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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 Township Code is amended by changing Section
580-10 as follows:
 
6    (60 ILCS 1/80-10)
7    Sec. 80-10. Board meetings; township and road district
8accounts.
9    (a) The township board shall meet at the township clerk's
10office for the purpose of examining and auditing the township
11and road district accounts before any bills (other than general
12assistance, obligations for Social Security taxes as required
13by the Social Security Enabling Act, and wages that are subject
14to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, or other
15expenses determined by the township board by resolution) are
16paid, provided that payments made pursuant to a board
17resolution shall be reviewed and verified at the next meeting.
18The board may meet at other times as they determine. The
19township board may consider and approve bills individually or
20in a summary statement of any number of bills.
21    (b) Upon the request of the supervisor or of any 2 board
22members, the township clerk shall call a meeting at the time
23requested and shall furnish to the board members at least 48

 

 

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1hours' notice of the meeting.
2    (c) The township board may declare a vacancy in the office
3of township supervisor or trustee if the supervisor or a
4trustee has 5 or more consecutive unexcused absences from
5regularly scheduled township board meetings.
6    (d) The township board may adopt rules not inconsistent
7with this Code to govern its meetings. The rules may provide
8for excused absences of the supervisor or trustees from
9township board meetings.
10    (e) All meetings of the township board shall be open to the
11public as provided in the Open Meetings Act.
12(Source: P.A. 88-62; incorporates 88-360; 88-670, eff.
1312-2-94.)
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15becoming law.