(55 ILCS 5/5-23030) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23030)
Sec. 5-23030.
Petition for tax levy; submission to vote.
Whenever
100 legal voters of any county shall present a petition to the County Board
of such county asking that an annual tax may be levied for the care and
treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, such County Board shall
certify the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit
the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law.
The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
-------------------------------------------------------------- Shall an annual tax of notto exceed .075 per cent of YESvalue as equalized or assessedby the Department of Revenue -----------------------------for the care and treatmentof persons afflicted with NOtuberculosis be levied?--------------------------------------------------------------
If a majority of all votes cast upon the proposition shall be for the
levy of a tax for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with
tuberculosis the County Board of such County shall thereafter levy a tax
of not to exceed .075 per cent of the value as equalized or assessed by
the Department of Revenue, which tax shall be collected
in like manner with the other general taxes in the County and shall be
known as "Tuberculosis Care and Treatment Fund", and thereafter the
County Board of such County shall in the annual appropriation bill,
appropriate from such fund such sum or sums of money as may be deemed
necessary to defray the necessary cost and expense of providing care and
treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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