Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 Counties: Article 5 - Powers And Duties Of County Boards

Division 5-1. in General

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1001
  Corporate name of county. Each county which has been, or may be established in this State, according to the laws thereof, shall be a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1002
  Indemnity of sheriff or deputy. If any injury to the person or property of another is caused by a sheriff or any deputy sheriff,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1002.5
  Indemnity of regional superintendent of schools and assistants. A county may indemnify and protect the regional superintendent of schools and the assistant regional superintendents...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1003
  Indemnity of public defender or assistant public defender. If any injury to the person or property of another is caused by a public defender...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1004
  Exercise of corporate powers. The powers of the county as a body corporate or politic, shall be exercised by a county board, to wit:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1005
  Powers. Each county shall have power: 1. To purchase and hold the real and personal estate necessary for the uses of the county, and to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1005.5
  Advisory referenda. By a vote of the majority of the members of the county board, the board may authorize an advisory question of public...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1006
  Home Rule County Retailers' Occupation Tax Law. Any county that is a home rule unit may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1006.5
  Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax For Public Safety, Public Facilities, or Transportation. (a) The county board of any county may impose a tax upon all...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1006.7
  School facility occupation taxes. (a) In any county, a tax shall be imposed upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1007
  Home Rule County Service Occupation Tax Law. The corporate authorities of a home rule county may impose a tax upon all persons engaged, in such...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1008
  Home Rule County Use Tax. The corporate authorities of a home rule county may impose a tax upon the privilege of using, in such...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1008.5
  Use and occupation taxes. (a) The Rock Island County Board may adopt a resolution that authorizes a referendum on the question of whether the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1009
  Limitation on home rule powers. Except as provided in Sections 5-1006, 5-1006.5, 5-1007 and 5-1008, on and after September 1, 1990, no home rule county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1010
  Time of fixing compensation of county officers. The time of fixing the compensation of county officers, which compensation is to be fixed by the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1011
  Separation of funds. Whenever a tax is levied for the payment of a specific debt, the amount of such tax collected shall be kept...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1012
  Issuance of county bonds. When the county board of any county deems it necessary to issue county bonds to enable them to perform any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1013
  Neglect of duty. If any member of the county board of any county in this State shall wilfully neglect to perform any of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1014
  Powers generally. The county board of each county has the powers enumerated in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section 5-1105, subject to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1014.3
  Agreements to share or rebate occupation taxes. (a) On and after June 1, 2004, a county board shall not enter into any agreement to share...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1014.5
  County board chairman; veto; procedure. In counties with a population between 700,000 and 3,000,000, (i) each county appropriation ordinance that is passed that includes...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1015
  Care and custody of property. A county board may take and have the care and custody of all the real and personal estate owned...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1016
  Management of county funds and business. A county board may manage the county funds and county business, except as otherwise specifically provided. A county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1017
  Coordinator of Federal and State Aid. A county board may create an office of Coordinator of Federal and State Aid reporting to the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1018
  Reimbursement for expenses; employment of personnel. A county board may reimburse the chairman and other members of the county board for travel and other...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1018.5
  Compliance with ITAP requirements. A county must comply with the requirements of Section 405-335 of the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1019
  Examination and settlement of accounts. A county board may examine and settle all accounts against the county, and all accounts concerning the receipts and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1020
  Trust agreements for funds retained pending construction completion. Whenever any county has entered into a contract for the repair, remodeling, renovation or construction of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1021
  Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Code shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1022
  Competitive bids. (a) Any purchase by a county with fewer than 2,000,000 inhabitants of services, materials, equipment or supplies in excess of $30,000, other than...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1023
  Workhouse. A county board may: cause to be erected, or otherwise provided, a suitable workhouse, in which persons convicted of offenses punishable by imprisonment...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1024
  Taxes. A county board may cause to be levied and collected annually, except as hereinafter provided, taxes for county purposes, including all purposes for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1025
  Tax for expense of conducting elections and maintaining system of permanent registration of voters. In counties of more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, a county board...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1026
  Accumulation of surplus of general taxes for building purposes; referendum. Within the rate limitations set out in Section 5-1024 and subject to the referendum...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1027
  Bonds for purchase of voting machines. A county board may issue bonds, in such amounts as may be required for the purpose of acquiring...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1028
  Tax for emergency ambulance service; referendum. In any county which is not a home rule county, a county board may levy and collect, annually, a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1028.1
  Distribution of tax receipts balance. Any unobligated balance remaining in the County Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund on December 31, 1989, which fund was abolished...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1029
  Stream clearing and brush removal. A county board may undertake stream clearing and brush removal on free flowing streams in the county, with the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1030
  Hotel rooms, tax on gross rental receipts. (a) The corporate authorities of any county may by ordinance impose a tax upon all persons engaged in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1031
  County real estate transfer tax. (a) The county board of a county may impose a tax upon the privilege of transferring title to real estate,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1031.1
  Home rule real estate transfer taxes. (a) After the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly and subject to this Section,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1032
  County Automobile Renting Occupation Tax. The corporate authorities of a county may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of renting...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1033
  County Automobile Renting Use Tax. The corporate authorities of a county may impose a tax upon the privilege of using, in such county an...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1034
  Tax for provision of social services for senior citizens. The county board may annually impose a tax of not to exceed .025 percent of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1035
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-962. Repealed by P.A. 98-584, eff. 8-27-13.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1035.1
  County Motor Fuel Tax Law. The county board of the counties of DuPage, Kane and McHenry may, by an ordinance or resolution adopted by an...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1035.2
  County economic development tax. (a) A county with a population under 100,000 may levy an annual tax on all the taxable property in the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1036
  Vacation of town plats. A county board may authorize the vacation of any town plat when the same is not within any incorporated town,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1037
  Change of names of town plats. A county board may change the name of any town plat on the petition of a majority of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1038
  Historical museums; tourism grants. A county board may own and operate historical museums and may make grants to not-for-profit tourism organizations from federal, State...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1039
  Tuberculosis sanitarium. A county board may cause to be erected, or otherwise provided and maintained, all suitable buildings for a sanitarium for the care...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1040
  Transfer, sale or lease of hospital. With regard to any hospital operated by a county, a county board may transfer, sell or lease such...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1041
  Maps, plats and subdivisions. A county board may prescribe, by resolution or ordinance, reasonable rules and regulations governing the location, width and course of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1041.1
  School land donations. The governing board of a school district that is located in a county having a population of less than 3,000,000 may...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1042
  Maps, plats and subdivisions in certain counties. In any county with a population not in excess of 500,000 located in the area served by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1043
  Water and sanitary facilities. Whenever a county resolution or ordinance requires the installation of water mains, sanitary sewers, drains, or other facilities for sewers...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1044
  Recording of contracts. Any contract entered into between the county board and a subdivider pursuant to Section 5-1043 shall be filed with the recorder...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1045
  Home rule counties. Sections 5-1043 and 5-1044 do not apply to any county which is a home rule unit. This and the foregoing Sections...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1046
  Radio stations for police and fire protection purposes. A county board may purchase, lease or otherwise acquire and maintain and operate, a radio broadcasting...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1047
  Garbage, waste and refuse facilities. A county board may furnish grounds or other facilities for the disposal, treatment or recycling of garbage, waste and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1048
  Contracts for garbage disposal or recycling. A county board may contract with any city, village, incorporated town, or any person, corporation, or other county,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1049
  Public grounds. A county board may accept or receive through gift, grant, legacy, dedication in plats of subdivision or otherwise, parks, playgrounds, areas enclosing...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1049.1
  Lease of public lands. The county board may enter into agreements to lease lands owned by the county for $1 per year if the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1049.2
  Lease of county property. The county board may lease real estate acquired or held by the county for any term not exceeding 99 years...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1050
  Acquisition and improvement of land for industrial or commercial purposes. For the public purposes set forth in the Illinois Finance Authority Act, a county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1051
  Charitable donations for aid to persons in need of assistance. A county board may accept or receive through unsolicited gift, grant or legacy any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1052
  Public health. During the period that Division 5-25 is in force in the particular county, a county board may: (1) do all acts and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1052.5
  Contracts to care for vacant residential real estate. (a) A person, except for the servicer of a mortgage loan acting in that capacity, who...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1053
  Terms and conditions of emergency ambulance service. Under the terms and conditions hereinafter set out, a county board may provide emergency ambulance service to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1054
  Contracts with Community Mental Health Board. A county board may enter into contractual agreements with any Community Mental Health Board having jurisdiction within the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1055
  Agreements with governmental entities of adjoining states relating to personal injuries. A county board may enter into agreements and cooperate with governmental entities of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1055.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 88-597, eff. 8-28-94. Repealed internally, eff. 9-6-97.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1055.5
  Sharing use and occupation tax receipts. A county with a population between 180,000 and 200,000 may, but shall not be required to, enter into...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1056
  Powers granted under Emergency Telephone System Act. A county board may exercise the powers granted to counties under the Emergency Telephone System Act. (Source:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1056.1
  Annexation to fire protection district. A county board may exercise the powers granted to county boards under Section 3.1 of "An Act in relation...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1057
  Weed control and eradication. A county board may create and establish a county weed control department and may provide for the control and eradication...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1058
  Hawkers, peddlers, itinerant merchants, and transient vendors. A county board may regulate, in the manner authorized by this Section hawkers, peddlers, itinerant merchants and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1059
  Licenses for entertainment or recreation and other businesses. A county board may license and regulate persons engaged, within the boundaries of the County but...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1060
  Contracts for regulation of traffic. A county board may contract with school boards, hospitals, commercial and industrial facilities, and owners of shopping centers or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1061
  Air contamination control. For the purpose of lessening or preventing the discharge of air contaminants, a county board may prescribe by ordinance for the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1062
  Stormwater management. (a) The purpose of this Section is to allow management and mitigation of the effects of urbanization on stormwater drainage in metropolitan counties...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1062.1
  Stormwater management planning councils in Cook County. (a) Stormwater management in Cook County shall be conducted as provided in Section 7h of the Metropolitan Water...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1062.2
  Stormwater management. (a) The purpose of this Section is to allow management and mitigation of the effects of urbanization on stormwater drainage in the metropolitan...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1062.3
  Stormwater management; DuPage and Peoria Counties. (a) The purpose of this Section is to allow management and mitigation of the effects of urbanization on stormwater...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1063
  Building construction, alteration and maintenance. For the purpose of promoting and safeguarding the public health, safety, comfort and welfare, a county board may prescribe by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1063.5
  Permits for demolition and renovation; asbestos. Before a county may issue a demolition or renovation permit for property that is regulated under Part 61 of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1064
  Buildings in certain counties of less than 1,000,000 population. The county board in any county with a population not in excess of 1,000,000 located...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1065
  Civil liability for rentals in excess of number permitted by ordinance. (a) The owner of a building located in a county having a population...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1066
  Artificial basins of water used for swimming or wading. The county board may prescribe rules and regulations for the construction of privately owned artificial...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1067
  Names of streets and highways; numbers of buildings and lots. A county board may name or may change the name of any street, lane,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1068
  Property record system. A county board may expend monies for the preparation, establishment and maintenance of a detailed property record system which would provide...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1069
  Group life, health, accident, hospital, and medical insurance. (a) The county board of any county may arrange to provide, for the benefit of employees of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1069.1
  Mammograms. A county, including a home rule county, that does not provide insurance coverage of mammograms under Section 5-1069 shall itself provide or cause...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1069.2
  Post-parturition care. If a county, including a home rule county, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1069.3
  Required health benefits. If a county, including a home rule county, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1069.5
  Woman's health care provider. All counties, including home rule counties, are subject to the provisions of Section 356r of the Illinois Insurance Code. The...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1069.8
  Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act. All counties, including home rule counties, are subject to the provisions of the Managed Care Reform and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1070
  Pounds. A county board may establish and maintain one or more pounds, appoint a poundmaster and fix his fees and charges. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1071
  Dogs running at large. The county board of each county may regulate and prohibit the running at large of dogs in unincorporated areas of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1071.1
  Vicious and dangerous dogs. Counties may regulate vicious and dangerous dogs in accordance with the provisions of the Animal Control Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1460.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1072
  Covering or sealing of wells or cisterns. A county board may regulate the covering or sealing of wells or cisterns. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1073
  Sealing of toilet facilities on boats. A county board may provide that toilet facilities be sealed upon all boats when such boats are on...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1074
  Surveys in counties of less than 1,000,000. In counties of less than 1,000,000 inhabitants, a county board may employ and fix the compensation for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1075
  Continuity of administrative and legislative functions in event of enemy attack. A county board may provide for the continuity of the administrative and legislative...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1076
  Gambling devices. A county board may license, tax, regulate, or prohibit pinball games or machines, bagatelle, pigeon-hole, pool, or any other tables or implements...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1077
  Eradication of fungous elm disease. A county board may adopt reasonable regulations for the control and eradication of a fungous disease of elms caused...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1078
  Curfew time for minors. A county board may establish a curfew time for minors applicable throughout such county, except within the corporate limits of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1078.2
  Truants. A county board may adopt ordinances to regulate truants within the unincorporated areas of its jurisdiction. These ordinances may include a graduated fine schedule...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1078.5
  Graffiti. A county board may ban graffiti within the county, except within the corporate limits of a municipality, and may establish penalties. (Source: P.A....
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1079
  Liability insurance. A county board may insure against any loss or liability of any officer, employee or agent of the county resulting from the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1080
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-1364. Repealed by P.A. 90-517, eff. 8-22-97.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1081
  Reacquisition of property by former owner after foreclosure of demolition lien. No owner of property who held title to the property when property taxes...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1082
  Cash reimbursement fund. For the purpose of enabling the county board to pay in cash such warrants and other demands as may be presented...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1083
  Purchase or lease of property. A county board may purchase or lease any real estate or personal property for public purposes under contracts providing...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1084
  Regulation of water craft. In a county having less than 1,000,000 population, in public waters not under the jurisdiction of any municipality, the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1085
  Ambulances. In counties of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants, a county board may license and regulate ambulances and ambulance drivers, attendants and equipment. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1085.5
  Homicide and questionable death protocol. Each county, except home rule counties, must establish a written protocol to deal with homicides and questionable deaths. The...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1086
  Clinic for alcoholics and substance abusers. A county board may cause to be erected, or otherwise provided and maintained, all suitable buildings for a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1086.1
  Substance Abuse Services Fund. (a) In any county that has by county board action established a program of pretrial bond home supervision by use...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1087
  Alteration of duties, powers and functions of county officers. No county board may alter the duties, powers and functions of county officers that are...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1088
  Grants to Community Action Agencies. A county board may make grants to Community Action Agencies which serve residents within the county from funds received...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1089
  Youth service bureaus. A county board may provide for the establishment or maintenance, or may enter into contractual agreements with other counties, townships or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1090
  Runaway or homeless youths. A county board may annually appropriate funds to private nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing services to runaway or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1091
  Transportation vehicles or services for senior citizens. A county board may expend funds or make grants or loans of funds derived either from taxes...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1092
  Inoperable motor vehicles. A county board may declare by ordinance inoperable motor vehicles, whether on public or private property, to be a nuisance and authorize...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1093
  Federal funds. A county board may receive funds from the United States government under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Public Law...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1094
  Funds received pursuant to Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. A county board may receive funds from the United States pursuant to the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1095
  Community antenna television systems; satellite transmitted television programming. (a) The County Board may license, tax or franchise the business of operating a community antenna television...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1095.1
  County franchise fee review; requests for information. (a) If pursuant to its franchise agreement with a community antenna television system (CATV) operator, a county imposes...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1096
  Community antenna television systems; interference with and payment for access. (a) In any instance in which a county has granted a franchise to any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1096.5
  Cable and video competition. (a) A person or entity seeking to provide cable service or video service in this State after June 30, 2007 (the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1097
  Massage parlors and bathhouses. A county board may regulate and license massage parlors and bathhouses in unincorporated areas of the county. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1097.5
  Adult entertainment facility. It is prohibited within an unincorporated area of a county to locate an adult entertainment facility within 3,000 feet of the property...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1097.7
  Local ordinances to regulate adult entertainment facilities and obscenity. (a) Definitions. In this Act: "Specified anatomical area" means human genitals or pubic region, buttocks, anus,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1098
  Cooperation with Department on Aging. A county board may cooperate with the Department on Aging, created by the Illinois Act on the Aging, and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1099
  Weed cutting on residential subdivision lots. In counties of less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, a county board may provide for the cutting of weeds on...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1100
  Contracts for weather modification. A county board may contract or otherwise provide for weather modification. For purposes of this Section, "weather modification" means any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1101
  Additional fees to finance court system. A county board may enact by ordinance or resolution the following fees: (a) A $5 fee to be paid...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1101.3
  Additional fees to finance new judicial facilities. The Will County Board may by ordinance impose a judicial facilities fee to be used for the building...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1101.5
  Metro East Police District. In addition to any fine imposed under Section 5-9-1 of the Unified Code of Corrections, St. Clair County may adopt a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1102
  Injuries caused by regional board of school trustees member; indemnification. In case any injury to the person or property of another is caused by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1103
  Court services fee. A county board may enact by ordinance or resolution a court services fee dedicated to defraying court security expenses incurred by the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1103.1
  Contract for police protection. In counties having fewer than 1,000,000 inhabitants, the county board may contract, with advice and consent of the sheriff in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1104
  Removal of obstructions from streams, lakes, ponds, and other water courses-stream maintenance. The county boards of the several counties in this State which have...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1104.1
  If a forest preserve district organized under the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act has, either before or after the effective date of this amendatory Act...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1105
  Lease from public building commission. In addition to all the rights and powers conferred on any county board under this Code or any other...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1106
  County offices, equipment and expenditures. It shall be the duty of the county board of each county: First--To erect or otherwise provide when necessary,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1106.1
  Public records; Internet access. (a) Any county may provide Internet access to public records maintained in electronic form. This access shall be provided at...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1107
  Rooms for persons reporting for jury duty. In providing the necessary court house facilities as required in Section 5-1106, the county board in any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1108
  Additional duties of recorder in counties of less than 1,000,000. In counties with a population of less than 1,000,000, the county board, by ordinance...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1109
  Assessment maps in counties of less than 1,000,000. The county board of any county having a population of less than 1,000,000 inhabitants may whenever...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1110
  Contents of building permit. Every county board which issues building or occupancy permits shall forward a copy of the building or occupancy permit to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1111
  Application for building permit. The county board of every county containing 500,000 or more inhabitants which issues building permits shall require each applicant for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1112
  Discontinuance of issuing of building permits. The county board of every county which issues building permits for the construction of buildings may discontinue the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1113
  Ordinance and rules to execute powers; limitations on punishments. The county board may pass all ordinances and make all rules and regulations proper or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1114
  Violation of ordinance. (a) Except as provided in Section 10-302.5 of the Illinois Highway Code or subsection (b) of this Section, in all actions for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1115
  Retail food establishments. (a) The county board of any county having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants may license and regulate and impose license...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1116
  Rules and regulations. The county board may pass all ordinances or resolutions and make all rules and regulations proper or necessary to carry into...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1117
  Discharge of firearms. (a) The county board of any county may, by ordinance, regulate or prohibit within unincorporated areas the discharge of firearms in any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1118
  Garbage and debris removal. The county board of any county may provide for the removal of garbage and debris from unincorporated areas of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1119
  Ferries. (a) The county board in any county that is bordered by the Mississippi River and that has a population in excess of 62,000...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1120
  Juvenile delinquency programs. The corporate authorities of a county may: (a) Conduct programs and carry on and coordinate activities for the prevention, reduction, or control...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1121
  Demolition, repair, or enclosure. (a) The county board of each county may demolish, repair, or enclose or cause the demolition, repair, or enclosure of dangerous...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1122
  Check cashing and automatic teller machine services. The county board may enter into written agreements with financial institutions for the placement of check cashing...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1123
  Builder or developer cash bond or other surety. (a) A county may not require a cash bond, irrevocable letter of credit, surety bond, or letter...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1124
  Second-hand and junk stores. (a) The county board of a county may: (1) License, locate, and regulate all places of business of dealers in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1125
  Establishment of county university center. Pursuant to a plan approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education, any county may make appropriations from the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1126
  A county board may license or regulate any business operating as a public accommodation that is located in an unincorporated area of the county,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1127
  HazMat and technical rescue teams. (a) The county board of any county may, by ordinance, authorize a HazMat team to provide emergency response to chemical...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1128
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, any power granted under this Code to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1129
  Annexation agreements. The county board of a county referenced in subsection (c) of Section 11-15.1-2.1 of the Illinois Municipal Code may, in accordance with subsection...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1130
  Leases of equipment and machinery. The county board of each county may, upon the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members, enter into one or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1131
  Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator; posting and publication. (a) Within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1132
  Contractual assessments; renewable energy sources. A county may enter into voluntary agreements with the owners of property within the unincorporated areas of the county to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1133
  Counties of greater than 300,000 but less than 2,000,000; reporting of information; code of conduct for county appointees. (a) A county board in a county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1134
  Project labor agreements. (a) Any sports, arts, or entertainment facilities that receive revenue from a tax imposed under subsection (b) of Section 5-1030 of this...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1135
  Borrowing from financial institutions. The county board of a county may borrow money for any corporate purpose from any bank or other financial institution provided...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1136
  Quotas prohibited. A county may not require a law enforcement officer to issue a specific number of citations within a designated period of time. This...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1182
  Charitable organizations; solicitation. (a) No county may prohibit a charitable organization, as defined in Section 2 of the Charitable Games Act, from soliciting for charitable...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-1183
  Household goods recycling bins. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any county may by ordinance require that all household goods recycling bins have a...

Division 5-2. Excess Taxes

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-2001
  Raising tax in addition to statutory limit. Whenever the county board deems it necessary to assess taxes the aggregate of which exceeds the taxes...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-2002
  Raising tax in addition to constitutional limit. Whenever the county board shall deem it necessary to assess taxes the aggregate of which shall exceed...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-2003
  Duration of excess levy; submission to vote of question of discontinuing additional tax. In the event an excess tax has been voted as provided...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-2004
  Revocation of authority to levy excess tax; submission to vote. In the event an excess tax has been voted as provided by Section 5-2002...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-2005
  Inclusion of question of issuing bonds and raising tax. If it shall be deemed necessary to submit to a vote of the people at...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-2006
  Tax for veterans assistance commission. The county board of each county having a population of less than 3 million in which there is a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-2007
  Election; form of proposition; validation. Where, in any county prior to March 13, 1961, a majority of the legal voters voting on the proposition...

Division 5-3. Contracts in General

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-3001
  Deeds and conveyances; validation. All deeds, grants and conveyances heretofore made, and duly acknowledged and recorded as other deeds, conveying any lands, tenements or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-3002
  Contractual rights of county; suits. All notes, bonds, bills, contracts, covenants, agreements or writings, made or to be made, whereby any person is or...

Division 5-4. Contracts for Heat and Electricity - Counties Over 500,000 Population

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-4001
  Contracts with municipality. In any county of 500,000 population or over having a public building or buildings owned by said county, adjacent or contiguous...

Division 5-5. Contracts for Police Protection

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-5001
  Police protection in townships outside incorporated municipalities. The county board of any county may contract, with advice and consent of the sheriff in the...

Division 5-6. Adoption of Codes and Records by Reference

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-6001
  Definitions. As used in the text of this Division, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated as follows, unless the context otherwise requires:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-6002
  Adoption of codes and public records by reference. Any county is authorized to adopt by reference the provisions of any code or portions of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-6003
  Publication of adopting ordinance or resolution. Nothing contained in this Division shall be deemed to relieve any county from the requirement of publishing the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-6004
  Adoption of penalty clauses by reference prohibited. Nothing contained in this Division shall be deemed to permit the adoption of the penalty clauses by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-6005
  Amendments to codes or public records. Any amendment which may be made to any code or public record incorporated by reference by a county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-6006
  Ratification of previous adoptions by reference. Any county which has heretofore enacted a code or public record by reference thereto shall not be required...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-6008
  Building permits. Once a building permit is issued, the applicable building codes of any unit of local government that are in effect at the time...

Division 5-7. Nonsectarian Hospitals

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-7001
  Tax for maintaining public nonsectarian hospitals. Each county board, subject to the provisions of Section 5-7002, has power to levy a tax of not...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-7002
  Election for tax levy. When a county board passes a resolution asking that an annual tax may be levied for the purpose of maintaining...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-7003
  Discontinuance of tax. When 100 legal voters of any county which has adopted the provisions of this Division presents a petition to the county...

Division 5-8. Garbage Disposal

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-8001
  Definitions. As used in this Division: "Garbage" means any refuse products or materials including but not limited to the following: putrescible animal and vegetable...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-8002
  Rules and regulations; licenses. The county board in any county is authorized to: (1) license annually garbage disposal areas. License forms shall be supplied...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-8003
  Fees. The county board in any county may fix the annual amounts of fees, terms and manner of issuing and revoking licenses provided for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-8004
  Local option. Any county board desiring to avail its county of the provisions of this Division may do so by ordinance. Such ordinance shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-8005
  Inspection. The county board or any of its authorized agents shall have authority to inspect at any time or place any vehicle used in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-8006
  Penalties for violations. Any person who violates any ordinance, rule, or regulation adopted pursuant to this Division commits a petty offense and may be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-8007
  In any review proceeding of a decision of the county board made pursuant to this Division, the plaintiff in the review proceeding shall pay...

Division 5-9. Motor Vehicle Races and Stunts

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-9001
  Necessity of permit. In counties having a population of 500,000 or less inhabitants, no person, other than a county fair association, state fair or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-9002
  Fees. Each county board shall fix a permit fee not to exceed $100 for all races and events held by a person, other than...

Division 5-10. Dance Halls and Road Houses

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10001
  License required. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person or persons to operate or maintain a public dance hall or road house for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10002
  Issuance of license. Power is hereby granted to the county boards of the several counties of the State to issue the license provided for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10003
  Operation without license. Any person or persons operating or maintaining a dance hall, or road house at the time this Division takes effect, shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10004
  Qualifications for license. A license to operate or maintain a dance hall may be issued by the county board to any citizen, firm or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10005
  Investigation of application; fee. The county board may make a thorough investigation to determine the fitness of the applicant and the truth of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10006
  Hours of operation. All dance halls and road houses subject to the provisions of this Division shall be open to the public only during...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10007
  Revocation of license. The president of the county board may revoke the license of any licensee: (1) Who knowingly permits any person under sixteen...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10008
  Prohibited persons. It shall be unlawful for any known prostitute, male or female procurer, vagrant, or intoxicated person to be present at any dance...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10009
  Violations. Any person who violates any provision of this Division, or who makes a false statement concerning any material fact in submitting an application...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-10010
  State property. The provisions of this Division shall have no application to dance halls or dance pavilions located upon any State property or within...

Division 5-11. Parking Facilities

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-11001
  Construction and maintenance of parking facilities. Any county is hereby authorized to: (a) Own, construct, equip, manage, control, erect, improve, extend, maintain and operate...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-11002
  Bonds. All bonds issued under authority of this Division shall bear interest at not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-11003
  Ordinances; publication. The county board availing of the provisions of this Division shall adopt an ordinance describing in a general way the contemplated project...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-11004
  Charges and fees. Whenever bonds are issued as provided by this Division it shall be the duty of the county board to establish charges...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-11005
  Disposition of funds. Whenever revenue bonds are issued under this Division, the revenues derived from the operation of the project shall be set aside...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-11006
  Contract with bondholders. The provisions of this Division, and of any ordinance or other proceeding authorizing the issuance of bonds under the provisions of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-11007
  Regulation by county board. The county board is hereby granted authority to make all reasonable rules and regulations of the county regarding the management...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-11008
  Leases; disposition of revenue. The county board is hereby given the authority to lease all or any part of any such parking facilities, and...

Division 5-12. Zoning

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12001
  Authority to regulate and restrict location and use of structures. For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, morals, comfort and general welfare, conserving...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12001.1
  Authority to regulate certain specified facilities of a telecommunications carrier and to regulate, pursuant to subsections (a) through (g), AM broadcast towers and facilities. (a)...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12001.2
  Regulation of telecommunications facilities; Lake County pilot project. In addition to any other requirements under this Division concerning the regulation of telecommunications facilities, the following...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12002
  Inoperable motor vehicles. The county board may by ordinance declare all inoperable motor vehicles, whether on public or private property, to be a nuisance...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12002.1
  Hazardous dilapidated motor vehicles. (a) The General Assembly hereby finds that the proliferation of hazardous dilapidated motor vehicles constitutes a hazard to the health, safety,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12003
  Special flood hazard areas. In those areas within the territory of a county with a population in excess of 500,000 and fewer than 3...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12004
  Abandonment of vehicles prohibited. (a) The abandonment of a vehicle or any part thereof on any county highway in any county with 500,000 or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12005
  Abandoned, lost, stolen or unclaimed vehicles. In any county with 500,000 or more inhabitants, but fewer than 3,000,000, when an abandoned, lost, stolen or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12006
  Vehicle removal. (a) In any county with 500,000 or more inhabitants, but fewer than 3,000,000, when a vehicle is abandoned or left unattended on...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12007
  Zoning commission; proposed ordinance. The county board in counties which desire to exercise the powers conferred by this Division shall provide for a zoning...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12008
  Enforcement of ordinances or resolutions. All ordinances or resolutions passed under the terms of this Division shall be enforced by such officer of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12009
  Variation by board of appeals. The regulations by this Division authorized may provide that a board of appeals may determine and vary their application...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12009.5
  Special uses. (a) The county board may, by an ordinance passed under this Division, provide for the classification of special uses. Those uses may...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12010
  Board of Appeals. The presiding officer of the county board with the advice and consent of the county board shall appoint a board of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12011
  Hearing and decision of board of appeals. The board of appeals shall also hear and decide appeals from and review any order, requirement, decision...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12012
  Hearing of appeal; review under Administrative Review Law. The board of appeals shall fix a reasonable time for the hearing of the appeal and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12012.1
  Actions subject to de novo review; due process. (a) Any decision by the county board of any county, home rule or non-home rule, in regard...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12013
  Compensation of the board of appeals. Members of the board of appeals shall receive compensation in an amount to be established by each county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12014
  Amendment of regulations and districts. (a) For purposes of this Section, the term "text amendment" means an amendment to the text of a zoning ordinance,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12015
  Hearing officer; duties. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided for in this Division: (A) The county board of each county may by resolution or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12016
  Cooperation with other counties and municipal corporations. In the exercise of powers conferred by this Division the county board of any county shall have...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12017
  Violations. In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted or maintained or any building, structure or land is used...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12018
  Testimony at hearings. All testimony by witnesses in any hearing provided for in this Division shall be given under oath. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12019
  Appearance and presentation of evidence by school district. In any hearing before a zoning commission or board of appeals, any school district within which...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-12020
  Wind farms. A county may establish standards for wind farms and electric-generating wind devices. The standards may include, without limitation, the height of the devices...

Division 5-13. Building or Setback Lines

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-13001
  Establishment of building or set-back lines. In addition to the existing power and to the end that adequate safety may be secured and the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-13002
  Enforcing officer. All resolutions passed under the terms of this Division shall be enforced by such officer of the county as may be designated...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-13003
  Amendments to regulations. The regulations imposed under the authority of this Division may be amended from time to time by resolution after the resolution...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-13004
  Proceedings to restrain violation. In case any building or structure is erected or constructed in violation of this Division, or any resolution or other...

Division 5-14. Regional Planning

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-14001
  Regional plan. Whenever in the judgment of the county board of any county, a portion or all of said county as a region, should...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-14002
  Expenses of commission. The county board is hereby authorized to appropriate to the planning commission from any funds under its control and not otherwise...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-14003
  Joint regional planning commission. If such region is situated in or embraces more than one county, the county boards of said counties are hereby...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-14004
  Advisory plan; member expenses. The members of the regional planning commission may be compensated on a per diem basis with a mileage allowance for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-14005
  Coordination of plans. The county planning commission or regional planning commissions created under the provisions of this Division shall encourage the cooperation of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-14006
  Official plans of counties of less than 500,000 population. In any county with a population not in excess of 500,000 located in the area...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-14007
  Review by Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission. Before the county board of any county with a population not in excess of 500,000 located...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-14008
  Powers of commission; real property. The joint regional planning commission may acquire, by purchase, gift, or legacy, and hold real property for the purposes of...

Division 5-15. Water Supply, Drainage and Flood Control

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15001
  Applicability. This Division shall apply to any county upon the adoption of a resolution by the county board of any such county, by at...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15002
  Definitions. When used in this Division the term "waterworks system" means and includes a waterworks system in its entirety, or any integral part thereof,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15003
  Department of public works. The county board may establish a department of public works with authority to exercise complete supervision in such county over...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15004
  Review by Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission. Whenever any project contemplated under this Division involves territory within the jurisdiction of the Northeastern Illinois...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15005
  Tax levy. In order to effectuate the purposes of this Division, any such county may levy annually, in excess of any other limit prescribed...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15006
  Exercise of powers. The powers granted in this Division relative to waterworks systems and sewerage systems shall be exercised only in areas which do...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15007
  General powers of county board. In order to effect the protection, reclamation or irrigation of the land and other property in the county, and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15008
  Flow of streams and rivers. The county board shall supervise, regulate and control the flow within the boundaries of the county of the waters...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15009
  Acquisition of lands and construction of facilities. The county board shall have the power to acquire land for any and all of the purposes herein...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15010
  Disposal of sewage, refuse and wastes; service contracts. The county board shall have authority to control and regulate the disposal of sewage, refuse, and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15011
  Construction and maintenance of sewers. Every such county is authorized to construct, maintain, alter and extend its sewers, pipelines, channels, ditches and drains along,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15012
  Contracts with federal agencies. Whenever there shall be located within any such county, any United States military post, reservation or station, or any naval...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15013
  Approval of plans as prerequisite to commencement of works. Before any work is commenced under the provisions of this Division the plans therefor shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15014
  Flood control. The county board may cooperate and enter into agreements with the proper agencies of the United States Government, municipal corporations of this...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15015
  Pollution of streams. The county board shall have authority to prevent pollution of any stream or any other body of water within the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15016
  Groundwater protection. The county board of any county which is served by a community water supply well may perform a groundwater protection needs assessment,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15017
  Revenue bonds. In order to pay the cost of the construction, acquisition by condemnation, purchase or otherwise of any waterworks properties, or sewage facilities,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15018
  Ordinances relative to issuance of revenue bonds. Any ordinance authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds as provided for in this Division shall describe in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15019
  Use of revenues. Whenever revenue bonds are issued under this Division the income and revenue derived from the operation of the waterworks properties or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15020
  Rates and charges; rights of bondholders. Rates and charges for the use and service of the waterworks properties, or sewage facilities, or waste management...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15021
  Rules and regulations; liens; discontinuance of service. Rules and regulations governing the maintenance and operation of the waterworks properties, or sewage facilities, or waste...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15022
  General obligation bonds. Any such county may issue general obligation bonds for the purposes of either planning for, acquiring, or operating and maintaining waterworks...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-15025
  Boil order; notification of certified local public health department required. If a county, or any department or agency of the county, issues a boil order,...

Division 5-16. Sanitary Districts

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-16001
  Sewerage service contracts with counties. Any sanitary district organized and created under the laws of the State of Illinois having a population of less...

Division 5-17. Leasing Space in Court Houses

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-17001
  Leasing space in court house. Whenever there is space in the county court house not needed for county purposes, the county board may lease...

Division 5-18. Judicial Advisory Council

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-18001
  Appointment of Judicial Advisory Council. In any county of this State containing more than five hundred thousand inhabitants, it shall be lawful for the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-18002
  Duties of Council. It shall be the duty of the Council, by continuous study of the problems involved, to devise means to effect the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-18003
  Powers of Council. The Council is empowered to prepare and cause to be printed any and all drafts of bills intended to carry out...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-18004
  Office quarters. The county board shall provide and maintain office quarters for the use of the Council in the transaction of its business. The...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-18005
  Expenses. The County Board shall appropriate from the county treasury, from year to year, such sums as it may deem necessary and reasonable to...

Division 5-19. Safety Council

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-19001
  Creation of safety council. The county board of any county may, by resolution, provide for the creation of a safety council for the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-19002
  Powers and duties of council. The safety council shall conduct safety programs and safety educational campaigns to promote the protection and conservation of life...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-19003
  Appropriations. The county board may appropriate from the county treasury such sums as it may deem necessary to defray the expenses of the safety...

Division 5-20. Board of Health

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-20001
  Powers and duties of board of health. The board of county commissioners in counties not under township organization, and the supervisor, assessor and town...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-20002
  Additional powers. The boards of health shall have the following powers: First--To do all acts, make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-20003
  Violations. Any person who shall violate or refuse to obey, any rule or regulation of the said board of health, shall be guilty of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-20004
  Record. The clerk of the board of county commissioners, or the town clerk, as the case may be, shall keep a full record of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-20005
  Compensation. Except as hereinafter provided, the members of such boards of health shall be allowed for the time spent in the performance of their...

Division 5-21. County Homes

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21001
  Establishment and maintenance of county home. In any county which establishes and maintains a county sheltered care home or a county nursing home for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21002
  Cemeteries connected with facility. Any county which, on January 1, 1980, operates a county sheltered care home, county nursing home or county home for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21003
  Management contracts for sheltered care or nursing homes. The county board may, pursuant to Section 5-21006, provide by contract for the management of a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21004
  Joint county homes. Any county may contract with another county or counties jointly to secure, by purchase or otherwise, necessary lands, and to erect...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21005
  Management of home or farm. Each county sheltered care home or county nursing home shall be conducted by the county, or counties in the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21006
  Rules governing county boards. When a county board has decided by majority vote to provide for the management of a county sheltered care home...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21007
  Name of joint home. The County Board of the county, or County Boards in the case of a joint home, shall select a suitable...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21008
  Licensing and regulation. Any county sheltered care home or county nursing home established under this Division shall be subject to the provisions of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21009
  Purchase of care. Any infirm or chronically ill resident of the county, or resident of participating counties in the case of a joint home, who...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21010
  Admission of persons unable to purchase care and maintenance. Any infirm or chronically ill resident of the county, or of a participating county in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21011
  Payment of charges. The charge for care of each patient shall be paid to the superintendent of the home, or otherwise, as provided by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21012
  Reports by superintendent. The superintendent of the home shall annually, and at such other times as may be required by the governing County Board...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-21013
  Records pertaining to patients. The governing County Board or Boards shall keep or cause to be kept accurate records relating to the identification, residence,...

Division 5-22. Homes for the Aged

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-22001
  Establishment and maintenance of homes for the aged. Any county is authorized to purchase or construct, equip, operate and maintain one or more homes...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-22002
  Rules and regulations; admissions. The county board, as the case may be, may make such reasonable rules and regulations regarding the management and control...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-22003
  Bonds. All bonds issued under this Division shall bear interest of not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-22004
  Rentals. Whenever bonds are issued under this Division, the county board shall establish rentals for the use of any home sufficient at all times...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-22005
  Deposit of revenues. Whenever revenue bonds are issued under this Division, the revenues derived from the operation of the home shall be set aside...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-22006
  Redemption of bonds with federal funds. Bonds issued under this Division may be redeemed in whole or in part with any funds provided for...

Division 5-23. Tuberculosis Sanitariums

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23001
  Establishment of tuberculosis sanitarium. The county board of each county of this State shall have the power in the manner hereinafter provided, to establish...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23002
  Abolishment of board of directors. The county board of each county which has appointed a board pursuant to this Division may, by resolution abolish...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23003
  Use of vacant facilities. When part of the facilities of a sanitarium established and maintained under this Division are vacant and not needed for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23004
  Closure of unnecessary in-patient facility. If the board of directors finds that it is no longer necessary to provide an in-patient facility to serve...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23005
  Out-patient and follow-up services upon closing of facility. A board of directors, upon whose recommendation the county board has closed its sanitarium as provided...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23006
  Referendum; joint facilities. When 100 legal voters of any county shall present a petition, to the County Board of such county asking that an...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23007
  Appointment of board of directors. When in any county such a proposition, for the levy of a tax for a county tuberculosis sanitarium has...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23008
  Term of office; removal. Where the board of directors is to be composed of 3 directors, one of the directors shall hold office for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23009
  Vacancies; compensation. Vacancies in the board of directors, occasioned by removal, resignation, or otherwise, shall be reported to the county board, and be filled...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23010
  Organization of board; powers. Said directors shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize, by the election of one of their number as president and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23011
  Additional powers; severability. Said board of directors shall also have power to adapt and equip a sanitarium building or buildings or part thereof to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23012
  Liability insurance. The board of directors may insure against any loss or liability of the county, or of the tuberculosis sanitarium, or the branches,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23013
  Services; regulations. Every sanitarium board established under this Division shall provide sanitarium care and clinical and follow-up services for the benefit of such of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23014
  Residence requirements. For the purposes of this Division, a person is a resident of and entitled to receive the benefits provided for in Section...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23015
  Person afflicted with tuberculosis defined. "Person afflicted with tuberculosis", for the purposes of this Division, means any individual who is diagnosed as suffering from...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23016
  Donations of money or property. Said board of directors, in the name of the county, may receive from any person any contribution or donation...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23017
  Trustee of donations. Any person desiring to make any donation or legacy of any money, personal property, or real estate, for the benefit of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23018
  Physicians, nurses and others subject to rules of the board. When any such sanitarium is established, the physicians, nurses, attendants, the persons sick therein,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23019
  Equal privileges for all reputable physicians. All reputable physicians shall have equal privileges in treating patients in any county tuberculosis sanitarium. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23020
  Discontinuance of tax. In accordance with the general election law, any county which has adopted the provisions of this Division may discontinue it by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23021
  Issuance of bonds. Any county having a population of less than 500,000 inhabitants which has voted or hereafter votes to authorize a tax for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23022
  Adoption of plans. Before any such county shall be authorized to issue bonds as in this Division provided: (a) The Board of Directors of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23023
  Bond maturity limitation referendum. Before any such county shall be authorized to issue bonds, as in this Division provided, having a maturity later than...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23024
  When referendum unnecessary. It shall not be necessary for the County Board to submit to the legal voters of such county the question of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23025
  Form of proposition. If, in the case of bonds the final maturity date of which is beyond the maturity limitation heretofore mentioned in Section...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23026
  Details of bonds. Before issuing any bonds as provided in this Division, the County Board shall adopt a resolution specifying the amount of bonds...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23027
  Signatures on bonds. In case any officer whose signature appears on the bonds shall cease to be such officer before delivery of such bonds,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23028
  Annual tax to pay bonds. After the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds has been adopted, it shall be the duty of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23029
  Tax for care and treatment of afflicted persons. The County Board of each County in this State shall have the power to provide for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23030
  Petition for tax levy; submission to vote. Whenever 100 legal voters of any county shall present a petition to the County Board of such...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23031
  Appointment of board of directors. When in any county such a proposition, for the levy of a tax for the care and treatment of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23032
  Term of office and removal. The terms of office and removal of the directors, appointed under Section 5-23031, shall be governed by the provisions...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23033
  Vacancies; compensation of directors. Vacancies in the Board of Directors appointed under Section 5-23031, and their compensation shall be governed by Section 5-23009. (Source:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23034
  Organization of board; rules and regulations. In counties where a proposition for the levy of tax for the care and treatment of persons afflicted...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23035
  Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Division shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23036
  Use of tax funds. In counties where a proposition for the levy of a tax for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23037
  Discontinuance of treatment; referendum. Any county which has adopted the provisions of this Division under Sections 5-23028 and 5-23029 or Sections 5-23039 and 5-23040...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23038
  Subsequent vote to levy tax. A vote under Sections 5-23029 and 5-23030 or Sections 5-23039 and 5-23040 in favor of levying of the tax...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23039
  Tuberculosis Care and Treatment Fund. The county board of each county in this State shall have the power, in the manner provided hereinafter in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23040
  Additional taxes. Whenever 100 legal voters of any county shall present a petition to the county board of such county asking that there be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23041
  Appointment of board of directors. When in any county a proposition for the levy of an additional annual tax in excess of the statutory...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23042
  Powers and duties of board. All provisions in Sections 5-23034 and 5-23036 shall be applicable to the boards of directors in counties where a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-23043
  Effect of vote to levy tax. A vote under Sections 5-23029 and 5-23030, in favor of the levying of the tax for the purpose...

Division 5-24. Cancer and Tumor Relief

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24001
  Funds for treatment of persons unable to pay. Each county of this State shall provide funds, in the manner hereinafter provided, for the treatment...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24002
  Applications for benefits. It shall be the duty of the presiding officer of the county board of each county, with the advice and consent...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24003
  Petition; hearing. Whenever an examiner certifies that an applicant is entitled to the benefits of this Division, such examiner shall file a petition on...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24004
  Order for payment for treatment by county. Upon the hearing of such a petition and the court being fully advised in the premises, and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24005
  Residence requirements. Such relief shall not be granted by the court to any person who has not resided in the county where application is...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24006
  Application by person having custody. Any guardian or other person having the custody of any such afflicted person may file an application on behalf...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24007
  Fee for examination. The examiner shall be paid the sum of $5, by the county board, for each such examination of an applicant. (Source:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24008
  Court order. The court upon ordering, in connection with any petition, that the county board provide a designated sum for treatment for any such...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24009
  Examination in State clinic or in hospital outside county; nursing care. In connection with any such petition, when it is called to the attention...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24010
  Payments by county treasurer. All payments to persons entitled to relief under the provisions of this Division shall be paid by the county treasurer...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24011
  Termination of payments. Whenever a court, which has authorized relief under the provisions of this Division, is of the opinion that any recipient of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24012
  Adoption of Division. This Division shall not be effective in any county unless the proposition of its adoption is submitted to the voters of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-24013
  Discontinuance of treatment. Whenever a petition signed by 200 or more legal voters of a county which has adopted this Division, is presented to...

Division 5-25. County and Multi-county Health Departments

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25001
  County and multiple-county health departments. Any county or two or more adjacent counties may, by resolution of the county board or county boards of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25002
  Classification of departments. County and multiple county health departments established under this Division may be classified by the Director of Public Health in accordance...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25003
  Election on establishment of county health department and annual levy of additional tax. Whenever a petition signed by voters representing not less than 10%...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25004
  Election on establishment of multiple-county health department and annual levy of additional tax. Whenever a petition signed by voters representing not less than 10%...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25005
  Canvass of votes. When the proposition is submitted to the voters of a county, the ballots shall be counted, the returns canvassed and the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25006
  Canvass of votes in several counties. When the proposition is submitted to the voters of two or more adjacent counties, the ballots shall be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25007
  County clerk to record vote. Each county clerk shall record the result of the vote upon the proposition in his county, and the result...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25008
  Jurisdiction of department. Each county and multiple-county health department has jurisdiction for the purposes of this Division throughout the entire county or multiple counties,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25009
  Abandonment of city, village or town department. Any city, village or incorporated town, or combination thereof or any public health district which maintains its...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25010
  Annual tax levy. The county board of any county which has established and is maintaining a county or multiple-county health department shall, when authorized...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25011
  Disposition of taxes collected. The entire amount collected from taxes levied under this Division on property subject to the general corporate tax of any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25012
  Board of health. Except in those cases where a board of 10 or 12 members is provided for as authorized in this Section, each county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25013
  Organization of board; powers and duties. (A) The board of health of each county or multiple-county health department shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25014
  Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Division shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25015
  Officers and employees. Each county or multiple-county health department shall have the exclusive right to employ and discharge its officers and employees, except as...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25016
  Lease or acquisition of property for department. The board of health of each county or multiple-county health department is authorized to lease or to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25017
  Discontinuance of department. Any health department may be discontinued; 1 - by resolution of the county board or county boards, if established in such...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25018
  Board of Health in counties having civil service qualifications and appointment. When this Division is adopted by resolution in counties over 500,000 population where...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25019
  Formation of consolidated health department. Any county which has established a county health department or any counties which have established a multiple-county health department...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25020
  Withdrawal from consolidated health department. Any county which has established a county health department or counties which have established a multiple-county health department may...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25021
  Bonds for permanent improvements; referendum. Whenever the county board determines that it is necessary to issue bonds to enable it to provide buildings for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25022
  Form of proposition. The proposition pursuant to Section 5-25021 shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall.... county issue bondsto the amount of.......
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25023
  Sale of bonds. The bonds authorized by this Division shall be sold and the proceeds thereof used solely for the specified purpose. At or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25024
  Submission at same election. Both the proposition for the levy of an annual tax pursuant to Sections 5-25003 or 5-25004 and the proposition for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25025
  Mental health program. If the county board of any county having a population of less than 1,000,000 inhabitants and maintaining a county health department...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25026
  Locally grown foods. Except in emergency situations, including but not limited to a food-borne disease outbreak, the board of health of a county or multi-county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-25027
  Advisory committee. (a) No later than December 31, 2011, the county board chairman in every county with a population of less than 3,000,000 shall appoint...

Division 5-26. Monuments in Honor of Soldiers and Sailors

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-26001
  Submission of question of erecting memorial. Upon the petition of two hundred, or more, legal voters of a county being filed with the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-26002
  Subscriptions. Whenever the people of any county shall desire to erect, or contribute to the erection of a memorial building in honor of their...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-26003
  Lease of county building as memorial. If any county shall own and possess any real estate suitable for a site for a memorial building,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-26004
  Use. Available space in memorial buildings constructed under the provisions of this Division, may be set aside for the use of organizations of honorably...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-26005
  Maintenance. Whenever any memorial building is erected through private subscriptions, as herein provided, or any veterans' memorial is erected, it shall be lawful for the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-26006
  Exempt from taxation. Memorial buildings erected in accordance with the provisions of this Division shall be deemed county property and shall be exempt from...

Division 5-27. Burial of Indigent Veterans and Their Families

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-27001
  Appointment of person to have charge of interment. Each county board shall designate some suitable person or persons to serve without compensation, who shall cause...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-27002
  Fees. The expense of such burial shall not exceed the sum of $900; such burial shall not be made in any cemetery or burial ground...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-27003
  Expenses paid by county. The expenses of such burial and headstone shall be paid by the county in which such veteran or his or...

Division 5-28. Soldiers' and Sailors' Burial Fund

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-28001
  County may procure burial grounds. The county board of each county has power to purchase suitable sites for burial grounds for deceased personnel of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-28002
  Petition; tax levy. When one hundred legal voters of any county shall present a petition to the county board of such county, asking that...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-28003
  Directors. When in any county such proposition for the levy of a tax for a county Soldiers' and Sailors' Burial Fund has been adopted,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-28004
  Terms of office. One of the directors shall hold office for one year, another for two years, and another for three years, from the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-28005
  Vacancies; compensation. Vacancies in the board of directors occasioned by removal, resignation, or otherwise, shall be reported to the county board and be filled...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-28006
  Powers and duties. The directors shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize, by the election of one of their number as president and one...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-28007
  Donations; annual report. The board of directors, in the name of the county, may receive from any person any contribution or donation of money...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-28008
  Payment of burial expenses. The board of directors are authorized to pay, out of the money which is appropriated to them from the county...

Division 5-29. Code of Ordinances and Regulations

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-29001
  Authorization. A county board may, by resolution, authorize the compilation, publication and maintenance of a county code consisting of ordinances and regulations duly adopted by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-29002
  Compilation of ordinances and regulations; index. A county board adopting this Division shall authorize the State's attorney, or any person or persons deemed by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-29003
  Title of code. The code of ordinances and regulations shall be titled "The (County Name) County Code". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-29004
  Adoption by resolution; effective date. Once the code has been compiled it shall be adopted by resolution of the county board and shall be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-29005
  Record and memorandum. The county clerk shall record, in a book used exclusively for that purpose, all ordinances passed by the county board. Immediately...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-29006
  Certificate of county clerk. The contents of county ordinances, the date of passage, and the date of publication or posting, where required, may be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-29007
  Public review and inspection; sale. The duly approved county code shall be made available for public review and inspection in the office of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-29008
  Republication of code. The county code shall be updated and republished annually or more frequently as the county board may direct. The county board...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-29009
  Binding and effective as adopted by the county board. Where ordinances or regulations are intentionally or inadvertently omitted from the county code, such ordinances...

Division 5-30. County Historic Preservation

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30001
  Subtitle. This Division shall be subtitled the "Illinois County Historic Preservation Law". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30002
  Declaration of purpose. The purpose of this Division is to identify, protect, preserve, and provide for the restoration, rehabilitation and continued use of buildings,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30003
  Definitions. As used in this Division, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows: "Alteration". Any act or process that...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30004
  Authority to protect and preserve landmarks and preservation districts. The county board of each county shall have the following authority: (1) to establish and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30005
  Appointment of preservation study committee. Prior to the establishment of a preservation commission the county board shall by ordinance or resolution appoint from nominations...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30006
  Composition and term of preservation study committee. The preservation study committee shall consist of from 5 to 9 members who shall be residents of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30007
  Compensation, expenses and funds. The county board may compensate the study committee on a per diem or per meeting basis with a mileage allowance...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30008
  Authority of preservation study committee. The study committee shall have the following authority: (1) to review and evaluate any existing State, county or local...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30009
  Presentation of preservation study committee report; termination of committee. The report and recommendations of the study committee, including the proposed preservation ordinance upon a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30010
  Minimum content of preservation ordinance. Every preservation ordinance proposed by a preservation study committee and enacted by a county board pursuant to this Division...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30011
  Authority of preservation commission. Every preservation commission established by ordinance of the county board pursuant to the report and recommendations of the preservation study...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30012
  Appointment of preservation commission. The county board may by ordinance appoint a preservation commission from names submitted by the presiding officers of the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30013
  Meetings of preservation commission. Meetings of a preservation commission shall be held monthly, except in those months when no business is pending, and shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30014
  Nomination of landmarks and preservation districts. The preservation commission or any person may propose landmarks of preservation districts for designation by the county board...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30015
  Conduct of public hearing. Oral or written testimony shall be taken at the public hearing from any person concerning the nomination. The preservation commission...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30016
  Recommendation of preservation commission. Within 60 days following close of the public hearing, the preservation commission shall make its determination upon the evidence whether...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30017
  Designation by ordinance; publication of map. The county board, upon a recommendation from the preservation commission that the proposed landmark or preservation district should...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30018
  Certificate of appropriateness. A certificate of appropriateness from a preservation commission established pursuant to this Division shall be required before any significant alteration, construction,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30019
  Certificate of economic hardship. A certificate of economic hardship shall be issued by a preservation commission established pursuant to this Division upon a determination...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30020
  Evidence of economic hardship. An applicant for a certificate of economic hardship may submit any or all of the following information in order to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30021
  Determination of economic hardship. The preservation commission, upon a determination after review of all evidence and information that the denial of a certificate of appropriateness...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-30022
  Appeals. The final denial of a certificate of appropriateness or a certificate of economic hardship by a preservation commission is an administrative decision as...

Division 5-31. County Historical Museum Districts

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31001
  Subtitle. This Division shall be subtitled the County Historical Museum District Law. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31002
  Purpose. The purpose of this Division is to provide for the creation of county historical museum districts to acquire real property and collect and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31003
  Definitions. As used in this Division unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "museum district" means a museum district organized under this Division. (b) "board"...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31004
  Election. (a) In any county having less than 1,000,000 population which is not organized as a forest preserve district and in which the county...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31005
  Board of trustees. The affairs of a museum district shall be managed by a board of 5 trustees. If the museum district is composed...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31006
  Organization of board. Within 60 days after their appointment, the trustees shall organize by selecting from their number a president, secretary, treasurer and such...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31007
  Funds. The board of any museum district, when requested by the treasurer, shall designate a bank, banks or other depository in which the funds...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31008
  Ordinances. All ordinances of the board imposing any penalty or making any appropriations shall be published at least once a week for 2 weeks...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31009
  Judicial effect. The courts of this State shall take judicial notice of the existence of a museum district and its jurisdiction. A museum district...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31010
  Consultation. Every museum district shall seek the guidance of and consult with the Illinois State Museum and related agencies on all matters relating to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31011
  Preservation. Every museum district shall consider the preservation of natural conditions and protection of any material which may help to establish or illustrate the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31012
  Powers of district. To the extent necessary to carry out the purpose of this Division and in addition to any other powers, duties and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31013
  Transfer of property. No personal or real property may be disposed of, sold, conveyed or otherwise transferred except upon approval of 3/5 of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31014
  Finance. The fiscal year of each museum district shall commence July 1 and extend through the following June 30. The board of each museum...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31015
  Donations. Gifts, contributions and bequests of money and all licenses, fees, charges and other revenue received or collected by the museum district shall be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31016
  Indebtedness. Whenever a museum district does not have sufficient money in its treasury to meet all necessary expenses and liabilities, it may issue tax...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31017
  Historical buildings. Nothing in this Division shall prohibit the museum district from appropriating funds as otherwise provided in this Division for the construction, equipment,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31018
  Assistance. A museum district may apply for and receive the grant or loan of money or other financial aid necessary for the undertaking, performance...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31019
  Existing county museum tax levy. Nothing in this Division shall be construed to prohibit or modify existing tax levies for county museums as authorized...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31020
  Dissolution. At least 5% of the voters of a museum district which has been in existence for at least 3 years may file with...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31021
  Construction. This Division shall be construed as supplemental and in addition to existing statutory authority and as providing an independent method of financing the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-31022
  Cessation of district organization. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a majority vote of the board is in favor of the proposition to annex...

Division 5-32. Local Improvements

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32001
  Right to make local improvements. Any county may make a local improvement outside of a municipality, as defined in Section 1-1-2 of the "Illinois...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32002
  Definitions. In this Division the following terms have the meanings ascribed to them unless the context indicates otherwise: "Local improvements" means the constructing, installing,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32003
  Committee of local improvements. There is created the Committee of Local Improvements consisting of the presiding officer of the County Board, or some person...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32004
  Origination of local improvements. The Committee may originate a local improvement as defined in this Division anywhere in the county outside of a municipality,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32005
  Applicability of Division. The provisions of this Division may be made applicable to improvement of a private street or road upon petition signed by...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32006
  Public hearing on resolution. After the adoption of the resolution for a local improvement as provided for in this Division, the Committee by a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32007
  Conduct of public hearing. At the time and place fixed in the specified notice for the public hearing, the Committee shall meet and hear...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32008
  Recommendation of improvement. Accompanying any ordinance for a local improvement presented by the Committee shall be a recommendation of such improvement by the Committee...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32009
  Estimate of cost of improvement. An estimate of the cost of the improvement including the cost of engineering services as originally contemplated or as...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32010
  Petition for levy of special assessment. Upon the passage of any ordinance for a local improvement pursuant thereto, a petition shall be filed in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32011
  Manner of assessment. Upon the filing of such a petition the President of the Committee shall appoint some competent person who is a resident...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32012
  Assessment roll. The assessment and the amount as found by the levying officer shall be known as the assessment roll. It shall contain, 1....
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32013
  Installments; interest. The ordinance provided for in this Division shall provide that the aggregate amounts assessed in each individual assessment shall be divided into...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32014
  Special assessment notice. The Committee in addition to the notice in this Division provided for shall publish a notice at least twice not more...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32015
  Extension of time for filing objections. If 15 days have not elapsed between the first publication and the day fixed in the notice for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32016
  Filing objections to report; default. Any person interested in any real estate to be affected by an assessment, may appear and file objections to...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32017
  Inquiries; powers of court. Upon objections or motions for that purpose, the court in which the specified proceeding is pending may inquire in a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32018
  Hearing. On the application of the petitioner, at any time after the return day, the court may set down all objections, except the objection...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32019
  Proceedings. If it is objected to on the part of any property assessed for such an improvement, that it will not be benefited thereby...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32020
  Distribution of deficiency. Whenever, on a hearing by the court or before a jury, the amount of any assessment is reduced or cancelled, so...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32021
  Time for hearing. The hearing in all the cases arising under this Division, may be had at such time as the court may designate,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32022
  Additional powers of court. The court before which any such proceedings may be pending may modify, alter, change, annul, or confirm any assessment returned...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32023
  Effect of similar improvements previously made in same locality. It is no objection to the legality of any local improvement that a similar improvement...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32024
  Confirmation of assessment roll. In case of a special assessment to be paid by installments under the provisions of this Division, the order of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32025
  Review; effect of judgments. The judgments of the court shall be final as to all the issues involved, and the proceedings in the specified...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32026
  Supplemental assessment. At any time after the bids have been received pursuant to the provisions of this Division, if it appears to the satisfaction...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32027
  New assessment. If from any cause any county fails to collect the whole or any portion of any special assessment which may be levied,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32028
  Certification of assessment roll; collection of assessments. Within 30 days after the filing of the report of the amount and date of the first...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32029
  Effect of appeal on part of judgment; warrant. If an appeal is taken on any part of such judgment and if the Committee elects...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32030
  Notice by collector. The collector, or some person designated by him and under his direction, receiving such a warrant shall give notice thereof within...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32031
  Payment of moneys collected. The county collector where that officer is authorized to collect the warrants by general law shall pay over to the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32032
  Report of delinquent special assessments. The collector shall, on or before the 15th day of August in each year, make a report in writing...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32033
  Applicability of general revenue laws. The general revenue laws of this State with reference to proceedings to recover judgment for delinquent taxes, the sale...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32034
  Contractor's claim or lien on special assessments. No person obtaining contracts from the county and agreeing to be paid out of special assessments, has...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32035
  Contracts for work or public improvements. Any work or other public improvement to be paid for by special assessment shall be constructed by contract...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32036
  Notice for bids; examination of bids. Notice shall be given by the Committee that bids will be received for the construction of such an...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32037
  Bonds of successful bidders. The successful bidder for the construction of such an improvement shall be required to enter into bond in a sum...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32038
  Rejection of bids; failure of bidder to enter into contract. The Committee may reject any and all proposals or bids, should they deem it...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32039
  Persons entitled to hearing on award of contract. Any owner or person interested in any of the property assessed and any bidder shall be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32040
  Notice of award of contract. A notice of such an award of contract shall be published in one or more newspapers, designated by the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32041
  Failure or refusal of original bidder to enter into contract. If such original bidder fails or refuses for 20 days after the first publication...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32042
  Failure to complete work under contract within time provided; performance bond. If the contractors, who may have taken any contract, do not complete the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32043
  Certification of costs; excess of assessment over costs. Within 30 days after the final completion of the work, the Committee shall have the costs...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32044
  Hearing on certificate of costs. In every assessment proceeding in which the assessment is divided into installments, the Committee shall state in the certificate...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32045
  Findings against allegations of certificate. If, upon the hearing, the court finds against the allegations of the certificate, it shall enter an order accordingly....
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32046
  Inspection of work done. The Committee shall designate someone to carefully inspect the entire work done pursuant to any such proceeding and contract, and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32047
  Loss of voucher, bond or interest coupon. Whenever any voucher, bond or interest coupon issued by a county in anticipation of the collection of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32048
  Vouchers. From time to time as the work progresses the contractor shall be issued vouchers in payment therefor, and if not converted to bonds,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32049
  Bonds. The county, upon the written request of the holders of all of the outstanding and unpaid vouchers issued in payment of the work,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32050
  Form of bonds. The bonds authorized in the preceding Section may be in the following form: "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Number Dollars.... ....State of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32051
  Call and payment of bonds. The county shall have the right to call and pay the bonds authorized in Section 5-32049 or any number...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32052
  Sale of bonds. The bonds may be sold, or paid to the contractor having the contract for the improvement for which the assessment was...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32053
  Payment. Payment for any improvement done or performed under the provisions of this Division to be paid for out of any special assessment levied...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32054
  Payment of assessment with vouchers or bonds. Any property owner may pay the assessment wholly or in part, either before or after it is...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32055
  Claim or lien of persons accepting vouchers or bonds. No person accepting the vouchers or bonds as provided in this Division shall have any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32056
  Work progress payments; reserve. From time to time, as the work under any contract for such an improvement progresses, upon certificates by the Committee...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32057
  Estimate of interest deficiency. The Committee before crediting of the excess as provided for in Section 5-32043, shall estimate an amount as authorized in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32058
  Surplus after final settlement; rebate. If, after the final settlement with the contractor for any improvement and after full payment of all vouchers or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32059
  Costs and expenses. The costs and expenses of maintaining the Committee for paying salaries of the members of the Committee and the expense of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32060
  Appeals. Appeals from final judgments or orders of any court made in the proceedings provided for by this Division, may be taken to the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32061
  Leave for appeal after expiration of 30 day period. After the expiration of the 30 day period allowed for filing a notice of appeal...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-32062
  In addition to any power to convey real or personal property granted under this Division or any other existing statutory authority, a county may...

Division 5-33. Super Highways - Counties Over 500,000 Population

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-33001
  Superhighway bonds. Any county in this State having a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants, by one or more resolutions of its county board...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-33002
  Resolution authorizing bonds and tax levy. The resolution or resolutions authorizing the superhighway bonds shall prescribe all the details thereof and shall provide for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-33003
  Form and denomination of bonds; maturity. The superhighway bonds shall be of such form and denomination, payable at such place, bear such date, and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-33004
  Reduction of taxes on payment of bonds called. Whenever any superhighway bonds are called for payment and paid as provided in Section 5-33005, the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-33005
  Deposit of proceeds. Moneys received from the proceeds of taxes levied for the payment of principal of and interest on superhighway bonds, and moneys...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-33006
  Joint construction by county and city. The proceeds of the superhighway bonds authorized under this Division may also be used to pay a portion...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-33007
  Definition. As used in this Division, the term "superhighways" means streets, avenues, roads and drives constituting limited access roadways, with all auxiliary streets, avenues,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-33008
  Additional powers conferred. This Division shall be construed as conferring powers in addition to but not as limiting powers granted under other laws. (Source:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-33009
  Any unexpended funds remaining after the retirement of bonds sold pursuant to this Division 5-33 may be used by the county for any highway...

Division 5-34. Expressways - Counties Over 500,000 Population

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34001
  Legislative determination. It is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination that there is excessive congestion on existing highways in large metropolitan areas...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34002
  Bonds. Any county in this State having a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants, by one or more resolutions of its Board of Commissioners...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34003
  Resolution authorizing bonds and tax levy. The resolution or resolutions authorizing the Expressway bonds shall prescribe all the details thereof and shall provide for...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34004
  Form and denomination of bonds. The Expressway bonds shall be of such form and denomination, payable at such place, bear such date, and be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34005
  Reduction of taxes on payment of bonds called. Whenever any Expressway bonds are called for payment and paid as provided in Section 5-34004, the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34006
  Deposit of proceeds. Moneys received from the proceeds of taxes levied for the payment of principal of and interest on Expressway bonds and moneys...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34007
  Joint construction by county and city. The proceeds of the Expressway bonds authorized under this Division may also be used to pay a portion...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34008
  Definition. As used in this Division, the term "Expressways" means streets, avenues, roads and drives constituting limited access roadways, with all auxiliary streets, avenues,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34009
  Additional powers conferred. This Division shall be construed as conferring powers in addition to, but not as limiting powers granted under other laws. (Source:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-34010
  Any unexpended funds remaining after the retirement of bonds sold pursuant to this Division 5-34 may be used by the county for any highway...

Division 5-35. Committees on Finance and Public Service - Cook County

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-35001
  Committees on finance and public service. The board of Commissioners of the County of Cook shall establish and provide for the appointment of a...

Division 5-36. Purchasing - Cook County

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36001
  Contracts for supplies, material and work. All contracts for supplies, material and work for the County of Cook shall be let as herein provided....
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36002
  County purchasing agent. There shall be a county purchasing agent for the County of Cook who shall be appointed by the president by and...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36003
  Powers and duties of purchasing agent. The county purchasing agent shall, subject to the control and supervision of the board of commissioners, (a) purchase...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36004
  Definitions. The term "supplies, materials and equipment" as used in this Division shall include any and all articles or things which shall be furnished...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36005
  Rules and regulations. The county purchasing agent, subject to the approval of the Board of Commissioners, shall adopt, promulgate, and from time to time...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36006
  Competitive bids; government surplus materials. The purchases of and contracts for supplies, materials, equipment and contractual services and all sales of personal property which...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36007
  Purchases in open market. The county purchasing agent under such terms and conditions as the Board of Commissioners may prescribe, may authorize in writing...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36008
  Contracts in violation of regulations. If any Office, department, institution or agency of the county government or officer or employee thereof shall purchase or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36009
  Interests of officers and employees. Neither the county purchasing agent nor any member of the Board of Standardization created by this Division shall be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36010
  Board of Standardization. There shall be a Board of Standardization for the County of Cook composed of the County purchasing agent who shall be...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-36011
  Annual report by county purchasing agent. The county purchasing agent shall, at such time as prescribed by the Board of Commissioners, submit to the...

Division 5-37. County Hospitals - Counties Over 1,000,000 Population

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37001
  Applicability; subtitle. This Division shall apply only in counties containing 1,000,000 or more inhabitants, and shall be subtitled the "County Hospitals Law". (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37002
  Legislative declaration. The General Assembly recognizes that adequate health care is a fundamental right of the people of the State of Illinois; that there...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37003
  Duties and powers of board of commissioners. The Board of Commissioners shall have and exercise all rights, powers and duties heretofore exercised by the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37004
  Contracts for operation of hospitals, programs and services. The Board of Commissioners may contract with one or more responsible corporations, hospitals, health care facilities...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37005
  Budget; appropriations. The Board of Commissioners of such county shall prepare a consolidated budget covering all anticipated income, expenses, and capital outlays of any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37006
  Reimbursement for cost of services. In relation to inpatient hospital services provided at any health care facility maintained by the Commission to any person under...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37007
  Reports to Department of Public Health. The Board of Commissioners shall submit a semi-annual report in writing to the Illinois Department of Public Health...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37008
  Operation plans. The Board of Commissioners shall submit to the General Assembly on or before May 1, 1980 a plan by which the facilities...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37009
  Exemptions. This Division shall not apply to sanitariums or other facilities established under Division 5-23, nor under "AN ACT to provide for the creation...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37010
  Audit of accounts. The accounts and records of financial transactions of the hospitals, facilities and programs managed pursuant to this Division shall be subject...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-37011
  Hospital security police force. The board of commissioners, subject to the applicable merit system rules, may establish and maintain a Hospital Security Police Force and...

Division 5-38. Public County Library Service

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38001
  Establishment, equipment and maintenance. Subject to the provisions of Section 5-38012, every county board shall establish, equip and maintain a public county library service....
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38002
  Contract with existing library. In performing this duty, the county board may, if it is deemed advisable, contract in writing, with an existing library...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38003
  County library board. The public county library service except in counties where such a service is maintained by contract with an existing library or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38004
  Expenses of board members. The members of the county library board shall serve without compensation but their actual and necessary expenses shall be a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38005
  Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Division shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38006
  Officers of board. Immediately after their appointment the members of the county library board shall elect a president and a secretary-treasurer from among their...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38007
  Powers and duties of board. The county library board shall (a) establish, equip and maintain a county library; (b) establish, equip and maintain branches...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38008
  Annual tax levy. An annual tax of not to exceed .04%, or the rate limit in effect on July 1, 1967, whichever is greater,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38009
  Proceeds of tax in separate fund. In counties having a population of 25,000 or more, the proceeds of this tax shall be deposited in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38010
  Fiscal year. The fiscal year of any public county library service shall be co-extensive with the fiscal year of that county. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38011
  Report of board. Within 30 days after the close of each fiscal year, the county library board shall make a written report to the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38012
  Referendum on establishment of county library service. None of the foregoing powers or duties shall be exercised, however, unless the question of establishing a...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-38013
  Inapplicability to counties of 500,000 or more. This Division shall not apply to counties having a population of 500,000 or more. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)

Division 5-39. County Law Libraries

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-39001
  Establishment and use; fee. The county board of any county may establish and maintain a county law library, to be located in any county building...

Division 5-40. Floodplain Regulation

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-40001
  Floodplain regulations. Counties are authorized to adopt and enforce floodplain regulations consistent with Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations that implement the National Flood Insurance...

Division 5-41. Administrative Adjudication of Ordinance Violations

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41003
  Applicability. This Division 5-41 applies to all counties except for the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will. (Source: P.A. 96-1386, eff. 7-29-10.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41005
  Definitions. In this Division 5-41, unless the context requires otherwise: "Code" means any county ordinance that pertains to or regulates any of the following:...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41010
  Code hearing unit. The county board in any county may establish by ordinance a code hearing unit within an existing code enforcement agency or as...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41012
  Fine schedule. The county board of any county that establishes a code hearing unit pursuant to this Division 5-41 may, by ordinance, establish a fine...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41015
  Hearing procedure not exclusive. In any county that establishes a code hearing unit pursuant to the provisions of this Division 5-41, the county is...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41020
  Instituting proceedings. (a) When a code enforcement officer observes a code violation, the officer shall note or, in the case of an animal control violation,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41025
  Subpoenas; default. (a) At any time prior to the hearing date, at the request of the code enforcement officer, the attorney for the county,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41030
  Representation at hearings. The case for the county may be presented by the code enforcement officer or by the State's Attorney. In no event,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41035
  Evidence at hearings. The hearing officer shall preside at the hearing, shall hear testimony, and shall accept any evidence relevant to the existence or...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41040
  Findings, decision, and order. At the conclusion of the hearing, the hearing officer shall make a determination on the basis of the evidence presented...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41045
  Administrative review. The findings, decision, and order of the hearing officer shall be subject to review in the circuit court of the county. The...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41050
  Sanctions; transfer or conveyance of property. The order to correct a code violation and the sanctions imposed by a county against a respondent property...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41055
  Collection of unpaid fines or other sanctions. (a) Any fine or other sanction or costs imposed, or any part of any fine or other...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-41060
  Adoption of other necessary provisions by county. Any county establishing a code hearing unit by ordinance under this Division 5-41 may adopt other provisions...

Division 5-42. Wind Farms (Source: P. A. 96-328, Eff. 8-11-09.)

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-42000
  Wind farms. A county may own and operate a wind generation turbine farm, either individually or jointly with another unit of local government, school district,...

Division 5-43. Administrative Adjudication - Specified Counties (Source: P. A. 96-1386, Eff. 7-29-10; 97-333, Eff. 8-12-11.)

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-43005
  Applicability. This Division 5-43 applies only to the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will. (Source: P.A. 96-1386, eff. 7-29-10.)
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-43010
  Administrative adjudication of county code violations. Any county may provide by ordinance for a system of administrative adjudication of county code violations to the extent...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-43015
  Administrative adjudication procedures not exclusive. The adoption by a county of a system of administrative adjudication does not preclude the county from using other methods...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-43020
  Code hearing units; powers of hearing officers. (a) An ordinance establishing a system of administrative adjudication, pursuant to this Division, shall provide for a code...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-43025
  Administrative hearing proceedings. (a) Any ordinance establishing a system of administrative adjudication, pursuant to this Division, shall afford parties due process of law, including notice...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-43030
  Rules of evidence shall not govern. The formal and technical rules of evidence do not apply in an adjudicatory hearing permitted under this Division. Evidence,...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-43035
  Enforcement of judgment. (a) Any fine, other sanction, or costs imposed, or part of any fine, other sanction, or costs imposed, remaining unpaid after the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-43040
  Impact on existing administrative adjudication systems. This Division does not affect the validity of systems of administrative adjudication that were authorized by State law, including...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-43045
  Impact on home rule authority. This Division does not preempt counties from adopting other systems of administrative adjudication pursuant to their home rule powers. (Source:...

Division 5-44. Local Government Reduction and Efficiency (Source: P. A. 98-126, Eff. 8-2-13.)

• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44005
  Findings and purpose. (a) The General Assembly finds: (1) Illinois has more units of local government than any other state. (2) The large number of...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44010
  Applicability. The powers and authorities provided by this Division 5-44 apply only to counties with a population of more than 900,000 and less than 3,000,000...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44015
  Powers; supplemental. The Sections of this Division 5-44 are intended to be supplemental and in addition to all other powers and authorities granted to any...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44020
  Definitions. In this Division 5-44: "Fire protection jurisdiction" means a fire protection district, municipal fire department, or service organized under Section 5-1056.1 of the Counties...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44025
  Dissolution of units of local government. (a) A county board may, by ordinance, propose the dissolution of a unit of local government. The ordinance shall...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44030
  Trustee-in-dissolution; powers and duties. (a) The trustee-in-dissolution shall have the following powers and duties: (1) to execute all of the powers and duties of the...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44035
  Outstanding indebtedness. (a) In case any unit dissolved pursuant to this Division has bonds or notes outstanding that are a lien on funds available in...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44040
  Effect of dissolution. Immediately upon the dissolution of a unit of local government pursuant to this Division: (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Special Service...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44045
  Abatement of levy. Whenever a county has dissolved a unit of local government pursuant to this Division, the county or municipality shall, within 6 months...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44050
  Tax collection and enforcement. The dissolution of a unit of government pursuant to this Division shall not adversely affect proceedings for the collection or enforcement...
• Illinois Counties Code. - 55 ILCS 5, Section 5-44055
  Litigation. All suits pending in any court on behalf of or against a unit dissolved pursuant to this Division may be prosecuted or defended in...

Last modified: February 18, 2015