(605 ILCS 5/6-512) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-512)
Sec. 6-512.
For the purpose of constructing, maintaining and
repairing county unit district roads, bridges and drainage structures
and the acquisition, maintenance, housing and repair of machinery and
equipment, the county board, in any county in which a county unit road
district is established, may levy annual separate taxes upon all taxable
property of the county to be known as the "County Unit Road District
Road Tax" and the "County Unit Road District Bridge Tax". Such taxes
shall be levied and collected as other county taxes, but the road
district taxes shall be in addition to the maximum of all other county
taxes which the county is now or may hereafter be authorized by law to
levy. The tax levies authorized in this Section shall not be extended in
counties having less than 1,000,000 inhabitants at a rate in excess of
.165% for the road tax, unless the maximum rate has been increased as
provided in Section 6-512.1, and .05% for the bridge tax, both figures
based on the value of all the taxable property within the county, as
equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, or
.01% in counties having 1,000,000 or more inhabitants, of the value, as
equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of
all taxable property within the county; however, 1/2 of the County Unit
Road District Road tax levied under this Section, on property lying
within a municipality in which the streets and alleys are under the care
of the municipality, shall, when collected, be paid over to the
treasurer of the municipality to be appropriated to the improvement of
roads, streets and bridges therein. In determining the amount of tax
necessary to be raised and levied, the county board shall state
separately the several amounts to be raised and levied for the
construction of roads, the construction and maintenance of bridges and
drainage structures, the purchase of machinery, the repair of machinery,
the oiling of roads and the prevention and extirpation of weeds.
All tax moneys collected as a result of the levies authorized by this
Section shall be deposited in separate county unit road district
accounts known, respectively, as the "county unit road district road
fund" and the "county unit road district bridge and drainage fund". The
county treasurer shall be custodian of these funds, but the road
district funds shall be maintained separate and apart from the general
county fund.
(Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)
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