Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 Counties: Article 3 - Officers And Employees

Division 3-1. Auditor

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-1001
  Auditors in counties of 75,000 to 3,000,000. In all counties containing less than 3,000,000 and over 75,000 inhabitants by the last federal census, there...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-1002
  Auditors in counties of 75,000 population or less. In counties of 75,000 population or less, as determined by the last federal census preceding the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-1003
  Commissions. Every county auditor whose office is established under Section 3-1001 shall be commissioned by the Governor. No commission shall issue except upon the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-1004
  Internal operations of office. The county auditor shall control the internal operations of the office and procure equipment, materials and services necessary to perform...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-1005
  Duties of auditor. The duties of the county auditor shall be to: (a) Audit all claims against the county, and recommend to the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-1006
  Additional duties in counties of 275,000 or less. In counties of 275,000 population or less, as determined by the last federal decennial census, the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-1007
  Deputies and employees. The county auditor shall appoint deputies and employees. The deputies shall take and subscribe the same oath of office as is...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-1008
  Continuing education. Each county auditor shall obtain at least 20 hours of continuing professional education related to the operation of the auditor's office each...

Division 3-2. Clerk

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2001
  Election of county clerk. In all counties there shall be an elected county clerk who shall hold office until his successor is qualified. The...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2002
  Oath. Each county clerk, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to the oath or affirmation prescribed by Section...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2003
  Functions, powers and duties of clerk. The county clerk shall have those functions, powers and duties as provided in the Sections following this Section...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2003.1
  Appointment of deputies, assistants and personnel. The county clerk shall appoint his deputies, assistants and personnel to assist him in the performance of his...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2003.2
  Internal operations of office. The county clerk shall have the right to control the internal operations of his office; to procure necessary equipment, materials...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2003.3
  Monthly report of financial status. The county clerk shall file a monthly report summarizing the financial status of his office in such form as...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2003.4
  Deposit of fee income; special funds. The county clerk shall deposit in the office of the county treasurer monthly by the 10th day of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2003.5
  Compensation of deputies and employees. Compensation of deputies and employees shall be fixed by the county clerk subject to budgetary limitations established by the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2004
  Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Division shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2005
  Bond. Each county clerk shall, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, give bond (or, if the county is self-insured, the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2006
  Commission. County clerks shall be commissioned by the governor. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2007
  Office quarters and hours; violation. The county clerk shall keep his office at the court house of his county, or at such other place...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2008
  Seal. He shall be keeper of the seal of the county, which shall be used by him in all cases where he is required...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2009
  Deputies. He shall appoint a chief deputy and may appoint additional deputies, who shall take and subscribe the same oath for the discharge of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2010
  Responsibility. The principal clerk shall in all cases be responsible for the acts of his deputies. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2011
  Vacancies; military service. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of any county clerk and the unexpired term exceeds one year, the vacancy shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2012
  Custody of records; public inspection. The county clerk shall have the care and custody of all the records, books and papers appertaining to and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-2013
  General duties of clerk. Subject to the provisions of "The Local Records Act", the duties of the county clerk shall be- 1st. To act...

Division 3-3. Coroner

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3001
  Commission; training; duties performed by other county officer. (a) Every coroner shall be commissioned by the Governor, but no commission shall issue except upon...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3002
  Commencement of duties. The coroner shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of the month of December following his...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3003
  Duties of coroner. The county coroner shall control the internal operations of his office. Subject to the applicable county appropriation ordinance, the coroner shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3004
  Bond. Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, he or she shall give bond, with 2 or more sufficient sureties (or,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3005
  Oath. He shall also, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed by Section 3, Article...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3006
  Copies of bond as evidence. Copies of such bond, certified by the county clerk, or of the record thereof certified by the clerk of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3007
  Conservator of the peace. Each coroner shall be conservator of the peace in his county, and, in the performance of his duties as such,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3008
  Coroner to act when sheriff prejudiced. When it appears from the papers in a case that the sheriff or his deputy is a party...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3009
  Deputy coroner's, sheriff's or police officer's performance of coroner's duties. If there is no coroner, or it shall appear in like manner that he or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3010
  Deputy sheriff, undersheriff, or coroner to act when sheriff's office vacant. Where the office of the sheriff is vacant, the chief deputy sheriff or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3011
  Classification of counties. For the purposes of this Division, counties of more than 1,000,000 population shall be designated as Class I counties, and counties...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3012
  In-service training expenses. The county coroner may maintain a special fund, from which the county board shall authorize payments by voucher between board meetings,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3013
  Preliminary investigations; blood and urine analysis; summoning jury; reports. Every coroner, whenever, as soon as he knows or is informed that the dead body of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3014
  Autopsy to be performed by licensed physician; costs; reports. Any medical examination or autopsy conducted pursuant to this Division shall be performed by a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3015
  Circumstances under which autopsy to be performed. (a) Where a death has occurred and the circumstances concerning the death are suspicious, obscure, mysterious, or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3016
  Sudden infant death syndrome. Where an infant under 2 years of age has died suddenly and unexpectedly and the circumstances concerning the death are...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3016.5
  Sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). (a) All autopsies conducted in this State shall include an inquiry to determine whether the death was a direct...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3017
  Cremation. In any death where the remains are to be cremated, it shall be the duty of the funeral director or person having custody...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3018
  Death certificates. Every coroner, as soon as he shall have completed his investigation of the cause and circumstances of any death coming within his...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3019
  Removal of bodies; violation. No dead body which may be subject to the terms of this Division, or the personal property of such a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3020
  Coroner to be notified; violation. Every law enforcement official, funeral director, ambulance attendant, hospital director or administrator or person having custody of the body...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3021
  Public policy; release of body to next of kin. As a guide to the interpretation and application of this Division it is declared that...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3022
  Bystanders. If a sufficient number of jurors so summoned do not attend, the coroner may summon others from among the bystanders to make up...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3023
  Penalties against jurors. Whoever, being so summoned as a juror, fails or refuses, without good cause, to attend at the time and place required,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3024
  Oath of jurors. When the jury are assembled, the coroner shall appoint one of the number as foreman, and administer to him an oath...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3025
  Verdict of jury. It shall be the duty of the jurors, as sworn aforesaid, to inquire how, in what manner, and by whom or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3026
  Summoning witnesses; subpoenas. The coroner shall have power to summon, or cause to be summoned, and compel the attendance of all such witnesses whose...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3027
  Notice of inquest. The coroner shall make a reasonable attempt to notify the family of the deceased, and all known eyewitnesses to the death,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3028
  Recognizance of witness. If the evidence of any witness implicates any person as the unlawful slayer of the person over whom the inquest is...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3029
  Commitment of witness; returns. If any witness shall refuse to enter into such recognizance, it shall be the duty of the coroner to commit...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3030
  Representation of witnesses by counsel. Any witness appearing at the inquest shall have the right to be represented by counsel. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3031
  Testimony reduced to writing; coroner's verdict not admissible in civil suit. The coroner shall cause the testimony of each witness who may be sworn...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3032
  Inquest record. Every coroner shall, at the expense of the county, be supplied with proper record books wherein he shall enter the name, if...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3033
  Disposition of property. When any valuable personal property, money or papers, are found upon or near the body which is the subject of a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3034
  Disposition of body. After the inquest the coroner may deliver the body or human remains of the deceased to the family of the deceased or,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3035
  Liability of common carrier for burial expenses. When any railroad, common carrier, airline or any steamboat, barge, propeller or other vessel engaged in whole...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3036
  Arrest of slayer based on verdict. If a person implicated by the inquest as the unlawful slayer of the deceased or an accessory thereto...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3037
  Embalming dead body. No licensed embalmer or person shall embalm the dead body of any person with, or inject therein, or place thereon any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3038
  Coroner in military service. In case any coroner is called into the active military service of the United States, the office of coroner shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3039
  Vacancy. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of coroner, that vacancy shall be filled as provided in The Election Code. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3040
  Appointment of deputies. Each coroner may appoint one or more deputies as the coroner, in his or her sole discretion, determines necessary and appropriate,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3041
  Oath of deputies. Each deputy shall, before entering upon the duties of his office take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, in like form...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3042
  Duties of deputies. Deputy coroners, duly appointed and qualified, may perform any and all of the duties of the coroner in the name of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3043
  Vacancy; appointed coroner. When a permanent vacancy in the office of coroner occurs and the position is an appointed one, the county board shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-3044
  Abolition of office; performance of duties by another. If the office of coroner has been abolished in a county by referendum and the referendum...

Division 3-4. Public Defender and Appointed Counsel

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4000
  Legislative declaration. The General Assembly recognizes that quality legal representation in criminal and related proceedings is a fundamental right of the people of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4000.1
  Definitions. In this Division, except when a particular context clearly requires a different meaning, the following definitions apply: "Board" means the county board of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4001
  Public defender in counties over 35,000. In each county of this State containing 35,000 or more inhabitants there is created the office of Public...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4002
  Public defender in counties of less than 35,000. In each county of this State containing less than 35,000 inhabitants, the county board may, by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4003
  Public defender in adjoining counties. Any 2 or more adjoining counties of this State that are within the same judicial circuit, may by joint...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4004
  Appointment of Public Defender in counties under 1,000,000. As soon as may be after this Division becomes applicable to a county with a population...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4004.1
  Appointment of Public Defender in counties over 1,000,000. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the position of Public Defender in counties over 1,000,000, a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4004.2
  Qualifications of Public Defender and terms of employment in counties over 1,000,000. In counties with a population over 1,000,000, the following qualifications and terms...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4005
  Oath of office. The person appointed as Public Defender, before entering on the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe an oath of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4006
  Duties of public defender. The Public Defender, as directed by the court, shall act as attorney, without fee, before any court within any county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4006.1
  Powers and Duties of the Cook County Public Defender. For each State fiscal year, the Cook County Public Defender shall appear before the General...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4007
  Compensation. (a) The public defender shall be paid out of the county treasury, and, subject to appropriation, shall be paid by the Department of Revenue...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4008
  Assistants in counties under 1,000,000. The Public Defender in counties with a population under 1,000,000 shall have power to appoint, in the manner directed...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4008.1
  Assistants in counties over 1,000,000. The Public Defender in counties with a population over 1,000,000 shall appoint assistants, all duly licensed practitioners, as that...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4009
  Office quarters; expenses. The County Board shall provide suitable office quarters for the use of the Public Defender, and shall pay out of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4010
  Records; reports in counties under 1,000,000. The Public Defender in counties with a population under 1,000,000 shall keep a record of the services rendered...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4010.1
  Records; reports in counties over 1,000,000. The public defender in counties with a population over 1,000,000 shall keep a record of the services rendered...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4011
  Expenses and legal services for indigent defendants in felony cases. It shall be the duty of the county board in counties containing fewer than...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-4012
  Public defender's fees in counties of 3,000,000 or more population. The Cook County Public Defender shall be entitled to a $2 fee to be paid...

Division 3-5. Recorder

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5001
  County clerk as recorder; election of recorder. The county clerk in counties having a population of less than 60,000 inhabitants shall be the recorder...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5002
  Bond. Every recorder, whether elected as such or holding the office of recorder in addition to the office of county clerk as hereinbefore provided,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5003
  Oath. Each recorder, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to the oath or affirmation prescribed by Section 3,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5004
  Commencement of duties. The recorder shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day in the month of December following his...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5005
  Functions, powers and duties of recorder. The functions and powers of the recorders shall be uniform in the various counties of this State. The...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5005.1
  Appointment of deputies, assistants and personnel. The recorder shall appoint his deputies, assistants and personnel to assist him in the performance of his duties....
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5005.2
  Internal operations of office. The recorder shall have the right to control the internal operations of his office; to procure necessary equipment, materials and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5005.3
  Monthly report of financial status. The recorder shall file a monthly report with the county clerk summarizing the financial status of his office in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5005.4
  Deposit of fee income; special funds. The recorder shall deposit in the office of the county treasurer monthly by the 10th day of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5005.5
  Compensation of deputies and employees. Compensation of deputies and employees shall be fixed by the recorder subject to budgetary limitations established by the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5006
  Appointment of deputies in writing. Appointments of deputies shall be in writing, and entered upon the records of his office. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5007
  Oath of deputies. Each deputy shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, in like form...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5008
  Powers of deputies. Deputy recorders duly appointed and qualified may perform any and all duties of the recorder in the name of the recorder,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5009
  Recorder liable for deputies. The recorder shall be liable for any neglect or omission of the duties of his office, when occasioned by a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5010
  Duties of recorder. Every recorder shall, as soon as practicable after the receipt of any instrument in writing in his office, entitled to be recorded,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5010.5
  Fraud referral and review. (a) Legislative findings. The General Assembly finds that property fraud, including fraudulent filings intended to cloud or fraudulently transfer title to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5011
  Office to remain open during bank holiday. Whenever an emergency exists which involves the banking or credit structure within the State of Illinois, and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5012
  Recording and indexing books. Separate books may be kept for the recording and indexing of different classes of instruments. Three distinct series of document...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5013
  Transcription or reproduction of written instruments. The recorder, when recording at length instruments in writing in his or her office, may transcribe the instruments...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5014
  Mortgages or liens filed but not recorded. Upon receipt of any mortgage, trust deed or conveyance of personal property having the effect of a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5015
  Certificates of discharge or release from active duty. Certificates of discharge or MEMBER-4 copy of certificate of release or discharge from active duty of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5016
  Quarters; office hours. Every Recorder shall keep his office at the courthouse of the county for which he is recorder, or in counties of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5017
  Time for opening and closing of office. When "An Act to provide for the standardization of time and providing penalties for violations thereof", approved...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5018
  Fees. The recorder elected as provided for in this Division shall receive such fees as are or may be provided for him or her by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5019
  Monthly list of conveyances. Immediately following each calendar month, the recorder, in counties with less than 1,000,000 inhabitants shall, upon their request, transmit copies...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5020
  Information to accompany conveyance documents. (a) In counties of the first and second class no recorder shall record any conveyance of real estate unless...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5020.5
  Information concerning recorded or filed instruments. Each instrument recorded or filed with the county recorder must contain the following: (1) The name and address...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5021
  Recording or registering instruments transferring title to real estate or a beneficial interest in real estate subject to a land trust. If any home...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5022
  Identification of person preparing instrument affecting title to real estate. No recorder shall record any instrument affecting title to real estate unless the name...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5023
  Receipt. On the receipt of any instrument in writing for recording or filing in a recorder's office, the recorder shall, when requested, give to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5024
  Certificate of time of filing. When any instrument in writing is recorded in the recorder's office, the recorder shall indorse upon such instrument a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5025
  Books. Every recorder shall keep the following books: 1. An entry book, in which he or she shall, immediately on the receipt of any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5026
  Name and address of grantee or grantees. No deed or other instrument which transfers the title to real property may be recorded unless and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5027
  Real estate index number system; counties of less than 1,000,000. In counties with a population of less than 1,000,000, the recorder, pursuant to ordinance...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5028
  Map making department; counties of less than 1,000,000. In counties with a population of less than 1,000,000, the recorder, pursuant to ordinance or resolution...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5029
  Map, plat or subdivision of land; penalty. No person shall offer or present for recording or record any map, plat or subdivision of land...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5030
  Deeds of sheriffs. Deeds and other instruments affecting real estate, made by a sheriff, executor, administrator, guardian, trustee or other person acting on behalf...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5031
  Penalty. If any recorder shall willfully fail to perform any duty imposed upon him by this Division, he shall be guilty of malfeasance in office,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5032
  Ancient records. All copies and transcripts of the ancient books, records and papers, bearing date prior to the 13th of July in the year...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5033
  County to furnish books, equipment and supplies. The county board of each county shall from time to time, as may be necessary, provide the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5034
  Transcription of records. When it shall appear to the county board that any books of record, entry books, indexes or abstract books, are likely...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5035
  Failure to comply. The receiving for record, or filing, of any instrument by a recorder of deeds or a registrar of titles which does...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5036
  Records open to inspection. All records, indices, abstract and other books kept in the office of any recorder, and all instruments filed therein and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5036.5
  Exchange of information for child support enforcement. (a) The Recorder shall exchange with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services information that may be necessary...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5037
  Instruments to be re-recorded; fee; penalty. In all cases where the records of any county have been or shall hereafter be destroyed by fire...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5038
  Judgment dockets. In all counties where a recorder is elected in which the recorder has heretofore been, or shall hereafter be required by the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5039
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-215, eff. 8-16-07.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5040
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-215, eff. 8-16-07.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5041
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-215, eff. 8-16-07.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5042
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-215, eff. 8-16-07.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5043
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-215, eff. 8-16-07.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5044
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 87-895. Repealed by P.A. 95-215, eff. 8-16-07.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5045
  Scope of liability in connection with Uniform Commercial Code. No recorder nor any of his employees or agents shall be subject to personal liability...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5046
  Quitclaim deed notification. Upon the recording or filing of a quitclaim deed on any property within a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-5047
  Removal of personal information. Upon request by any person, the recorder shall redact or remove that person's social security number, employer taxpayer identification number, driver's...

Division 3-6. Sheriff

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6001
  Commission. Every sheriff shall be commissioned by the Governor; but no commission shall issue except upon the certificate of the county clerk of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6001.5
  Sheriff qualifications. On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, except as otherwise provided in this Section, a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6002
  Commencement of duties. The sheriff shall enter upon the duties of his or her office on the first day in the month of December...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6003
  Bond. Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, he or she shall give bond, with 2 or more sufficient sureties (or,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6004
  Oath. He or she shall also, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6005
  Failure to give bond or take oath; vacancy. If any person elected or appointed to the office of sheriff, of any county, shall fail...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6006
  Copy of bond as evidence. Copies of such bonds, certified by the county clerk, or of the record thereof, certified by the clerk of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6007
  Training. Each sheriff shall obtain at least 20 hours of training, approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, relating to law enforcement...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6008
  Deputies. Each sheriff may appoint one or more deputies, not exceeding the number allowed by the county board of his or her county. No...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6009
  Appointment in writing. Such appointment shall be in writing, signed by the sheriff. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6010
  Oath of deputy. Each deputy shall, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6011
  Special deputies. A sheriff may appoint a special deputy to serve any summons issued out of a court, by indorsement thereon, substantially as follows:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6012
  Auxiliary deputies. The sheriff of any county in Illinois may, with the advice and consent of the county board appoint auxiliary deputies in such...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6012.1
  Court security officers. The sheriff of any county in Illinois with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants may hire court security officers in such number as...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6013
  Duties, training and compensation of auxiliary deputies. Auxiliary deputies shall not supplement members of the regular county police department or regular deputies in the performance...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6014
  Return by special deputy. Such special deputy shall make return in the time and manner of serving such process, under his or her oath,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6015
  Powers of deputies. Deputy sheriffs, duly appointed and qualified, may perform any and all the duties of the sheriff, in the name of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6016
  Sheriff liable for acts of deputy and auxiliary deputy. The sheriff shall be liable for any neglect or omission of the duties of his...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6017
  Sheriff custodian of courthouse and jail. He or she shall have the custody and care of the courthouse and jail of his or her...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6018
  Counties under 1,000,000; control of internal operations. In counties of less than 1 million population, the sheriff shall control the internal operations of his...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6019
  Duties of sheriff; office quarters and hours. Sheriffs shall serve and execute, within their respective counties, and return all warrants, process, orders and judgments of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6020
  Contempt of court; damages. The disobedience of any sheriff to perform the command of any warrant, process, order or judgment legally issued to him...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6021
  Conservator of the peace. Each sheriff shall be conservator of the peace in his or her county, and shall prevent crime and maintain the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6022
  Posse comitatus. To keep the peace, prevent crime, or to execute any warrant, process, order or judgment he or she may call to his...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6023
  Attendance at courts. Each sheriff shall, in person or by deputy, county corrections officer, or court security officer, attend upon all courts held in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6024
  Disability to hold other offices. No sheriff or deputy sheriff shall be eligible to the office of county treasurer, nor shall any county treasurer...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6025
  No practice as attorney or security for another. No sheriff or deputy sheriff shall appear in any court as attorney at law for any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6026
  No purchase of property at own sale. No sheriff or deputy sheriff shall become the purchaser, nor procure any other person to become the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6027
  Penalty for neglect to pay over money collected. If any sheriff unreasonably neglects to pay any money collected by him on execution, fee bill...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6028
  Delivery of papers and property to successor. When a sheriff leaves his or her office he or she shall deliver to his or her...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6029
  Completion of collections. Every sheriff leaving his or her office at the expiration of his or her term, and having any judgment or fee...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6030
  Vacancy; power of deputies. In case of a vacancy in the office of sheriff, every deputy in office under him or her having a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6031
  Sheriff in military service. If any sheriff enters into the active military service of the United States, the office of sheriff shall not be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6032
  Minor identification and protection. The sheriff of each county shall comply with the requirements of Section 3 of the Minor Identification and Protection Act....
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6033
  Citizenship and residence. It is unlawful for the sheriff of any county of fewer than 1,000,000 inhabitants, or the corporate authorities of any city,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6034
  Violations. Any sheriff or public officer violating the provision of Section 3-6033 shall be deemed guilty of a petty offense. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6035
  Supervisor of Safety. The office of Supervisor of Safety is hereby created for each county to be held by the Sheriff of the county....
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6036
  Powers and duties of Supervisor of Safety. The Supervisor of Safety shall enforce all the laws of this State and, within the municipalities in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6037
  Salary of Supervisor of Safety. The county board may allow the Supervisor of Safety an annual salary in an amount determined by the board....
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6038
  County impact incarceration program. (a) With the approval of the county board, the sheriff in any county with 3,000,000 or fewer inhabitants may operate an...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-6039
  County juvenile impact incarceration program. (a) With the approval of the county board, the Department of Probation and Court Services in any county shall have...

Division 3-7. Cook County Sheriff's Merit Board

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7001
  Maintenance of county police department. The Sheriff in each county having more than 1,000,000 inhabitants shall maintain a division to be known as the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7002
  Cook County Sheriff's Merit Board. There is created the Cook County Sheriff's Merit Board, hereinafter called the Board, consisting of 7 members appointed by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7003
  Compensation and expenses of board members. Each member of the Board shall receive compensation for each day during which he is engaged in transacting...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7004
  Clerical and technical staff assistants. The Board is authorized to employ such clerical and technical staff assistants as may be necessary to enable the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7005
  Meetings. As soon as practicable after the members of the Board have been appointed, they shall meet, upon the call of the Sheriff, and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7006
  Rules, regulations and procedures; ranks. Pursuant to recognized merit principles of public employment, the Board shall formulate, adopt, and put into effect rules, regulations...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7007
  Compensation for ranks. The Board shall propose to the County Board the range of compensation for each of the designated ranks or propose a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7008
  Appointments. The appointment of deputy sheriffs in the Police Department, full-time deputy sheriffs not employed as county police officers or county corrections officers and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7009
  Promotions. Promotion of deputy sheriffs in the County Police Department, full-time deputy sheriffs not employed as county police officers or county corrections officers, and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7010
  Rules governing appointments and promotions. All appointments and promotions shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Division and the rules and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7011
  Disciplinary measures. Disciplinary measures prescribed by the Board may be taken by the sheriff for the punishment of infractions of the rules and regulations...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7012
  Removal, demotion or suspension. Except as is otherwise provided in this Division, no deputy sheriff in the County Police Department, no full-time deputy sheriff...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7013
  Political activities. No deputy sheriff in the County Police Department and no employee in the County Department of Corrections shall participate in any manner...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7014
  Appropriations. A sufficient sum of money shall be appropriated each year by the county board to carry out the provisions of this Division in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7015
  Investigations by Board. The Board shall investigate the enforcement of this Division and its rules, and the conduct and action of the appointees herein...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7016
  Certification of appointments, vacancies and findings. The Board shall certify to the county clerk or other auditing officers, all appointments to offices and places...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-7017
  Payments of salaries or wages. No county clerk, comptroller or other auditing officer of the county shall approve the payment of, or be in...

Division 3-8. Sheriff's Merit System

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8001
  Subtitle. This Division shall be subtitled the "Sheriff's Merit System Law". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8002
  Applicability and adoption. The county board of every county having a county police department merit board established under "The County Police Department Act", approved...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8003
  Appointment of Merit Commission. Any ordinance providing for the adoption and implementation of a merit system under this Division shall provide for the appointment...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8004
  Removal of Merit Commission. No member of a Merit Commission shall be removed except for palpable incompetence or malfeasance in office upon written charges...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8005
  Meetings; officers. As soon as practicable after the members of the Merit Commission have been appointed, the sheriff shall call the first meeting and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8006
  Appropriations. A sufficient sum of money shall be provided each year by the county board to carry out the provisions of this Division. The...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8007
  Duties and jurisdiction of commission. The Merit Commission shall have the duties, pursuant to recognized merit principles of public employment, of certification for employment...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8008
  Prior appointments. Notwithstanding anything in this Division to the contrary, any person certified pursuant to a merit system in effect before January 1, 1981...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8009
  Rules and regulations. Pursuant to recognized merit principles of public employment, the Commission shall formulate, adopt and put into effect, rules, regulations and procedures...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8010
  Certification of applicants. The appointment of all personnel subject to the jurisdiction of the Merit Commission shall be made by the sheriff from those...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8011
  Certification for promotion. Whenever a position in a higher rank is to be filled, the Merit Commission shall certify to the sheriff the names...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8012
  Political affiliation. All appointments and promotions shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Division and the rules and regulations of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8013
  Disciplinary measures. Disciplinary measures for actions violating either the rules and regulations of the Commission or the internal procedures of the sheriff's office may be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8014
  Removal, demotion or suspension. Except as is otherwise provided in this Division, no certified person shall be removed, demoted or suspended except for cause, upon...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8015
  Subpoenas; witnesses' fees; perjury. Any person who shall be served with a subpoena to appear and testify, or to produce books and papers, issued...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8016
  Reports to Merit Commission. The sheriff shall promptly notify the Merit Commission of all appointments, permanent or temporary, all promotions, suspensions, resignations or vacancies...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8017
  Enforcement of orders. If any provision of this Division or any order of the Merit Commission is violated by any person, regardless of whether...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-8018
  Multi-county operation. The county boards of 2 or more counties may, by enactment of uniform reciprocal ordinances consistent with this Division create a multi-county...

Division 3-9. State's Attorney

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9001
  Oath; bond. Before entering upon the respective duties of their office, the state's attorneys shall each be commissioned by the governor, and shall take...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9002
  Commencement of duties. The State's attorney shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day in the month of December following...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9003
  Additional bond. Whenever the circuit court shall deem the bond filed by any State's attorney insufficient, the circuit court may require additional bond, in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9004
  Failure to give bond or take oath. If any person elected to the office of State's attorney shall fail to give bond, or take...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9005
  Powers and duties of State's attorney. (a) The duty of each State's attorney shall be: (1) To commence and prosecute all actions, suits, indictments and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9006
  Internal operations of office; simultaneous county board tenure. (a) Internal operations of the office. The State's Attorney shall control the internal operations of his or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9007
  Home rule unit liquor tax ordinance; prosecutions. Where any county, municipality or other unit of local government has adopted any ordinance or other regulation imposing...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9008
  Appointment of attorney to perform duties. (a) Whenever the State's attorney is sick or absent, or unable to attend, or is interested in any cause...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9009
  Private fee and employment prohibited. The State's attorney shall not receive any fee or reward from or in behalf of any private person for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9010
  State's Attorney serving 2 or more counties. Whenever the county boards of 2 or more counties desire that one State's attorney be elected to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9011
  Form of proposition; election. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall one State's Attorney YESbe elected to serve the counties...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9012
  Compensation. A State's attorney who serves 2 or more counties shall receive such compensation from the State Treasury as is provided by law for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-9013
  Pension funds; job-related felony. If an employee who is covered under a retirement system or pension fund created under the Illinois Pension Code is convicted...

Division 3-10. Treasurer

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10001
  Election of county treasurer; commencement of duties. In all counties there shall be an elected treasurer who shall hold office until his successor shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10002
  Oath. Each treasurer, before entering upon the duties of his office shall take and subscribe to the oath or affirmation prescribed by Section 3,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10003
  Bond; form. Each County treasurer, before he or she enters upon the duties of his or her office, shall also execute a bond (or,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10004
  Commission. The county treasurer shall be commissioned by the Governor. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10005
  Functions, powers and duties of treasurer. The treasurer has those functions, powers and duties as provided in the Sections following this Section and preceding...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10005.1
  Internal operations of office. The treasurer shall control the internal operations of his office and procure necessary equipment, materials and services to perform the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10005.2
  Monthly report of financial status. The treasurer shall file a monthly report with the county clerk and chairman of the county board summarizing the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10005.3
  Special funds. The treasurer may maintain the following special funds from which the county board shall authorize payment by voucher between board meetings: (a)...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10005.4
  Compensation of deputies and employees. Compensation of deputies and employees not otherwise provided for by law shall be fixed by the treasurer subject to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10005.5
  Training program. Within 60 days after assuming office, each county treasurer shall apply to the State Comptroller for admission to the Comptroller's county treasurer...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10006
  Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Division shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10007
  Annual stipend. In addition to all other compensation provided by law, every elected county treasurer, for additional duties mandated by State law, shall receive an...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10008
  Office hours. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the county treasurer shall keep his office open and attend to the duties thereof from eight...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10009
  Deposit of public funds. (a) In counties having a population of less than 150,000 the county board, when requested by the county treasurer, shall designate...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10010
  Books of account. Every county treasurer shall keep proper books of account whether mechanically, electronically or otherwise produced, used and maintained, and in whatever...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10011
  Inspection of books of account. Said books of account shall be free to the inspection of all persons wishing to examine the same. (Source:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10012
  County orders. When any county order is presented to him to be countersigned, the county treasurer shall personally countersign the same, and shall also...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10013
  Orders to be filled up and authorized. The county treasurer shall not countersign any county order before the same is filled up, nor until...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10014
  Payment of money. No money or funds shall be paid out of any county treasury, except in accordance with an order of the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10015
  Report to county board. The county treasurer of each county shall report to the county board, at each regular term thereof, the amount of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10016
  Inspection of reports. Said reports shall be filed and preserved in the office of the county clerk, and be free to the inspection of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10017
  Account and settlement. The county treasurer shall, at any time when required by the county board, render an account and make settlement with the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10018
  Half-yearly settlements. It shall be the duty of the county board, at least once every six months, to examine the books of account of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10019
  Examination under oath. The county board of each county shall have power at any time to examine the county treasurer under oath, touching any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10020
  Removal for cause; other vacancy. If any county treasurer shall neglect or refuse to render an account, or make settlement at any time when required...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-10021
  Neglect of duty; penalty. If any treasurer of any county in this State shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties required...

Division 3-11. County Treasurers in Counties Over 150,000 Population - Public Funds

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11001
  Terms construed. The terms mentioned in this Section as used in this Division shall, unless the same be inconsistent with the context, be construed...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11002
  Designation of depositories. (a) In counties having a population of more than 150,000 the county board, when requested by the County Treasurer, shall designate one...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11003
  Classification of funds. For the purpose of establishing a control over the withdrawal, in accordance with the provisions of this Division, of all county moneys...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11004
  Deposits by county treasurer. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer of such county to deposit daily, in separate accounts in accordance with...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11004.1
  Posting requirements for uncashed checks. No later than 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, for the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11005
  Earnings from investments and deposits. All earnings accruing on any investments or deposits made by the County Treasurer whether acting as such or as...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11006
  Investment of county moneys; release of private funds in custody of county treasurer. (a) All county moneys shall be invested in one or more of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11007
  Monthly report of investments and deposits. On the twenty-eighth day of each month the county treasurer shall publish a report disclosing the investments and deposits...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11008
  Withdrawals. When county moneys have been deposited in any such depository they shall be withdrawn therefrom only in the following manner: Funds designated in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11009
  Petty cash fund. For the purpose of enabling the county treasurer to pay in cash such warrants and other demands as may be presented to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11010
  Equalization and transfer of deposits. For the purpose of facilitating the equalization or apportionment of the amount of the balances on deposit with the several...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11011
  Designation of active depository. Of the banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions which may have been so designated as depositories, one...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11012
  Record of deposits. The county treasurer shall keep in his office a record showing the date and aggregate amount received by him daily on...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11013
  Annual report of interest received. The county treasurer shall make to the county clerk an annual report, under oath, of all interest received by the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11014
  Cost of bonds to be paid by county. The premium on all bonds required of the county treasurer in any official capacity by the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11015
  Liability of treasurer. The county treasurer shall be discharged from responsibility for all moneys deposited by him pursuant to the terms of this Division,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11016
  Expenses of suit by or against treasurer. All reasonable expenses incurred by the county treasurer in prosecuting or defending suits or actions brought by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11017
  No retention of compensation other than salary. The county treasurer shall retain no fees, commissions or other compensation whatsoever, except his salary or other...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11018
  Payment of interest or fees on deposits. No bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union holding county moneys deposited therewith by the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11019
  No personal profit; penalty. The making of a personal profit or emolument by the incumbent of the office of county treasurer or by any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-11020
  Applicability to counties. This Division and all of the provisions thereof shall apply in every county of this State now containing, or which may...

Division 3-12. Merit Employment System

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12001
  Creation or abolition of Personnel Policy Commission. The County Board of any county having a population of 350,000 or more but less than 1,000,000...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12002
  Definitions. The following words and terms found in this Division have the meaning defined in this Section unless the context clearly indicates that a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12003
  Classified and unclassified service. The county service shall be divided into the classified and unclassified service. All offices and positions of the county shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12004
  Membership of commission. (a) There shall be a Personnel Policy Commission consisting of 5 members selected from the general public by the county board...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12005
  Powers and duties of commission. The commission shall: (a) be empowered to promulgate and amend rules, pertaining to the merit employment system, within the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12006
  Director of Personnel. The Director of Personnel shall be a person experienced in the field of personnel administration, particularly in the application of merit...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12007
  Proposed rules for classified service. (a) The Director of Personnel shall prepare and submit to the commission proposed rules for the classified service. The...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12008
  Permanent status of incumbent employees. Upon the initial implementation of this Division, incumbent employees may obtain permanent status as follows: (a) Employees holding positions...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12009
  Political activity by employees. (a) No employee shall: (1) Use any political endorsement in connection with any appointment to a position in the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12010
  Unlawful discrimination prohibited. (a) No unlawful discrimination as that term is defined in the Illinois Human Rights Act, shall be exercised in any manner...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12011
  Certain statements and acts prohibited. (a) No person shall make any false statement, certificate, mark, rating or report with regard to any test, certification...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12012
  Cooperation with governmental agencies. The Director of Personnel, acting in behalf of the county board, shall, as practicable, cooperate with other governmental agencies charged...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-12013
  Violations; prosecution. Any person who wilfully or through culpable negligence violates this Division, or any commission, examiner, agent or employee of the commission, or...

Division 3-13. Accounts and Annual Reports

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-13001
  Account of fees received by county officers. Every county officer of counties of the first and second classes who collects fees shall, in a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-13002
  Books of account; violations. In counties of the third class, there shall be formulated, installed and regulated in offices of every county officer, (hereinafter...

Division 3-14. Officers and Employees in Cook County

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14001
  Appointment of officers and employees; salaries and bond. All officers and employees of the county of Cook, in the classification hereinafter provided for, except...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14002
  Position-classification agency. The Board of Commissioners shall have the authority to create a position-classification agency and to delegate to such agency the power to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14002.5
  Power to deduct wages for debts. (a) Upon receipt of notice from the comptroller of a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14003
  Department of construction, maintenance and operation. The Board of Commissioners shall have the authority to create and maintain a department of construction, maintenance and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14004
  Department of central services. The Board of Commissioners shall have the authority to create and maintain a department of central services to which may...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14005
  Budget department. The board of commissioners shall create and maintain a budget department to prepare an executive budget for the County of Cook as...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14006
  Creation of bureau of administration. The Board of Commissioners of Cook County shall create and maintain a bureau of administration which shall be headed...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14007
  Chief administrative officer. The chief administrative officer shall be a professional administrator experienced in public administration. He shall serve at the pleasure of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14008
  Powers and duties of chief administrative officer. The chief administrative officer shall be responsible for the management and direction of the bureau of administration...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14009
  Department of management services. The department of management services shall encompass systems and procedures, planning of data processing, administrative analysis, and related management staff...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14010
  Department of Data Processing. The Board of Commissioners has authority to create and maintain a Department of Data Processing to which may be assigned...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14011
  Civil service commission. The president of the county board shall at the first regular meeting of the first day after July, A. D. 1895,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14012
  Removal of commissioners; vacancy. The president may, in his discretion, remove any commissioner for incompetence, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. The president...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14013
  Classification of offices and places. Said commissioners shall classify all the offices and places of employment in said county with reference to the examination...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14014
  Rules. Said commission shall make rules to carry out the purposes of this Division, and for examinations, appointments and removals in accordance with its...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14015
  Publication of rules and effective date. All rules made as hereinbefore provided, and all changes therein, shall forthwith be printed for distribution by said...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14016
  Examination. of applicants. All applicants for offices or places in said classified service, except those mentioned in Section 3-14022 shall be subjected to examination,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14017
  Notice of examination. Notice of the time and place and general scope and fee of every examination shall be given by the commission by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14018
  Registers of candidates. From the returns or reports of the examiners, or from the examinations made by the commission, the commission shall prepare a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14019
  Promotions. The Commission shall, by its rules, provide for promotion in such classified service, on the basis of ascertained merit, examination and seniority in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14020
  Appointments to classified service. The head of the institution, department or office in which a position classified under this Division is to be filled,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14021
  Preference to veterans in appointments. Persons who were engaged in the military or naval service of the United States during the years 1898, 1899,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14022
  Exemptions. The following offices, positions and places of employment are hereby exempted from the provisions of this Division: officers elected by the people; the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14023
  Removals from classified service. No officer or employee in the classified service of the county, who shall have been appointed under said rules and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14024
  Lay-offs. Whenever it becomes necessary through lack of work or funds, or whenever a position is abolished and the number of employees in a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14025
  Reports to commission. Immediate notice in writing shall be given by the appointing power to said commission of all appointments, permanent or temporary, made...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14026
  Investigations. The commission shall investigate the enforcement of this Division and its rules, and the action of examiners herein provided for and the conduct...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14027
  Report of commission. Said commission shall on or before the first Monday of September of each year make to the president for transmission to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14028
  Chairman and secretary. The civil service commission shall select one of their own number to act as chairman and one as secretary. The secretary...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14029
  County officers to aid commission. All officers of said county shall aid said commission in all proper ways in carrying out the provisions of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14030
  Salaries and expenses. Each of said civil service commissioners and the personnel director and chief examiner shall receive a salary to be fixed by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14031
  Appropriations. A sufficient sum of money shall be appropriated each year by said board to carry out the provisions of this Division in said...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14032
  Frauds prohibited. No person or officer shall wilfully or corruptly, by himself or cooperation with any one or more other persons, defeat, deceive or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14033
  Soliciting or receiving political contributions prohibited. No officer or employee in the classified civil service of said county, or named in Section 3-14022, shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14034
  Solicitation of political contributions from officers or employees prohibited. No person shall solicit orally or by letter, or be in any manner concerned in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14035
  Soliciting or delivering political contributions in public offices forbidden. No person shall in any room or building occupied for the discharge of official duties...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14036
  Payments of political contributions to public officers prohibited. No officer or employee in the classified civil service of said county, or named in Section...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14037
  Abuse of political influence prohibited. No officer or employee in said classified service, or named in Section 3-14022, shall discharge or degrade, or promote,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14038
  Payment for appointment or promotion prohibited. No applicant for appointment in said classified civil service, or to a position named in Section 3-14022, either...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14039
  Recommendations in consideration of political service prohibited. No applicant for appointment or promotion in classified civil service shall ask for or receive a recommendation...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14040
  Disallowance of certain claims. No accounting or auditing officer shall allow the claim of any public officer for services of any deputy or other...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14041
  Certification of appointments and vacancies. The commission shall certify to the county clerk or other auditing officers, all appointments to offices and places in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14042
  Comptroller to pay salaries only after certification. No county clerk, comptroller or other auditing officer of said county shall approve the payment of, or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14043
  Subpoenas; witness fees. Any person who shall be served with a subpoena to appear and testify, or to produce books and papers, issued by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14044
  Penalties. Any person who shall wilfully, or through culpable negligence violate any of the provisions of this Division or any rule promulgated in accordance...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14045
  Vacancy upon conviction; disqualification. If any person shall be convicted under the next preceding Section, any public office or place of public employment, which...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14046
  Prosecution for violations. Prosecutions for violations of this Division may be instituted either by the Attorney General, the State's attorney for the county in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14047
  Audit committee. The board of commissioners may establish an audit committee, and may appoint members of the board or other appropriate officers to the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14048
  County auditor. In the County of Cook, there is hereby created the office of auditor who shall be appointed by the President of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-14049
  Appointment of physicians and nurses for the poor and mentally ill persons. The appointment, employment and removal by the Board of Commissioners of Cook...

Division 3-15. County Department of Corrections

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15001
  Subtitle. This Division shall be subtitled the County Department of Corrections Law. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15002
  Creation. In any county having more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, there is created within the office of the Sheriff a Department of Corrections, referred to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15003
  Powers and duties. Under the direction of the Sheriff the Department shall have the powers and duties enumerated as follows: (a) To operate and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15003.5
  County impact incarceration program. (a) Under the direction of the Sheriff and with the approval of the County Board of Commissioners, the Sheriff in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15003.6
  Pregnant female prisoners. (a) Definitions. For the purpose of this Section: (1) "Restraints" means any physical restraint or mechanical device used to control the movement...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15004
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-448, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15005
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-448, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15006
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-448, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15007
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-448, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15008
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-448, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15009
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-448, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15010
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-448, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15011
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 95-448, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15012
  Director. The Sheriff shall appoint a Director to act as the chief executive and administrative officer of the Department. The Director shall be appointed by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15013
  Employees. The number of employees of the Department shall be fixed by order of the judges of the circuit court of the county. The...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15014
  Annual budget recommendations. The members of the Board shall recommend an annual budget to the Sheriff. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15015
  Appropriations. The County Board must appropriate and provide funds for the necessary ordinary and contingent cost incurred by the office of the Sheriff in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 3-15016
  Liability for expenses. The County Board may require convicted persons confined in a facility of the Department to reimburse the county for the expenses...

Last modified: February 18, 2015