730 ILCS 5/5-9-1 – Authorized Fines
This law explains when and how a court can make someone pay a fine as part of their punishment.
This law says that a court can order an offender to pay a fine, and it explains what the judge should think about when deciding how much the fine should be and how it should be paid.
(a) A person who breaks the law can be told to pay a fine, as long as the fine follows Illinois punishment rules.
(b) (Blank.)
(c) (Blank.)
(c-5) (Blank.)
(c-7) (Blank.)
(c-9) (Blank.)
(d) When the court decides how much a fine should be and how it should be paid (except for some driving law fines), the judge must think about:
- The person’s money situation now and in the future.
- Whether paying the fine will stop the person from paying back victims or making other court-ordered payments.
- If a closed-down company is paying the fine (instead of an individual) and the court picked a lawyer for it, the costs the county or state had to pay for that lawyer.
(e) The judge can make the person pay the fine right away, within a set amount of time, or in smaller payments over time.
(f) (Blank.)
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