Public Act 098-1174
 
HB3707 EnrolledLRB098 14106 OMW 48681 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 Township Code is amended  by changing Section 
80-10 as follows:
 



    (60 ILCS 1/80-10)



    Sec. 80-10. Board meetings; township and road district 
accounts. 

    (a) The township board shall meet at the township clerk's 
office for the
purpose of examining and auditing the township 
and road district accounts
before any bills (other than general 
assistance, obligations for Social
Security taxes as required 
by the Social Security Enabling Act, and wages that
are subject 
to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, or other 
expenses determined by the township board by resolution) are 
paid, provided that payments made pursuant to a board 
resolution shall be reviewed and verified at the next meeting.  
The
board may meet at other times as they determine. The 
township board may
consider and approve bills individually or 
in a  summary statement of any
number of bills.

    (b) Upon the request of the supervisor or of any 2 board 
members, the
township clerk shall call a meeting at the time 
requested and shall furnish to
the board members at least 48 
hours' notice of the meeting.

    (c) The township board may declare a vacancy in the office 
of township
supervisor or trustee if the supervisor or a 
trustee has 5 or more consecutive
unexcused absences from 
regularly scheduled township board meetings.

    (d) The township board may adopt rules not inconsistent 
with this Code to
govern its meetings.  The rules may provide 
for excused absences of
the supervisor or trustees from 
township board meetings.

    (e) All meetings of the township board shall be open to the

public as provided in the Open Meetings Act.

(Source: P.A. 88-62; incorporates 88-360; 88-670, eff. 
12-2-94.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.