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55 ILCS 5/5-25016

(55 ILCS 5/5-25016) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25016)

Sec. 5-25016.

Lease or acquisition of property for department.

The board of health of each county or multiple-county health department is
authorized to lease or to acquire by purchase, construction, lease-purchase
agreement or otherwise and take title in its name and to borrow money,
issue debt instruments, mortgages, purchase money mortgages and other
security instruments, maintain, repair, remodel or improve such real estate
as may be reasonably necessary for the housing and proper functioning of
such health department. Money in the County Health Fund may be used for
such purposes.

Upon the discontinuance of a single county health department any such
real estate shall become the property of and title shall be transferred to
the county.

Upon the discontinuance of a multiple-county health department any such
real estate shall be sold and the proceeds distributed pro-rata to the
several counties as their agreed share of the maintenance of such
department may indicate.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-25017

(55 ILCS 5/5-25017) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25017)

Sec. 5-25017.

Discontinuance of department.

Any
health department may be discontinued; 1 - by resolution of the
county board or county boards, if established in such manner; or, 2 - if
established by referendum, then by a referendum initiated by petition and
submitted to vote in the same manner as for adoption. The proposition shall
be stated "For the discontinuance of the county (or multiple-county) health
department" and "Against the discontinuance of the county (or
multiple-county) health department." If a majority of the votes cast upon
the proposition in any county is for discontinuance, the board of health
shall proceed at once to close up the affairs of the department. After the
payment of all obligations, the money in the "County Health Fund" shall
become a part of the general funds in the county treasury. All other
property shall be devoted to such county purpose as the county board or
boards determine.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-25018

(55 ILCS 5/5-25018) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25018)

Sec. 5-25018.

Board of Health in counties having civil service
qualifications and appointment. When this Division is
adopted by resolution in counties over 500,000 population where Civil
Service Qualifications and appointment on all employees prevail, and where
all funds expended are approved by budget
of the County Board of Commissioners and so paid after approval, by the
County Treasurer, the County Board of Commissioners shall constitute the
Board of Health to carry out the provisions of this Division in
a similar manner to other acts and duties of the County.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-25019

(55 ILCS 5/5-25019) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25019)

Sec. 5-25019.

Formation of consolidated health department.

Any county which has established a county health department or any
counties which have established a multiple-county health department may
unite with one or more adjacent counties which have established county or
multiple-county health departments, for the purpose of maintaining and
operating a consolidated health department subject to the approval of the
county boards involved and the Director of the Illinois Department of
Public Health. In the event of approval by the county boards involved and
the Director of Public Health, the chairman or president of each county
board and of each board of health shall meet and immediately proceed to
organize the consolidated health department. At such time as they shall
agree concerning the conditions governing organization and operation, and
the apportionment of the costs thereof, they shall select a date within
60 days on which the consolidated health department
shall be established, and its operation and maintenance shall be in
accordance with all provisions of this Division relating to
county health departments except where otherwise prescribed for
multiple-county health departments. The county or multiple-county health
departments in counties joining together to operate and maintain a
consolidated health department shall cease to function as independent
health departments so long as the consolidation shall exist; shall transfer
all records to the consolidated health department; and shall not withdraw
from this union except in accordance with the provisions of Section 5-25020.

The board of health of each consolidated health department shall consist
of the members of the boards of health of the county and multiple-county
health departments involved except that members from counties which have
previously established single county health departments shall be reduced to
four, including at least one physician and one member of the county board.
New appointments and reappointments shall be made in accordance with the
provisions of Section 5-25012 relating to boards of
health of multiple-county health departments. The consolidated board of
health shall hold its first meeting no later than seven days after the date
of establishment, for the purpose of organizing, electing officers, and
carrying out its responsibilities in connection with the consolidated
health department. Its subsequent meetings shall be held as prescribed in
this Division for multiple-county health departments. Membership and
actions of the consolidated board of health shall become official at its
first meeting or on the date of establishment of the consolidated health
department, whichever occurs at the earlier date. After a consolidated
health department has begun operation, addition of other health departments
to the consolidation may be accomplished with consent of all county boards
of supervisors or commissioners concerned and the Director of Public
Health; participation by such additional counties will be under the
conditions selected in the original consolidation agreement, and date of
entry into the consolidation and other relevant details will be arranged
between the board of health of the consolidated health department, and the
president of the county board and the chairman or president of the board of
health of each county requesting admission to the consolidated health
department.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-25020

(55 ILCS 5/5-25020) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25020)

Sec. 5-25020.

Withdrawal from consolidated health department.

Any
county which has established a county health department
or counties which have established a multiple-county health department
may withdraw from a consolidated health department for the purpose of
maintaining and operating an independent county or multiple-county
health department, as the case may be, or for the purpose of joining
with another adjacent county or other adjacent counties in maintaining
and operating a consolidated health department. Withdrawal for such
purposes may be effected by majority vote of the county board of the
withdrawing county which had established a county health department, or
by a majority vote of each county board of the withdrawing counties
which had established a multiple-county health department, before
joining the consolidated health department. In all withdrawals from
consolidated health departments, the county board of each county
proposing withdrawal shall seek the advice and concurrence of the
Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health before taking
action effecting withdrawal. The effective date of withdrawal shall be
June 30 following completion of the withdrawal agreements. The board of
health of the consolidated health department shall meet and the members
of the withdrawing and the remaining counties shall agree upon removal
of records, supplies, equipment and personnel by the withdrawing county
or counties. Withdrawal of any county or counties from the consolidated
health department does not alter the consolidation if the county or
multiple-county health departments remaining party to the union are two
or more. Discontinuance of any county or multiple-county health
department effected under the provisions of Section 5-25017 constitutes
withdrawal from a consolidated health department.

Any county which is a member county of a consolidated health
department may also withdraw from the consolidated health department
upon approval by referendum, the proposition for which shall be placed
on the ballot at any general election by the county clerk on receipt of
a petition signed by not less than 10 per cent of the registered voters
of the county. The proposition shall be certified 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 read substantially as follows:

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    Shall .... county withdraw the county        YES
health department from the ............     ------------------
consolidated health department?                  NO
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If a majority of voters favor withdrawal the county shall arrange its
withdrawal effective June 30 following the referendum and shall settle
its affairs in the consolidated health department and resume operation
in the manner hereinbefore prescribed in this section.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-25021

(55 ILCS 5/5-25021) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25021)

Sec. 5-25021.

Bonds for permanent improvements; referendum.

Whenever the county board determines that it is necessary to issue
bonds to enable it to provide buildings for or to make permanent
improvements in the community health facilities, the county board shall
so instruct the county clerk. Thereupon, such clerk shall certify  such
determination to the proper election officials, who shall submit the
proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-25022

(55 ILCS 5/5-25022) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25022)

Sec. 5-25022.

Form of proposition.

The proposition pursuant to
Section 5-25021 shall be in substantially the following form:

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    Shall.... county issue bonds
to the amount of.... dollars for the        YES
purpose of enabling the county to....
(purpose to be stated, which shall be    ---------------------
either to provide buildings for or to
make permanent improvements in the          NO
community health facilities)?
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In case a majority of the votes cast upon the propositions shall be
in favor of the issuance of such bonds, the county board shall issue the
bonds not exceeding the amount authorized at the referendum. Such bonds
shall become due not more than 20 years after their date, shall be in
denominations of $100 or any multiple thereof, and shall bear interest,
evidenced by coupons, at a rate not exceeding the maximum rate authorized
by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the
contract, payable semi-annually, as shall be determined by the county board.

With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this
Section or its predecessor either before, on, or after the effective date
of Public Act 86-4, it is and always has been the intention of the General
Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been
supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the
Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Division or "An Act
in relation to the establishment and maintenance of county and
multiple-county public health departments", approved July 9, 1943, that may
appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that
the provisions of this Section or its predecessor are not a limitation on
the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii)
that instruments issued under this Section or its predecessor within the
supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid
because of any provision of this Division or "An Act in relation to the
establishment and maintenance of county and multiple-county public health
departments", approved July 9, 1943, that may appear to be or to have been
more restrictive than those Acts.

(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)