(60 ILCS 1/85-55)
Sec. 85-55. Horse-drawn vehicles. The township board may, by
ordinance,
license and regulate horse-drawn vehicles operating within the township. The
ordinance may also (i) prescribe regulations for the safe operation of
horse-drawn vehicles and (ii) require the examination of persons operating a
horse-drawn vehicle. Any annual fee charged for a license to operate a
horse-drawn vehicle may not exceed $50. Any fees charged for a license to
operate a horse-drawn
vehicle within the township must be used for the improvement of township roads.
For the purposes of this Section, "horse-drawn vehicle" means any vehicle
powered by any animal of the equine family.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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(60 ILCS 1/85-60) Sec. 85-60. Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator; posting and publication. (a) Within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, each township that maintains a website must post on the township's website the following information: (1) the name, office address, and telephone number of | ||
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(2) the grievance procedures, if any, adopted by the | ||
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(b) If a township does not maintain a website, then the township must, within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, and at least once every other year thereafter, publish in either a newspaper of general circulation within the township or a newsletter published by the township and mailed to township residents the information required in item (1) of subsection (a) and either the information required in item (2) of subsection (a) or instructions for obtaining such information from the township.
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(60 ILCS 1/85-65) Sec. 85-65. Accumulation of funds. Township funds, including, but not limited to, general assistance funds and excluding the township's capital fund, shall not exceed an amount equal to or greater than 2.5 times the annual average expenditure of the previous 3 fiscal years. Townships on a cash basis or modified cash basis of accounting may only count levied tax funds toward the total township funds calculated under this Section if received within the township's fiscal year. The highway commissioner's equipment and building fund is considered a capital fund account and is not subject to this Section.
(Source: P.A. 102-231, eff. 7-30-21; 103-72, eff. 1-1-24 .) |
(60 ILCS 1/Art. 90 heading) ARTICLE 90.
CORPORATE POWERS
EXERCISED BY COUNTY BOARD
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(60 ILCS 1/90-5)
Sec. 90-5.
Township wholly within city.
In every township lying wholly
within any city of more than 50,000 population, all the powers vested in the
township shall be exercised by the county board of the county in which the
township is located, including all the powers vested in the electors at
township meetings and the township board. Where there is only one township
lying wholly within the city, however, the powers of the township board of that
township shall be retained by that township board.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
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(60 ILCS 1/90-10)
Sec. 90-10.
County clerk and treasurer as township officers.
(a) The county clerk of the county in which a township described in Section
90-5 lies shall be ex officio township clerk and township assessor of each such
township, and the treasurer of the county shall be ex officio collector and
supervisor of each such township. Those officers shall not be required to give
any additional bond on account of holding those township offices, but they
shall be liable on their official bonds for their acts as township officers in
the same manner and to the same extent as if the bonds had been given the
township officers.
(b) County clerks and county treasurers who become ex officio township
officers under this Article shall not maintain any other or
different public office as township officers than those provided and
maintained for them as county clerk and county treasurer.
(Source: Laws 1905, p. 397; Laws 1917, p. 794; P.A. 88-62.)
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(60 ILCS 1/90-15)
Sec. 90-15.
Highway commissioner abolished.
The office of highway
commissioner is abolished in townships described in Section 90-5.
(Source: Laws 1901, p. 314; P.A. 88-62.)
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