Does Illinois Rule 305(c) automatically allow forty-five days to file appeal security?

Establish the actual notice-of-appeal period and any extension already granted.

Identify the filing and approval date supplied by the applicable actual order.

Check the aggregate circuit-court extensions and any stipulation before applying the cap.

1. Establish the actual notice-of-appeal period and any extension already granted.
2. Exclude the independently established triggering day and count intermediate calendar days under 5 ILCS 70/1.11. A filing, entry, effective service or previously established due date must come from its actual record. Do not substitute one event for another. An aggregate limit is not itself an additional filing period.
3. Check statutory holidays and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. Complete the particular act in the proper court.

Section 1.11 excludes a final Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday and consecutive excluded days. Section 17(a) of the Promissory Note and Bank Holiday Act includes Pulaski Day, Good Friday and the general election for members of the House of Representatives. Check proclamations, the proper court’s actual calendar and clerk access separately. The bundled Illinois calendar covers 2026 and 2027.

This procedure requires actual granted periods, aggregate circuit-court extensions, a possible stipulation and separate security approval. The fixed forty-five-day preset cannot establish an actual filing date or stay.

A money-judgment stay requires several completed conditions

Rule 305(a) requires timely notice and security presented, approved and filed within the notice period or actual Rule 305(c) extension. Notice of presentment goes to all parties. A calculator or unapproved bond does not establish a stay.

The aggregate limit has a stipulation exception

Rule 305(c) limits extensions granted by the circuit court to forty-five days in total unless the parties stipulate otherwise. Its wording does not impose that same cap on the reviewing court.

The motion must be timely under the existing period

The motion must be made within the notice period or an extension already granted. A reviewing-court request requires an affidavit and a Rule 328 supporting record if the record on appeal has not been filed.

Other stays require their own procedure

Rule 305(b) addresses nonmoney judgments and other appealable orders. Rule 305(d) ordinarily requires the circuit-court application first and states the showing required to apply to the reviewing court.

• The calculator does not decide appealability, disputed facts, sufficiency of a filing or whether the court grants relief.
• Check the governing edition and actual orders. A current rule does not establish every historical appeal’s timetable.

• Establish the actual notice-of-appeal period and any extension already granted.
• Identify the filing and approval date supplied by the applicable actual order.
• Check the aggregate circuit-court extensions and any stipulation before applying the cap.
• Rule 305(a) requires timely notice and security presented, approved and filed within the notice period or actual Rule 305(c) extension. Notice of presentment goes to all parties. A calculator or unapproved bond does not establish a stay.
• Rule 305(c) limits extensions granted by the circuit court to forty-five days in total unless the parties stipulate otherwise. Its wording does not impose that same cap on the reviewing court.
• The motion must be made within the notice period or an extension already granted. A reviewing-court request requires an affidavit and a Rule 328 supporting record if the record on appeal has not been filed.
• Rule 305(b) addresses nonmoney judgments and other appealable orders. Rule 305(d) ordinarily requires the circuit-court application first and states the showing required to apply to the reviewing court.
• Make the motion within the current permissible period. Obtain an actual extension order. For the Rule 305(a) money-judgment stay, establish timely notice and security presented to, approved by and filed with the court, with notice to all parties. A reviewing-court motion requires the stated affidavit and supporting record if the record on appeal is not filed. Use the proper clerk and required filing format. Rule 9 ordinarily requires electronic filing in civil cases, subject to its exceptions and exemptions. Rule 9(f) ordinarily uses submission before midnight in the court time zone, unless a statute, rule or order sets a particular time. A submission when the clerk is closed is ordinarily stamped on the next open day. Current Rule 9(f) provides separate five-court-day motions for a rejected filing or qualifying technical failure; establish the actual notice, failure, corrected document and required proof. Rule 373 ordinarily uses actual receipt, with its mail or carrier exception limited to filings excepted or exempt from electronic filing. Its carrier branch requires delivery for receipt within three business days and Rule 12(b) proof. Filing and service remain separate acts.