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COUNTIES
(55 ILCS 5/) Counties Code.

55 ILCS 5/6-12001

    (55 ILCS 5/6-12001) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-12001)
    Sec. 6-12001. Authorization. Any county having a population of less than 5,000 inhabitants is authorized to issue bonds for the purpose of paying claims against such county, which were incurred on or before January 1, 1964 for any purpose or purposes for which the county is obligated to pay or provide funds to pay. Such bonds may be issued in an amount, including existing indebtedness, in excess of any statutory limitation as to debt, but not to exceed the constitutional debt limitation, without submitting the proposition of issuing the bonds or the levying of a tax to pay the same to the voters of said county.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/6-12002

    (55 ILCS 5/6-12002) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-12002)
    Sec. 6-12002. Resolution establishing validity of claims. Before any such county avails itself of the provisions of this Division, the county board shall examine and consider the claims proposed to be paid and if it appears that such claims were incurred on or before January 1, 1964 for any purpose or purposes for which the county is obligated to pay or provide funds to pay, it shall adopt a resolution so declaring and set forth and describe in detail such claims; the adoption of such resolution shall establish the validity of such claims for the purpose of this Division.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/6-12003

    (55 ILCS 5/6-12003) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-12003)
    Sec. 6-12003. Issuance of bonds; maturity. All bonds issued under the provisions of this Division shall be signed in the name of the county by the chairman of the county board and shall be countersigned by the county clerk and shall have the seal of the county attached thereto. Such bonds shall mature at such time or times as is fixed by said county board provided that all of such bonds shall mature within 20 years from their date and bear interest at not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable annually or semi-annually, and may be sold as the county board may direct at not less than par and accrued interest, and the proceeds derived from the sale thereof shall be used solely and only for the payment of such claims, or the bonds may be exchanged par for par for such claims, such bonds may be delivered from time to time or all at one time.
    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 to authorize any county having a population of less than 5,000 to issue funding bonds and to provide for the validation of claims to be paid by or from the proceeds of such bonds, and to provide for a tax to pay the principal and interest of said bonds", approved August 15, 1961, 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 to authorize any county having a population of less than 5,000 to issue funding bonds and to provide for the validation of claims to be paid by or from the proceeds of such bonds, and to provide for a tax to pay the principal and interest of said bonds", approved August 15, 1961, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)

55 ILCS 5/6-12004

    (55 ILCS 5/6-12004) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-12004)
    Sec. 6-12004. Bond resolution; tax levy. Such bonds may be issued at any time and from time to time and at the time of issuing any such bonds, the county board shall provide by resolution the date of maturity of each bond, the rate of interest, and shall also provide in said resolution for the collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property within such county sufficient to pay and discharge the principal of any such bonds at maturity, and to pay the interest thereon as it falls due. A certified copy of such resolution shall be filed in the office of the county clerk, as tax extension officer of said county, and he shall extend the tax therein provided for each of the years while any of such bonds are outstanding. Such tax shall be in addition to any and all other taxes now or hereafter authorized to be levied by such county within the Constitutional limitation, and shall not be included in any statutory limitation of rate or amount but shall be excluded therefrom and be in excess thereof.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)