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65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 6

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 6 heading)
DIVISION 6. WORKING CASH FUND IN
MUNICIPALITIES OF 500,000 OF MORE

65 ILCS 5/8-6-1

    (65 ILCS 5/8-6-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-1)
    Sec. 8-6-1. In each municipality with a population of more than 500,000, 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 6, for the purpose of enabling the municipality to have in its treasury at all times sufficient money to meet demands thereon for ordinary and necessary expenditures for corporate purposes and payment of corporate liabilities.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/8-6-2

    (65 ILCS 5/8-6-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-2)
    Sec. 8-6-2. For the purpose of creating a working cash fund, the corporate authorities may incur an indebtedness and issue bonds therefor in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $20,000,000 in addition to all bonded indebtedness authorized for that purpose prior to July 1, 1949.
    These bonds shall bear interest at a rate of not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, and shall mature within 20 years from the date thereof. The corporate authorities may provide that the ordinance authorizing the issuance of these bonds shall be operative and valid without the submission thereof to the electors of the municipality for approval in accordance with the requirements of Sections 8-4-1 and 8-4-2. The corporate authorities before or at the time of issuing these bonds, shall provide for the collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property in the issuing municipality, sufficient to pay and discharge the principal thereof at maturity and to pay the interest thereon as it falls due. The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/8-6-3

    (65 ILCS 5/8-6-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-3)
    Sec. 8-6-3. For the purpose of providing money for such a working cash fund, the corporate authorities also have the power to levy annually, upon all the taxable property in the municipality, a tax of not to exceed .05% upon the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of that property for purposes of taxation for the year in which each such levy is made.
    The collection of this tax shall not be anticipated by the issuance of any warrants drawn against the tax. This tax shall be levied and collected, except as otherwise provided in this Section, in like manner as are the general taxes of the collecting municipality. It shall be known as the working cash fund tax and shall be in addition to the maximum of all other taxes which that municipality is now, or may be hereafter, authorized by law to levy upon the taxable property within the municipality.
    This tax may be levied by a separate ordinance prior to March 28 in each year. This tax may be levied for the purpose specified in this Section without any appropriation thereof being made in the annual or supplemental appropriation ordinance.
    No tax shall be levied under this Section if the municipality has previously issued the maximum amount of bonds permitted under Section 8-6-2.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

65 ILCS 5/8-6-4

    (65 ILCS 5/8-6-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-4)
    Sec. 8-6-4. All money received from the issuance of bonds as authorized in Section 8-6-2, or from any tax levied pursuant to the authority granted by Section 8-6-3, shall be set apart in the specified working cash fund by the municipal treasurer and shall be used only for the purposes and in the manner provided in this section. The fund and the money therein shall not be regarded as current assets available for appropriation and shall not be appropriated by the corporate authorities in the annual appropriation ordinance.
    The corporate authorities may appropriate moneys to the working cash fund up to the maximum amount allowable in the fund, and the working cash fund may receive such appropriations and any other contributions.
    In order to provide money with which to meet ordinary and necessary disbursements for salaries and other corporate purposes, the fund may be transferred in whole or in part to the general corporate fund of the municipality and so disbursed therefrom in anticipation of the collection of any taxes lawfully levied for general corporate purposes, or in the anticipation of such taxes, as by law now or hereafter enacted or amended, imposed by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois to replace revenue lost by units of local government and school districts as a result of the abolition of ad valorem personal property taxes, pursuant to Article IX, Section 5(c) of the Constitution of the State of Illinois. Money so transferred to the general corporate fund shall be deemed to have been transferred in anticipation of the collection of that part of the taxes so levied or to be received which is in excess of the amount required to pay any tax anticipation warrants, and the interest thereon.
    Taxes levied for general corporate purposes, when collected, shall be applied first to the payment of tax anticipation warrants or notes and the interest thereon, and then to the reimbursement of the working cash fund.
    Upon the receipt by the municipal treasurer of any taxes, in anticipation of the collection of which, money in the working cash fund has been so transferred for disbursement, the fund shall be immediately reimbursed therefrom until the full amount so transferred has been retransferred to the fund.
(Source: P.A. 85-459.)

65 ILCS 5/8-6-5

    (65 ILCS 5/8-6-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-5)
    Sec. 8-6-5. Money shall be transferred from the working cash fund to the general corporate fund only upon the authority of the corporate authorities who, from time to time by a separate ordinance, shall direct the municipal treasurer to make a transfer of such sums as may be required for the purposes authorized in this Division 6. That ordinance shall set forth (1) the taxes in anticipation of the collection of which the transfer is to be made and from which the working cash fund is to be reimbursed, (2) the entire amount of taxes extended, or which the corporate authorities estimate will be extended, or received, for any particular year in anticipation of the collection of all or part of which the transfer is to be made, (3) the aggregate amount of warrants or notes theretofore issued in anticipation of the collection of these taxes together with the amount of the interest which has accrued and which, the corporate authorities estimate, will accrue thereon, (4) the aggregate amount of receipts from taxes imposed to replace revenue lost by units of local government and school districts as a result of the abolition of ad valorem personal property taxes, pursuant to Article IX, Section 5(c) of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, which the corporate authorities estimate will be set aside for the payment of the proportionate amount of debt service and pension or retirement obligations, as required by Section 12 of "An Act in relation to State Revenue Sharing with local government entities", approved July 31, 1969, as amended, and (5) the aggregate amount of money theretofore transferred from the working cash fund to the general corporate fund in anticipation of the collection of such taxes. The amount which that ordinance shall direct the treasurer so to transfer in anticipation of the collection of taxes levied or to be received for any particular year, together with the aggregate amount of such tax anticipation warrants or notes theretofore drawn against such taxes and the amount of the interest accrued and estimated to accrue thereon, the amount estimated to be required to satisfy debt service and pension or retirement obligations, as set forth in Section 12 of "An Act in relation to State revenue sharing with local government entities", approved July 31, 1969, as amended, and the aggregate amount of such transfers theretofore made in anticipation of the collection of these taxes, shall not exceed 90% of the actual or estimated amount of such taxes extended or to be extended or to be received as set forth in that ordinance.
    If money is available in the working cash fund, it shall be transferred to the general corporate fund and disbursed for the payment of salaries and other corporate expenses so as to avoid, whenever possible, the issuance of tax anticipation warrants or notes.
(Source: P.A. 81-1506.)

65 ILCS 5/8-6-6

    (65 ILCS 5/8-6-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-6)
    Sec. 8-6-6. Any person holding an office, trust, or employment under a municipality with a population of more than 500,000, who is guilty of the wilful violation of any of the provisions of this Division 6 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 person shall be liable for any sum that he unlawfully diverted from the specified working cash fund, or otherwise used, and that sum may be recovered by the municipality, or by any taxpayer in the name and for the benefit of the municipality, in a civil action. Such a taxpayer, however, shall file a bond for all costs and shall be liable for all costs taxed against the municipality in such a suit, and judgment shall be rendered accordingly. But nothing in this Section shall bar other remedies.
(Source: P.A. 79-1361.)