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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 1

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 1 heading)
DIVISION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

65 ILCS 5/8-1-1

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-1)
    Sec. 8-1-1. The corporate authorities may control the finances of the corporation.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-1.5

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-1.5)
    Sec. 8-1-1.5. Internal auditor. The city council or board of trustees, as appropriate, may create the office of internal auditor. The duties of the internal auditor shall be to report directly to the council or board regarding the state of the finances of the municipality. The internal auditor may be appointed as provided by ordinance.
(Source: P.A. 93-483, eff. 1-1-04.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-2

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-2)
    Sec. 8-1-2. The corporate authorities may appropriate money for corporate purposes only and provide for payment of debts and expenses of the corporation.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-2.5

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-2.5)
    Sec. 8-1-2.5. Expenses for economic development. The corporate authorities may appropriate and expend funds for economic development purposes, including, without limitation, the making of grants to any other governmental entity or commercial enterprise that are deemed necessary or desirable for the promotion of economic development within the municipality.
(Source: P.A. 97-94, eff. 7-11-11.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-3

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-3)
    Sec. 8-1-3. The corporate authorities may borrow money on the credit of the corporation for corporate purposes, and issue bonds therefor, in such amounts and form, and on such conditions unless otherwise provided in this Code as the corporate authorities prescribe. Before, or at the time of incurring any indebtedness, the corporate authorities shall provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on the debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within 20 years after contracting the debt.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-3.1

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-3.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-3.1)
    Sec. 8-1-3.1. Borrowing from financial institutions. The corporate authorities may borrow money for corporate purposes from one fund for the use of another fund providing such borrowing shall be repaid within the current fiscal year.
    The corporate authorities may also borrow money from any bank or other financial institution provided such money shall be repaid within 10 years from the time the money is borrowed. The mayor or president of the municipality, as the case may be, shall execute a promissory note or similar debt instrument, but not a bond, to evidence the indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. The obligation to make the payments due under the promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful direct general obligation of the municipality payable from the general funds of the municipality and such other sources of payment as are otherwise lawfully available. The promissory note or other debt instrument shall be authorized by an ordinance passed by the corporate authorities and shall be valid whether or not an appropriation with respect to that ordinance is included in any annual or supplemental appropriation adopted by the corporate authorities. The indebtedness incurred under this Section, when aggregated with the existing indebtedness of the municipality, may not exceed the debt limitation provided in Section 8-5-1 of this Code. "Financial institution" means any bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union established under the laws of the United States, this State, or any other state; any regional planning commission or joint regional planning commission established in accordance with Section 5-14001 or Section 5-14003 of the Counties Code; or the Illinois Finance Authority.
(Source: P.A. 103-187, eff. 1-1-24.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-4

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-4)
    Sec. 8-1-4. The corporate authorities may provide for the consolidation or refunding of maturing bonds and the funding of judgment debts, and to issue bonds in place of maturing bonds or judgment debts.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-5

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-5)
    Sec. 8-1-5. Whenever in any fiscal year an ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds is approved by the electors in any municipality with a population of 500,000 or more, subsequent to the passage of the annual appropriation ordinance, the corporate authorities have the power, anything in this Code to the contrary notwithstanding, to make a supplemental appropriation of so much of the proceeds of the bonds, so authorized, as is required for expenditure during the remainder of the current fiscal year for the purpose set forth in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-6

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-6)
    Sec. 8-1-6. Neither the corporate authorities nor any department or officer of any municipality shall add to the municipal expenditures in any fiscal year anything over and above the amount provided for in the annual appropriation ordinance of that year. No expenditure for an improvement to be paid for out of the general fund of the municipality shall exceed in any fiscal year the amount provided for that improvement in the annual appropriation ordinance.
    However, nothing herein contained shall prevent the corporate authorities, by a two-thirds vote, from making additional appropriations for the purpose of making improvements or restorations, the necessity for which is caused by any casualty or accident happening after the annual appropriation ordinance is passed, nor from making additional appropriations necessary to meet any emergency, happening after and unforeseen at the time of passing the annual appropriation ordinance. Emergency, as used in this section, means a condition requiring immediate action to suppress or prevent the spread of disease, or to prevent or remove imminent danger to persons or property. For the purpose of providing for these additional appropriations, the corporate authorities, by a two-thirds vote, may authorize the mayor, or village president, and the finance committee, or in municipalities under the commission form of municipal government the mayor and commissioner of accounts and finances, to borrow the amount of money necessary therefor for a space of time not extending beyond the close of the next fiscal year. The sum borrowed and the interest thereon, shall be added to the amount authorized to be raised in the next general tax levy and embraced therein.
    Should a judgment be obtained against a municipality, the mayor, or village president, and the finance committee, or the mayor and commissioner of accounts and finances, in commission form municipalities, under the sanction of the corporate authorities, may borrow a sufficient amount to pay the judgment for a space of time not extending beyond the close of the next fiscal year. This sum and the interest thereon shall in like manner be added to the amount authorized to be raised in the general tax levy of the next year and embraced therein.
    This section shall not apply to municipalities operating under special charters.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-7

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-7)
    Sec. 8-1-7. (a) Except as provided otherwise in this Section, no contract shall be made by the corporate authorities, or by any committee or member thereof, and no expense shall be incurred by any of the officers or departments of any municipality, whether the object of the expenditure has been ordered by the corporate authorities or not, unless an appropriation has been previously made concerning that contract or expense. Any contract made, or any expense otherwise incurred, in violation of the provisions of this section shall be null and void as to the municipality, and no money belonging thereto shall be paid on account thereof. However, pending the passage of the annual appropriation ordinance for any fiscal year, the corporate authorities may authorize heads of departments or other separate agencies of the municipality to make necessary expenditures for the support thereof upon the basis of the appropriations of the preceding fiscal year. However, if it is determined by two-thirds vote of the corporate authorities then holding office at a regularly scheduled meeting of the corporate authorities that it is expedient and in the best public interest to begin proceedings for the construction of a needed public work, then the provisions of this section shall not apply to the extent that the corporate authorities may employ or contract for professional services necessary for the planning and financing of such public work.
    (b) Notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary, the corporate authorities of any municipality may make contracts for a term exceeding one year and not exceeding the term of the mayor or president holding office at the time the contract is executed, relating to: (1) the employment of a municipal manager, administrator, engineer, health officer, land planner, finance director, attorney, police chief or other officer who requires technical training or knowledge; (2) the employment of outside professional consultants such as engineers, doctors, land planners, auditors, attorneys or other professional consultants who require technical training or knowledge; (3) the provision of data processing equipment and services; or (4) the provision of services which directly relate to the prevention, identification or eradication of disease. In such case the corporate authorities shall include in the annual appropriation ordinance for each fiscal year, an appropriation of a sum of money sufficient to pay the amount which, by the terms of the contract, is to become due and payable during the current fiscal year.
    (c) This section shall not apply to municipalities operating under special charters.
    (d) In order to promote orderly collective bargaining relationships, to prevent labor strife and to protect the interests of the public and the health and safety of the citizens of Illinois, this Section shall not apply to multi-year collective bargaining agreements between public employers and exclusive representatives governed by the provisions of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act.
     Notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary, the corporate authorities of any municipality may enter into multi-year collective bargaining agreements with exclusive representatives under the provisions of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act.
    (e) Notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary, the corporate authorities of any municipality may enter into any multi-year contract or otherwise associate for any term under the provisions of Section 10 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution or the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act.
(Source: P.A. 90-517, eff. 8-22-97.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-8

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-8)
    Sec. 8-1-8. All warrants drawn upon the municipal treasurer must be signed by the mayor or president and countersigned by the municipal clerk, or the city comptroller if there is one, stating the particular fund and the appropriation to which the warrant is chargeable, and the person to whom payable. No money shall be paid otherwise than upon such warrants so drawn, except as otherwise provided.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-9

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-9)
    Sec. 8-1-9. No warrant payable on demand shall be drawn upon the municipal treasurer or against any fund in his possession unless at the time of the drawing there is sufficient money in the appropriate fund in the municipal treasury to pay the warrant.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-10

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-10)
    Sec. 8-1-10. Interest received by a municipality upon deposits of money derived from special assessments or special taxes and that part of the interest, penalties, and costs received on account of any delinquent special assessment or special tax, which is in excess of 6% annually on the amount of that delinquent special assessment or special tax from the date of the first voucher issued on account of work done to the date of the receipt of the interest, penalties, and costs by the municipality, shall be used first for paying any expense of the municipality in connection with the collection or withdrawal from collection of any delinquent special assessment or special tax or the preservation of the lien thereof, or in connection with the sale or forfeiture of any real estate for delinquent special assessments or special taxes, or in the preservation of the lien of any certificate of sale or tax deed, and secondly shall be used to pay any warrant, for which there are not sufficient funds, for the payment of past due principal or interest on vouchers and bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of the special assessments or special taxes identified by such warrant.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-11

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-11)
    Sec. 8-1-11. Whenever a municipality does not have sufficient money in its treasury to meet all necessary expenses and liabilities of the municipality, including all expenses for building purposes, the corporate authorities may issue and sell warrants drawn against and in anticipation of taxes already levied for the particular funds from which these expenses and liabilities may be paid, to the extent of 85% of the total amount of those taxes. However, in municipalities in which there has been created a working cash fund pursuant to the provisions of Division 6 of this Article 8, no tax anticipation warrants shall be drawn against taxes levied for general corporate purposes for such an amount that the aggregate of (1) the amount of those warrants, and the interest to accrue thereon, and (2) the aggregate amount of those warrants theretofore drawn against those taxes and the interest accrued and to accrue thereon, and (3) the aggregate amount of money theretofore transferred from the working cash fund to the general fund of that municipality, exceeds 90% of the actual or estimated amount of those taxes extended or to be extended by the county clerk upon the books of the collector or collectors of state and county taxes within that municipality. Tax anticipation warrants drawn and issued under this section shall show upon their face that they are payable in the numerical order of their issuance solely from the anticipated taxes when these anticipated taxes are collected and not otherwise. These warrants shall be received by any collector of taxes in payment of the taxes against which they are issued, and the taxes against which these warrants are drawn shall be set apart and held for their payment.
(Source: P.A. 81-165.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-12

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-12)
    Sec. 8-1-12. Each warrant issued under Section 8-1-11 may be made payable at the time fixed in the warrant and shall bear interest, payable only out of the taxes against which it is drawn, at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, from the date of its issuance until paid, or until notice that the money for its payment is available, and that it will be paid on presentation, is given by publication in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality. However, a lower rate of interest may be specified in the warrant, in which case the interest shall be computed and paid at that lower rate. The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-13

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-13)
    Sec. 8-1-13. Every municipality holding in its treasury funds which are set aside for use for particular purposes, but which are not immediately necessary for those purposes, by ordinance, may use those funds, or any of them, in the purchase of tax anticipation warrants issued by the municipality possessing the funds against taxes levied by that municipality. These warrants shall bear interest not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract. All interest upon these warrants, and all money paid in redemption of these warrants or received from the resale thereof, shall at once be credited to and placed in the particular fund used to purchase the specified warrants.
    However, a municipality so using any of its funds for the purchase of such tax anticipation warrants shall not apply to the payment thereof while so held by it any taxes against and in anticipation of which the warrants were issued, unless and until all warrants and the interest thereon, issued by that municipality against and in anticipation of the same taxes and sold to other purchasers have been first paid or money sufficient for the payment thereof has been deposited in the municipal treasury as a special fund to be used solely for the purpose of paying to the other purchasers the warrants and the interest thereon when presented. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the resale or reissue of any warrants as provided in Section 8-1-14.
    Likewise, every municipality by ordinance may use the money in those funds in the purchase of bonds issued by the municipality, possessing the funds and representing the obligation and pledging the credit of that municipality, or bonds and other interest bearing obligations of the United States or of the State of Illinois. All interest upon these bonds or obligations and all money paid in redemption of these bonds or obligations or realized from the sale thereof, if afterwards sold, shall at once be credited to and placed in the particular fund used to purchase specified bonds or obligations.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-14

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-14)
    Sec. 8-1-14. If at any time it is deemed expedient to convert into money any tax anticipation warrants theretofore issued and purchased with public funds pursuant to the provisions of Section 8-1-13, before receipt of the taxes in anticipation of which the warrants were issued, the corporate authorities of the municipality, by ordinance or resolution, may authorize a resale of such warrants and adjust the interest rate thereon, or may authorize the issuance and sale of a like principal amount of new warrants for the same purpose and in anticipation of the same taxes as the original warrants were issued. These new warrants may have any date subsequent to the date of the original tax anticipation warrants. The new tax anticipation warrants shall be of the denomination and shall bear interest at the rate, not to exceed the statutory rate, that is authorized by the ordinance or resolution specified in this section. In a municipality which constitutes a school district, and in which the corporate authorities are required annually to levy all school taxes, the issuance of such new warrants in anticipation of school taxes, or the resale of such original warrants with adjusted interest rate, shall be approved by the board of education of that school district.
    Simultaneously with the delivery of these new tax anticipation warrants, a like principal amount of the original warrants that were issued against the same tax that is anticipated by the new warrants shall be paid and cancelled. The proceeds of the sale of these new tax anticipation warrants shall be used first to restore to the fund or funds so invested in the original tax anticipation warrants, money equivalent to the par value and accrued interest of the original tax anticipation warrants and the balance, if any, shall revert to the fund for the creation of which the tax so anticipated was levied. Warrants resold or reissued pursuant to the provisions of this section shall have the same incidents of priority with respect to payment and shall be paid in all respects in the same manner as other warrants issued in anticipation of the same tax and sold in the first instance to any purchaser other than the issuing municipality.
    When tax anticipation warrants are reissued they shall bear the index numerical designation of the original warrants and shall be subnumbered consecutively in the order of reissuance, and shall be paid in the direct order of reissuance, beginning with the earliest subnumber.
    In determining the priority of payment of more than one series of tax anticipation warrants against the collection of the same tax, the various series shall be treated as having been issued on the date of the original issue of each series of warrants. The series prior in point of time as thus determined shall be paid first.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-15

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-15)
    Sec. 8-1-15. Any municipality having a population of 500,000 or more, holding in its treasury any fund set aside for use for a particular purpose that is not immediately necessary for that purpose, at any time by ordinance may advance the money in that fund, or such part thereof as may be required, to the board of local improvements of that municipality. The board shall apply this money toward the payment of any final judgment of condemnation rendered in any proceeding involving the taking or damaging of private property for a local improvement of that municipality, the cost of which is to be defrayed wholly or partly by special assessment or special taxation.
    Before any money is actually so advanced, the corporate authorities, by the same ordinance, shall require the board of local improvements to execute and deposit with the comptroller of the municipality a written pledge or security to the entire extent of the special assessment or special tax, for the repayment of the advance out of the proceeds of the special assessment or special tax. The comptroller shall give a written receipt for this pledge or security. After such a pledge or security is so executed and deposited, all money paid on account of the principal and interest of the special assessment or special tax shall be at once credited to and placed in the fund from which the advance was made until the fund is reimbursed for the advance made therefrom. Thereupon, the corporate authorities by ordinance may cancel and release the pledge or security. The entire amount of the advance shall be repaid to the specified fund within 5 years from the date of the passage of the ordinance providing for the advance.
    An advance shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract. The corporate authorities shall make provision for the payment, out of any corporate funds legally available therefor, of any part of this interest which is in excess of the interest paid on account of the special assessment or special tax and placed in the specified fund.
    If there is no comptroller in the municipality, the municipal clerk shall perform the duties of the comptroller specified in this section.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-16

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-16)
    Sec. 8-1-16. In any municipality with a population of 500,000 or more the corporate authorities may levy a tax annually upon all the taxable property in the municipality at a rate that will produce not to exceed $4,500,000 upon the valuation to be ascertained by the assessment of such property for purposes of taxation for the year in which each such levy is made. This tax, if levied, shall be for the purpose of paying judgments entered against the municipality prior to January 1, 1941, and tort judgments and judgments for damage to or for the taking of private property for public use entered after January 1, 1941. This tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner as the general taxes of the municipality. It shall be known as the judgment tax and shall be in addition to the maximum of all other taxes which the municipality is now, or may be hereafter, authorized by law to levy upon the aggregate valuation of all taxable property within the municipality.
    All money received from this tax shall be set apart in a separate fund and shall be used solely for the purpose of paying judgments as provided for in this section. Judgments against the municipality shall be paid out of this fund in the order in which the judgments were obtained. This order of payment shall not apply to judgments of $1000 or less, which judgments may be paid out of said order and in the order in which these judgments of $1000 or less were obtained.
    Interest accrued on these judgments shall be paid with the principal thereof. However, the interest accrued to any particular date on all judgments payable out of this fund may be paid ratably at any time without payment of the principal thereof. Warrants issued in anticipation of the judgment tax under the provisions of Sections 8-1-11 and 8-1-12 shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-17

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-17)
    Sec. 8-1-17. The corporate authorities of any municipality may receive funds from the United States pursuant to the "Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973", Public Law 93-203, and may disburse such funds together with any other municipal funds for the purposes specified in that public law.
    The provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the powers of a home rule municipality.
(Source: P.A. 79-389.)

65 ILCS 5/8-1-18

    (65 ILCS 5/8-1-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-18)
    Sec. 8-1-18. Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 84-731.)