(a)
(1) The clerk of the circuit court in each county shall maintain, at the expense of the county, a file designated and labeled "Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Provider Liens", and an appropriate and sufficient book record and index of the liens, properly labeled.
(2) The clerk shall make a record in this book of notices of liens filed in the order in which they are filed, noting therein the names and addresses of patients of practitioners, nurses, hospitals, ambulance service providers, and other persons on whose behalf a notice of lien has been filed, and of tortfeasors and insurers.
(b) On the presentation of a release of any lien, the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the lien is filed and recorded shall note on the file and in the record the date when the release was filed, and the clerk shall note on the release the fact that it has been so recorded. A release so noted or the record in the office of the clerk of the circuit court shall, either of them, be prima facie evidence of the release of the lien.
(c) The clerk of the circuit court shall be entitled to collect not more than fifty cents (50cent(s)) for the filing, recording, and indexing of each lien, and not more than fifty cents (50cent(s)) for the filing of the release of any lien and noting on the record and on the release the fact that the release has been so filed.
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