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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/8-12-19

    (65 ILCS 5/8-12-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-19)
    Sec. 8-12-19. The Authority shall appoint and shall have the authority to remove a financial management officer. The financial management officer shall have the responsibility for advising on the preparation of the Budget and Financial Plan of the financially distressed city and for monitoring expenditures of the city. The financial management officer shall be the authorized signatory for all expenditures made from the proceeds of any State loans provided for the benefit of the city pursuant to this Division or any other law of this State, and for all expenditures made from financial aid provided for the benefit of the city from Obligations issued by the Illinois Finance Authority for such purposes in accordance with applicable provisions of the Illinois Finance Authority Act. The financial management officer shall be an employee of and shall report to the Authority, may be granted authority by the Authority to hire a specific number of employees to assist in meeting responsibilities, and shall have access to all financial data and records of the city which he or she deems necessary for the proper and efficient exercise of such responsibilities. Neither the Authority or the financial management officer shall have any authority to hire, fire or appoint city employees or to manage the day-to-day operations of the city.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

65 ILCS 5/8-12-20

    (65 ILCS 5/8-12-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-20)
    Sec. 8-12-20. Upon direction of the Authority, the financially distressed city shall reorganize its financial accounts and its management and budgetary systems in whatever manner the Authority deems appropriate to achieve greater financial responsibility and control. The Authority shall not have the power to affect the taxing authority or to consolidate or reduce the restricted debt service funds of the city.
(Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

65 ILCS 5/8-12-21

    (65 ILCS 5/8-12-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-21)
    Sec. 8-12-21. The Authority in its sole discretion may intercept any payments that the city from time to time is entitled to receive from any funds then or thereafter held by the State Treasurer to the credit of the city or otherwise in the custody of the State Treasurer to the credit of the city, whether in or outside of the State Treasury, upon the occurrence of any of the following:
        (1) The financially distressed city's initial
    
Financial Plan and revised Budget required to be submitted to the Authority with respect to the remaining portion of what is the city's current fiscal year at the time this Division first becomes applicable to the city as provided in Section 8-12-4 are not approved by the Authority within 60 days of their submission, and the Authority has theretofore given written warning notice to the corporate authorities of the city, on the 45th day after such initial Financial Plan and revised Budget were submitted, that the same have not yet been approved by the Authority; or
        (2) Any Financial Plan or Budget for any subsequent
    
fiscal year is not approved by the Authority by the commencement of the fiscal year to which such Financial Plan or Budget relates, and the Authority has theretofore given written warning notice to the corporate authorities of the city, on the 15th day prior to the commencement of that fiscal year, that the Financial Plan or Budget for such fiscal year has not yet been approved by the Authority; or
        (3) The financially distressed city materially
    
violates the provisions of this Division, and the Authority -- at least 15 days prior to initiating any action to intercept any payments pursuant to this Section -- has given the corporate authorities of the city written notice of the material violation and of the Authority's intention to intercept payments pursuant to this Section upon the expiration of that 15 day notice period unless the city satisfies the Authority within that 15 day period that the material violation cited by the Authority has been corrected; provided that the Authority shall not be required to give any notice to the city or its corporate authorities prior to initiating action to intercept payments pursuant to this Section if such payments are to be intercepted because of the city's failure to pay when due all amounts then due and owing and required to be paid by the city on Obligations issued by the Illinois Finance Authority in connection with the provision of financial aid to the city pursuant to this Division and applicable provisions of the Illinois Finance Authority Act.
    The intercept shall be made pursuant to written notice given by the Authority to the State Comptroller and State Treasurer, setting forth the amount of the intercept, which may be an aggregate amount not exceeding the sum of the full amount of any outstanding State loans provided for the benefit of the city pursuant to this Division or any other law of this State, plus the full amount of all outstanding Obligations issued by the Illinois Finance Authority on the financially distressed city's behalf in accordance with applicable provisions of the Illinois Finance Authority Act. The State Comptroller and State Treasurer shall pay to the Authority, from such funds as from time to time are legally available therefor, the aggregate amount of the intercept, unless the Authority sooner notifies the State Comptroller and State Treasurer in writing that no further payments that the city is entitled to receive shall be intercepted under the provisions of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

65 ILCS 5/8-12-22

    (65 ILCS 5/8-12-22) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-22)
    Sec. 8-12-22. (a) After the Authority has certified to the Governor that the financially distressed city has completed 10 successive years of balanced budgets:
        (1) The powers and responsibilities granted or
    
imposed upon the Authority and the financially distressed city under Section 8-12-13 and Sections 8-12-15 through 8-12-21 shall not be exercised, except as otherwise provided under subsection (b) of this Section.
        (2) The provisions of Section 8-12-14 shall continue
    
in full force and effect. The financially distressed city shall file with the Authority and with the Illinois Finance Authority, not later than 15 days prior to the commencement of the first fiscal year with respect to which the powers and responsibilities granted or imposed under Section 8-12-13 and Sections 8-12-15 through 8-12-21 are not to be exercised, and not later than 15 days prior to the commencement of each fiscal year thereafter, a balanced Budget as adopted by the financially distressed city for such fiscal year. In addition, for each fiscal year with respect to which the powers and responsibilities granted or imposed under Section 8-12-13 and Sections 8-12-15 through 8-12-21 are not to be exercised, the financially distressed city shall file with the Authority and with the Illinois Finance Authority a certified copy of the same audit report and supplemental report which are required to be made and filed for such fiscal year by the city under the Illinois Municipal Auditing Law, the filing with the Authority and the Illinois Finance Authority to be made within the time provided for the filing of such audit report and supplemental report with the State Comptroller under Section 8-8-4.
    (b) The Authority and the Illinois Finance Authority shall review each Budget, audit report and supplemental report filed with them as provided in paragraph (2) of subsection (a). In the event the financially distressed city fails to file any Budget or certified copy of an audit report or supplemental report as provided in paragraph (2) of subsection (a), or in the event the Illinois Finance Authority, after consultation with the Authority, determines that the Budget adopted by the financially distressed city and filed as provided in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) is not balanced as required under Section 8-12-14, the Illinois Finance Authority shall certify such failure to file, or failure to adopt a Budget which is balanced as required, to the Governor; and concurrent with that certification, the Authority established under Section 8-12-5 and the financially distressed city shall resume the exercise and performance of their respective powers and responsibilities pursuant to each Section of this Division.
    (c) When the Illinois Finance Authority determines that all of its Obligations have been fully paid and discharged or otherwise provided for, it shall certify that fact to the Governor; and the Authority established under Section 8-12-5 shall be abolished 30 days after the date of that certification. Upon abolition of the Authority as provided in this subsection, this Division shall have no further force or effect upon the financially distressed city.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

65 ILCS 5/8-12-23

    (65 ILCS 5/8-12-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-23)
    Sec. 8-12-23. A financially distressed city to which this Division applies shall remain subject to all other applicable provisions of this Act, except as limited by this Division; provided, however, that in case of a conflict between the provisions of this Division and any other provision of this Act, the provisions of this Division shall control.
(Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

65 ILCS 5/8-12-24

    (65 ILCS 5/8-12-24) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-24)
    Sec. 8-12-24. A home rule unit which is a financially distressed city to which this Division is applicable as provided in Section 8-12-4 may not employ financial or fiscal accounting or budgetary procedures or systems, nor place into effect any Financial Plan or Budget, nor enter into any contract or make any expenditure, nor otherwise conduct its financial and fiscal affairs or take other action in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this Division, until such time as the powers and responsibilities of the Authority are terminated as provided in Section 8-12-22. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units which are financially distressed cities to which this Division is applicable as provided in Section 8-12-4 of powers and functions exercised by the State.
(Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 13

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 13 heading)
DIVISION 13. ASSIGNMENT OF RECEIPTS
(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

65 ILCS 5/8-13-5

    (65 ILCS 5/8-13-5)
    Sec. 8-13-5. Definitions. As used in this Article:
    "Assignment agreement" means an agreement between a transferring unit and an issuing entity for the conveyance of all or part of any revenues or taxes received by the transferring unit from a State entity.
    "Conveyance" means an assignment, sale, transfer, or other conveyance.
    "Deposit account" means a designated escrow account established by an issuing entity at a trust company or bank having trust powers for the deposit of transferred receipts under an assignment agreement.
    "Issuing entity" means (i) a corporation, trust or other entity that has been established for the limited purpose of issuing obligations for the benefit of a transferring unit, or (ii) a bank or trust company in its capacity as trustee for obligations issued by such bank or trust company for the benefit of a transferring unit.
    "State entity" means the State Comptroller, the State Treasurer, or the Illinois Department of Revenue.
    "Transferred receipts" means all or part of any revenues or taxes received from a State entity that have been conveyed by a transferring unit under an assignment agreement.
    "Transferring unit" means a home rule municipality located in the State.
(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

65 ILCS 5/8-13-10

    (65 ILCS 5/8-13-10)
    Sec. 8-13-10. Assignment of receipts.
    (a) Any transferring unit which receives revenues or taxes from a State entity may (to the extent not prohibited by any applicable statute, regulation, rule, or agreement governing the use of such revenues or taxes) authorize, by ordinance, the conveyance of all or any portion of such revenues or taxes to an issuing entity. Any conveyance of transferred receipts shall: (i) be made pursuant to an assignment agreement in exchange for the net proceeds of obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit and shall, for all purposes, constitute an absolute conveyance of all right, title, and interest therein; (ii) not be deemed a pledge or other security interest for any borrowing by the transferring unit; (iii) be valid, binding, and enforceable in accordance with the terms thereof and of any related instrument, agreement, or other arrangement, including any pledge, grant of security interest, or other encumbrance made by the issuing entity to secure any obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit; and (iv) not be subject to disavowal, disaffirmance, cancellation, or avoidance by reason of insolvency of any party, lack of consideration, or any other fact, occurrence, or State law or rule. On and after the effective date of the conveyance of the transferred receipts, the transferring unit shall have no right, title or interest in or to the transferred receipts conveyed and the transferred receipts so conveyed shall be the property of the issuing entity to the extent necessary to pay the obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit, and shall be received, held, and disbursed by the issuing entity in a trust fund outside the treasury of the transferring unit. An assignment agreement may provide for the periodic reconveyance to the transferring unit of amounts of transferred receipts remaining after the payment of the obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit.
    (b) In connection with any conveyance of transferred receipts, the transferring unit is authorized to direct the applicable State entity to deposit or cause to be deposited any amount of such transferred receipts into a deposit account in order to secure the obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit. Where the transferring unit states that such direction is irrevocable, the direction shall be treated by the applicable State entity as irrevocable with respect to the transferred receipts described in such direction. Each State entity shall comply with the terms of any such direction received from a transferring unit and shall execute and deliver such acknowledgments and agreements, including escrow and similar agreements, as the transferring unit may require to effectuate the deposit of transferred receipts in accordance with the direction of the transferring unit.
    (c) Not later than the date of issuance by an issuing entity of any obligations secured by collections of transferred receipts, a certified copy of the ordinance authorizing the conveyance of the right to receive the transferred receipts, together with executed copies of the applicable assignment agreement and the agreement providing for the establishment of the deposit account, shall be filed with the State entity having custody of the transferred receipts.
(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

65 ILCS 5/8-13-11

    (65 ILCS 5/8-13-11)
    Sec. 8-13-11. Liens for obligations.
    (a) As used in this Section, "statutory lien" has the meaning given to that term under 11 U.S.C. 101(53) of the federal Bankruptcy Code.
    (b) Obligations issued by an issuing entity shall be secured by a statutory lien on the transferred receipts received, or entitled to be received, by the issuing entity that are designated as pledged for such obligations. The statutory lien shall automatically attach from the time the obligations are issued without further action or authorization by the issuing entity or any other entity, person, governmental authority, or officer. The statutory lien shall be valid and binding from the time the obligations are executed and delivered without any physical delivery thereof or further act required, and shall be a first priority lien unless the obligations, or documents authorizing the obligations or providing a source of payment or security for those obligations, shall otherwise provide.
    The transferred receipts received or entitled to be received shall be immediately subject to the statutory lien from the time the obligations are issued, and the statutory lien shall automatically attach to the transferred receipts (whether received or entitled to be received by the issuing entity) and be effective, binding, and enforceable against the issuing entity, the transferring unit, the State entity, the State of Illinois, and their agents, successors, and transferees, and creditors, and all others asserting rights therein or having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise, irrespective of whether those parties have notice of the lien and without the need for any physical delivery, recordation, filing, or further act.
    The statutory lien imposed by this Section is automatically released and discharged with respect to amounts of transferred receipts reconveyed to the transferring unit pursuant to Section 8-13-10 of this Code, effective upon such reconveyance.
    (c) The statutory lien provided in this Section is separate from and shall not affect any special revenues lien or other protection afforded to special revenue obligations under the federal Bankruptcy Code.
(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

65 ILCS 5/8-13-15

    (65 ILCS 5/8-13-15)
    Sec. 8-13-15. Pledges and agreements of the State. The State of Illinois pledges to and agrees with each transferring unit and issuing entity that the State will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in the State entities by this Article with respect to the disposition of transferred receipts so as to impair the terms of any contract, including any assignment agreement, made by the transferring unit with the issuing entity or any contract executed by the issuing entity in connection with the issuance of obligations by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit until all requirements with respect to the deposit by such State entity of transferred receipts for the benefit of such issuing entity have been fully met and discharged. In addition, the State pledges to and agrees with each transferring unit and each issuing entity that the State will not limit or alter the basis on which the transferring unit's share or percentage of transferred receipts is derived, or the use of such funds, so as to impair the terms of any such contract. Each transferring unit and issuing entity is authorized to include these pledges and agreements of the State in any contract executed and delivered as described in this Article. In no way shall the pledge and agreements of the State be interpreted to construe the State as a guarantor of any debt or obligation subject to an assignment agreement under this Division.
(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

65 ILCS 5/8-13-20

    (65 ILCS 5/8-13-20)
    Sec. 8-13-20. Home rule. A home rule unit may not enter into assignment agreements in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this Article. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 9

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 9 heading)
ARTICLE 9
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS

65 ILCS 5/Art. 9 Div. 1

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 9 Div. 1 heading)
DIVISION 1. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE