(55 ILCS 5/5-23040) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23040)

Sec. 5-23040.

Additional taxes.

Whenever 100
legal voters of any county shall present a petition to
the county board of such county asking that there be levied, in excess
of the statutory limit, an additional annual tax of not to exceed .075
per cent of the value as equalized or assessed by the Department of
Revenue, of all taxable property of the county, for the
care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, such county
board shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials, who
shall submit the proposition at an election
in accordance with the general election law. The proposition shall be in
substantially the following form:

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    Shall.... County levy, in
excess of the statutory limit, an              YES
additional annual tax of not to          --------------------------------------------------------------------
exceed .075 per cent for the care
and treatment of persons afflicted             NO
with tuberculosis?
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If a majority of all votes cast upon the proposition is in favor
thereof, the county board of such county shall thereafter levy annually,
in excess of the statutory limit, a tax of not to exceed .075 per cent
of the value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue for the
care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, which tax shall
be collected in like manner with the other general taxes in the county and
shall be known as the "Tuberculosis Care and Treatment Fund", and
thereafter the county board of such county shall in the annual
appropriation bill, appropriate from such fund such sum or sums of money as
may be deemed necessary to defray the necessary cost and expense of
providing care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis. Such
tax, when so voted, shall be an additional annual tax in excess of the
statutory limit without any further authority or vote of any kind.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)