(620 ILCS 50/70) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 174)
Sec. 70.
In the appointment of a county superintendent of airports,
the joint commission shall proceed as is provided for a county airports
commission, and the Department shall certify the eligible candidates to
each of such county boards who may appoint the same candidate to be
superintendent or if unable to agree on the same person, may elect
different eligible candidates. If the same person is elected to so serve
by both boards the compensation and necessary expense of such
superintendent shall be shared as is hereinafter provided for other
joint expenditures. In event the two county boards do not concur in the
appointment of the same person, each county shall pay the entire
compensation and expense of such superintendent. In event one county
fails within ninety days after the certification of the eligible
candidates to appoint one such person to the office of superintendent,
the person elected by the other county shall serve for both counties and
his compensation and expense shall be shared as a joint expense. If both
counties fail to appoint one of such eligible candidates to serve as
superintendent, within such ninety day period, the joint commission
shall appoint one of such eligible candidates as superintendent, fix his
salary and his compensation and necessary expense shall be shared by the
two counties as aforesaid. In any case, such superintendent or
superintendents shall act under the direction of the joint commission
without respect to county lines and the consent of the county boards
shall not be required.
In preparing and submitting resolutions to the county boards
providing for the levying of taxes, the borrowing of money, and in the
appropriation and expenditure of money, the joint commission shall
determine the amount of money needed for joint airport purposes and the
counties shall levy taxes to raise such amount of money, in their
respective counties, at such rate, not to exceed one mill on the dollar
of the assessed valuation of the counties as evidenced by the last
assessment roll on which county general taxes were extended, in such
proportion as the assessed valuation of the property of one county bears
to that of the other county.
The county clerk of the county having the larger population shall act
as clerk of the joint county airport commission and have custody of the
records thereof. Nothing herein shall prevent an agreement between such
county boards providing that the county clerk of the county having the
lesser population shall so serve. Unless specifically prescribed in this
section, the joint commission and the two county boards shall be
governed by the requirements of this Act as it applies to a county
airports commission and the county board.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
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