55 ILCS 5/ Counties Code.

(55 ILCS 5/6-24009) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-24009)

Sec. 6-24009. Violation. Any member of the board of commissioners or any officer of the county, or any person holding any office, trust or employment under such board of commissioners or such county, who shall be guilty of the wilful violation of any of the provisions of Section 6-24008, shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not exceeding $10,000 and shall forfeit his right to his office, trust or employment and shall be removed therefrom. Any such member, officer, employee or person shall be liable for the amount of any loss or damage suffered by such county resulting from any act of his in violation of the terms of Section 6-24008, to be recovered by such county, or by any taxpayer in the name and for the benefit of such county, in an appropriate action, provided, that such taxpayer shall file a bond for all costs, and be liable for all costs taxed against the county in such suit, and judgment shall be rendered accordingly. Nothing herein shall bar any other remedies.

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

(55 ILCS 5/Div. 6-25 heading) Division 6-25. Validation of Certain Appropriation Bills and Tax Levy Ordinances

(55 ILCS 5/6-25001) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-25001)

Sec. 6-25001. Validation of tax levy ordinances. In all cases where the board of county commissioners of any county having a population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants at legally convened meetings held within the first quarter of the fiscal years 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991 has adopted annual appropriation bills for such fiscal years and thereafter such appropriation bills were published in a newspaper as provided by law, and subsequently at legally convened meetings held in such fiscal years within the time required by law, said board of county commissioners adopted tax levy ordinances based on such appropriation bills for county corporate, highway, civic center rental, public assistance, law library, rabies control, motor fuel tax, employees' annuity and benefit fund and hospital purposes, and certified copies of such tax levy ordinances thereafter were duly filed with the county clerk of said county, then such appropriation bills and tax levy ordinances, and the taxes assessed, levied, and extended thereon, are hereby validated, notwithstanding that the several amounts and purposes for which such appropriations were made and taxes levied for such county corporate, highway, civic center rental, public assistance, law library, rabies control, motor fuel tax, employees' annuity and benefit fund and hospital purposes, were not specifically itemized in detail as required by statute, and notwithstanding that in said appropriation bills or tax levy ordinances stated amounts of money are appropriated and levied for named public purposes using general language that renders the amounts for such purposes uncertain and illegal or the purposes for which the amounts are appropriated and levied uncertain and illegal.

Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as validating any tax levy in excess of the statutory rate of taxation authorized for such fiscal years or for any purposes not permitted by the constitution.

(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028; 86-1252; 87-508; 87-1128.)

(55 ILCS 5/Div. 6-26 heading) Division 6-26. Extension of Tax to Pay Principal and Interest on Certain Bonds

(55 ILCS 5/6-26001) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-26001)

Sec. 6-26001. Extension of tax authorized. Where in any county in this State bonds of any such county and the levy of an additional tax in excess of the statutory limit but within the constitutional limit for payment of such bonds have been authorized for any proper county purpose to enable the county board to perform any of the duties imposed upon them by law by a majority of the legal voters voting on the question of issuing such bonds and levying such additional tax at an election held since November 1, 1947, and subsequently resolutions have been adopted authorizing such bonds as voted and levying direct annual taxes sufficient to pay the principal of and interest upon said bonds and a certified copy of such resolutions have been filed in the office of the county clerk of said county, and due to the increase in interest rates on public borrowings in the financial markets of the country since such election, such voted additional tax is not sufficient to pay the principal of such bonds and interest thereon, the county clerk of any such county is authorized hereafter to extend for collection a tax upon all the taxable property therein, in addition to such voted additional tax, at a rate on the one hundred dollar valuation which, when extended, will produce an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest upon said bonds as authorized and levied in said bond resolutions, provided such additional tax shall not be in excess of the constitutional limit of taxation applicable to counties.

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

(55 ILCS 5/Div. 6-27 heading) Division 6-27. Working Cash Funds - Counties over 500,000 Population

(55 ILCS 5/6-27001) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-27001)

Sec. 6-27001. Working cash fund in counties of 500,000 or more. In each county in this State having a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants a fund to be known as a working cash fund may be created, set apart, maintained and administered in the manner prescribed in this Division for the purpose of enabling such county to have in its treasury at all times sufficient money to meet demands thereon for ordinary and necessary expenditures for general corporate purposes.

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