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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Sections 4-5-11 and 8-9-1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (65 ILCS 5/4-5-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 4-5-11)
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| 7 | | Sec. 4-5-11. Except as otherwise provided, all contracts, |
| 8 | | of whatever
character, pertaining to public improvement, or to |
| 9 | | the maintenance of
the public property of a municipality |
| 10 | | involving an outlay of $10,000 or
more, shall be based upon |
| 11 | | specifications to be approved by the council.
Any work or other |
| 12 | | public improvement which is not to be paid for in
whole or in |
| 13 | | part by special assessment or special taxation, when the
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| 14 | | expense thereof will exceed $30,000 $20,000, shall be |
| 15 | | constructed as follows:
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| 16 | | (1) By a contract let to the lowest responsible bidder |
| 17 | | after
advertising for bids, in the manner prescribed by |
| 18 | | ordinance, except that
any such contract may be entered |
| 19 | | into by the proper officers without
advertising for bids, |
| 20 | | if authorized by a vote of 4 of the 5 council
members |
| 21 | | elected; or
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| 22 | | (2) In the following manner, if authorized by a vote of |
| 23 | | 4 of the 5
council members elected: the commissioner of |
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| 1 | | public works or other
proper officers to be designated by |
| 2 | | ordinance, shall superintend and
cause to be carried out |
| 3 | | the construction of the work or other public
improvement |
| 4 | | and shall employ exclusively for the performance of all
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| 5 | | manual labor thereon, laborers and artisans whom the city |
| 6 | | or village
shall pay by the day or hour, but all material |
| 7 | | of the value of $30,000 $20,000
and upward used in the |
| 8 | | construction of the work or other public
improvement, shall |
| 9 | | be purchased by contract let to the lowest
responsible |
| 10 | | bidder in the manner to be prescribed by ordinance.
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| 11 | | Nothing contained in this Section shall apply to any |
| 12 | | contract by a
municipality with the United States of America or |
| 13 | | any agency thereof.
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| 14 | | (Source: P.A. 94-435, eff. 8-2-05.)
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| 15 | | (65 ILCS 5/8-9-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-9-1)
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| 16 | | Sec. 8-9-1. In municipalities of less than 500,000 except
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| 17 | | as otherwise provided in Articles 4 and 5 any work or other
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| 18 | | public improvement which is not to be paid for in whole or in
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| 19 | | part by special assessment or special taxation, when the |
| 20 | | expense
thereof will exceed $30,000 $20,000, shall be |
| 21 | | constructed either (1)
by a contract let to the lowest |
| 22 | | responsible bidder after
advertising for bids, in the manner |
| 23 | | prescribed by ordinance,
except that any such contract may be |
| 24 | | entered into by the proper
officers without advertising for |
| 25 | | bids, if authorized by a vote
of two-thirds of all the aldermen |
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| 1 | | or trustees then holding office;
or (2) in the following |
| 2 | | manner, if authorized by a vote of
two-thirds of all the |
| 3 | | aldermen or trustees then holding office,
to-wit: the |
| 4 | | commissioner of public works or other proper officers
to be |
| 5 | | designated by ordinance, shall superintend and cause to
be |
| 6 | | carried out the construction of the work or other public
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| 7 | | improvement and shall employ exclusively for the performance
of |
| 8 | | all manual labor thereon, laborers and artisans whom the
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| 9 | | municipality shall pay by the day or hour; and all material
of |
| 10 | | the value of $30,000 $20,000 and upward used in the |
| 11 | | construction of
the work or other public improvement, shall be |
| 12 | | purchased by
contract let to the lowest responsible bidder in |
| 13 | | the manner
to be prescribed by ordinance. However, nothing |
| 14 | | contained
in this section shall apply to any contract by a |
| 15 | | city, village
or incorporated town with the federal government |
| 16 | | or any agency thereof.
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| 17 | | In every city which has adopted Division 1 of Article 10,
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| 18 | | every such laborer or artisan shall be certified by the civil
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| 19 | | service commission to the commissioner of public works or other
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| 20 | | proper officers, in accordance with the requirement of that |
| 21 | | division.
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| 22 | | In municipalities of 500,000 or more population the letting |
| 23 | | of
contracts for work or other public improvements of the |
| 24 | | character
described in this section shall be governed by the |
| 25 | | provisions of
Division 10 of this Article 8.
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| 26 | | (Source: P.A. 94-435, eff. 8-2-05.)
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