OVERVIEW

The County Clerk is elected to a 4 year term and is responsible for the following duties:

• Serving as clerk to the County Board
• Sending out agendas for Committee and Full Board meetings
• Preparing minutes from Full Board meetings
• Issuing Marriage License
• Issuing certified vital records (birth, death, marriage)
• Tending to genealogy records
• Collecting Delinquent Taxes after they have gone to tax sale
• Issuing Payroll and accounts payable for entire County
• Registering Notary commissions
• Administering Voter Registration
• Managing all election proceedings as Election Authority
• Calculating the rates for taxing authorities based on levies they have turned in
• Recording prepared documents transferring land
• Keeping and preserving all records of deeds
• Maintaining records of subdivision plats, mortgages, and all types of liens against property
• Assuming name/Doing Business As
• Veterans discharged from the military (DD214)

CONTACT

T: 618.244.8020 ext. 3

Select option 1 for the recording department and tax extensions

Select option 2 for vital records, delinquent taxes, elections/voter registration, payroll and accounts payable.

Hours:  8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. (Applicants for a marriage or civil union license need to be here by 3:30 p.m. as it takes approximately 30 minutes to complete the process.  

Recording Department stops recording at 3:30 p.m. to print daily reports, etc.
F: 618.244.8023

E: main jeffcoclerk@jeffersoncounty.illinois.gov
payroll/accounts payable jeffcoclerk2@jeffersoncounty.illinois.gov
recording jeffrecorder@jeffersoncounty.illinois.gov
elections election@jeffersoncounty.illinois.gov

Office/Mailing Address:

100 South 10th Street
Room 105
Mt. Vernon, IL 62864