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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by adding Section
55-1134 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/5-1134 new)
7    Sec. 5-1134. Borrowing from financial institutions. The
8county board of a county may borrow money from any bank or
9other financial institution provided such money shall be repaid
10within 2 years from the time the money is borrowed. The county
11board chairman, county executive, or Cook County Board
12President, as the case may be, shall execute a promissory note
13or similar debt instrument, but not a bond, to evidence the
14indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. The obligation to make
15the payments due under the promissory note or other debt
16instrument shall be a lawful direct general obligation of the
17county payable from the general funds of the county and such
18other sources of payment as are otherwise lawfully available.
19The promissory note or other debt instrument shall be
20authorized by an ordinance passed by the county board and shall
21be valid whether or not an appropriation with respect to that
22ordinance is included in any annual or supplemental
23appropriation adopted by the county board. The indebtedness

 

 

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1incurred under this Section, when aggregated with the existing
2indebtedness of the county, may not exceed any debt limitation
3otherwise provided for by law. This Section shall not be
4construed to grant any additional authority to a county to
5borrow money or to remove any referendum approval required of a
6county to borrow money. "Financial institution" means any bank
7subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings and loan
8association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of
91985, any savings bank subject to the Savings Bank Act, any
10credit union subject to the Illinois Credit Union Act, and any
11federally chartered commercial bank, savings and loan
12association, savings bank, or credit union organized and
13operated in this State pursuant to the laws of the United
14States.
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16becoming law.