Bill Amendment: IL SB0686 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: LOCAL GOVERNMENT-TECH
Status: 2023-06-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0073 [SB0686 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB0686-Senate_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: LOCAL GOVERNMENT-TECH
Status: 2023-06-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0073 [SB0686 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB0686-Senate_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 686
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 686 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing | ||||||
5 | Section 4-7001 as follows:
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6 | (55 ILCS 5/4-7001) (from Ch. 34, par. 4-7001)
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7 | Sec. 4-7001. Coroner's fees. The fees of the
coroner's | ||||||
8 | office shall be as follows:
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9 | 1. For a copy of a transcript of sworn testimony: | ||||||
10 | $5.00 per page.
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11 | 2. For a copy of an autopsy report (if not included in | ||||||
12 | transcript):
$50.00.
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13 | 3. For a copy of the verdict of a coroner's jury: | ||||||
14 | $5.00.
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15 | 4. For a copy of a toxicology report: $25.00.
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16 | 5. For a print of or an electronic file containing a |
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1 | picture obtained by the coroner: actual cost or
$3.00, | ||||||
2 | whichever is greater.
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3 | 6. For each copy of miscellaneous reports, including | ||||||
4 | artist's
drawings but not including police reports: actual | ||||||
5 | cost or $25.00,
whichever is greater.
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6 | 7. For a coroner's or medical examiner's permit to | ||||||
7 | cremate a dead
human body: $50.00. The coroner may waive, | ||||||
8 | at his or her discretion, the permit fee if the coroner | ||||||
9 | determines that the person is indigent and unable to pay | ||||||
10 | the permit fee or under other special circumstances.
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11 | 8. Except in a county with a population over | ||||||
12 | 3,000,000, for a certified copy of a transcript of sworn | ||||||
13 | testimony of a coroner's inquest made by written request | ||||||
14 | declaring the request is for research or genealogy | ||||||
15 | purposes: $15.00 for the entire transcript. A request | ||||||
16 | shall be deemed a proper request for purpose of research | ||||||
17 | or genealogy if the requested inquest occurred not less | ||||||
18 | than 20 years prior to the date of the written request. The | ||||||
19 | transcript shall be stamped with the words "FOR GENEALOGY | ||||||
20 | OR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY". | ||||||
21 | All of which fees shall be certified by the court; in the | ||||||
22 | case of
inmates of any State charitable or penal institution, | ||||||
23 | the fees shall be
paid by the operating department or | ||||||
24 | commission, out of the State
Treasury. The coroner shall file | ||||||
25 | his or her claim in probate for his or
her fees and he or she | ||||||
26 | shall render assistance to the State's attorney
in the |
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1 | collection of such fees out of the estate of the deceased. In
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2 | counties of less than 1,000,000 population, the State's | ||||||
3 | attorney shall
collect such fees out of the estate of the | ||||||
4 | deceased.
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5 | Except in a county with a population over 3,000,000, the | ||||||
6 | coroner may waive, at his or her discretion, any fees under | ||||||
7 | this Section if the coroner determines that the person is | ||||||
8 | indigent and unable to pay the fee or under other special | ||||||
9 | circumstances as determined by the coroner. | ||||||
10 | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, whenever the | ||||||
11 | coroner is
required by law to perform any of the duties of the | ||||||
12 | office of the
sheriff, the coroner is entitled to the like fees | ||||||
13 | and compensation as
are allowed by law to the sheriff for the | ||||||
14 | performance of similar
services.
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15 | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, whenever the | ||||||
16 | coroner of
any county is required to travel in the performance | ||||||
17 | of his or her
duties, he or she shall receive the same mileage | ||||||
18 | fees as are authorized
for the sheriff of such county.
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19 | All fees under this Section collected by or on behalf of | ||||||
20 | the coroner's
office shall be paid over to the county | ||||||
21 | treasurer and deposited into a special account in the county | ||||||
22 | treasury. Moneys in the special account shall be used solely | ||||||
23 | for the purchase of electronic and forensic identification | ||||||
24 | equipment or other related supplies and the operating expenses | ||||||
25 | of the coroner's office.
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26 | (Source: P.A. 96-1161, eff. 7-21-10.)".
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