Public Act 098-0199
 
HB0438 EnrolledLRB098 03256 OMW 33271 b



    AN ACT concerning local government.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 



 
    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended  by changing Section 
5-1028 as follows:
 



    (55 ILCS 5/5-1028)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1028)



    Sec. 5-1028. Tax for emergency ambulance service; 
referendum. In any county which is not a home rule county, a 
county board may levy and
collect, annually, a tax of not to 
exceed .25% of the value, as equalized
or assessed by the 
Department of Revenue, of all the taxable property in
the 
county not included within the territory of a fire protection

district which levies a tax for ambulance service, for the 
payment of expenses
not paid for from general funds which are 
incurred in providing emergency
ambulance service under the 
provisions of Section 5-1053. Such tax shall
not be included 
within any statutory limitation
of rate or amount for other 
county purposes, but shall be excluded
therefrom and be in 
addition thereto and in excess thereof.

    This tax shall not be levied in any county until the 
question of its adoption
is submitted to the electors of the 
county not residing within the territory
of a fire protection 
district which levies a tax for ambulance service and
approved 
by a majority of those voting on the question. Upon the 
adoption
of a resolution by the county board providing for the 
submission of the
question of the adoption to the electors of 
the county the board shall
certify the resolution and the 
proposition to the proper election officials
who shall submit 
the proposition at an election in accordance with the
general 
election law. If a majority of the votes cast on the question 
is in
favor of the levy of such tax, it may thereafter be 
levied in such county
for each succeeding year.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the 
county board of a county that has more than 8,400 but less than 
9,000 inhabitants, according to the 2010 federal decennial 
census, may also use  funds collected   under this Section to  
provide  9-1-1 service, but only  if the question of using those 
funds for that purpose has been submitted to the electors of 
the county not residing within the territory
of the fire 
protection district that levies the tax for ambulance service 
and
if that question is approved by a majority of those 
electors voting on the question. Upon the adoption
of a 
resolution by the county board providing for the submission of 
that
question to those electors, the board shall
certify the 
resolution and the proposition to the proper election 
officials,
who shall submit the proposition at an election in 
accordance with the
Election Code. The election authority must 
submit the question in substantially the following form: 
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    May moneys collected by the county

to provide emergency ambulance service           YES

also be used for the purpose of -----------------------------

providing 9-1-1 service?                          NO

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    The election authority must record the votes as "Yes" or 
"No".
    If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote 
in the affirmative, the county may thereafter use funds that it 
collects under this Section to provide 9-1-1 service or  
emergency ambulance service. 
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
1, 2014.