(55 ILCS 5/5-1074) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1074)
    Sec. 5-1074. Surveys in counties of less than 1,000,000. In counties of less than 1,000,000 inhabitants, a county board may employ and fix the compensation for any person, firm or corporation for the purposes of conducting all necessary surveys and performing all appropriate acts with a view to obtaining the location of commercial enterprises in the employing county. Such person, firm or corporation shall serve at the pleasure of the County Board.
    "Commercial enterprise" means any industrial, service, retail or wholesale organization of any kind and any other undertaking likely to be beneficial by its presence and operation.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)