(65 ILCS 5/8-4-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-25)
Sec. 8-4-25.
Subject to the requirements of the Bond Issue Notification
Act, any municipality is authorized to issue from time to time
full faith and credit general obligation notes in an amount not to exceed
85% of the specific taxes levied for the year during which and for which
such notes are issued, provided no notes shall be issued in lieu of tax
warrants for any tax at any time there are outstanding tax anticipation
warrants against the specific taxes levied for the year. Such notes shall
bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the
Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the
contract, if issued before January 1, 1972 and not more than the maximum
rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of
the making of the contract, if issued after January 1, 1972 and shall
mature within two years from date. The first interest payment date on any
such notes shall not be earlier than the delinquency date of the first
installment of taxes levied to pay interest and principal of such notes.
Notes may be issued for taxes levied for the following purposes:
(a) Corporate.
(b) For the payment of judgments.
(c) Public Library for Maintenance and Operation.
(d) Public Library for Buildings and Sites.
(e) (Blank).
(f) Relief (General Assistance).
In order to authorize and issue such notes, the corporate authorities
shall adopt an ordinance fixing the amount of the notes, the date
thereof, the maturity, rate of interest, place of payment and
denomination, which shall be in equal multiples of $1,000, and provide
for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable
property in the municipality sufficient to pay the principal of and
interest on such notes as the same becomes due.
A certified copy of the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the
notes shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk of the county in
which the municipality is located, or if the municipality lies partly
within two or more counties, a certified copy of the ordinance
authorizing such notes shall be filed with the County Clerk of each of
the respective counties, and it shall be the duty of the County Clerk,
or County Clerks, whichever the case may be, to extend the tax therefor
in addition to and in excess of all other taxes heretofore or hereafter
authorized to be levied by such municipality.
From and after any such notes have been issued and while such notes
are outstanding, it shall be the duty of the County Clerk or County
Clerks, whichever the case may be, in computing the tax rate for the
purpose for which the notes have been issued to reduce the tax rate
levied for such purpose by the amount levied to pay the principal of and
interest on the notes to maturity, provided the tax rate shall not be
reduced beyond the amount necessary to reimburse any money borrowed from
the working cash fund, and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the
municipality annually, not less than thirty (30) days prior to the tax
extension date, to certify to the County Clerk, or County Clerks,
whichever the case may be, the amount of money borrowed from the working
cash fund to be reimbursed from the specific tax levy.
No reimbursement shall be made to the working cash fund until there
has been accumulated from the tax levy provided for the notes an amount
sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such notes as the
same become due.
With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this
Section either before, on, or after June 6, 1989 (the effective date of Public Act 86-4), it is and always has been the intention of the General
Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary
grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond
Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to
have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of
this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by
the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section
within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not
invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to
have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 102-587, eff. 1-1-22; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
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