Bill Text: IL SB1817 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the bill as introduced, with the following changes: Provides that any person authorized to issue certain licenses may add fees of $.75 and $.50, instead of $1.50 and $1.00. Provides that any person authorized to issue licenses who operates a business with only one location in the state may withhold certain amounts from the fees to be remitted to the Department of Natural Resources for specified types of licenses, permits, and stamps.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-15 - Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Don Harmon [SB1817 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB1817-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB1817 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Rachelle Crowe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
515 ILCS 5/20-120 from Ch. 56, par. 20-120
Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Increases the fee that may be added to certain license fees from $.75 to $1.50 in the case of a Sportsmen's Combination License or nonresident hunting license, and from $.50 to $1.00 in the case of all other licenses, permits, and stamps.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning fish.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Fish and Aquatic Life Code is amended by
changing Section 20-120 as follows:
(515 ILCS 5/20-120) (from Ch. 56, par. 20-120)
Sec. 20-120. Designation of agents; liability; bond. The
Department of Natural Resources has the authority to designate
agents to sell licenses, stamps, and permits on behalf of the
Department. Any person receiving licenses from the Department
for sale as provided in this Section (i) shall execute and
deliver receipts for the licenses; (ii) shall, on dates
specified by the Department, report in writing to the
Department the number and kinds of licenses sold; and (iii)
shall, with the report, make remittance to the Department
covering the amounts due it from the sales. Failure on the part
of any clerk or agent to fully comply with the provisions of
this Code, including administrative rules, shall be
justification for the Department to cancel or withdraw the
issuance of licenses through that clerk or agent. A salmon
stamp shall be deemed a license for the purposes of this
Section.
(a) Any person appointed or designated by the Department

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including any county, city, village, township, or incorporated
town clerk issuing licenses provided for in this Code may add
the fees provided in paragraph (b) as the fee for issuing the
licenses. These clerks, however, shall remit to the treasurer
of the political subdivision of which he or she is an officer
or employee, the added fees or any portion of the added fees he
or she collects provided in paragraph (b). Issuing fees may be
divided between the clerks and their appointed subagents other
than employees of the clerk's office, but in no case may any
clerk or subagent charge an issuing fee or fees totaling more
than the issuing fee set out in this Section.
(b) Any person authorized to issue licenses under
subsection (a) may add to the license fee a fee of $1.50 $.75
in the case of Sportsmen's Combination Licenses or nonresident
hunting licenses, and $1.00 $.50 in the case of all other
licenses, permits, and stamps.
(c) No person or subagent of any county, city, village,
township, or incorporated town clerk may charge a service fee
for issuing licenses provided for in this Code, and the
charging of fees for issuing licenses in excess of the fees
authorized is a petty offense. Any person authorized to issue
licenses by telephone and electronic transmission or incurring
costs for customer convenience may charge in addition to the
"issuing fee" authorized by this Section a fee not to exceed an
amount set by the Department, by administrative rule, to cover
the transaction cost.

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(d) All fees, less issuing fees, collected from the sale
of licenses and permits and not remitted to the Department as
provided in this Section shall be deemed to have been
embezzled and the person or officer responsible for the
remittance is subject to prosecution. No person handling or
selling licenses is required to remit for any license now or
hereafter stolen, by means of forcible entry, or destroyed by
a fire in the premises where the licenses are kept, if he or
she submits an affidavit to the Department describing the
circumstances of the theft or cause of the destruction and
listing in the affidavit the type and numbers of the licenses
so stolen or destroyed.
(e) Within 30 days after the expiration of the time in
which any class of license is usable, payment for licenses
sold shall be made in full to the Department and persons
possessing unused license forms shall return them to the
Department prepaid.
(f) No person is permitted to make deductions from
remittances sent to the Department for postage or for the cost
of, or fees for, drafts or money orders.
(g) Any county, city, village, township, or incorporated
town clerk handling or selling licenses as provided in this
Section is liable to the State personally. All other persons
designated or appointed by the Department to handle or sell
licenses as provided in this Section shall, before receiving
any licenses for sale, file with the Department a bond in an

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amount specified by the Department on a form to be approved by
and with a surety or sureties satisfactory to the Department
conditioned upon the person or persons paying to the State of
Illinois all monies becoming due by reason of the sale of the
licenses.
(h) No person shall falsify, alter, or change in any
manner, or loan or transfer to another, any license, permit,
or tag issued under this Section or falsify any records
required by this Code or counterfeit or duplicate any form of
license, permit, or tag provided for by this Code. Any person
who violates this subsection shall be subject to the penalty
provisions of Section 20-35 of this Code.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 90-225, eff. 7-25-97;
90-743, eff. 1-1-99.)