Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 Municipalities: Article 3.1 - Officers
Division 5. Application of Article
Division 10. General Provisions
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-5
Qualifications; elective office. (a) A person is not eligible for an elective municipal office unless that person is a qualified elector of the municipality and...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-6
Qualifications; appointive office. (a) No person shall be eligible for any appointive municipal office unless that person is a qualified elector of the municipality...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-10
Application of general election law. The general election law applies to the scheduling, manner of conducting, voting at, and contesting of municipal elections. (Source:...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-15
Commencement of terms. The terms of elected municipal officers shall commence at the first regular or special meeting of the corporate authorities after receipt of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-20
Results; ties. The person with the highest number of votes for an office is the person elected to that office. In case of a...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-25
Oath or affirmation. Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, all municipal officers, whether elected or appointed, shall take and subscribe the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-30
Bond. Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, all municipal officers, except aldermen and trustees, shall execute a bond with security, to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-35
Duty to successor. Within 5 days after written notification and request, a person who has been an officer of a municipality shall deliver to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-40
Additional duties. Every officer shall perform duties in addition to those which may be prescribed by law, and be subject to other rules and...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-45
Appointment of subordinates. The municipal comptroller (if there is one), municipal clerk, municipal treasurer, and city collector, severally, shall appoint the various clerks and...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-50
Events upon which an elective office becomes vacant in municipality with population under 500,000. (a) Vacancy by resignation. A resignation is not effective unless it...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-51
Vacancies in municipalities with a population of 500,000 or more. (a) A municipal officer may resign from office. A vacancy occurs in an office by...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-55
Quorum to fill vacancies. If there is a vacancy in an elective office and, for any reason, there is not a quorum in office...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-60
Interim appointments to vacancies. If a municipality has no mayor or president, no clerk, and no aldermen or trustees, the circuit court may, upon...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-65
Referendum to reduce terms. (a) In any municipality of less than 500,000 inhabitants, a proposition to reduce the terms of the elective officers of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-70
Elections for reduced 2 year terms. In municipalities that have provided for a 2 year term for elective officers under Section 3.1-10-65, the first...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-10-75
Referendum to lengthen terms. (a) In any municipality of less than 500,000 inhabitants that, under Section 3.1-10-65, has voted to shorten the terms of...
Division 15. Elected Officers Generally
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-15-5
Officers to be elected. In all cities incorporated under this Code there shall be elected a mayor, aldermen, a city clerk, and a city...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-15-10
Mayor; president. The chief executive officer of a city shall be a mayor. The chief executive officer of a village shall be a village...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-15-15
Holding other offices. A mayor, president, alderman, trustee, clerk, or treasurer shall not hold any other office under the municipal government during the term...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-15-20
Administering oaths. The mayor of a city, the president of a village or incorporated town, the clerk, the chairman of a plan commission, and...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-15-25
Conservators of the peace; service of warrants. (a) After receiving a certificate attesting to the successful completion of a training course administered by the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-15-30
Minority representation. (a) Whenever the question of incorporation as a city under this Code is submitted for adoption to the electors of any territory,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-15-35
Aldermen under minority representation plan. Every district under a minority representation plan shall be entitled to 3 aldermen. Aldermen shall hold their offices for...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-15-40
Staggered elections under minority plans. In all cities that adopt or have adopted the minority representation plan for the election of aldermen and have...
Division 20. Elected City Officers
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-5
Clerk and treasurer. The city clerk and the city treasurer shall be elected at the same time that the mayor is elected, except in...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-10
Aldermen; number. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, Section 3.1-20-20, or as otherwise provided in the case of aldermen-at-large, the number of aldermen,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-15
Division into wards. Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.1-20-20, every city shall have one-half as many wards as the total number of aldermen...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-20
Aldermen; restrict or reinstate number. (a) In a city of less than 100,000 inhabitants, a proposition to restrict the number of aldermen to one-half...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-22
Aldermen; staggered terms. In any city of less than 100,000 inhabitants, a proposition to stagger the terms of aldermen, with as nearly as possible...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-25
Redistricting a city. (a) In the formation of wards, the number of inhabitants of the city immediately preceding the division of the city into wards...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-30
Validation of actions. After an official census is officially published, if a city is divided into a greater number of wards and has elected...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-35
Determining terms. (a) Aldermen elected at the first election for city officers after the election of aldermen for the initial terms provided for in...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-40
Other officers; election rather than appointment. Instead of providing for the appointment of the following officers as provided in Section 3.1-30-5, the city council,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-20-45
Nonpartisan primary elections; uncontested office. A city incorporated under this Code that elects municipal officers at nonpartisan primary and general elections shall conduct the elections...
Division 25. Elected Village and Incorporated Town Officers
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-5
Trustees; terms. In each village incorporated under this Code, the electors of the village shall elect 6 trustees. The term of office of the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-10
Village board; composition; referendum. Any village board of a village of under 5,000 population incorporated under this Code may by resolution provide for a...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-15
President and trustees; general election. (a) The election for the president in villages shall be held at the general municipal election in accordance with...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-20
Primary election. A village incorporated under this Code shall nominate and elect candidates for president and trustees in nonpartisan primary and general elections as...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-30
Petition of candidacy. The petition in the nomination papers shall contain a number of signatures of electors residing within the same village as the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-35
Primary ballots. The proper election authority, in accordance with the general election law, shall have the primary ballots printed in the same manner, in the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-40
Ballots. (a) If the office of president is to be filled, only the names of the 4 candidates receiving the highest number of votes for...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-45
Nomination; determination by lot. If, upon the canvass of the returns of the primary election specified in Section 3.1-25-20, the canvassing board finds that...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-50
General election; ballot positions. On the ballots for the general municipal election, if the office of president is to be filled, the names of the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-55
General election; election contests. All general municipal elections under Sections 3.1-25-20 through 3.1-25-50 shall be held, conducted, and contested under the general election law,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-60
Referendum to require primary elections. Any village incorporated under this Code that has not adopted the provisions of Section 3.1-25-45 or Articles 4, 5,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-65
Referendum to discontinue primary elections. Any village operating under the provisions of Sections 3.1-25-20 through 3.1-25-55 may by referendum elect to have the president...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-70
Trustees under special Acts. (a) In every village and incorporated town incorporated and existing under any special Act that, before June 4, 1909, pursuant...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-75
Districts; election of trustees. (a) After a village with a population of 5,000 or more adopts the provisions of this Section in the manner prescribed...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-80
Referendum; districting and election of trustees. If a petition signed by not less than 5% of the electors of a village with a population...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-85
Method of election of trustees; abandonment. Any municipality that has operated for more than 4 years under the provisions of Section 3.1-25-75 may abandon...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-90
Election or appointment of clerk; term; vacancy. (a) Any village of fewer than 5,000 inhabitants may, by resolution adopted by not less than two-thirds...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-25-95
Incorporated town officers. For the general municipal election to be held in the year 1985 in every incorporated town with a population of 25,000...
Division 30. Appointed Officers in All Municipalities
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-30-5
Appointed officers in all municipalities. (a) The mayor or president, as the case may be, by and with the advice and consent of the city...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-30-10
Deputy clerk. (a) In municipalities with a population of 500,000 or more, the municipal clerk may appoint the number of deputy clerks necessary to discharge...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-30-15
Clerk as collector. If, in any municipality, a collector is appointed, the corporate authorities may provide by ordinance that the clerk shall hold the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-30-20
Auxiliary police officers. (a) Auxiliary police officers shall not be members of the regular police department of the municipality. Auxiliary police officers shall not supplement...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-30-21
Part-time police. A municipality may appoint, discipline, and discharge part-time police officers. A municipality that employs part-time police officers shall, by ordinance, establish hiring...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-30-25
Municipalities incorporated under special Acts. The corporate authorities of municipalities incorporated and existing under special Acts that now provide for or require the election...
Division 35. Functions and Duties of Certain Municipal Officers
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-5
Mayor or president; general duties. The mayor or president shall perform all the duties which are prescribed by law, including ordinances, and shall take...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-10
Mayor or president; removal of appointed officer. Except where otherwise provided by statute, the mayor or president may remove any officer appointed by the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-15
Mayor or president; release of prisoners. The mayor or president may release any person imprisoned for violation of a municipal ordinance and shall report...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-20
Mayor or president; examination of records. The mayor or president at all times may examine and inspect the books, records, and papers of any...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-25
Mayor or president; calling out militia. Subject to the authority of the Governor as commander-in-chief of the militia, the mayor or president may call...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-30
Mayor or president; designation for signing instruments. The mayor or president may designate in writing another person to affix the signature of the mayor...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-35
Mayor or president pro tem; temporary chairman. (a) If the mayor or president is temporarily absent because of an incapacity to perform official duties,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-40
Treasurer; duties. (a) The municipal treasurer shall receive all money belonging to the municipality and shall keep the treasurer's books and accounts in the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-45
Treasurer; reports. At the end of every month, and oftener if required by the corporate authorities, the municipal treasurer shall render an account under...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-50
Treasurer; deposit of funds. (a) The municipal treasurer may be required to keep all funds and money in the treasurer's custody belonging to the municipality...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-55
Treasurer; personal use of funds. The municipal treasurer shall keep all money belonging to the municipality and in the treasurer's custody separate and distinct...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-60
Treasurer; receipts and expenditures. The municipal treasurer shall report to the corporate authorities, as often as they require, a full and detailed account of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-65
Treasurer; annual accounts. (a) Within 6 months after the end of each fiscal year, the treasurer of each municipality having a population of less...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-70
Treasurer; copy of report filed with collector. Within 6 months after the end of each fiscal year the treasurer of each municipality, as provided...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-75
Treasurer; failure to file account. If a municipal treasurer fails to file the annual account and affidavit with the town or county collector within...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-80
Violations and penalties. A public officer who fails, neglects, or refuses to discharge any duty imposed on that officer by Sections 3.1-35-65 through 3.1-35-75,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-85
Treasurer; special assessment funds. All money received on a special assessment shall be held by the municipal treasurer as a special fund to be...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-90
Clerk; duties. (a) The municipal clerk shall keep the corporate seal, to be provided by the corporate authorities, and all papers belonging to the municipality...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-95
Deputy clerks. (a) A deputy clerk may execute all documents required by law to be executed by the municipal clerk and may affix the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-100
Comptroller; duties. (a) If a comptroller is elected or appointed in a municipality, the corporate authorities, by ordinance or resolution, may confer upon the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-105
Comptroller; designation of person to sign instruments. The comptroller may designate, in writing, one or more persons who shall have authority to affix the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-110
Comptroller; records of bonds issued. The comptroller, if one is elected or appointed (and if not, then the municipal clerk), shall keep in his...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-115
Comptroller; duties. (a) The comptroller, if one is elected or appointed in a municipality (and if not, then the municipal clerk), shall exercise a...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-120
Collector; duties. A city collector, if one is elected or appointed, shall preserve all warrants returned to the collector and shall keep books and...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-125
Collector; reports. When required by the corporate authorities or by ordinance, the collector shall make a written report to the corporate authorities (or to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-130
Collector; possession of money. The collector is prohibited from keeping the money of the municipality in his or her possession, or in the possession...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-135
Clerk as collector. In any municipality having a population of less than 1,000,000 in which the corporate authorities have provided for the appointment of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-35-140
Marshal; duties. The marshal shall perform the duties that the corporate authorities prescribe for the preservation of the public peace and the observance and...
Division 40. City Council
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-5
Composition. The city council shall consist of the mayor and aldermen. It shall meet in accordance with the Open Meetings Act. It shall keep...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-10
Judge of elections. The city council shall be the sole judge of the election to office of the aldermen. It shall also be the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-15
Rules; expulsion. The city council shall determine its own rules of proceeding and punish its members for disorderly conduct. With the concurrence of two-thirds...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-20
Quorum. A majority of the corporate authorities shall constitute a quorum to do business. A smaller number, however, may adjourn from time to time...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-25
Meetings. The city council may prescribe, by ordinance, the times and places of the council meetings and the manner in which special council meetings...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-30
Mayor presides. The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the city council. Except as provided in Articles 4 and 5 of this Code,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-35
Deferral of committee reports. Upon the request of any 2 aldermen present, any report of a committee of the council shall be deferred for...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-40
Vote required. The passage of all ordinances for whatever purpose, and of any resolution or motion (i) to create any liability against a city...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-45
Ordinances; approval; veto. All resolutions and motions (i) that create any liability against a city, (ii) that provide for the expenditure or appropriation of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-50
Reconsideration; passing over veto. Every resolution and motion specified in Section 3.1-40-45, and every ordinance, that is returned to the city council by the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-55
Reconsideration; requisites. No vote of the city council shall be reconsidered or rescinded at a special meeting unless there are present at the special...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-40-60
Advisory referenda. By a vote of the majority of the members of the city council, the council may authorize an advisory question of public...
Division 45. Board of Trustees
Division 50. Compensation
Division 55. Miscellaneous Provisions
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-55-5
Certificate of appointment. Whenever a person has been appointed or elected to office, the mayor or president shall issue a certificate of appointment or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-55-10
Interests in contracts. (a) A municipal officer shall not be financially interested directly in the officer's own name or indirectly in the name of any...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-55-15
Misconduct. Every municipal officer who is guilty of a culpable omission of duty, or who is guilty of willful and corrupt oppression, malconduct, or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-55-20
Appeal to finance committee. In the adjustment of the accounts of the municipal collector or municipal treasurer with the municipal clerk or municipal comptroller,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 3.1-55-25
Automatic abandonment of a form of municipal government. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4-10-1, 5-5-1, 5-5-1.1, 5-5-2, 5-5-3, 5-5-4, 5-5-5, and 5-5-6 and any...
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