Bill Text: IL SB2536 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Provides that in counties with a population in excess of 1,000,000 inhabitants, a public administrator shall retain his or her records pursuant to the Local Records Act (instead of deposit records of discharged cases with the circuit court clerk).

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-02 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0882 [SB2536 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB2536-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 097-0882
SB2536 Enrolled LRB097 14725 AJO 59724 b
AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Probate Act of 1975 is amended by changing
Section 13-4 as follows:
(755 ILCS 5/13-4) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 13-4)
Sec. 13-4. Powers and duties of public administrator.) (a)
When a person dies owning any real or personal estate in this
State and there is no person in this State having a prior right
to administer his estate, the public administrator of the
county of which the decedent was a resident, or of the county
in which his estate is situated, if the decedent was a
nonresident of this State, may take such measures as he deems
proper to protect and secure the estate from waste, loss or
embezzlement until letters of office on the estate are issued
to the person entitled thereto or until a demand for the
removal of the personal estate from this State is made by a
nonresident representative pursuant to the authority granted
by this Act. When letters of office are issued to the public
administrator, he has the same powers and duties as other
representatives of decedents' estates appointed under this Act
until he is discharged or his authority is sooner terminated by
order of court.

(b) In counties having a population in excess of 1,000,000
inhabitants, a public administrator shall retain deposit his or
her records in accordance with the Local Records Act files of
cases in which he receives a discharge with the clerk of the
court of the county in which he served or is serving as such
public administrator.
(Source: P.A. 80-808.)