Bill Text: IL HB4940 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning sheriffs' fees.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4940 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB4940-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB4940 Introduced , by Rep. Jim Durkin - Brian W. Stewart SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/4-12001 from Ch. 34, par. 4-12001
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning sheriffs' fees.
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A BILL FOR
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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
4-12001 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/4-12001) (from Ch. 34, par. 4-12001)
Sec. 4-12001. Fees of sheriff in third class counties. The
The officers herein named, in counties of the third class,
shall be entitled to receive the fees herein specified, for the
services mentioned and such other fees as may be provided by
law for such other services not herein designated.
Fees for Sheriff
For serving or attempting to serve any summons on each
defendant, $35.
For serving or attempting to serve each alias summons or
other process mileage will be charged as hereinafter provided
when the address for service differs from the address for
service on the original summons or other process.
For serving or attempting to serve all other process, on
each defendant, $35.
For serving or attempting to serve a subpoena on each
witness, $35.
For serving or attempting to serve each warrant, $35.

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For serving or attempting to serve each garnishee, $35.
For summoning each juror, $10.
For serving or attempting to serve each order or judgment
for replevin, $35.
For serving or attempting to serve an order for attachment,
on each defendant, $35.
For serving or attempting to serve an order or judgment for
the possession of real estate in an action of ejectment or in
any other action, or for restitution in an action of forcible
entry and detainer, without aid, $35, and when aid is
necessary, the sheriff shall be allowed to tax in addition the
actual costs thereof.
For serving or attempting to serve notice of judgment, $35.
For levying to satisfy an order in an action for
attachment, $25.
For executing order of court to seize personal property,
$25.
For making certificate of levy on real estate and filing or
recording same, $8, and the fee for filing or recording shall
be advanced by the plaintiff in attachment or by the judgment
creditor and taxed as costs. For taking possession of or
removing property levied on, the sheriff shall be allowed to
tax the necessary actual costs of such possession or removal.
For advertising property for sale, $20.
For making certificate of sale and making and filing
duplicate for record, $15, and the fee for recording same shall

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be advanced by the judgment creditor and taxed as costs.
For preparing, executing and acknowledging deed on
redemption from a court sale of real estate, $15; for
preparing, executing and acknowledging all other deeds on sale
of real estate, $10.
For making and filing certificate of redemption, $15, and
the fee for recording same shall be advanced by party making
the redemption and taxed as costs.
For making and filing certificate of redemption from a
court sale, $11, and the fee for recording same shall be
advanced by the party making the redemption and taxed as costs.
For taking all bonds on legal process, $10.
For taking special bail, $5.
For returning each process, $15.
Mileage for service or attempted service of all process is
a $10 flat fee.
For attending before a court with a prisoner on an order
for habeas corpus, $9 per day.
For executing requisitions from other States, $13.
For conveying each prisoner from the prisoner's county to
the jail of another county, per mile for going only, 25�.
For committing to or discharging each prisoner from jail,
$3.
For feeding each prisoner, such compensation to cover
actual costs as may be fixed by the county board, but such
compensation shall not be considered a part of the fees of the

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office.
For committing each prisoner to jail under the laws of the
United States, to be paid by the marshal or other person
requiring his confinement, $3.
For feeding such prisoners per day, $3, to be paid by the
marshal or other person requiring the prisoner's confinement.
For discharging such prisoners, $3.
For conveying persons to the penitentiary, reformatories,
Illinois State Training School for Boys, Illinois State
Training School for Girls, Reception Centers and Illinois
Security Hospital, the following fees, payable out of the State
Treasury. When one person is conveyed, 20� per mile in going to
the penitentiary, reformatories, Illinois State Training
School for Boys, Illinois State Training School for Girls,
Reception Centers and Illinois Security Hospital from the place
of conviction; when 2 persons are conveyed at the same time,
20� per mile for the first and 15� per mile for the second
person; when more than 2 persons are conveyed at the same time
as Stated above, the sheriff shall be allowed 20� per mile for
the first, 15� per mile for the second and 10� per mile for
each additional person.
The fees provided for herein for transporting persons to
the penitentiary, reformatories, Illinois State Training
School for Boys, Illinois State Training School for Girls,
Reception Centers and Illinois Security Hospital, shall be paid
for each trip so made. Mileage as used in this Section means

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the shortest route on a hard surfaced road, (either State Bond
Issue Route or Federal highways) or railroad, whichever is
shorter, between the place from which the person is to be
transported, to the penitentiary, reformatories, Illinois
State Training School for Boys, Illinois State Training School
for Girls, Reception Centers and Illinois Security Hospital,
and all fees per mile shall be computed on such basis.
In addition to the above fees, there shall be allowed to
the sheriff a fee of $900 for the sale of real estate which
shall be made by virtue of any judgment of a court. In addition
to this fee and all other fees provided by this Section, there
shall be allowed to the sheriff a fee in accordance with the
following schedule for the sale of personal estate which is
made by virtue of any judgment of a court:
For judgments up to $1,000, $100;
For judgments over $1,000 to $15,000, $300;
For judgments over $15,000, $500.
In all cases where the judgment is settled by the parties,
replevied, stopped by injunction or paid, or where the property
levied upon is not actually sold, the sheriff shall be allowed
the fee for levying and mileage, together with half the fee for
all money collected by him or her which he or she would be
entitled to if the same were made by sale in the enforcement of
a judgment. In no case shall the fee exceed the amount of money
arising from the sale.
The fee requirements of this Section do not apply to police

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departments or other law enforcement agencies. For the purposes
of this Section, "law enforcement agency" means an agency of
the State or unit of local government which is vested by law or
ordinance with the duty to maintain public order and to enforce
criminal laws or ordinances.
The fee requirements of this Section do not apply to units
of local government or school districts.
(Source: P.A. 94-1104, eff. 6-1-07.)