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55 ILCS 5/5-2004

    (55 ILCS 5/5-2004) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-2004)
    Sec. 5-2004. Revocation of authority to levy excess tax; submission to vote. In the event an excess tax has been voted as provided by Section 5-2002 and the order of the county board shall not have limited the time such excess will be required to be levied, the county board may thereafter levy such excess tax until such authority is revoked in manner hereinafter provided. However, no tax so voted for the payment of interest or principal or both of any bonds shall be discontinued by virtue of any of the provisions of this Division. The authority to levy such excess tax (except taxes to pay bonds) may be discontinued in the following manner: The county board may, by an order entered of record, and shall, by an order entered of record whenever 500 legal voters of the County present a petition to it asking that said excess tax be discontinued, provide for the submission of the question of discontinuing the additional tax at any regular election held in such county, after the adoption of the resolution. The board shall certify the resolution and the question to the proper election officials, who shall submit the question at a referendum in accordance with the general election law. The question shall be in substantially the following form: "For discontinuing additional tax in excess of constitutional limit of 75¢ per $100 valuation" and "Against discontinuing additional tax in excess of constitutional limit of 75¢ per $100 valuation." If the vote on the proposition receives a majority of all voters voting on the referendum such additional tax shall not be levied thereafter.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-2005

    (55 ILCS 5/5-2005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-2005)
    Sec. 5-2005. Inclusion of question of issuing bonds and raising tax. If it shall be deemed necessary to submit to a vote of the people at the same election, the question of issuing bonds and the raising of such additional tax, either in excess of the statutory or constitutional limit, the same may be included in one referendum, and in that case the question shall be in substantially the following form: "For bonds and additional tax in excess of statutory limit" or "For bonds and additional tax in excess of constitutional limit of 75¢ per $100 valuation," and "Against bonds and additional tax in excess of statutory limit" or "Against bonds and additional tax in excess of constitutional limit of 75¢ per $100 valuation."
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-2006

    (55 ILCS 5/5-2006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-2006)
    Sec. 5-2006. Tax for Veterans Assistance Commission. The county board of each county having a population of less than 3 million in which there is a Veterans Assistance Commission as provided in Section 9 of the Military Veterans Assistance Act may levy a tax of not to exceed .03% of the assessed value annually on all taxable property of the county, for the purpose of providing assistance to military veterans and their families pursuant to such Act. Whenever not less than 10% of the electors of the county petition the county board to levy the tax at not to exceed .04% of the assessed value, the county board shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials who shall submit the proposition at the next general election in accordance with the general election law. If a majority of the electors vote in favor of the proposition, the county board may, annually, levy the tax as authorized. The proceeds of any tax so levied shall be used exclusively for the assistance purposes authorized thereunder, and a portion thereof may be expended for the salaries of any officers or employees of the Veterans Assistance Commission, for the authorized reimbursement of any officer or employee of the Veterans Assistance Commission, as provided in Section 10 of the Military Veterans Assistance Act, or for any other expenses incident to the administration of such assistance.
    The tax shall be separate from all other taxes which the county is authorized to levy on the aggregate valuation of the property within the county and shall not be included in any tax limitation of the rate upon which taxes are required to be extended, but shall be excluded therefrom and in addition thereto. The tax shall be levied and collected in like manner as the general taxes of the county, and, when collected, shall be paid into a special fund in the county treasury and used only as herein authorized, or disbursed from the county treasury of a county in which a properly organized Veterans Assistance Commission is authorized under Section 3-11008 of this Code.
    The limitations on tax rates herein provided may be increased or decreased under the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois.
    If a county has levied the tax herein authorized or otherwise meets the conditions set out in Section 12-21.13 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, to qualify for State funds to supplement local funds for public purposes under Articles III, IV, V, VI, and IX of that Code and otherwise meets the conditions set out in Article XII of that Code for receipt of State aid, the Illinois Department of Human Services shall allocate and pay to the county such additional sums as it determines to be necessary to meet the needs of assistance to military veterans and their families in the county and expenses incident to the administration of such assistance. In counties where a Veterans Assistance Commission has been properly created, those County Veterans Assistance Commissions shall be in charge of the administration of such assistance provided under the Illinois Public Aid Code for military veterans and their families.
(Source: P.A. 102-732, eff. 1-1-23; 102-1132, eff. 2-10-23.)

55 ILCS 5/5-2007

    (55 ILCS 5/5-2007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-2007)
    Sec. 5-2007. Election; form of proposition; validation. Where, in any county prior to March 13, 1961, a majority of the legal voters voting on the proposition to issue county bonds and voting to levy an additional annual tax for the payment thereof in excess of the statutory limit of 12 1/2¢ per $100 valuation of taxable property and in excess of all taxes levied by said county for general county purposes without a referendum and in addition to and in excess of all other taxes authorized or permitted to be levied by said county within the constitutional limit of 75¢ per $100 valuation of taxable property in said county, have voted for bonds and additional tax in excess of statutory limit of 12 1/2¢ per $100 valuation at a referendum and held for such purpose, and notice of such election contained a statement of the proposition to be voted upon, and the proposition was substantially in the form as set out by statute, such referendum is hereby validated in all respects, notwithstanding that the proposition stated the statutory limit of 12 1/2¢ per $100 valuation instead of such statutory limit as reduced by the applicable provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/Div. 5-3

 
    (55 ILCS 5/Div. 5-3 heading)
Division 5-3. Contracts in General

55 ILCS 5/5-3001

    (55 ILCS 5/5-3001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-3001)
    Sec. 5-3001. Deeds and conveyances; validation. All deeds, grants and conveyances heretofore made, and duly acknowledged and recorded as other deeds, conveying any lands, tenements or hereditaments to any county or to the inhabitants of any county, or to the county commissioners, county board, or to the governor, or any other officer or person or persons, by whatever form of conveyance, for the use and benefit of any county, shall be good and valid, to all intents and purposes, to vest in such county, in fee simple, or otherwise, all such right, title, interest an estate as the grantor or grantors in any such deed or conveyance had, at the time of the execution thereof, in the land conveyed and intended thereby to be conveyed.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-3002

    (55 ILCS 5/5-3002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-3002)
    Sec. 5-3002. Contractual rights of county; suits. All notes, bonds, bills, contracts, covenants, agreements or writings, made or to be made, whereby any person is or shall be bound to the People of the State of Illinois, or to any county or the inhabitants thereof, or to the county commissioners, or the county board, or to the governor, or any other officer or person, in whatever form, for the payment of money, or any debt or duty, or the performance of any matter or thing to or for the use of any county, shall be as valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes, to vest in such county all the rights, interest and actions which would be vested in any individual, if any such contract had been made directly to him. Suits may be commenced, sued and prosecuted thereon in the name of the county, as is provided herein, or in the name of the officer or person to whom they are made, to the use of the county, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as any person may or can upon like notes, bills, bonds, contracts, agreements or writings made to him.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-3003

    (55 ILCS 5/5-3003)
    Sec. 5-3003. Contracts for goods and services valued at more than $30,000.
    (a) As used in this Section, "familial relationship" means an individual's father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, great aunt, great uncle, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother, half-sister, and the father, mother, grandfather, or grandmother of the individual's spouse and the individual's fiance or fiancee.
    (b) A county may deny, suspend, or terminate the eligibility of a person, firm, corporation, association, agency, institution, or other legal entity to participate as a vendor of goods or services to the county if the vendor, for contracts greater than $30,000, fails to disclose to the county a familial relationship between a county elected official or county department director and any of the following individuals who have the authority to act on behalf of and with the power to bind the respective person, firm, corporation, association, agency, institution, or other legal entity: a corporate officer; a member of the corporate board of directors; a limited liability company manager; a member with management authority of a limited liability company; or a partner of a partnership.
    (c) If a person, firm, corporation, association, agency, institution, or other legal entity seeking to contract with the county has a familial relationship required to be disclosed under subsection (b), then the contract may be approved or renewed by roll call vote of the county board following a recitation of the name of the county official and the nature of the familial relationship being disclosed.
(Source: P.A. 101-544, eff. 8-23-19.)