(110 ILCS 805/3A-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 103A-7)
Sec. 3A-7.
Before any district as described in Section 3A-6 shall avail
itself of the provisions of that Section the board shall examine and consider
the several teachers' orders or claims, or both, proposed to be paid and
if it appears that they were authorized and allowed for proper community
college purposes it shall adopt a resolution so declaring and set forth
and describe in detail such teachers' orders and claims and the adoption
of the resolution shall establish the validity thereof, notwithstanding
the amount of such orders and claims may exceed in whole or in part any
applicable statutory debt limit in force at the time the indebtedness
evidenced by such orders and claims was incurred. The resolution shall
also declare the intention of the district to issue bonds for the
purpose of paying such teachers' orders or claims, or both, and direct
that notice of such intention be published at least once in a newspaper
published within the district and if there be no newspaper published within
the district then notice shall be published in a newspaper having general
circulation within the district. The notice shall set forth (1) the
specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting that the
proposition to issue bonds under this Section be submitted to the voters of
the district; (2) the time within which a petition must be filed; and (3)
the date of the prospective referendum. The district secretary shall
provide a petition form to any individual requesting one. If within 30 days
after such publication of such notice a petition is filed with the
recording officer of the district, signed by the
voters of the district equal to 10% or more of the registered voters of
the district requesting that the proposition to issue bonds as authorized
by Section 3A-6 be submitted to the voters thereof, then the district shall
not be authorized to issue bonds as provided by Section 3A-6 until the
proposition has been submitted to and approved by a majority of the voters
voting on the proposition at a regular scheduled election in the manner
provided in the general election law. The board shall certify the
proposition to the proper election authorities for submission to the
voters. If no such petition with the requisite number of signatures is
filed within said 30 days, or if any and all petitions filed are invalid,
then the district shall thereafter be authorized to issue bonds for the
purposes and as provided in Section 3A-6.
(Source: P.A. 86-1253; 87-767.)
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