93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2758


 
Introduced 2/5/2004, by John J. Cullerton
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














70 ILCS 810/24
  from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6427







    Amends the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. Authorizes the Cook County Forest Preserve District Board to amend its annual appropriation ordinance. Provides for a monthly schedule for the year of the proposed expenditures in the appropriation ordinance.
















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    AN ACT concerning forest preserve districts.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Cook County Forest Preserve District Act is 
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amended  by changing Section 24 as follows:
 



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    (70 ILCS 810/24)  (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6427)



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    Sec. 24. Fiscal year; annual appropriation ordinance; 
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amendments; monthly schedule.

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    (a) The fiscal year of each forest preserve district 
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subject to this
Act shall extend from January 1, until December 
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31. The forest preserve
district shall, before the commencement 
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or within 60 days after the
commencement of each fiscal year, 
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adopt an annual appropriation ordinance,
which shall 
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appropriate sums of money required to defray all necessary 
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expenses
and liabilities of the district to be paid or incurred 
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during that fiscal year.
Transfers from one appropriation of 
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any one fund to another of the same fund,
not affecting the 
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total amount appropriated, may be made at any meeting of the

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Board.

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    (b) The annual appropriation ordinance may
be amended in 
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the same manner as other
ordinances appropriating money. The 
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ordinance must be amended at the next meeting of the Board that 
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occurs not
less than 5 days after the passage of the 
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appropriation ordinance. The ordinance, as originally passed 
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or as
subsequently amended, may also be amended at any meeting 
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of the Board held not more than 15 days after the first meeting 
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of the
Board that occurs not less than 5 days after the passage 
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of
the annual appropriation ordinance, by repealing or reducing 
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the amount of any
item or items of appropriation contained in 
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the ordinance. The Board has the power, by a two-thirds vote of 
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all members of the
Board, to make transfers within any fund, 
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department, or other office or
agency of the district, of sums 
 


 






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of money appropriated for one object or purpose to another 
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object or purpose, but no
appropriation for any object or 
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purpose shall be reduced below an
amount sufficient to cover 
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all obligations incurred against the
appropriation.
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    (c) For purposes of controlling expenditures, the 
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expenditure of or
incurring of obligations against any 
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appropriation may be delayed,
restricted, or terminated with 
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regard to any object or purpose for which
appropriations were 
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made in the appropriation ordinance. A monthly
schedule for the 
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year of proposed expenditure, including any limitations or

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conditions against appropriations for each program, 
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subactivity, and the
agency or department, shall be made within 
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30 days of the adoption of the
annual appropriation ordinance. 
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The schedule, as amended by the President of the Board, shall 
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be binding upon all officers, agencies, and
departments. The 
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schedule of expenditure or of incurring obligations
may not be 
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exceeded, but the schedule may be revised after
3 calendar 
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months have elapsed since the last schedule.

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(Source: P.A. 87-1191.)