Bill Text: IL HB4210 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that fees for a coroner's or medical examiner's permit to cremate a human body is $100 (rather than $50). Provides that fees for a certified copy of a transcript of sworn testimony of a coroner's inquest made by written request declaring the request is for research or genealogy purposes is $15.00 for the entire transcript. Provides that a request shall be deemed a proper request for purpose of research or genealogy if the requested inquest occurred not less than 20 years prior to the date of the written request and that the transcript shall be stamped with the words "FOR GENEALOGY OR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY". Provides that a coroner may waive, at his or her discretion, fees if the coroner determines that the person is indigent and unable to pay the permit fee or under other special circumstances as determined by the coroner.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4210 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4210-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
4-7001 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/4-7001) (from Ch. 34, par. 4-7001)
Sec. 4-7001. Coroner's fees. The fees of the coroner's
office shall be as follows:
1. For a copy of a transcript of sworn testimony: $5.00
per page.
2. For a copy of an autopsy report (if not included in
transcript): $50.00.
3. For a copy of the verdict of a coroner's jury:
$5.00.
4. For a copy of a toxicology report: $25.00.
5. For a print of or an electronic file containing a
picture obtained by the coroner: actual cost or $3.00,
whichever is greater.
6. For each copy of miscellaneous reports, including
artist's drawings but not including police reports: actual
cost or $25.00, whichever is greater.
7. For a coroner's or medical examiner's permit to
cremate a dead human body: $100.00 $50.00. The coroner may

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waive, at his or her discretion, the permit fee if the
coroner determines that the person is indigent and unable
to pay the permit fee or under other special circumstances.
8. For a certified copy of a transcript of sworn
testimony of a coroner's inquest made by written request
declaring the request is for research or genealogy
purposes: $15.00 for the entire transcript. A request shall
be deemed a proper request for purpose of research or
genealogy if the requested inquest occurred not less than
20 years prior to the date of the written request. The
transcript shall be stamped with the words "FOR GENEALOGY
OR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY".
The coroner may waive, at his or her discretion, fees under
this Section if the coroner determines that the person is
indigent and unable to pay the permit fee or under other
special circumstances as determined by the coroner.
All of which fees shall be certified by the court; in the
case of inmates of any State charitable or penal institution,
the fees shall be paid by the operating department or
commission, out of the State Treasury. The coroner shall file
his or her claim in probate for his or her fees and he or she
shall render assistance to the State's attorney in the
collection of such fees out of the estate of the deceased. In
counties of less than 1,000,000 population, the State's
attorney shall collect such fees out of the estate of the
deceased.

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Except as otherwise provided in this Section, whenever the
coroner is required by law to perform any of the duties of the
office of the sheriff, the coroner is entitled to the like fees
and compensation as are allowed by law to the sheriff for the
performance of similar services.
Except as otherwise provided in this Section, whenever the
coroner of any county is required to travel in the performance
of his or her duties, he or she shall receive the same mileage
fees as are authorized for the sheriff of such county.
All fees under this Section collected by or on behalf of
the coroner's office shall be paid over to the county treasurer
and deposited into a special account in the county treasury.
Moneys in the special account shall be used solely for the
purchase of electronic and forensic identification equipment
or other related supplies and the operating expenses of the
coroner's office.
(Source: P.A. 96-1161, eff. 7-21-10.)