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LIQUOR
(235 ILCS 5/) Liquor Control Act of 1934.

235 ILCS 5/8-6

    (235 ILCS 5/8-6) (from Ch. 43, par. 163b)
    Sec. 8-6. The Department, or any officer or employee designated in writing by the Director thereof, for the purpose of administering and enforcing the provisions of this Act, may hold investigations and hearings concerning any matters covered by this Act. In holding or conducting any hearing or investigation authorized under this Act, the Department or any officer or employee of the Department designated, in writing, by the Director thereof, may examine any books, papers, records or memoranda bearing upon the manufacture, importation, sale or use of alcoholic liquors by any licensee, and may require the attendance of such licensee or of any officer, agent or employee of such licensee, or of any person having knowledge of such facts, and may take testimony and require proof for its information. In the conduct of any investigation or hearing, neither the Department nor any officer or employee thereof shall be bound by the technical rules of evidence, and no informality in any proceeding, or in the manner of taking testimony, shall invalidate any assessment, order, decision, rule or regulation made or approved or confirmed by the Department. The Director of Revenue or any duly designated officer or employee of the Department shall have power to administer oaths to such persons; and the Department shall have the power to issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum, and the Department, or any other party to a proceeding pending before the Department, may apply to the circuit court to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers, records and memoranda, by an attachment for contempt as provided for such purposes in civil cases.
    The Department or any officer or employee thereof, or any party in an investigation or hearing before the Department, may cause the depositions of witnesses within the State to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in courts of this State, and to that end compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, records and memoranda.
    The books, papers, records and memoranda of the Department, or parts thereof, may be proved in any hearing, investigation or judicial proceeding by a reproduced copy thereof under the certificate of the Director of Revenue. Such reproduced copy shall, without further proof, be admitted into evidence before the Department or in any judicial proceeding.
(Source: P.A. 83-334.)

235 ILCS 5/8-7

    (235 ILCS 5/8-7) (from Ch. 43, par. 163c)
    Sec. 8-7. All hearings provided for in Section 8-5 of this Act shall be held in the county wherein the licensee has his principal place of business; provided, that if the licensee does not have his or her principal place of business in this State, such hearing shall be held in Sangamon County.
    The Circuit Court of the county wherein any hearing is held by the Department shall have power to review all final administrative decisions of the Department in administering the provisions of this Act. If the administrative proceeding which is to be reviewed judicially is a claim for refund proceeding commenced in accordance with Section 8-3 of this Act and Section 2a of "An Act in relation to the payment and disposition of moneys received by officers and employees of the State of Illinois by virtue of their office or employment", approved June 9, 1911, as amended, the Circuit Court having jurisdiction of the proceeding for judicial review under this Section and under the Administrative Review Law, as amended, shall be the same court that entered the injunction which is provided for in Section 2a of "An Act in relation to the payment and disposition of moneys received by officers and employees of the State of Illinois by virtue of their office or employment", and which enables such claim proceeding to be processed and disposed of as a claim for refund proceeding rather than as a claim for credit proceeding.
    The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrative decisions of the Department hereunder. The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
    Service of summons issued in such review proceeding upon the Director of Revenue or the Assistant Director of Revenue of the Department of Revenue shall be service upon the Department. The Department shall certify the record of its proceedings if the licensee shall pay to it the sum of 75¢ per page of testimony taken before the Department and 25¢ per page of all other matters contained in such record, except that these charges may be waived where the Department is satisfied that the aggrieved party is a poor person who cannot afford to pay such charges. Provided, however, before the delivery of such record to the person applying for same, the payment therefor shall be made as hereinabove provided, and in the event of nonpayment for the record as hereinabove provided within 30 days after notice that such record is available, the complaint may be dismissed by the court upon motion of the Department.
    No stay order shall be entered by the Circuit Court unless the plaintiff in the review proceedings shall file with the court a bond in an amount fixed and approved by the court to indemnify the State against all loss and injury which may be sustained by it on account of the review proceedings and to secure all costs which may be occasioned by such proceedings.
    Whenever notice is required by this Act, such notice may be given by United States registered or certified mail with return receipt requested, addressed to the person concerned at his or her last known address, and proof of such mailing shall be sufficient for the purposes of this Act.
    Whenever any proceeding provided by this Act is commenced before the Department, either by the Department or by a person subject to this Act, and such person thereafter dies or becomes a person under legal disability before such proceeding is concluded, the legal representative of the deceased or the guardian of the person under legal disability shall notify the Department of such death or legal disability. The legal representative, as such, shall then be substituted by the Department for such person. If the legal representative fails to notify the Department of his or her appointment as such legal representative, the Department may, upon its own motion, substitute such legal representative in the proceeding pending before the Department for the person who died or became a person under legal disability.
(Source: P.A. 83-345.)

235 ILCS 5/8-8

    (235 ILCS 5/8-8) (from Ch. 43, par. 163d)
    Sec. 8-8. No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any books, papers, records or memoranda in any investigation or upon any hearing, when ordered to do so by the Department or any officer or employee thereof, upon the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a criminal penalty, but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any criminal penalty for, or on account of, any transaction made or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the Department or an officer or employee thereof; provided, that such immunity shall extend only to a natural person who, in obedience to a subpoena, gives testimony under oath or produces evidence, documentary or otherwise, under oath. No person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

235 ILCS 5/8-9

    (235 ILCS 5/8-9) (from Ch. 43, par. 163e)
    Sec. 8-9. Tax information; confidentiality. All information received by the Department from returns filed under this Act, or from any investigation conducted under this Act, shall be confidential, except for official purposes, and any person who divulges any such information in any manner, except in accordance with a proper judicial order or as otherwise provided by law, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
    Nothing in this Act prevents the Director of Revenue from publishing or making available to the public the names and addresses of persons filing returns under this Act, or reasonable statistics concerning the operation of the tax by grouping the contents of returns so that the information in any individual return is not disclosed.
    Nothing in this Act prevents the Director of Revenue from divulging to the United States Government or the government of any other state, or any officer or agency thereof, for exclusively official purposes, information received by the Department in administering this Act, provided that such other governmental agency agrees to divulge requested tax information to the Department.
    The furnishing upon request of information obtained by the Department from returns filed under this Act or investigations conducted under this Act to the Illinois Liquor Control Commission for official use is deemed to be an official purpose within the meaning of this Section.
    The furnishing upon request of the Auditor General, or his authorized agents, for official use, of returns filed and information related thereto under this Act is deemed to be an official purpose within the meaning of this Section.
    The furnishing of financial information to a home rule unit with a population in excess of 2,000,000 that has imposed a tax similar to that imposed by this Act under its home rule powers, upon request of the Chief Executive of the home rule unit, is an official purpose within the meaning of this Section, provided the home rule unit agrees in writing to the requirements of this Section. Information so provided is subject to all confidentiality provisions of this Section. The written agreement shall provide for reciprocity, limitations on access, disclosure, and procedures for requesting information.
    Nothing contained in this Act shall prevent the Director from divulging information to any person pursuant to a request or authorization made by the taxpayer or by an authorized representative of the taxpayer.
(Source: P.A. 94-1074, eff. 12-26-06.)

235 ILCS 5/8-10

    (235 ILCS 5/8-10) (from Ch. 43, par. 164)
    Sec. 8-10. It is the duty of each manufacturer, importing distributor and foreign importer to keep, at his licensed address or place of business, complete and accurate records of all sales or other dispositions of alcoholic liquor, and complete and accurate records of all alcoholic liquor produced, manufactured, compounded or imported, whether for himself or for another, together with a physical inventory made as of the close of each period for which a return is required, covering all alcoholic liquors on hand. However, the Department of Revenue may grant an importing distributor a waiver to permit such records to be kept at a central business location within the State upon written request by the importing distributor. The central business location shall be located at a licensed importing distributor's premises. The Department of Revenue may in its discretion prescribe reasonable and uniform methods for keeping such records by manufacturers and importing distributors and foreign importers.
    In case of failure by manufacturers and importing distributors to keep such records or to make them available to the Department on demand, the Department shall determine the amount of tax due according to its best judgment and information, which amount so determined by the Department shall be prima facie correct, and the Department's notice of tax liability shall be given, and protest thereto and demand for a hearing may be made and final assessments arrived at, in accordance with the provisions of Section 8-5 hereof.
    It is the duty of each manufacturer, importing distributor and foreign importer, who imports alcoholic liquor into the State, and each non-resident dealer who ships alcoholic liquor into the State, to mail to the Department one duplicate invoice, together with a bill of lading, covering such shipment and stating the quantity and, except in the case of alcoholic liquor imported in bulk to be bottled by an authorized licensee in this State using his own label and brand, the invoice shall also state the brand, labels and size of containers.
    It is the duty of each manufacturer, importing distributor and foreign importer, who imports spirits into the State, and each non-resident dealer who ships spirits into the State, to mail to the State Commission monthly a report containing a compilation of the information required to be furnished to the Department by the preceding paragraph, except that information concerning spirits imported in bulk need not be included. The report shall include all information mailed to the Department during the preceding month.
    All books and records, which manufacturers, importing distributors, non-resident dealers and foreign importers are required by this Section to keep, shall be preserved for a period of 3 years, unless the Department, in writing, authorizes their destruction or disposal at an earlier date.
(Source: P.A. 98-394, eff. 8-16-13.)

235 ILCS 5/8-10.5

    (235 ILCS 5/8-10.5)
    Sec. 8-10.5. Beer production quantity reporting.
    (a) As used in this Section:
    "Directly" means that a licensed distributor was not used in the transaction.
    "Final packaging container" means the last vessel in which beer is held before (i) consumption by an individual on the brewer's licensed premises; (ii) being placed in a keg, bottle, or can for consumption by an individual; or (iii) being removed for additional fermentation and aging in a cask or barrel.
    (b) A brewer who is a class 1 brewer, class 2 brewer, class 3 brewer, or brew pub licensee shall accurately measure the quantity of beer transferred into its final packaging container to determine the brewer's tax liability by converting beer production into the amount of beer sold and to ensure compliance with any production or self-distribution quantity limitations under this Act applicable to the class 1 brewer, class 2 brewer, class 3 brewer, or brew pub. The measurement shall comply with 27 CFR 25.41 and 27 CFR 25.42. Any brewer subject to this Section shall file, on the same date as the brewer files similar reports with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Tobacco and Alcohol Tax and Trade Bureau, with the Department and State Commission a report of their use of water along with their "Brewer's Report of Operations" filed with the U.S. Department of Treasury's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau and shall maintain and produce for examination and inspection by the Department and the State Commission utility bills for water for 3 years along with their "Brewer's Report of Operations" filed with the U.S. Department of Treasury's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. The Department, in cooperation with the State Commission, may audit on an annual basis the amount a class 1 brewer, class 2 brewer, class 3 brewer, or brew pub licensee produces to determine compliance with this Act.
    (c) A brewer's failure to comply with this Section shall result in the State Commission issuing a fine or suspending or revoking the brewer's license.
(Source: P.A. 102-442, eff. 8-20-21.)

235 ILCS 5/8-11

    (235 ILCS 5/8-11) (from Ch. 43, par. 164 1/2)
    Sec. 8-11. Every person licensed as a non-beverage user hereunder shall keep books and records which shall be available to investigators and/or auditors of the Department during regular business hours, and shall retain such books and records at his place of business in Illinois for a period of not less than three years. Such books and records shall be so kept as correctly to disclose: (a) the quantity and kind of alcoholic liquors received, showing the name and address of the party from whom received and the permit number on which purchased; (b) the quantity and kind of alcoholic liquors used; (c) the quantity and kind of alcoholic liquors on hand at the close of each business day; and (d) the names of products or purposes for which alcoholic liquors are used.
    No non-beverage user shall sell, give away or otherwise dispose of any alcoholic liquor purchased under his license as such non-beverage user, in any form fit for beverage purposes. Any non-beverage user who shall violate the provisions of this section shall pay as a penalty to the Department of Revenue, the sum of $1.50 for each gallon of alcoholic liquor so diverted, and in addition thereto shall be subject to the penalties provided in Section 10-1 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 83-1428.)

235 ILCS 5/8-12

    (235 ILCS 5/8-12) (from Ch. 43, par. 164 3/4)
    Sec. 8-12. It shall be the duty of every railroad company, express company, common or contract carrier, and of every person, firm or corporation that shall bring, carry or transport alcoholic liquors into the State of Illinois for delivery in said State or which are delivered in said State, to prepare and file with the Department of Revenue for each month, not later than the fifteenth day of the month following that for which it is made, a report stating therein the name of the company, carrier, person, firm or corporation making the report, the period of time covered by said report, the name and business address of each consignor of such alcoholic liquors, the name and business address of each consignee of such alcoholic liquors, the kind and quantity of alcoholic liquors delivered to each consignee, and the date or dates of delivery. Such report shall be made upon forms prescribed and made available by the Department and shall contain such other information as may reasonably be required by the Department. The Department may establish procedures for electronic transmissions of such information directly to the Department. Such reports or information received by the Department shall be made available by the Department to the Commission upon the Commission's request.
    In addition to any other reporting requirement imposed under this Section, reports shall be filed for shipments to end consumers in this State. In furtherance of this requirement, it shall be the duty of every railroad company, express company, common or contract carrier, person, firm, or corporation that brings, carries, or transports alcoholic liquor into Illinois for delivery in Illinois to prepare and file with the Department for each month, not later than the fifteenth day of the month following the month during which the delivery is made, a report containing the name of the company, carrier, person, firm, or corporation making the report, the period of time covered by the report, the name and business address of each consignor of the alcoholic liquor, the name and the address of each consignee, and the date of delivery. Such reports shall be made upon forms prescribed and made by the Department and shall contain any other information that the Department may reasonably require. Such reports or information received by the Department shall be made available by the Department to the State Commission upon the State Commission's request.
    Every railroad company, express company, common or contract carrier, person, firm, or corporation filing or required to file a report under this Section shall deliver and make available to the Department, upon the Department's request, the records supporting the report, within 30 days of the request. The books, records, supporting papers and documents containing information and data relating to such reports shall be kept and preserved for a period of three years, unless their destruction sooner is authorized, in writing, by the Director, and shall be open and available to inspection by the Director of Revenue or the Commission or any duly authorized officer, agent or employee of the Department or the Commission, at all times during business hours of the day.
    Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section or any of the rules and regulations of the Department for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this section is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. In case of a continuing violation each day's continuance thereof shall be a separate and distinct offense.
(Source: P.A. 92-380, eff. 1-1-02.)

235 ILCS 5/8-13

    (235 ILCS 5/8-13) (from Ch. 43, par. 165)
    Sec. 8-13. The Department of Revenue may make such reasonable rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the administration of the duties vested in it by the provisions of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

235 ILCS 5/8-14

    (235 ILCS 5/8-14) (from Ch. 43, par. 165a)
    Sec. 8-14. All of the provisions of Sections 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i and 5j of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, are by reference incorporated in and made a part of this Article VIII as fully as though written herein; provided that wherever in those Sections of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, reference is made to a "retailer" such reference shall, for the purposes of this Article, be deemed to refer to a licensee under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-205.)

235 ILCS 5/Art. IX

 
    (235 ILCS 5/Art. IX heading)
ARTICLE IX. LOCAL REFERENDUM

235 ILCS 5/9-1

    (235 ILCS 5/9-1) (from Ch. 43, par. 166)
    Sec. 9-1. The words and phrases defined in this section and used in this Article, unless inconsistent with the context, shall be construed as follows:
    "Precinct" means any part of a city, village or incorporated town of over 200,000 population which was a "voting precinct" or an "election precinct" for voting at the last general election.
    "Political subdivision" means a township, road district, city, village or incorporated town, as the case may be.
    "Legal voter", insofar as the signing of a petition for a local option election is concerned, means a person who is registered to vote at the address shown opposite his signature on the petition or was registered to vote at such address when he signed the petition.
    "Annexed area" means a territory which has attached to and become a part of a different political subdivision or precinct. The term shall be an appropriate designation only until the area to which it attaches holds a referendum hereunder.
    "Disconnected area" means a territory which has detached or separated from a political subdivision or precinct.
    "Licensed establishment" means the premises specified in a retailer's license pursuant to paragraph (d) of Section 5-1 and whose primary business is the sale of alcoholic beverages on the premises, which premises are located in any municipality having more than 2,000,000 inhabitants.
    In the phrase, "Shall the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor (or alcoholic liquor other than beer containing not more than 4% of alcohol by weight) (or alcoholic liquor containing more than 4% of alcohol by weight except in the original package and not for consumption on the premises) be prohibited in (or at) ....?" the proper name, whether of a "township", "road district", "precinct", "city", "village" or "incorporated town", or the street address of the licensed establishment, shall be understood to be inserted in the blank, and the same shall be inserted in the petitions filed by and the ballots prepared for the voters of any precinct, township, road district, city, village or incorporated town.
    "Clerk", with reference to cities, villages and incorporated towns, and precinct situated therein, means the town, city or village clerk, as the case may be; with reference to cities, villages and incorporated towns which have by ordinance created a Board of Election Commissioners, it means the Board of Election Commissioners; with reference to road districts in counties not under township organization, it means the road district clerk; with reference to townships or parts of townships lying outside of cities, villages and incorporated towns in counties under township organization, it means the township clerk.
    "Election" as used in reference to cities, villages and incorporated towns, means an election at a time fixed by the general election law for choosing city, village or incorporated town officers. "Election" also means an election at a time fixed by the general election law for choosing county, township or road district officers.
    In case an election is to be held for officers of the city, village, incorporated town, township, or road district to which a proposition requested pursuant to this Article shall be submitted, or for the election of officers of a township or road district in which it is requested that such proposition be submitted to that part of a township or road district lying outside the corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated town, not less than 90 days nor more than 6 months following the filing of such petition, then the words "next ensuing election" as used herein shall mean the next ensuing election for officers of such city, village, incorporated town, township or road district, regardless of any intervening elections at which residents of such city, village, incorporated town, township or road district may vote.
(Source: P.A. 86-861; 87-347.)

235 ILCS 5/9-2

    (235 ILCS 5/9-2) (from Ch. 43, par. 167)
    Sec. 9-2. When any legal voters of a precinct in any city, village or incorporated town of more than 200,000 inhabitants, as determined by the last preceding Federal census, desire to pass upon the question of whether the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor shall be prohibited in the precinct or at a particular street address within the precinct, they shall, at least 104 days before an election, file in the office of the clerk of such city, village or incorporated town, a petition directed to the clerk, containing the signatures of not less than 25% of the legal voters registered with the board of election commissioners or county clerk, as the case may be, from the precinct. Provided, however, that when the petition seeks to prohibit the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor at a particular street address of a licensed establishment within the precinct the petition shall contain the signatures of not less than 40% of the legal voters requested from that precinct. The petition shall request that the proposition "Shall the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor be prohibited in (or at) ....?" be submitted to the voters of the precinct at the next ensuing election at which such proposition may be voted upon. The submission of the question to the voters of such precinct at such election shall be mandatory when the petition has been filed in proper form with the clerk. If more than one set of petitions are presented to the clerk for submission at the same election, the petition presented first shall be given preference; however, the clerk shall provisionally accept any other set of petitions setting forth the same (or substantially the same) proposition. If the first set of petitions for a proposition is found to be in proper form and is not found to be invalid, it shall be accepted by the clerk and all provisionally accepted sets of petitions setting forth the same (or substantially the same) proposition shall be rejected by the clerk. If the first set of petitions for a proposition is found not to be in proper form or is found to be invalid, the clerk shall (i) reject the first set of petitions, (ii) accept the first provisionally accepted set of petitions that is in proper form and is not found to be invalid, and (iii) reject all other provisionally accepted sets of petitions setting forth the same (or substantially the same) proposition. Notice of the filing of the petition and the result of the election shall be given to the Secretary of State at his offices in both, Chicago and Springfield, Illinois. A return of the result of the election shall be made to the clerk of the city, village or incorporated town in which the precinct is located. If a majority of the voters voting upon such proposition vote "YES", the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor shall be prohibited in the precinct or at the street address. If the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor at a particular street address is prohibited pursuant to this Section, the license for any establishment at that street address shall be void, and no person may apply for a license for the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor at an establishment at that street address unless such prohibition is discontinued pursuant to Section 9-10.
    In cities, villages and incorporated towns of 200,000 or less population, as determined by the last preceding Federal census, the vote upon the question of prohibiting the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor, or alcoholic liquor other than beer containing not more than 4% of alcohol by volume, or alcoholic liquor containing more than 4% of alcohol by weight in the original package and not for consumption on the premises, shall be by the voters of the political subdivision as a unit. When any legal voters of such a city, village or incorporated town desire to pass upon the question of whether the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor shall be prohibited in the municipality, they shall, at least 104 days before an election, file in the office of the clerk of the municipality, a petition directed to the clerk, containing the signatures of not less than 25% of the legal voters registered with the board of election commissioners or county clerk, as the case may be, from the municipality. The petition shall request that the proposition, "Shall the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor be prohibited in....?" be submitted to the voters of the municipality at the next ensuing election at which the proposition may be voted upon. The submission of the question to the voters of the municipality at such election shall be mandatory when the petition has been filed in proper form with the clerk. If more than one set of petitions are presented to the clerk for submission at the same election, setting forth the same or different propositions, the petition presented first shall be given preference and the clerk shall refuse to accept any other set of petitions. Notice of the filing of the petition and the result of the election shall be given to the Secretary of State at his offices in both Chicago and Springfield, Illinois. A return of the result of the election shall be made to the clerk of the city, village or incorporated town. If a majority of the voters voting upon the proposition vote "Yes", the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor shall be prohibited in the municipality.
    In the event a municipality does not vote to prohibit the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor, the council or governing body shall ascertain and determine what portions of the municipality are predominantly residence districts. No license permitting the sale of alcoholic liquors shall be issued by the local liquor commissioner or licensing officer permitting the sale of alcoholic liquors at any place within the residence district so determined, unless the owner or owners of at least two-thirds of the frontage, 200 feet in each direction along the street and streets adjacent to the place of business for which a license is sought, file with the local liquor commissioner or licensing officer, his or their written consent to the use of such place for the sale of alcoholic liquors.
    In each township or road district lying outside the corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated town, or in a part of a township or road district lying partly within and partly outside a city, village or incorporated town, the vote of such township, road district or part thereof, shall be as a unit. When any legal voters of any such township, or part thereof, in counties under township organization, or any legal voters of such road district or part thereof, in counties not under township organization, desire to vote upon the proposition as to whether the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor shall be prohibited in such township or road district or part thereof, they shall, at least 90 days before an election, file in the office of the township or road district clerk, of the township or road district within which the election is to be held, a petition directed to the clerk and containing the signatures of not less than 25% of the legal voters registered with the county clerk from such township or road district or part thereof. The submission of the question to the voters of the township, road district or part thereof, at the next ensuing election shall be mandatory when the petition has been filed in proper form with the clerk. If more than one set of petitions are presented to the clerk for submission at the same election, setting forth the same or different propositions, the petition presented first shall be given preference and the clerk shall refuse to accept any other set of petitions. A return of the result of such election shall be made to the clerk of the township or road district in which the territory is situated, and shall also be made to the Secretary of State at his offices in both Chicago and Springfield, Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 96-1008, eff. 7-6-10.)

235 ILCS 5/9-2a

    (235 ILCS 5/9-2a) (from Ch. 43, par. 167a)
    Sec. 9-2a. Sports Facilities. Any vote under this Article, whenever held, to prohibit sales at retail of alcoholic liquor (or alcoholic liquor other than liquor containing not more than 4% of alcohol by weight) in a precinct in a city, village or incorporated town of more than 200,000 inhabitants shall not apply to such sales at any new sports facility owned by any unit of local government and constructed after July 7, 1988, or at any new stadium described in subsection (a) of Section 10-215 of the Property Tax Code, or to a sports stadium having more than 15,000 but less than 50,000 seats in any municipality having more than 2,000,000 inhabitants, and such sales shall not be prohibited pursuant to any vote of the legal voters in such a precinct. It is declared to be the law of this State, pursuant to subsections (h) and (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970 that the power to determine the application of any local referendum with respect to sales of alcoholic liquors as provided herein is an exercise of exclusive State power and may not be exercised concurrently by any unit of local government, including home rule units.
(Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

235 ILCS 5/9-2b

    (235 ILCS 5/9-2b)
    Sec. 9-2b. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 93-996, eff. 8-23-04. Repealed by P.A. 94-282, eff. 7-21-05.)

235 ILCS 5/9-2c

    (235 ILCS 5/9-2c)
    Sec. 9-2c. Museum of Science and Industry. Any vote under this Article, whenever held, to prohibit sales at retail of alcoholic liquor (or alcoholic liquor other than liquor containing not more than 4% of alcohol by weight) in a precinct in a city, village, or incorporated town of more than 200,000 inhabitants shall not apply to such sales at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
(Source: P.A. 98-592, eff. 11-15-13.)

235 ILCS 5/9-2d

    (235 ILCS 5/9-2d)
    Sec. 9-2d. Private institution of higher learning. Any vote under this Article, whenever held, to prohibit sales at retail of alcoholic liquor (or alcoholic liquor other than beer containing not more than 4% of alcohol by weight or alcoholic liquor containing more than 4% alcohol by weight in the original package and not for consumption on the premises) in a precinct in a city, village, or incorporated town of more than 200,000 inhabitants shall not apply to retail sales of alcoholic liquor if:
        (1) the alcoholic liquor is sold on property owned
    
by a private institution of higher learning or an affiliate thereof that is bounded by the south side of 60th Street on the north, the west side of Kimbark Avenue to the east, the north side of 61st Street to the south, and the east side of Woodlawn Avenue to the west in the City of Chicago;
        (2) the alcoholic liquor is sold by a private
    
institution of higher learning or an affiliate thereof, by a person who leases the property owned by the private institution of higher learning or an affiliate thereof, or by a person contractually authorized to sell alcoholic liquor on the premises;
        (3) the person conducting the retail sale of
    
alcoholic liquor obtains all of the necessary local and State licenses authorizing the retail sale of alcoholic liquor; and
        (4) the sale of alcoholic liquor is not the
    
principal business to be carried on by the license holder.
(Source: P.A. 101-156, eff. 1-1-20.)

235 ILCS 5/9-3

    (235 ILCS 5/9-3) (from Ch. 43, par. 168)
    Sec. 9-3. A vote under the provisions of this Act, shall become operative on the 30th day after the day of the election at which such vote is cast.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

235 ILCS 5/9-4

    (235 ILCS 5/9-4) (from Ch. 43, par. 169)
    Sec. 9-4. A petition for submission of the proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
    To the .... clerk of the (here insert the corporate or legal name of the county, township, road district, city, village or incorporated town):
    The undersigned, residents and legal voters of the .... (insert the legal name or correct designation of the political subdivision or precinct, as the case may be), respectfully petition that you cause to be submitted, in the manner provided by law, to the voters thereof, at the next election, the proposition "Shall the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor (or alcoholic liquor other than beer containing not more than 4% of alcohol by weight) (or alcoholic liquor containing more than 4% of alcohol by weight except in the original package and not for consumption on the premises) be prohibited in this .... (or at the following address ....)?"
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 Name of   P. O. address   Description of precinct  Date of
 signer    (including      township, road district  signing
           street no.,     or part thereof, as of
           if any).        the last general
                           election
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    A petition for a proposition to be submitted to the voters of a precinct shall also contain in plain and nonlegal language a description of the precinct to which the proposition is to be submitted at the election. The description shall describe the territory of the precinct by reference to streets, natural or artificial landmarks, addresses, or by any other method which would enable a voter signing such petition to be informed of the territory of the precinct. Each such petition for a precinct referendum shall also contain a list of the names and addresses of all licensees in the precinct.
    Such petition shall conform to the requirements of the general election law, as to form and signature requirements. The circulator's statement shall include an attestation of: (1) that none of the signatures on this petition sheet were signed more than 4 months before the filing of this petition, or (2) the dates on which the petitioners signed the petition, and shall be sworn to before an officer residing in the county where such legal voters reside and authorized to administer oaths therein. No signature shall be revoked except by a revocation filed within 20 days from the filing of the petition with the clerk with whom the petition is required to be filed. Upon request of any citizen for a photostatic copy of the petition and paying or tendering to the clerk the costs of making the photostatic copy, the clerk shall immediately make, or cause to be made a photostatic copy of such petition. The clerk shall also deliver to such person, his official certification that such copy is a true copy of the original, stating the day when such original was filed in his office. Any 5 legal voters or any affected licensee of any political subdivision, district or precinct in which a proposed election is about to be held as provided for in this Act, within any time up to 72 days immediately prior to the date of such proposed election and upon filing a bond for costs, may contest the validity of the petitions for such election by filing a verified petition in the Circuit Court for the county in which the political subdivision, district or precinct is situated, setting forth the grounds for contesting the validity of such petitions. Upon the filing of the petition, a summons shall be issued by the Court, addressed to the appropriate city, village, town, township or road district clerk, notifying the clerk of the filing of the petition and directing him to appear before the Court on behalf of the political subdivision or district at the time named in the summons; provided, the time shall not be less than 5 days nor more than 15 days after the filing of the petition. The procedure in these cases, as far as may be applicable, shall be the same as that provided for the objections to petitions in the general election law. Any legal voter in the political subdivision or precinct in which such election is to be held may appear in person or by counsel, in any such contest to defend or oppose the validity of the petition for election.
    The municipal, town or road district clerk shall certify the proposition to be submitted at the election to the appropriate election officials, in accordance with the general election law, unless the petition has been determined to be invalid. If the court determines the petitions to be invalid subsequent to the certification by the clerk, the court's order shall be transmitted to the election officials and shall nullify such certification.
(Source: P.A. 96-1008, eff. 7-6-10.)

235 ILCS 5/9-5

    (235 ILCS 5/9-5) (from Ch. 43, par. 170)
    Sec. 9-5. The appropriate election officials to whom the proposition has been certified shall cause notice to be given in the manner provided by the general election law of the submission of said proposition at the next election to the voters of the political subdivision or precinct entitled to vote thereon. Publication of the submission of such proposition to the voters of such political subdivision or precinct shall likewise be made in the manner provided by the general election law; provided, the failure of the election officials to cause such notice to be given, or the failure to make publication of the submission of the proposition, shall not affect the validity or binding force of the vote upon the proposition.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

235 ILCS 5/9-6

    (235 ILCS 5/9-6) (from Ch. 43, par. 171)
    Sec. 9-6. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
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    Shall the sale at retail of
alcoholic  liquor  (or alcoholic
liquor other than beer containing             YES
not more than 4% of alcohol by
weight) (or alcoholic liquor               -------------------
containing more than 4% alcohol by
weight in the original package
and not for consumption on the                NO
premises) be prohibited in (or at) ....?
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    In a precinct referendum, the proposition ballot shall also contain a common description of the precinct in plain and nonlegal language, which may be prepared by the election official or adopted from the description on the petition, unless the election official responsible for conducting the election determines that a description cannot be included within the space limitations on the ballot to be used in the election. If the description is not to be included on the ballot, the election officials shall prepare large printed copies of the description of the precinct together with a notice of the proposition which shall be prominently displayed in the precinct polling place at the election.
(Source: P.A. 86-861.)

235 ILCS 5/9-7

    (235 ILCS 5/9-7) (from Ch. 43, par. 172)
    Sec. 9-7. The clerk shall record in a well bound book, to be kept in his office by himself and his successor, the result of the vote upon the proposition. The result of the vote may be proved in all courts and in all proceedings by this record or by the official certification of the clerk. In cases where the record or certification shows that a majority of the voters voting upon the proposition voted "YES", the record or certification shall be prima facie evidence that the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor or the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor other than beer containing not more than 4% of alcohol by weight or the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor containing more than 4% of alcohol by weight except in the original package and not for consumption on the premises, as the case may be, is prohibited in the political subdivision or precinct or at the licensed establishment to which such vote was applicable.
(Source: P.A. 86-861.)

235 ILCS 5/9-8

    (235 ILCS 5/9-8) (from Ch. 43, par. 173)
    Sec. 9-8. The status of all the territory within any political subdivision or precinct, relative to the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor, or the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor other than beer containing not more than 4% of alcohol by weight, or the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor containing more than 4% of alcohol by weight except in the original package and not for consumption on the premises, as the case may be, shall remain the same, notwithstanding any change which may be made in the limits of any such political subdivision or precinct until the voters thereof have changed such status as to annexed or disconnected areas under the provisions of Section 9-9 of this Article, or until the voters have changed such status for areas other than annexed or disconnected areas under the provisions of Section 9-2 or Section 9-10.
(Source: P.A. 84-716.)

235 ILCS 5/9-9

    (235 ILCS 5/9-9) (from Ch. 43, par. 173.1)
    Sec. 9-9. The status of an annexed area or disconnected area, relative to the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor pursuant to Section 9-8, shall remain the same until changed in accordance with the following provisions:
    (a) Upon the filing, in the office of the clerk of the political subdivision or precinct of which the annexed area or disconnected area becomes a part, of a petition directed to such clerk, containing the signatures of not less than 25% of the legal voters residing in such annexed or disconnected area, to submit to the voters thereof the proposition to continue its current status, the clerk shall certify that proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition to the voters of the annexed or disconnected area at an election in accordance with the general election law. The petition shall be supported by an affidavit made by one or more of the petitioners and stating that the signatures represent not less than 25% of the legal voters residing in the annexed or disconnected area. The provisions in Sections 9-1, 9-2, 9-4, 9-5, 9-6 and 9-7 shall apply except where they conflict with this Section, in which event the provisions of this Section shall control. If a majority of the voters voting upon such proposition in any such annexed or disconnected area vote "NO", the current status shall cease in that area; or
    (b) Upon the filing in the office of the clerk of the political subdivision of which the annexed area or disconnected area becomes a part of a petition directed to such clerk containing the signatures of not less than 66 2/3% of all the legal voters residing in the annexed or disconnected area to change the status in that annexed or disconnected area relative to the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor by either:
        (1) discontinuing any existing prohibition, or
        (2) prohibiting the sale at retail of alcoholic
    
liquor, or
        (3) prohibiting the sale at retail of alcoholic
    
liquor other than beer containing not more than 4% of alcohol by weight, or
        (4) prohibiting the sale at retail of alcoholic
    
liquor containing more than 4% of alcohol by weight except in the original package and not for consumption on the premises, the requirements for an election in subsection (a) above shall be waived.
The requirement of Section 9-4 regarding verification of a petition shall apply to this petition. Thirty days following the filing of such petition, the requested status, as specified in such petition, shall become effective in the annexed or disconnected area, unless within the 30 day period, written verified objections by a voter residing in the annexed or disconnected area are filed with the clerk. The objections shall be limited to an attack upon the validity of the petition and its execution. In such event, the clerk shall forthwith submit to the Circuit Court for the county in which the area is located, the petition and objections thereto. A hearing shall be held thereon within 30 days after the petition and objections are filed with the court. If the court finds that the petition is valid and properly executed, the court shall enter an order finding that the petition is valid. Thereupon, the requested status shall be effective. If the court finds that the petition is not valid, the petition shall be dismissed.
    (c) A vote under subsection (a) above or the filing of a valid petition under subsection (b) above shall bar further proceedings under this Section for 47 months thereafter.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

235 ILCS 5/9-10

    (235 ILCS 5/9-10) (from Ch. 43, par. 174)
    Sec. 9-10. Upon the filing in the office of the clerk, at least 90 days before an election in any political subdivision or precinct, as the case may be, of a petition directed to such clerk, containing the signatures of not less than 25% or 40% of the legal voters of the territory which has prohibited the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor or the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor other than beer containing not more than 4% of alcohol by weight or the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor containing more than 4% of alcohol by weight except in the original package and not for consumption on the premises, or a petition directed to such clerk containing the signatures of not less than 25% of the legal voters of a municipality within which such territory is located, to submit to the voters thereof the proposition to continue such prohibition, the clerk shall certify such proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition at such election to the voters of such political subdivision or precinct. Where such proposition is submitted pursuant to a petition signed by not less than 25% of the legal voters of a municipality within which such territory is located, the legal voters of the entire municipality may vote on the proposition. For the purposes of this Section, the number of legal voters shall be computed upon the same basis as is provided in Section 9-2 for the filing of a petition for referendum on the question of whether the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor shall be prohibited. So far as applicable, the provisions of Sections 9-1, 9-4, 9-5, 9-6 and 9-7 shall apply. The proposition shall be in the following form:
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Shall the prohibition of the sale
at retail of alcoholic liquor (or
alcoholic liquor other than beer        YES
containing not more than 4% of
alcohol by weight) or (alcoholic     -------------------------
liquor containing more than 4% of
alcohol by weight in the original        NO
package and not for consumption
on the premises) be continued
in (or at) .................?
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In a precinct referendum, the referendum ballot shall also contain a common description of the precinct in plain and nonlegal language, which may be prepared by the election official or adopted from the description on the petition, unless the election official responsible for conducting the election determines that a description cannot be included within the space limitations on the ballots to be used in the election. If the description is not to be included on the ballot, the clerk shall prepare large printed copies of the description of the precinct together with a notice of the proposition which shall be prominently displayed in the precinct polling place at the election. If a majority of the voters voting upon such last mentioned proposition in any such political subdivision or precinct vote "NO", such prohibition shall cease in such political subdivision or precinct or at the applicable licensed establishment; and where such political subdivision or precinct is a city, village or incorporated town situated wholly or partly within the boundaries of a township or road district having a similar prohibition, a majority vote of the voters voting "NO" upon such proposition as above described will result in the prohibition ceasing in that part of the township or road district situated within such city, village or incorporated town. In the event the boundaries of such political subdivision or precinct have been altered or the numbers of any precincts have been changed subsequent to the original election making the territory prohibited territory and prior to the filing of such petition for resubmission of the question, only those voters actually residing in the prohibited territory shall be eligible as signers of such resubmission petition, except that this limitation shall not apply in the case of a resubmission petition signed by at least 25% of the legal voters of a municipality in which the prohibited territory is located. The petition mentioned in this Section shall be a public document and shall be subject to inspection by the public.
(Source: P.A. 86-861.)