HB1405 Summary

• Amends the Counties Code to clarify recorder fee structure, including $12 base fee for recording deeds (first 4 pages) plus $1 per additional page, with specific provisions for assignments, maps, plats, and copies.

• Authorizes county boards to impose additional $3 charges per filed instrument for implementing document storage systems, micrographics, and Internet access to records.

• Modifies the Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act to dissolve the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District one year after enactment, transferring assets, liabilities, and employees to Cook County while expanding the fund's purpose to include prevention and control of "other communicable airborne diseases."

• Amends the Animal Control Act to differentiate fee usage by county population: counties under 3,000,000 population and counties with 3,000,000 or more population have separate provisions for using collected fees for livestock claims, rabies prevention, and animal control costs.