(620 ILCS 45/2) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 85)
Sec. 2.
When 100 legal voters of any such county shall present a petition to
the county board of such county asking that an annual tax be levied for
the establishment, operation and maintenance of an airport and landing
field in such county, the county board shall certify the proposition to
the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition to the voters
at an election in accordance with the general election law. The proposition
shall be in substantially the
following form:
-------------------------------------------------------------- Shall an annual tax be levied in.................... County for a county airport and landing field under the provisions of "An Act in YES relation to the establishment, acquisition, maintenance and operation of airports and landing fields --------------------- by counties of less than 1,000,000 population, and by such counties jointly with certain taxing districts NO located within or partly within such counties, and to provide methods for the financing thereof", approved July 22, 1943, as amended?--------------------------------------------------------------
If a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition shall be in
favor thereof the county board shall thereafter annually levy a tax of
not to exceed .25 per cent of the value, as equalized or assessed by the
Department of Revenue, which tax shall be collected in
like manner and with other general taxes in such county and shall be
known as the "County Airport Fund", and thereafter the county board
shall, in the annual appropriation bill, appropriate from such fund such
sum or sums of money as may be necessary to defray all necessary
expenses and liabilities of the county airport and landing field. The
county board of any such county and the corporate authorities of any one
or more taxing districts lying wholly or partly within the corporate
limits of the county which taxing district or districts are authorized
under the laws of this state to acquire, establish, operate and maintain
airports and landing fields, may hereafter by agreement provide for the
joint construction, maintenance and control of an airport and landing
field. Such agreement shall specify the site of the proposed airport and
landing field and the proportionate share of the cost of construction
and the cost of maintenance which shall be borne by such county and each
of such taxing districts. The County Board shall certify the proposition
for such joint construction,
maintenance and control to the proper election officials, who shall submit
the proposition to the voters of the county
and each such taxing district at an election in accordance with the general
election law.
The proposition shall state the proposed site of such airport and landing
field and the proportionate share of the cost of construction and
maintenance to be borne by the respective governmental units concerned.
If the proposition is approved
by a majority of the voters in the county and any taxing district voting
on the proposition, the corporate authorities of each such governmental
unit may, irrespective of any limitation of rate in any other act or
provision to the contrary, levy a tax subject to such further limitation
as may be occasioned by the issue of bonds as hereinafter provided, not
to exceed .25 per cent of the value, as equalized or assessed by the
Department of Revenue, annually on all taxable property
of such governmental unit. Such tax shall be levied and collected in
like manner with the general taxes of such governmental unit and shall
form when collected a fund to be known as the "County Airport Fund" and
deposited with the County Treasurer of the County. Such tax shall be in
addition to all other taxes which such governmental unit is now or
hereafter may be authorized to levy on the aggregate of all property
therein, and shall not be included within the rate for general corporate
purposes for each such governmental unit but shall be in addition
thereto and exclusive thereof; and each such governmental unit shall
appropriate such sum or sums as its proportionate share shall be under
the agreement as may be necessary to defray all necessary expenses and
liability of such airport and landing field.
If such proposition is approved by a majority of the voters in the
county and each of the taxing districts voting on the proposition, the
corporate authorities of each such governmental unit shall appoint 3
directors. The qualifications, terms of office and removal of such
directors shall be as provided in Sections 3 and 4 of this Act, and
vacancies shall be filled in the manner as provided in Section 5 hereof.
The directors so appointed shall constitute a joint Board of Directors
for the control and management of the airport and landing field. The
joint Board of Directors shall exercise the powers and be subject to the
duties prescribed in this Act for Board of Directors of airports and
landing fields. The corporate authorities of each of such governmental
units shall annually appropriate funds for the maintenance and operation
of the airport in the proportion set forth in the proposition adopted,
for the use of the Airport Fund and shall levy the tax herein provided,
or so much of such rate as will provide the sum, and may issue bonds as
provided in this Act for the purpose of defraying its proportionate
share of the costs of construction and maintenance of the airport and
landing field.
If any county or taxing district shall issue bonds as hereinafter
provided, then so long as taxes are required to be levied and extended
to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds, the rate extended in
any year for the benefit of the Airport Fund shall be limited to the
amount by which .25 per cent of the value, as equalized or assessed by
the Department of Revenue, exceeds the rate extended in
such year to pay such principal and interest on such bonds. The
foregoing limitations upon tax rates may be increased or decreased under
the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489; 81-1509.)
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