Illinois Administrative Code
Title 14 - COMMERCE
Part 150 - BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT
Subpart B - SALE AND RELEASE OF INFORMATION
Section 150.230 - Computer Access to Information
Universal Citation: 14 IL Admin Code ยง 150.230
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) Computer connections by non-Department users.
1) Computer terminal connections to
the Secretary's computer may be provided to other State agencies. This service
may be made available at no charge so long as the requesting agency incurs all
costs and so long as the service does not substantially increase costs or
network traffic on the Secretary's computer.
2) Fees for information supplied by means of
computer connections between the Secretary of State's computers and those of
any other agency, corporation, or person may be paid on a daily or monthly
basis for all information delivered during that day or month, as determined by
the Secretary and the agency or person to be the economically simplest way of
billings. The proper fee shall be determined by negotiation between the agency
or commercial user and the Director based upon telephone line charges, rental
or purchase fees for terminals, and any other appropriate factors, such as
statutory fees (see
805 ILCS
5/15.10 ) for certain types of information and the
requirements of this Subpart.
3)
Computer terminal connection may be allowed to commercial users provided that
all costs are borne by the commercial user. The allowance of computer terminal
connections shall be contingent upon the best interests of the Office of the
Secretary of State, which is based upon the volume of requests received, the
cost-effectiveness of providing the information through computer terminal
connections as opposed to other methods, and other factors which may impede the
operations of the Office of the Secretary of State. This service will be
suspended at any time, should the connection interfere with the Secretary's
internal work schedules and processing.
b) Corporate information is available for purchase from the Department in the following specific formats only.
1) All purchase requests shall be submitted
in writing to the Director. Payment shall be made to the Department before
delivery of the information to the purchaser. No refunds will be made after the
request is approved by the Director. Payment shall be made by check or money
order, made payable to the "Secretary of State". If the purchaser wants the
information on computer tape, the purchaser shall supply a computer tape or
tapes compatible with the Secretary's equipment.
2) The only formats of corporate information
for purchase on computer tape are the master business corporation list and the
master not for profit corporation list. The master business corporation list
format includes the file number, state of origin, date of incorporation or
qualification, the corporate name, the registered agent's name and registered
office address, the name of the incorporator (if the corporation is newly
formed) or the name and address of the president and secretary of the
corporation, the years in which the two previous annual reports were filed, the
types of stock, the amount of paid-in capital and the assumed corporate names.
(The information available by means of a computer connection shall include all
of the above, and also the microfilm roll and image number, and the amount of
franchise tax paid.) The fee for this list shall be $1,500.00. Information
concerning the master not for profit corporation list is found at 14 Ill. Adm.
Code
160.12.
3) The Department makes available for
purchase to commercial users the master business and not for profit corporation
lists (as stated in subsections (b)(1) and (2) above), and the assumed name
file, together with a daily update list of newly formed corporations (business
and not for profit), and a monthly list of newly formed corporations, all of
which information is only available for purchase as a whole unit, to be known
as the "Daily Transmittal Package (DTP)". In addition to the total fee for the
two active corporate files of $3,000.00, the commercial purchasers shall pay to
the Department: a fee of $72.00 per day to create tapes of updates and new
transactions, transmitted daily to the purchasers; a fee of $137.00 per month
to create computer tapes to update the corporate files on a monthly basis; a
monthly maintenance fee of $310.00; a staff reimbursement cost of $35.00 per
hour for any additional programming; and any telephone charges to transmit the
information to the commercial purchaser. Payments to the Department shall be
made monthly. The commercial purchaser shall enter into a written agreement for
a term of not less than 2 years duration, nor more than 5 years, encompassing
other terms and conditions as are deemed appropriate by the commercial
purchaser and the Department, or by Illinois law. The commercial purchaser
shall provide a computer terminal for the use of the Department to ascertain
the correctness of the corporate information as presented by the commercial
purchaser to the public.
4) The
commercial purchaser shall not resell to any other purchaser the information
obtained from the Department in the same form or format in which it is obtained
from the Department. No other corporate information in quantity shall be sold
or otherwise made available for purchase or for free. This subsection does not
prevent a member of the public from making inquiries or purchases of
information concerning an individual corporation in which he or she is
specifically interested. However, any person requesting information arranged by
a specific field of the formats shall be referred to all commercial vendors of
corporate information who have obtained the information pursuant to subsection
3, and the Department shall not provide the corporate information to the
requester. The Department shall not state any preference of commercial vendor
to the requester, but shall provide all names and addresses of the commercial
vendors to the requester.
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