30 ILCS 230/ - State Officers and Employees Money Disposition Act.

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(30 ILCS 230/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 170) Sec. 1. Application of Act; exemptions. The officers of the Executive Department of the State Government, the Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Clerks of the Appellate Courts, the Departments of the State government created by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, and all other officers, boards, commissions, commissioners, departments, institutions, arms or agencies, or agents of the Executive Department of the State government except the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago State University, Eastern Illinois University, Governors State University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, Northern Illinois University, Western Illinois University, the Cooperative Computer Center, and the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Bank Examiners' Education Foundation for moneys collected pursuant to subsection (11) of Section 48 of the Illinois Banking Act for purposes of the Illinois Bank Examiners' Education Program are subject to this Act. This Act shall not apply, however, to any of the following: (i) the receipt by any such officer of federal funds made available under such conditions as precluded the payment thereof into the State Treasury, (ii) (blank), (iii) the Director of Insurance in his capacity as rehabilitator or liquidator under Article XIII of the Illinois Insurance Code, (iv) funds received by the Illinois State Scholarship Commission from private firms employed by the State to collect delinquent amounts due and owing from a borrower on any loans guaranteed by such Commission under the Higher Education Student Assistance Law or on any "eligible loans" as that term is defined under the Education Loan Purchase Program Law, or (v) moneys collected on behalf of lessees of facilities of the Department of Agriculture located on the Illinois State Fairgrounds at Springfield and DuQuoin. This Section 1 shall not apply to the receipt of funds required to be deposited in the Industrial Project Fund pursuant to Section 12 of the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Act. (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)

(30 ILCS 230/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 171) Sec. 2. Accounts of money received; payment into State treasury. (a) Every officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institution, arm or agency brought within the provisions of this Act by Section 1 shall keep in proper books a detailed itemized account of all moneys received for or on behalf of the State of Illinois, showing the date of receipt, the payor, and purpose and amount, and the date and manner of disbursement as hereinafter provided, and, unless a different time of payment is expressly provided by law or by rules or regulations promulgated under subsection (b) of this Section, shall pay into the State treasury the gross amount of money so received on the day of actual physical receipt with respect to any single item of receipt exceeding $10,000, within 24 hours of actual physical receipt with respect to an accumulation of receipts of $10,000 or more, or within 48 hours of actual physical receipt with respect to an accumulation of receipts exceeding $500 but less than $10,000, disregarding holidays, Saturdays and Sundays, after the receipt of same, without any deduction on account of salaries, fees, costs, charges, expenses or claims of any description whatever; provided that: (1) the provisions of (i) Section 2505-475 of the

Department of Revenue Law (20 ILCS 2505/2505-475), (ii) any specific taxing statute authorizing a claim for credit procedure instead of the actual making of refunds, (iii) Section 505 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, (iv) Section 85 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, authorizing the Director of State Police to dispose of forfeited property, which includes the sale and disposition of the proceeds of the sale of forfeited property, and the Department of Central Management Services to be reimbursed for costs incurred with the sales of forfeited vehicles, boats or aircraft and to pay to bona fide or innocent purchasers, conditional sales vendors or mortgagees of such vehicles, boats or aircraft their interest in such vehicles, boats or aircraft, and (v) Section 6b-2 of the State Finance Act, establishing procedures for handling cash receipts from the sale of pari-mutuel wagering tickets, shall not be deemed to be in conflict with the requirements of this Section;

(2) any fees received by the State Registrar of Vital

Records pursuant to the Vital Records Act which are insufficient in amount may be returned by the Registrar as provided in that Act;

(3) any fees received by the Department of Public

Health under the Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act that are submitted for renewal of an expired food service sanitation manager certificate may be returned by the Director as provided in that Act;

(3.5) the State Treasurer may permit the deduction of

fees by third-party unclaimed property examiners from the property recovered by the examiners for the State of Illinois during examinations of holders located outside the State under which the Office of the Treasurer has agreed to pay for the examinations based upon a percentage, in accordance with the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, of the property recovered during the examination; and

(4) if the amount of money received does not exceed

$500, such money may be retained and need not be paid into the State treasury until the total amount of money so received exceeds $500, or until the next succeeding 1st or 15th day of each month (or until the next business day if these days fall on Sunday or a holiday), whichever is earlier, at which earlier time such money shall be paid into the State treasury, except that if a local bank or savings and loan association account has been authorized by law, any balances shall be paid into the State treasury on Monday of each week if more than $500 is to be deposited in any fund.

Single items of receipt exceeding $10,000 received after 2 p.m. on a working day may be deemed to have been received on the next working day for purposes of fulfilling the requirement that the item be deposited on the day of actual physical receipt. No money belonging to or left for the use of the State shall be expended or applied except in consequence of an appropriation made by law and upon the warrant of the State Comptroller. However, payments made by the Comptroller to persons by direct deposit need not be made upon the warrant of the Comptroller, but if not made upon a warrant, shall be made in accordance with Section 9.02 of the State Comptroller Act. All moneys so paid into the State treasury shall, unless required by some statute to be held in the State treasury in a separate or special fund, be covered into the General Revenue Fund in the State treasury. Moneys received in the form of checks, drafts or similar instruments shall be properly endorsed, if necessary, and delivered to the State Treasurer for collection. The State Treasurer shall remit such collected funds to the depositing officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institution, arm or agency by Treasurers Draft or through electronic funds transfer. The draft or notification of the electronic funds transfer shall be provided to the State Comptroller to allow deposit into the appropriate fund. (b) Different time periods for the payment of public funds into the State treasury or to the State Treasurer, in excess of the periods established in subsection (a) of this Section, but not in excess of 30 days after receipt of such funds, may be established and revised from time to time by rules or regulations promulgated jointly by the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. The different time periods established by rule or regulation under this subsection may vary according to the nature and amounts of the funds received, the locations at which the funds are received, whether compliance with the deposit requirements specified in subsection (a) of this Section would be cost effective, and such other circumstances and conditions as the promulgating authorities consider to be appropriate. The Treasurer and the Comptroller shall review all such different time periods established pursuant to this subsection every 2 years from the establishment thereof and upon such review, unless it is determined that it is economically unfeasible for the agency to comply with the provisions of subsection (a), shall repeal such different time period. (Source: P.A. 100-22, eff. 1-1-18.)

(30 ILCS 230/2a) (from Ch. 127, par. 172) Sec. 2a. Every officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institute, arm, or agency to whom or to which this Act applies is to notify the State Treasurer as to money paid to him, her, or it under protest as provided in Section 2a.1, and the Treasurer is to place the money in a special fund to be known as the protest fund. At the expiration of 30 days from the date of payment, the money is to be transferred from the protest fund to the appropriate fund in which it would have been placed had there been payment without protest unless the party making that payment under protest has filed a complaint and secured within that 30 days a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction, restraining the making of that transfer and unless, in addition, within that 30 days, a copy of the temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction has been served upon the State Treasurer and also upon the officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institute, arm, or agency to whom or to which the payment under protest was made, in which case the payment and such other payments as are subsequently made under notice of protest, as provided in Section 2a.1, by the same person, the transfer of which payments is restrained by such temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction, are to be held in the protest fund until the final order or judgment of the court. The judicial remedy herein provided, however, relates only to questions which must be decided by the court in determining the proper disposition of the moneys paid under protest. Any authorized payment from the protest fund shall bear simple interest at a rate equal to the average of the weekly rates at issuance on 13-week U.S. Treasury Bills from the date of deposit into the protest fund to the date of disbursement from the protest fund. In cases involving temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions entered March 10, 1982, or thereafter, pursuant to this Section, when the party paying under protest fails in the protest action the State Treasurer shall determine if any moneys paid under protest were paid as a result of assessments under the following provisions: the Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, the Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act, the Municipal Use Tax Act, the Municipal Automobile Renting Occupation Tax Act, the Municipal Automobile Renting Use Tax Act, Section 8-11-9 of the Illinois Municipal Code, the Tourism, Conventions and Other Special Events Promotion Act of 1967, the County Automobile Renting Occupation Tax Act, the County Automobile Renting Use Tax Act, Section 5-1034 of the Counties Code, Section 5.01 of the Local Mass Transit District Act, the Downstate Public Transportation Act, Section 4.03 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act, subsections (c) and (d) of Section 201 of the Illinois Income Tax Act, Section 2a.1 of the Messages Tax Act, Section 2a.1 of the Gas Revenue Tax Act, Section 2a.1 of the Public Utilities Revenue Act, and the Water Company Invested Capital Tax Act. Any such moneys paid under protest shall bear simple interest at a rate equal to the average of the weekly rates at issuance on 13-week U.S. Treasury Bills from the date of deposit into the protest fund to the date of disbursement from the protest fund. It is unlawful for the Clerk of a court, a bank or any person other than the State Treasurer to be appointed as trustee with respect to any purported payment under protest, or otherwise to be authorized by a court to hold any purported payment under protest, during the pendency of the litigation involving such purported payment under protest, it being the expressed intention of the General Assembly that no one is to act as custodian of any such purported payment under protest except the State Treasurer. No payment under protest within the meaning of this Act has been made unless paid to an officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institute, arm or agency brought within this Act by Section 1 and unless made in the form specified by Section 2a.1. No payment into court or to a circuit clerk or other court-appointed trustee is a payment under protest within the meaning of this Act. (Source: P.A. 87-950.)

(30 ILCS 230/2a.1) (from Ch. 127, par. 172a) Sec. 2a.1. Payment of money under protest to every officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institute, arm or agency authorized to receive moneys for or on behalf of the State shall be noted by the payer as paid under protest as to each payment so made. In cases where a single remittance is made of an amount of money in excess of that so paid under protest, the particular amount paid under protest together with pertinent data descriptive of the suit or suits in relation to which such payment or payments are made and the amount allocable to each, shall be stated. Notice of payment under protest shall be made in substantially the following form:

(30 ILCS 230/2A.2) (from Ch. 127, par. 172b) Sec. 2A.2. No officer or employee of this State shall create or maintain or participate in a trust fund or bank or savings and loan association deposit of any money received by him by virtue of his office or employment except as provided by law. Any such officer or employee who on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1961 has in his possession, or after such effective date receives, money under conditions which do not require payment thereof into the State Treasury, but which he is authorized by law to receive and hold in a trust fund or bank or savings and loan association deposit outside the State Treasury, shall immediately submit a report to the Auditor General identifying the trust fund or bank or savings and loan association deposit as well as the depository in which it is maintained. If any such officer or employee receives or has in his possession money under conditions which do not require payment thereof into the State Treasury, and there is no trust fund or bank or savings and loan association deposit authorized by law for the receipt thereof, he may, upon the written approval of the Governor and the State Comptroller, establish a temporary trust fund or bank or savings and loan association deposit which shall be legal until the thirtieth day after the sine die adjournment of the next regular session of the General Assembly. A copy of such written approval shall immediately be forwarded by the Comptroller to the Auditor General. As soon as the next regular session of the General Assembly has organized for the transaction of business, a complete report concerning each such temporary trust fund or bank or savings and loan association deposit shall be filed, by the State officer or employee having charge thereof, with the presiding officer of each house of the General Assembly. If such General Assembly does not, by law, authorize the continuance of the trust fund or bank or savings and loan association deposit so required to be reported, the money in such temporary trust fund or bank or savings and loan association deposit shall be deposited in the general revenue fund in the State Treasury. (Source: P.A. 83-541.)

(30 ILCS 230/2a.3) (from Ch. 127, par. 172c) Sec. 2a.3. Accounting and Deposit of Indirect Cost Recoveries. Every officer, board, commission, commissioners, department, institution, arm or agency to whom this Act applies which is eligible for indirect cost reimbursements shall make timely application for such reimbursements and shall maintain accurate records concerning the application for and the receipt, deposit and use of all indirect cost reimbursement under its control. Any indirect cost reimbursements received by any officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institute, arm, or agency shall within 30 days of the receipt of the reimbursement deposit the reimbursement to the fund from which the original expenditures were made which gave rise to the reimbursement unless deposit into another fund is required by law. If deposit to the original fund cannot be made or determined for any reason, then the reimbursement shall be deposited to the General Revenue Fund. The Comptroller shall, upon the request of an officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institute, arm or agency, order the transfer of monies between funds held by the State Treasurer to effectuate the appropriate deposit of indirect cost reimbursements received pursuant to this Act. All deposits of indirect cost reimbursements shall be for the full amount received without diminution of any type whatsoever. (Source: P.A. 84-803.)

(30 ILCS 230/2b) (from Ch. 127, par. 173) Sec. 2b. Any State officer or other person who wilfully violates any provision of this Act for which a penalty is not otherwise prescribed or who wilfully neglects and refuses to perform any duty imposed upon such person by the terms of this Act shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony. (Source: P.A. 77-2601.)

(30 ILCS 230/2c) (from Ch. 127, par. 173a) Sec. 2c. Every such officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institution, arm or agency is authorized to demand and receive a bond and securities in amount and kind satisfactory to him from any bank or savings and loan association in which moneys held by such officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institution, arm or agency for or on behalf of the State of Illinois, may be on deposit, such securities to be held by the officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institution, arm or agency for the period that such moneys are so on deposit and then returned together with interest, dividends and other accruals to the bank or savings and loan association. The bond or undertaking and such securities shall be conditioned for the return of the moneys deposited in conformity with the terms of the deposit. Whenever funds deposited with a bank or savings and loan association exceed the amount of federal deposit insurance coverage, a bond, pledged securities, or other eligible collateral shall be obtained. Only the types of securities or other eligible collateral which the State Treasurer may, in his or her discretion, accept for amounts not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation under Section 11 of "An Act in relation to State moneys", approved June 28, 1919, as amended, may be accepted as pledged securities. The market value of the bond or pledged securities shall at all times be equal to or greater than the uninsured portion of the deposit unless the funds deposited are collateralized pursuant to a system established by the State Treasurer to aggregate permissible securities received as collateral from financial institutions in a collateral pool to secure State deposits of the institution that have pledged securities to the pool. All securities deposited by a bank or savings and loan association under the provisions of this Section shall remain the property of the depositary and may be stamped by the depositary so as to indicate that such securities are deposited as collateral. Should the bank or savings and loan association fail or refuse to pay over the moneys, or any part thereof, deposited with it, the officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institution, arm or agency may sell such securities upon giving 5 days notice to the depositary of his intention to so sell such securities. Such sale shall transfer absolute ownership of the securities so sold to the vendee thereof. The surplus, if any, over the amount due to the State and the expenses of the sale shall be paid to the bank or savings and loan association. Actions may be brought in the name of the People of the State of Illinois to enforce the claims of the State with respect to any securities deposited by a bank or savings and loan association. No bank or savings and loan association shall receive public funds as permitted by this Section, unless it has complied with the requirements established pursuant to Section 6 of "An Act relating to certain investments of public funds by public agencies", approved July 23, 1943, as now or hereafter amended. (Source: P.A. 93-561, eff. 1-1-04.)

(30 ILCS 230/2d) (from Ch. 127, par. 173b) Sec. 2d. Every such bond and/or securities, either or both of them heretofore so received by any such officer, board, commission, commissioner, department, institution, arm or agency in the same manner as is provided in section 2c, is hereby validated to all intents and purposes as if received after the taking effect of this act. (Source: Laws 1933, p. 1082.)

(30 ILCS 230/2e) (from Ch. 127, par. 173c) Sec. 2e. (a) If moneys received by a State agency and deposited pursuant to this Act are determined to be subject to refund due to an overpayment or erroneous payment, the Comptroller, upon receipt of such documentation as he may require from the agency making the deposit, shall issue a refund from the fund into which the agency deposited such moneys in accordance with this Section. (b) Refunds shall be made pursuant to this Section only on behalf of State agencies for which the General Assembly has not enacted a current fiscal year appropriation for refunds and only in an amount not to exceed $10,000 for each such agency for each fiscal year. (c) For the purpose of making refunds in accordance with this Section, there are hereby appropriated to the Comptroller from the funds into which deposits are made pursuant to this Act on a continuing basis sums equal to amounts from time to time refunded pursuant to this Section. (Source: P.A. 86-658.)

(30 ILCS 230/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 175) Sec. 4. The State Comptroller shall prescribe a uniform form and system of receipts for use when money is received for or on behalf of the State and it is the duty of all officers, boards, commissions, commissioners, departments, institutions, arms or agencies of the State government which are subject to the provisions of this Act to use only the uniform form and system of receipts so prescribed. The Comptroller shall at all times have the right to examine such of the books, documents, memoranda, files, papers and records of any officer, board, commission, commissioner, department or institution, receiving moneys as aforesaid as are necessary to verify the accuracy of the account required by Section 2 of this Act to be kept. (Source: P.A. 78-592.)

(30 ILCS 230/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 176) Sec. 5. Any officer named herein, or any officer, or employee of any board, commission, commissioner, department or institution, receiving money, who shall wilfully fail or neglect to keep a detailed itemized account of all moneys received, as required by Sections 1 and 2 of this Act, or who shall make a false or fraudulent entry of the same, or who shall refuse to permit the State Comptroller to have free and unrestricted access to the books, documents, memoranda, papers, files, and records in his or her custody or possession, or who shall wilfully fail, neglect or refuse to file with the Comptroller the statement required by Section 2 of this Act, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 84-551.)

(30 ILCS 230/5a) Sec. 5a. The Secretary of State shall deposit all fees into the funds specified in the statute imposing or authorizing the fee no more than 30 days after receipt of the fee by the Secretary of State. (Source: P.A. 93-839, eff. 7-30-04.)

(30 ILCS 230/6) (from Ch. 127, par. 176a) Sec. 6. This Act shall not apply to contributions or other moneys collected pursuant to the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act. (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

(30 ILCS 230/6a) (from Ch. 127, par. 176a.1) Sec. 6a. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "State Officers and Employees Money Disposition Act". (Source: P.A. 83-1362.)