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PROPOSED ORDINANCE
ELECTRONIC COMPILED DATA ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners that Chapter 2 Administration, Article IV Officers and Employees, Division 3 Recorder of Deeds, Subdivision I General, Section 2-207 of the Cook County Code of Ordinances is hereby created as follows:
Sec 2-207. Electronic Compiled Data
(a) This Section shall be known as and be cited as the "Electronic Compiled Data Ordinance."
(b) The Office of the Recorder of Deeds is granted authority to enter into contractual agreements with commercial and noncommercial entities or persons (hereinafter referred to as "Subscriber") for the purpose of the Recorder providing non-exclusive access to Electronic Compiled Data from the Recorder's Computerized Indexing System in accordance with the provisions of 55 ILCS5/5-1106.1 and the terms set forth herein.
(c) The "Electronic Compiled Data" is data that is electronically aggregated from documents recorded in connection with property transaction records that are individually available to the general public for free via the internet services of the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, but which for a fee, can be have been aggregated in a compiled format that is not otherwise maintained in regular course of business by the Office of the Recorder of Deeds for a fee.
(d) Access to Electronic Compiled Complied Data by Subscriber shall occur only upon execution of an Access Agreement and payment of the required annual subscription fee.
(e) The County and the Office of the Recorder of Deeds shall be held harmless and indemnified by Subscriber for the compilation and use of the Electronic Compiled Data acquired pursuant to Access Agreements. The County and Office of the Recorder of Deeds shall make no guarantee as to the accuracy of the Electronic Compiled Data and the same shall be provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to, warranties of perfo...
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