Rep. William B. Black

Filed: 3/26/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3136

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3136 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
5 Section 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

 

 

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1     necessary to the exercise of its corporate powers.
2         4. To take all necessary measures and institute
3     proceedings to enforce all laws for the prevention of
4     cruelty to animals.
5         5. To purchase and hold or lease real estate upon which
6     may be erected and maintained buildings to be utilized for
7     purposes of agricultural experiments and to purchase, hold
8     and use personal property for the care and maintenance of
9     such real estate in connection with such experimental
10     purposes.
11         6. To cause to be erected, or otherwise provided,
12     suitable buildings for, and maintain a county hospital and
13     necessary branch hospitals and/or a county sheltered care
14     home or county nursing home for the care of such sick,
15     chronically ill or infirm persons as may by law be proper
16     charges upon the county, or upon other governmental units,
17     and to provide for the management of the same. The county
18     board may establish rates to be paid by persons seeking
19     care and treatment in such hospital or home in accordance
20     with their financial ability to meet such charges, either
21     personally or through a hospital plan or hospital
22     insurance, and the rates to be paid by governmental units,
23     including the State, for the care of sick, chronically ill
24     or infirm persons admitted therein upon the request of such
25     governmental units. Any hospital maintained by a county
26     under this Section is authorized to provide any service and

 

 

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1     enter into any contract or other arrangement not prohibited
2     for a hospital that is licensed under the Hospital
3     Licensing Act, incorporated under the General
4     Not-For-Profit Corporation Act, and exempt from taxation
5     under paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the
6     Internal Revenue Code.
7         7. To contribute such sums of money toward erecting,
8     building, maintaining, and supporting any non-sectarian
9     public hospital located within its limits as the county
10     board of the county shall deem proper.
11         8. To purchase and hold real estate for the
12     preservation of forests, prairies and other natural areas
13     and to maintain and regulate the use thereof.
14         9. To purchase and hold real estate for the purpose of
15     preserving historical spots in the county, to restore,
16     maintain and regulate the use thereof and to donate any
17     historical spot to the State.
18         10. To appropriate funds from the county treasury to be
19     used in any manner to be determined by the board for the
20     suppression, eradication and control of tuberculosis among
21     domestic cattle in such county.
22         11. To take all necessary measures to prevent forest
23     fires and encourage the maintenance and planting of trees
24     and the preservation of forests.
25         12. To authorize the closing on Saturday mornings of
26     all offices of all county officers at the county seat of

 

 

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1     each county, and to otherwise regulate and fix the days and
2     the hours of opening and closing of such offices, except
3     when the days and the hours of opening and closing of the
4     office of any county officer are otherwise fixed by law;
5     but the power herein conferred shall not apply to the
6     office of State's Attorney and the offices of judges and
7     clerks of courts and, in counties of 500,000 or more
8     population, the offices of county clerk.
9         13. To provide for the conservation, preservation and
10     propagation of insectivorous birds through the expenditure
11     of funds provided for such purpose.
12         14. To appropriate funds from the county treasury and
13     expend the same for care and treatment of tuberculosis
14     residents.
15         15. In counties having less than 1,000,000
16     inhabitants, to take all necessary or proper steps for the
17     extermination of mosquitoes, flies or other insects within
18     the county.
19         16. To install an adequate system of accounts and
20     financial records in the offices and divisions of the
21     county, suitable to the needs of the office and in
22     accordance with generally accepted principles of
23     accounting for governmental bodies, which system may
24     include such reports as the county board may determine.
25         17. To purchase and hold real estate for the
26     construction and maintenance of motor vehicle parking

 

 

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1     facilities for persons using county buildings, but the
2     purchase and use of such real estate shall not be for
3     revenue producing purposes.
4         18. To acquire and hold title to real property located
5     within the county, or partly within and partly outside the
6     county by dedication, purchase, gift, legacy or lease, for
7     park and recreational purposes and to charge reasonable
8     fees for the use of or admission to any such park or
9     recreational area and to provide police protection for such
10     park or recreational area. Personnel employed to provide
11     such police protection shall be conservators of the peace
12     within such park or recreational area and shall have power
13     to make arrests on view of the offense or upon warrants for
14     violation of any of the ordinances governing such park or
15     recreational area or for any breach of the peace in the
16     same manner as the police in municipalities organized and
17     existing under the general laws of the State. All such real
18     property outside the county shall be contiguous to the
19     county and within the boundaries of the State of Illinois.
20         19. To appropriate funds from the county treasury to be
21     used to provide supportive social services designed to
22     prevent the unnecessary institutionalization of elderly
23     residents, or, for operation of, and equipment for, senior
24     citizen centers providing social services to elderly
25     residents.
26         20. To appropriate funds from the county treasury and

 

 

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1     loan such funds to a county water commission created under
2     the "Water Commission Act", approved June 30, 1984, as now
3     or hereafter amended, in such amounts and upon such terms
4     as the county may determine or the county and the
5     commission may agree. The county shall not under any
6     circumstances be obligated to make such loans. The county
7     shall not be required to charge interest on any such loans.
8         21. To appropriate and expend funds from the county
9     treasury for economic development purposes, including the
10     making of grants to any other governmental entity or
11     commercial enterprise deemed necessary or desirable for
12     the promotion of economic development in the county.
13         22. To lease space on a telecommunications tower to a
14     public or private entity.
15         23. In counties having more than 75,000 inhabitants and
16     a public building commission organized by the county seat
17     of the county, to cause to be erected or otherwise
18     provided, and to maintain or cause to be maintained,
19     suitable facilities to house students pursuing a
20     post-secondary education at an academic institution
21     located within the county. The county may provide for the
22     management of the facilities.
23     All contracts for the purchase of coal under this Section
24 shall be subject to the provisions of "An Act concerning the
25 use of Illinois mined coal in certain plants and institutions",
26 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.)".