104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB1831
 
Introduced 1/29/2025, by Rep. Dave Vella
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/5-1005  from Ch. 34, par. 5-1005
    Amends the Counties Code. Provides that each county shall have power to declare what are nuisances, including, but not limited to, sound amplification, construction noise, and noise from off-road vehicles, and to take all necessary measures to abate nuisances within the county's jurisdiction.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing 
5Section 5-1005 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/5-1005)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1005)
7    Sec. 5-1005. Powers. Each county shall have power:
8        1. To purchase and hold the real and personal estate 
9    necessary for the uses of the county, and to purchase and 
10    hold, for the benefit of the county, real estate sold by 
11    virtue of judicial proceedings in which the county is 
12    plaintiff.
13        2. To sell and convey or lease any real or personal 
14    estate owned by the county.
15        3. To make all contracts and do all other acts in 
16    relation to the property and concerns of the county 
17    necessary to the exercise of its corporate powers.
18        4. To take all necessary measures and institute 
19    proceedings to enforce all laws for the prevention of 
20    cruelty to animals.
21        5. To purchase and hold or lease real estate upon 
22    which may be erected and maintained buildings to be 
23    utilized for purposes of agricultural experiments and to 
 
 
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1    purchase, hold and use personal property for the care and 
2    maintenance of such real estate in connection with such 
3    experimental purposes.
4        6. To cause to be erected, or otherwise provided, 
5    suitable buildings for, and maintain a county hospital and 
6    necessary branch hospitals and/or a county sheltered care 
7    home or county nursing home for the care of such sick, 
8    chronically ill or infirm persons as may by law be proper 
9    charges upon the county, or upon other governmental units, 
10    and to provide for the management of the same. The county 
11    board may establish rates to be paid by persons seeking 
12    care and treatment in such hospital or home in accordance 
13    with their financial ability to meet such charges, either 
14    personally or through a hospital plan or hospital 
15    insurance, and the rates to be paid by governmental units, 
16    including the State, for the care of sick, chronically ill 
17    or infirm persons admitted therein upon the request of 
18    such governmental units. Any hospital maintained by a 
19    county under this Section is authorized to provide any 
20    service and enter into any contract or other arrangement 
21    not prohibited for a hospital that is licensed under the 
22    Hospital Licensing Act, incorporated under the General 
23    Not-For-Profit Corporation Act, and exempt from taxation 
24    under paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of 
25    the Internal Revenue Code.
26        7. To contribute such sums of money toward erecting, 
 
 
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1    building, maintaining, and supporting any non-sectarian 
2    public hospital located within its limits as the county 
3    board of the county shall deem proper.
4        8. To purchase and hold real estate for the 
5    preservation of forests, prairies and other natural areas 
6    and to maintain and regulate the use thereof.
7        9. To purchase and hold real estate for the purpose of 
8    preserving historical spots in the county, to restore, 
9    maintain and regulate the use thereof and to donate any 
10    historical spot to the State.
11        10. To appropriate funds from the county treasury to 
12    be used in any manner to be determined by the board for the 
13    suppression, eradication and control of tuberculosis among 
14    domestic cattle in such county.
15        11. To take all necessary measures to prevent forest 
16    fires and encourage the maintenance and planting of trees 
17    and the preservation of forests.
18        12. To authorize the closing on Saturday mornings of 
19    all offices of all county officers at the county seat of 
20    each county, and to otherwise regulate and fix the days 
21    and the hours of opening and closing of such offices, 
22    except when the days and the hours of opening and closing 
23    of the office of any county officer are otherwise fixed by 
24    law; but the power herein conferred shall not apply to the 
25    office of State's Attorney and the offices of judges and 
26    clerks of courts and, in counties of 500,000 or more 
 
 
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1    population, the offices of county clerk.
2        13. To provide for the conservation, preservation and 
3    propagation of insectivorous birds through the expenditure 
4    of funds provided for such purpose.
5        14. To appropriate funds from the county treasury and 
6    expend the same for care and treatment of tuberculosis 
7    residents.
8        15. In counties having less than 1,000,000 
9    inhabitants, to take all necessary or proper steps for the 
10    extermination of mosquitoes, flies or other insects within 
11    the county.
12        16. To install an adequate system of accounts and 
13    financial records in the offices and divisions of the 
14    county, suitable to the needs of the office and in 
15    accordance with generally accepted principles of 
16    accounting for governmental bodies, which system may 
17    include such reports as the county board may determine.
18        17. To purchase and hold real estate for the 
19    construction and maintenance of motor vehicle parking 
20    facilities for persons using county buildings, but the 
21    purchase and use of such real estate shall not be for 
22    revenue producing purposes.
23        18. To acquire and hold title to real property located 
24    within the county, or partly within and partly outside the 
25    county by dedication, purchase, gift, legacy or lease, for 
26    park and recreational purposes and to charge reasonable 
 
 
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1    fees for the use of or admission to any such park or 
2    recreational area and to provide police protection for 
3    such park or recreational area. Personnel employed to 
4    provide such police protection shall be conservators of 
5    the peace within such park or recreational area and shall 
6    have power to make arrests on view of the offense or upon 
7    warrants for violation of any of the ordinances governing 
8    such park or recreational area or for any breach of the 
9    peace in the same manner as the police in municipalities 
10    organized and existing under the general laws of the 
11    State. All such real property outside the county shall be 
12    contiguous to the county and within the boundaries of the 
13    State of Illinois.
14        19. To appropriate funds from the county treasury to 
15    be used to provide supportive social services designed to 
16    prevent the unnecessary institutionalization of elderly 
17    residents, or, for operation of, and equipment for, senior 
18    citizen centers providing social services to elderly 
19    residents.
20        20. To appropriate funds from the county treasury and 
21    loan such funds to a county water commission created under 
22    the "Water Commission Act", approved June 30, 1984, as now 
23    or hereafter amended, in such amounts and upon such terms 
24    as the county may determine or the county and the 
25    commission may agree. The county shall not under any 
26    circumstances be obligated to make such loans. The county 
 
 
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1    shall not be required to charge interest on any such 
2    loans.
3        21. To appropriate and expend funds from the county 
4    treasury for economic development purposes, including the 
5    making of grants to any other governmental entity or 
6    commercial enterprise deemed necessary or desirable for 
7    the promotion of economic development in the county. 
8        22. To lease space on a telecommunications tower to a 
9    public or private entity. 
10        23. In counties having a population of 100,000 or less 
11    and a public building commission organized by the county 
12    seat of the county, to cause to be erected or otherwise 
13    provided, and to maintain or cause to be maintained, 
14    suitable facilities to house students pursuing a 
15    post-secondary education at an academic institution 
16    located within the county. The county may provide for the 
17    management of the facilities. 
18        24. To declare what are nuisances, including, but not 
19    limited to, sound amplification, construction noise, and 
20    noise from off-road vehicles, and to take all necessary 
21    measures to abate nuisances within the county's 
22    jurisdiction. 
23    All contracts for the purchase of coal under this Section 
24shall be subject to the provisions of "An Act concerning the 
25use of Illinois mined coal in certain plants and 
26institutions", filed July 13, 1937, as amended.
 
 
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1(Source: P.A. 95-197, eff. 8-16-07; 95-813, eff. 1-1-09; 
296-622, eff. 8-24-09.)