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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
PREDICTABLE RECORDING FEE 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 II. - Fees, Sections 2-210 through 2-217, shall be amended as follows:
Subdivision II. - Fees
Sec. 2-210. - Predictable Recording Fees.
(a) Pursuant to 55 ILCS 5/4-12002.1, effective January 1, 2019, third class counties are required to adopt and implement, by ordinance or resolution, a predictable fee schedule that eliminates surcharges or fees based on the individual attributes of a standard document to be recorded. Under a predictable fee schedule, which only applies to standard documents as defined by 55 ILCS 5/4-12002.1, no charge shall be based on: page count; number, length, or type of legal descriptions; number of tax identification or other parcel identifying code numbers; number of common addresses; number of references contained as to other recorded documents or document numbers; or any other individual attribute of the document except as expressly provided in 55 ILCS 5/4-12002.1.
(b) For nonstandard documents, the fees imposed by Section 55 ILCS 5/3-5018 and/or Section 55 ILCS 5/4-12002 shall remain in effect.
(c) As defined by 55 ILCS 5/4-12002.1(a), "nonstandard document" means:
(1) a document that creates a division of a then active existing tax parcel identification number;
(2) a document recorded pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code;
(3) a document which is non-conforming, as described in paragraphs (1) through (5) of Section 4-12002 [55 ILCS 5/4-12002];
(4) a State lien or a federal lien;
(5) a document making specific reference to more than 5 tax parcel identification numbers in the county in which it is presented for recording; or
(6) a document making specific reference to more than 5 other document numbers recorded in the county in which it is presented for recording.
(d) A...
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