Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 Counties: Article 2 - Governing Bodies
Division 2-1. Counties Under Township Organization
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-1001
Regular meetings. Regular and special meetings of the county board may be held in any public building located within the county that such county...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-1002
Special meetings. Special meetings of the board shall be held only when requested by at least one-third of the members of the board, or...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-1003
Chairman and vice-chairman of county board. The county board shall, unless the chairman is elected by the voters of the county, at its first...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-1004
Certificate of election. The supervisors shall severally lay before the board, at the first meeting after the election, their several certificates of election, which...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-1005
Quorum; approval of ordinances. A majority of the members of any county board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and all...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-1006
Open meetings. The county board shall sit with open doors, and all persons may attend their meetings. The vote on all propositions to appropriate...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-1007
Administering oaths. The chairman of the board may administer an oath to any person concerning any matters submitted to the board, or connected with...
Division 2-2. New Towns - Names
Division 2-3. Reapportionment of County for Election of County Board
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3001
Definitions. As used in this Division, unless the context otherwise requires: a. "District" means a county board district established as provided in this Division....
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3002
Counties with population of less than 3,000,000 and with township form of government. (a) Reapportionment required. By July 1, 1971, and each 10 years...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3002.5
Beginning with members elected at the general election in 2002, counties having a population between 800,000 and 3,000,000 according to 2000 decennial census shall...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3003
Apportionment plan. (1) If the county board determines that members shall be elected by districts, it shall develop an apportionment plan and specify the number...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3004
Failure to complete reapportionment. If any county board fails to complete the reapportionment of its county by July 1 in 2011 or any 10 years...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3005
Filing of apportionment plan. The apportionment plan developed by the county board or the county apportionment commission, as the case may be, must be...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3006
Failure to file apportionment plan; election of board members at large. If no apportionment plan is filed with the county clerk as required by...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3007
Chairman of county board; election and term. Any county board when providing for the reapportionment of its county under this Division may provide that the...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3008
Determination of method of compensation of members of county board. At the time it reapportions its county under this Division, the county board shall...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3009
Terms of board members; vacancies; elections. (a) County board member elections by county board districts. In those counties subject to this Division which elect...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3010
Multi-member districts. In making the determination by lot, pursuant to Section 2-3009, as to which members shall serve for 2 years and which for...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-3015
Qualifications of County Board Members and Commissioners. In counties with a population of 3,000,000 or less, no person is eligible to hold the office...
Division 2-4. Counties Not Under Township Organization
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-4001
Oath of county commissioners. Each member of the board of county commissioners shall be commissioned by the governor, and shall, before entering upon the...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-4002
Time of meetings. The board of county commissioners shall hold regular sessions for the transaction of the business of the county on the call...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-4003
Chairman. At the session of said commissioners in December of each year, they shall elect one of their number chairman for the ensuing year,...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-4004
Conduct of meetings. A majority of the members of said board shall constitute a quorum to do business, and, in the absence of the...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-4005
Administering oaths. The chairman or any member of the board of county commissioners may administer oaths to persons, concerning any matter submitted to the...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-4006
Terms of commissioners. (a) In every county not under township organization having 3 commissioners elected at large as described in subsection (b) or (c), the...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-4006.5
Commissioners in certain counties. (a) If a county elects 3 commissioners at large under Section 2-4006, registered voters of such county may, by a...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-4010
Qualifications of County Board Members and Commissioners. In counties with a population of 3,000,000 or less, no person is eligible to hold the office...
Division 2-5. County Executive Form of Government
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5001
Subtitle. This Division shall be subtitled the "County Executive Law". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5002
Legislative determination. It is declared as a matter of legislative determination that in order to promote the health, safety, morals and welfare of the...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5003
Definitions. As used in this Division, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "County board" or "board" means the governing body of any county other...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5004
Establishment of county executive form of government. Any county other than Cook County may establish the county executive form of government for that county...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5005
Referendum on resolution of county board. (a) If the county board adopts a resolution calling for a referendum on the proposal to adopt the...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5006
Election of chief executive officer. The electors of a county which has adopted the county executive form of government under this Division shall, at...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5007
Term of county executive. The county executive shall serve a term of 4 years, commencing on the first Monday in the month following the...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5008
Qualifications of county executive. The qualifications for the office of county executive are the same as those for membership on the board. However, the...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5009
Duties and powers of county executive. Any county executive elected under this Division shall: (a) see that all of the orders, resolutions and regulations of...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5010
Approval of ordinances. Any ordinance passed, adopted or otherwise enacted by the board shall before it becomes effective be presented to the county executive....
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5011
Death, resignation or inability of county executive. In case of the death, resignation or other inability of the county executive to act, the board shall...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5012
Salary of county executive. The salary of the county executive shall be fixed by the board and shall be not less than 1 1/2...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5013
Discontinuance of county executive form of government. Any county which has adopted the county executive form of government may discontinue that form of government...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5014
Certified statements by county clerk. At least 20 days prior to any referendum under Section 2-5005 or Section 2-5013, the county clerk shall file...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5015
Superseding plan for election of county board chairman. The adoption of the county executive form of government by any county pursuant to this Division...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-5016
Policy concerning exercise of powers by counties. It is the policy of this State that any county with a chief executive officer elected by...
Division 2-6. Commissioners in Cook County
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6001
Election of Cook County commissioners. There shall be elected every 4 years by the legal voters of Cook County 17 county commissioners who shall...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6002
Election of president of board. Every legal voter in said county may vote for and designate (upon his ballot cast for county commissioners) one...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6003
Vacancy in office of president. In case of the death, resignation, removal from office or other inability to act of the president so elected,...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6004
Terms of office of commissioners. The terms of office of such commissioners shall begin on the first Monday of the month following the month...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6005
Oath of commissioners. The said commissioners shall severally, before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, take the oath of office prescribed by...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6006
Meetings of board of commissioners. The board of commissioners shall hold regular meetings on the first Monday of December, January, February, March, June and...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6007
Voting by president. The president of the board of commissioners shall have the same privilege of voting as any other commissioner; but he shall...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6008
Approval of ordinances. All ordinances, resolutions or motions shall be submitted to said board of commissioners in writing, or reduced to writing before any vote...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6009
Powers and duties of commissioners. Said board of commissioners shall have the management of the affairs of said Cook County, in the manner provided...
- Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 2-6010
Delegation of powers; appropriations; indebtedness. The said board of commissioners shall have no power or authority to delegate to any committee or other person...
Last modified: February 18, 2015