(55 ILCS 5/5-7003) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-7003)
Sec. 5-7003.
Discontinuance of tax.
When 100 legal voters of any
county which has adopted the provisions of this Division presents a
petition to the county clerk, requesting that the levying of a tax annually
in such county for the purpose of maintaining public nonsectarian hospitals
be discontinued, the county clerk shall certify the proposition to any
board of election commissioners in the county and he and they shall submit
the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law.
The proposition shall be substantially in the following form:
-------------------------------------------------------------- Shall .... County discontinue the levying of an annual YES tax for the purpose of ---------------------- maintaining public NO nonsectarian hospitals?--------------------------------------------------------------
If a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition are for the
discontinuance of the levying of such tax, the county board shall not
thereafter levy such tax unless a proposition authorizing such levy
again receives a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition as
prescribed by Section 5-7002.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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