inhabitants, disbursements from the
13County Law Library Fund shall be made [by the county treasurer]
14on the order of the chief judge of the circuit court of the
15county. In those single county circuits, the number of
16personnel necessary to operate and maintain the county law
17library shall be set by and those personnel shall be appointed
18by the chief judge. The county law library personnel shall
19serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. The
20salaries of those personnel shall be fixed by the county board
21of the county. Orders shall be pre-audited, funds shall be
22audited by the county auditor, and a report of the orders and
23funds shall be rendered to the county board and to the judges.
24    Fees shall not be charged in any criminal or
25quasi-criminal case, in any matter coming to the clerk on
26change of venue, or in any proceeding to review the decision of
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1any administrative officer, agency, or body.
2    No moneys distributed from the County Law Library Fund may
3be directly or indirectly used for lobbying activities, as
4defined in Section 2 of the Lobbyist Registration Act or as
5defined in any ordinance or resolution of a municipality,
6county, or other unit of local government in Illinois.
7(Source: P.A. 98-351, eff. 8-15-13; 99-859, eff. 8-19-16.)