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90_HB0641 50 ILCS 330/3 from Ch. 85, par. 803 605 ILCS 5/6-805 new Amends the Illinois Municipal Budget Law to provide that municipalities may expend funds during the first quarter of their fiscal year before the municipality has passed the combined annual budget and appropriation ordinance and may pass a continuing budget ordinance. Amends the Illinois Highway Code to provide that township road districts may acquire title to any land, rights, or other property incidental to road district purposes by purchase, gift, or eminent domain. Effective immediately. LRB9002811DNsb LRB9002811DNsb 1 AN ACT concerning units of local government. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Budget Law is amended 5 by changing Section 3 as follows: 6 (50 ILCS 330/3) (from Ch. 85, par. 803) 7 Sec. 3. The governing body of each municipality of this 8 State, coming within the provisions of this Act, shall, 9 within or before the first quarter of each fiscal year, adopt 10 a combined annual budget and appropriation ordinance, by 11 which ordinance the governing body may appropriate such sum 12 or sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray all 13 necessary expenses and liabilities of such municipality, and 14 in such annual budget and appropriation ordinance shall 15 specify the objects and purposes for which such 16 appropriations are made, and the amount appropriated for each 17 object or purpose. The municipality may pass a continuing 18 annual budget ordinance. The municipality may expend funds 19 during the first quarter of the fiscal year before the 20 municipality has adopted the combined annual budget and 21 appropriation ordinance. 22 The budget included in such ordinance shall contain a 23 statement of the cash on hand at the beginning of the fiscal 24 year, an estimate of the cash expected to be received during 25 such fiscal year from all sources, an estimate of the 26 expenditures contemplated for such fiscal year, and a 27 statement of the estimated cash expected to be on hand at the 28 end of such year. The estimate of taxes to be received may 29 be based upon the amount of actual cash receipts that may 30 reasonably be expected by the municipality during such fiscal 31 year, estimated from the experience of the municipality in -2- LRB9002811DNsb 1 prior years and with due regard for other circumstances that 2 may substantially affect such receipts. Provided, however, 3 that nothing in this Act shall be construed as requiring any 4 municipality to change or preventing any municipality from 5 changing from a cash basis of financing to a surplus or 6 deficit basis of financing; or as requiring any municipality 7 to change or preventing any municipality from changing its 8 system of accounting. 9 The governing body of each municipality shall fix a 10 fiscal year therefor. If the beginning of the fiscal year of 11 a municipality is subsequent to the time that the tax levy 12 for such fiscal year shall be made, then such annual budget 13 and appropriation ordinance shall be adopted prior to the 14 time such tax levy shall be made. 15 Such budget and appropriation ordinance shall be prepared 16 in tentative form by some person or persons designated by the 17 governing body, and in such tentative form shall be made 18 conveniently available to public inspection for at least 19 thirty days prior to final action thereon. Provided, that in 20 townships such tentative ordinance for purposes other than 21 the road and bridge fund shall be prepared by the board of 22 town trustees. At least one public hearing shall be held as 23 to such budget and appropriation ordinance prior to final 24 action thereon, notice of which shall be given by publication 25 in an English language newspaper published in such 26 municipality, at least 30 days prior to the time of such 27 hearing. If there is no newspaper published in such 28 municipality, then notice of such public hearing shall be 29 given by publication in an English language newspaper 30 published in the county in which such municipality is located 31 and having general circulation within such municipality. If 32 there is no such newspaper published in the county, notice of 33 such public hearing shall be given by posting notices thereof 34 in five of the most public places in such municipality. Such -3- LRB9002811DNsb 1 notice shall state the time and place where copies of the 2 tentative budget and appropriation ordinance are available 3 for public inspection and the time and place of the hearing. 4 It shall be the duty of the clerk, secretary, or other 5 similar officer, of such municipality to make such tentative 6 budget and appropriation ordinance available to public 7 inspection, and to arrange for such public hearing or 8 hearings. Except as otherwise provided by law, no further 9 appropriations shall be made at any other time within such 10 fiscal year, provided that the governing body of such 11 municipality may from time to time make transfers between the 12 various items in any fund in such appropriation ordinance not 13 exceeding in the aggregate ten per cent of the total amount 14 appropriated in such fund by such ordinance, may transfer 15 funds received by the taxing district as the result of an 16 erroneous distribution of property taxes by a county 17 treasurer back to that county treasurer without amending the 18 budget and appropriation ordinance, and may amend such budget 19 and appropriation ordinance from time to time by the same 20 procedure as is herein provided for the original adoption of 21 a budget and appropriation ordinance; provided that nothing 22 in this section shall be construed to permit transfers 23 between funds required by law to be kept separate. 24 (Source: P.A. 89-548, eff. 1-1-97.) 25 Section 10. The Highway Code is amended by adding 26 Section 5-805 as follows: 27 (605 ILCS 5/6-805 new) 28 Sec. 6-805. Township road districts. Township road 29 districts may acquire the fee simple title, or any lesser 30 interest the district desires, to any land, rights, or other 31 property incidental to road district purposes by purchase or 32 gift, or if the compensation or damages cannot be agreed -4- LRB9002811DNsb 1 upon, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain under 2 the eminent domain laws of this State. 3 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 4 becoming law.