(50 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 85, par. 51)
Sec. 1.
Whenever, due to an emergency resulting from the effects of enemy
attack, or the anticipated effects of a threatened enemy attack, it becomes
imprudent, inexpedient or impossible to conduct the affairs of local
government at the regular or usual place or places thereof, the governing
body of each political subdivision of this State may meet at any place
within or without the territorial limits of such political subdivision on
the call of the presiding officer or any two members of such governing
body, and shall proceed to establish and designate by ordinance, resolution
or other manner, alternate or substitute sites or places as the emergency
temporary location, or locations, of government where all, or any part, of
the public business may be transacted and conducted during the emergency
situation. Such sites or places may be within or without the territorial
limits of such political subdivision and may be within or without this
State.
(Source: Laws 1959, p. 774.)
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