(55 ILCS 5/5-25020) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25020)
Sec. 5-25020.
Withdrawal from consolidated health department.
Any
county which has established a county health department
or counties which have established a multiple-county health department
may withdraw from a consolidated health department for the purpose of
maintaining and operating an independent county or multiple-county
health department, as the case may be, or for the purpose of joining
with another adjacent county or other adjacent counties in maintaining
and operating a consolidated health department. Withdrawal for such
purposes may be effected by majority vote of the county board of the
withdrawing county which had established a county health department, or
by a majority vote of each county board of the withdrawing counties
which had established a multiple-county health department, before
joining the consolidated health department. In all withdrawals from
consolidated health departments, the county board of each county
proposing withdrawal shall seek the advice and concurrence of the
Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health before taking
action effecting withdrawal. The effective date of withdrawal shall be
June 30 following completion of the withdrawal agreements. The board of
health of the consolidated health department shall meet and the members
of the withdrawing and the remaining counties shall agree upon removal
of records, supplies, equipment and personnel by the withdrawing county
or counties. Withdrawal of any county or counties from the consolidated
health department does not alter the consolidation if the county or
multiple-county health departments remaining party to the union are two
or more. Discontinuance of any county or multiple-county health
department effected under the provisions of Section 5-25017 constitutes
withdrawal from a consolidated health department.
Any county which is a member county of a consolidated health
department may also withdraw from the consolidated health department
upon approval by referendum, the proposition for which shall be placed
on the ballot at any general election by the county clerk on receipt of
a petition signed by not less than 10 per cent of the registered voters
of the county. The proposition shall be certified to the proper election
officials, who shall submit the proposition to the voters at an election
in accordance with the general election law.
The proposition shall read substantially as follows:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shall .... county withdraw the county YEShealth department from the ............ ----------------------------------------------------------------consolidated health department? NO---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If a majority of voters favor withdrawal the county shall arrange its
withdrawal effective June 30 following the referendum and shall settle
its affairs in the consolidated health department and resume operation
in the manner hereinbefore prescribed in this section.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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