For the purposes of the fee charged, the ordinance or resolution shall divide documents into the classifications specified in subsection (c), and shall establish a single, all-inclusive county and State-imposed aggregate predictable fee charged for each classification of document at the time of recording for that document. Each document, unless otherwise provided in this Section, shall fall within one of the document class predictable fee classifications set by subsection (c), and fees for each document class shall be charged only as allowed by this Section.
Before approval of an ordinance or resolution under this subsection that creates or modifies a predictable fee schedule, the recorder or county clerk shall post a notice in the recorder's or clerk's office at least 2 weeks prior, but not more than 4 weeks prior, to the public meeting at which the ordinance or resolution may be adopted. The notice shall contain the proposed ordinance or resolution number, if any, the proposed document class predictable fees for each classification, and a reference to this Section and this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly. A predictable fee schedule takes effect 60 days after an ordinance or resolution is adopted, unless the fee schedule was previously created and the ordinance or resolution is a modification allowed under this Section.
Nothing in this Section precludes a county board from adjusting amounts or allocations within a given document class predictable fee when the document class predictable fee is not increased or precludes an alternate predictable fee schedule for electronic recording within each of the classifications under subsection (c).
The county board may, by ordinance or resolution, increase the fees allowed in the predictable fee schedule if the increase is justified by an acceptable cost study or internal analysis of a minimum of 3 years showing that the fees allowed by this Section are not sufficient to cover the cost of providing the service.
A statement of the cost of providing each service, program, and activity shall be prepared by the county board. All supporting documents to the statement are public records and subject to public examination and audit. All direct and indirect costs, as defined in the United States Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87, may be included in the determination of the costs of each service, program, and activity.
If the Rental Housing Support Program State surcharge is amended and the surcharge is increased or lowered, the aggregate amount of the document predictable fee attributable to the surcharge in the document may be changed accordingly. If any fee or surcharge is changed by State statute, the county may increase the document class fees by the same amount without any cost study.
The aggregate fee for recording a nonstandard document shall not be less than $31 (being a minimum $13 county fee plus $18 for the Rental Housing Support Program State surcharge). A county may adopt by ordinance and publish with its fee schedule an additional fee or formula for a document that makes specific reference to more than 5 tax parcels, units, property identification numbers, or document numbers.
The fees allowed under this subsection apply to all records, regardless of when they were recorded, based on current recording fees. These predictable fees for certified and non-certified copies shall apply to portions of documents and to copies provided in any format, including paper, microfilm, or electronic. A county may adopt a per-line pricing structure for copies of information in database format.
The recorder shall not collect the Rental Housing Support Program State surcharge from any State agency, unit of local government, or school district.
On the 15th day of each month, each county recorder shall report to the Department of Revenue, on a form prescribed by the Department, the number of real estate-related documents recorded for which the Rental Housing Support Program State surcharge was collected. Each recorder shall submit $18 of each surcharge collected in the preceding month to the Department of Revenue and the Department shall deposit these amounts in the Rental Housing Support Program Fund. Subject to appropriation, amounts in the Fund may be expended only for the purpose of funding and administering the Rental Housing Support Program.
As used in this subsection, "real estate-related document" means that term as it is defined in Section 7 of the Rental Housing Support Program Act.
55 ILCS 5/3-5018.2