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COUNTIES
(55 ILCS 5/) Counties Code.

55 ILCS 5/5-32042

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32042) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32042)
    Sec. 5-32042. Failure to complete work under contract within time provided; performance bond. If the contractors, who may have taken any contract, do not complete the work within the time mentioned in the contract, or within such further time as the Committee may give them, the Committee may relet the unfinished portions of that work, after pursuing the formalities prescribed hereinbefore for the letting of the whole in the first instance.
    All contractors at the time of executing any contract for such public work, shall execute a bond to the satisfaction and approval of the Committee of the county in such a sum as the Committee deems adequate, conditioned for the faithful performance of the contract. The sureties shall justify, before some person competent to administer an oath, in double the amount mentioned in that bond, over and above all statutory exemptions.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32043

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32043) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32043)
    Sec. 5-32043. Certification of costs; excess of assessment over costs. Within 30 days after the final completion of the work, the Committee shall have the costs thereof, including the cost of engineering services certified in writing to the court in which the assessment was confirmed, together with an amount as in this Division is provided for to be required to pay the accruing interest on bonds or vouchers issued to anticipate collection. Thereupon, if the total amount assessed for the improvement exceeds the cost of the improvement, all of that excess, except the amount required to pay such interest as is provided in this Division shall be abated and the judgment reduced proportionately, so that the property owners shall be credited pro rata upon the respective assessment for the improvement under the direction of the court.
    In case the assessment is collectible in the installments, this reduction shall be made so that all installments shall be equal in amount, except that all fractional amounts shall be added to the first installment so as to leave the remaining installments in the aggregate equal in amount and each a multiple of $100. If prior to the entry of the order abating and reducing the assessment, the assessment has been certified for collection and any of the installments of the assessment so certified for collection have become due and payable, the reduction and abatement above referred to shall be made pro rata upon the other installments. The intent and meaning of this is that no property owner shall be required to pay to the collector a greater amount than his proportionate share of the cost of the work and of the interest that may accrue thereon.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32044

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32044) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32044)
    Sec. 5-32044. Hearing on certificate of costs. In every assessment proceeding in which the assessment is divided into installments, the Committee shall state in the certificate whether or not the improvement conforms substantially to the requirements of the original ordinance for the construction of the improvement, and shall make an application to the court to consider and determine whether or not the facts stated in the certificate are true. Thereupon the court, upon such an application, shall fix a time and place for a hearing upon the application, and shall record the application. The time of this hearing shall be not less than 15 days after the filing of the certificate and application. Public notice shall be given at least twice of the time and place fixed for that hearing by publishing in a newspaper, in the same manner and for the same period as provided in this Division for publishing notice of application for the confirmation of the original assessment, the publication of this notice to be not more than 30 nor less than 15 days before the day fixed by the order for that hearing.
    At the time and place fixed by the notice or at any time thereafter, the court shall proceed to hear the application and any objection which may be filed thereto within the time fixed in the order. Upon that hearing the specified certificate of the Committee shall be prima facie evidence that the matters and things stated above are true, but if any part thereof is controverted by objections duly filed thereto, the court shall hear and determine the objections in a summary manner and shall enter an order according to the facts.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32045

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32045) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32045)
    Sec. 5-32045. Findings against allegations of certificate. If, upon the hearing, the court finds against the allegations of the certificate, it shall enter an order accordingly. The Committee shall then procure the completion of the improvement in substantial accordance with the ordinance. The Committee, from time to time, may file additional or supplemental applications or petitions in respect thereto, until the court eventually is satisfied that the allegations of the certificate or application are true and that the improvement is constructed in substantial accordance with the ordinance.
    If before the entry of such an order upon such a certificate, there has been issued to the contractor in the progress of any such work, bonds or vouchers to apply upon the contract price thereof, that contractor or the then owner or holder of those bonds or vouchers shall be entitled to receive in lieu thereof new bonds or vouchers of equivalent amount, dated and issued after the entry of that order.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32046

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32046) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32046)
    Sec. 5-32046. Inspection of work done. The Committee shall designate someone to carefully inspect the entire work done pursuant to any such proceeding and contract, and the materials therefor, during the progress of the work, to the end that the contractor shall comply fully and adequately with all the provisions of the ordinance, and of the contract under which the work is to be done, and the specifications therefor. Upon the complaint of any property owner that the work or material does not comply with those requirements, the President of the Committee shall either examine the work and material himself, or designate some member of the Committee to do so. The President of the Committee shall make a personal examination, and certify in writing as to the result thereof. This written certificate shall be filed with the papers pertaining to the Committee, and shall be open to public inspection at any time.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32047

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32047) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32047)
    Sec. 5-32047. Loss of voucher, bond or interest coupon. Whenever any voucher, bond or interest coupon issued by a county in anticipation of the collection of special assessments under any of the provisions of this Division has been lost, destroyed or stolen, and proof is made to the official of the county charged with making payment on the voucher, bond or interest coupon that the loss, theft or destruction occurred while the voucher, bond or interest coupon was owned by and in possession of the claimant, such official shall issue or cause to be issued and delivered to the claimant a duplicate of such voucher, bond or interest coupon alleged to have been lost, destroyed or stolen after first endorsing on the duplicate all payments of principal and interest made on the original voucher, bond or interest coupon. However, the claimant shall prior to issuance of any such duplicate execute and deliver to the county a bond in penalty at least double the amount of the principal of such voucher, bond or interest coupon alleged to have been lost, destroyed or stolen with sufficient security to be approved by the county official, conditioned to indemnify the county against all claims by any other person on account of such voucher, bond or interest coupon and against all costs and expenses by reason thereof.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32048

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32048) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32048)
    Sec. 5-32048. Vouchers. From time to time as the work progresses the contractor shall be issued vouchers in payment therefor, and if not converted to bonds, the vouchers so issued shall be called for payment in numerical order and are to be paid from installments 2 through 10, as collected. Vouchers issued for work done including engineering and the cost of making, levying and collecting the special assessment are to be paid pro rata against the first installment of the special assessment, as collected.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32049

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32049) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32049)
    Sec. 5-32049. Bonds. The county, upon the written request of the holders of all of the outstanding and unpaid vouchers issued in payment of the work, shall issue and deliver to such voucher holders, in exchange for such vouchers, bonds provided for in this Section if prior to the receipt of such request the county has not issued or has not made any commitment to issue any bonds the funds from which are to be used toward paying such outstanding and unpaid vouchers in full. The bonds shall be dated as of and shall draw interest from the date of their issuance except when issued in exchange for vouchers theretofore issued in payment of the work. In such latter case the bonds shall be issued in the principal amount of the unpaid balance of the vouchers and shall bear the same date as the vouchers for which they are exchanged or the date to which interest was last paid on the vouchers, and the bonds shall draw interest from such date. The bonds shall be issued at not less than their par value. The bonds shall be executed by such county officers as may be prescribed by law. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate of not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, nor less than 4% annually. The bonds shall recite specifically that they are payable solely and only from the assessment levied for the payment of the cost of the improvement, designating the improvement for which the assessment has been levied, and shall mature on or before December 31, next succeeding the January 2, on which the last installment shall mature. Interest coupons attached to the bond shall bear the official or facsimile signatures of the same officers who signed the bonds and shall be made payable at the office of the county treasurer. The bonds shall be numbered consecutively beginning with number one upwards and shall be payable in their numerical order and redeemable prior to maturity in numerical order as hereinafter provided. Each of the bonds issued pursuant to this Section shall bear a legend on the face of the bond printed in bold face type and in a paragraph by itself to the effect that the bond is one of a series of bonds which are to be paid and redeemed in numerical order and not on a pro rata basis.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section or its predecessor either before, on, or after the effective date of Public Act 86-4, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Division or "An Act authorizing certain counties to undertake local improvements and defining the powers and duties of such counties with respect thereto", approved August 18, 1972, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section or its predecessor are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section or its predecessor within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Division or "An Act authorizing certain counties to undertake local improvements and defining the powers and duties of such counties with respect thereto", approved August 18, 1972, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32050

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32050) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32050)
    Sec. 5-32050. Form of bonds. The bonds authorized in the preceding Section may be in the following form:
"UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Number                                                 Dollars
....                                                      ....
State of Illinois                               County of Cook
.... of ....
IMPROVEMENT BOND
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the County of ...., State of Illinois, hereby acknowledges itself to owe, and for value received promises to pay to the BEARER the sum of .... Dollars ($....) on the .... day of .... but subject to prepayment at the par value hereof at any time as hereinafter provided, together with interest thereon at the rate of .... per cent (..%) per annum, from date hereof until paid, payable on the .... day of .... and annually thereafter on the .... day of .... in each year on presentation and surrender of the interest coupons hereto attached.
    Bond principal and interest on this bond are payable at the office of the treasurer of said County of ...., in lawful money of the United States of America.
    This bond is issued in exchange for part of the vouchers issued in payment of the work done under Special Assessment No. .... levied, for the purpose of ...., which assessment bears interest from the .... day of .... and this bond and the interest thereon are payable solely out of the installments of the assessment when collected.
    THIS BOND IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BONDS WHICH ARE TO BE PAID AND REDEEMED IN NUMERICAL ORDER AND NOT ON A PRO RATA BASIS.
    The bonds in the series, aggregating .... Dollars ($....) are numbered from .... to .... inclusive, bonds numbered .... to .... being of the denomination of $.... each, are bonds numbered .... to .... being of the denomination of $.... each.
    By the terms of the statute and ordinance authorizing these bonds, whenever there shall be sufficient funds in the hands of the treasurer of the county of .... after the payment of all interest due on the bonds and after the establishment of such reserve, if any, as the treasurer, in his discretion may deem advisable to pay interest to become due at the next interest coupon date, to prepay one or more of the bonds, then it is the duty of such treasurer to call and pay such bond or bonds. The treasurer shall cause notice of such call for prepayment to be published in some newspaper of general circulation in the county of .... Illinois, not less than 5 nor more than 30 days prior to the date fixed for prepayment. If no newspaper is published in the county, such notice shall be published in a newspaper with a general circulation in the county. This bond will cease to bear interest on and after the date so fixed for prepayment. The presentation of the bond will waive the necessity of giving notice of its call for payment. Bonds shall be paid in numerical order beginning with the lowest numbered outstanding bond.
    IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the .... of .... has caused this bond to be signed by the officers prescribed by ordinance, and the coupons hereto attached to be signed by such officials by the original or facsimile signatures, which officials, if facsimile signatures are used, do adopt by the execution hereof as and for their proper signatures their respective facsimile signatures appearing on the coupons, all as of the .... day of ....
....
....
SEAL
    Interest coupons which may be attached to bonds authorized in this Section may be in the following form:
Coupon No. ....                                          $....
    On the .... day of ...., unless the bond to which this coupon is attached shall have theretofore been called for payment at an earlier date and payment made or provided for, County of .... State of Illinois, will pay to BEARER .... Dollars ($....), out of funds realized from the collection of Special Assessment No. .... of the county, at the office of the treasurer of the county, for interest due on that day on its improvement bond dated as of the .... day of .... BOND NO. ...."
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32051

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32051) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32051)
    Sec. 5-32051. Call and payment of bonds. The county shall have the right to call and pay the bonds authorized in Section 5-32049 or any number thereof in the following manner. Whenever there are sufficient funds in the hands of the treasurer to redeem one or more of the bonds, after the payment of all interest due, and after the establishment of such reserve, if any, as the treasurer, in his discretion, may deem advisable to pay interest to become due at the next interest coupon date, the treasurer by publication as provided in this Section, shall call and pay such bond or bonds. The county treasurer shall cause notice of such call for payment to be published in a newspaper published in the county, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in a newspaper with a general circulation within the county. The notice shall specify the number or numbers of the bonds called, designating the assessment against which the bonds have been issued, and directing presentation of such bonds for payment and cancellation, and indicating that interest will cease on the bonds not less than 15 days nor more than 30 days from the date of the publication of such notice, and thereafter the bonds shall cease to bear interest. The presentation of any bond to the treasurer for payment shall waive the necessity of giving notice of its call for payment.
    The treasurer upon accumulation of sufficient funds shall pay one or more bonds and shall call and pay such bonds. Any bondholder or holder of any interest coupon appertaining to any bond, after giving reasonable notice, shall be entitled to summary relief by mandamus or injunction to enforce these provisions.
    When bonds are issued under Section 5-32049 all collections of the special assessment installments and all interests collected shall constitute a single fund which shall be applied first to the payment of interest due and to the establishment of such reserve, if any, as the treasurer in his discretion may deem advisable to pay interest to become due at the next interest coupon date, and then to the redemption and payment of bonds as provided herein. Where the ordinance for the improvement provides for the collection of all costs, collections made on the first installment shall be used first to pay such costs and any surplus shall be used to pay bonds and interest as provided herein. Provisions as to redemption and call of the bonds shall be inserted in each of the bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-32052

    (55 ILCS 5/5-32052) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-32052)
    Sec. 5-32052. Sale of bonds. The bonds may be sold, or paid to the contractor having the contract for the improvement for which the assessment was levied, at no less than their par value and interest accrued to time of delivery, whether sold, or paid to the contractor.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)