Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 Municipalities: Article 4 - Commission Form Government
Division 1. General Provisions
Division 2. Organization
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-2-1
All municipalities not exceeding 200,000 population which are treated as properly incorporated, or which hereafter are incorporated, under this Code, in addition to all...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-2-2
Electors of any municipality, equal in number to 1/10 the number of votes cast for all candidates for mayor or president at the last...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-2-3
The petition provided in Section 4-2-2 shall be substantially in the following form and in accordance with the general election law: to the circuit...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-2-5
The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the city (or village) of YES.... adopt the commission form of ---------------------------municipal government?...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-2-6
A certified copy of the canvass of the votes on the proposition specified in Section 4-2-2 shall be transmitted to the municipal clerk, and...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-2-7
Certificate of adopting commission form of government. If the commission form of municipal government is adopted, the mayor or president immediately shall transmit a...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-2-8
The failure of the officers named in Sections 4-2-4 through 4-2-7 to perform the duties and acts imposed upon them by those sections, shall...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-2-9
All courts shall take judicial notice of the adoption of this article by all municipalities adopting it. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
Division 3. Election of Officers
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-1
All municipalities which have adopted the commission form of municipal government prior to August 15, 1941, shall elect a mayor and 4 commissioners at...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-2
Whenever a municipality adopts this article it shall discontinue its division into wards. The mayor and 4 commissioners of the municipality shall be nominated...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-3
The mayor and commissioners elected under Section 4-3-1 shall be known as the council. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-4
Terms of office; vacancy. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, the mayor and commissioners elected under Section 4-3-1 shall hold their respective...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-5
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-57, eff. 6-30-99. Repealed by P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-6
The provisions of the general election law shall apply to and govern all elections held under this article. (Source: P.A. 81-1490.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-7
Any person desiring to become a candidate for nomination for mayor or commissioner shall file with the municipal clerk, or, in those municipalities having...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-8
At the same time that one files his statement of candidacy he shall also file with the clerk specified in Section 4-3-7 a petition...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-10
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1490. Repealed by P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-10.1
(Repealed). (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2677. Repealed by P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-13
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1490. Repealed by P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-14
(Repealed). (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576. Repealed by P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-16
Upon the ballots for the general municipal election the names of the nominees for mayor shall be placed first, in substantially the form specified in...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-16.1
If the municipality has voted, as provided in Section 4-3-19, to require candidates for commissioner to run for a specific office, the ballots for...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-17
All general municipal elections under this article shall be held, conducted, and contested under the provisions of the general election law, except that the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-18
All officers, assistants, and employees in any municipality under the commission form of municipal government shall be elected or appointed in accordance with this...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-19
Any municipality subject to this Article may, by a vote of the electors thereof as hereinafter provided, elect to require candidates for commissioner to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-3-20
Any municipality which has adopted the provisions of Section 4-3-19 may by referendum elect to require candidates for the office of commissioner to run...
Division 4. Oaths and Bonds
Division 5. Functions and Duties of Council and Officers
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-1
Every municipality which has the commission form of municipal government shall be governed by a council, consisting of the mayor and 4 commissioners, as...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-2
The council and its members shall possess and exercise all executive, administrative, and legislative powers and duties now possessed and exercised by the executive,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-3
Except where candidates for commissioner are required to run for a specific office, the council, at the first regular meeting after an election of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-4
Establishment of certain offices; police and legal departments in cities over 50,000. (a) At the first regular meeting after the general election of its...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-5
The council has the right and power to appoint and discharge the heads of all principal departments subordinate to the departments provided for in...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-6
In all municipalities in which Sections 10-1-1 through 10-1-45 are not in effect, all officers, assistants, and employees of each department specified in Section...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-7
(a) In all cities in which Sections 10-1-1 through 10-1-45 are in effect, all municipal officers, assistants, and employees, expect those specified in Sections...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-8
The council has the power, by ordinance, to create, fill, and discontinue offices and employment other than those prescribed in this article, according to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-9
Except as otherwise provided in this article or by law, any officer or employee who has been elected or appointed by the council in...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-10
The council has the power to make proper regulations for the inspection of all plants and machinery of any person exercising any right, grant,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-11
Except as otherwise provided, all contracts, of whatever character, pertaining to public improvement, or to the maintenance of the public property of a municipality involving...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-12
Regular meetings of the council shall be held on the first Monday after the mayor and commissioners have entered upon the performance of their...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-13
Every ordinance or resolution appropriating any money, or ordering any street improvement or sewer, or making or authorizing the making of any contract, or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-16
Statement of receipts and expenses; examination of books and accounts; expenditure greater than appropriation. (a) In municipalities with 25,000 or more inhabitants, the council each...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-17
If, at the beginning of the term of office of the first council elected in a municipality after that municipality has adopted the commission...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-5-22
Treasurer; duties. In addition to the duties now imposed by law upon a municipal treasurer, the treasurer of a municipality under the commission form...
Division 6. Compensation of Officers
Division 8. Penalties
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-8-2
A candidate for nomination or a nominee for any office to be filled by a popular election under this article who, directly or indirectly,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-8-3
A person who agrees to perform any service in the interest of a candidate for any nomination or a nominee for any office under...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-8-4
A person who, for the purpose of influencing an elector's vote at any election under this article, offers to give the elector a bribe,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-8-5
Any officer or employee under this article who in any manner contributes money, labor, or other valuable thing to any person for election purposes,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-8-6
(a) No officer or employee elected or appointed under this article shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in his own name or in the name...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-8-6a
No officer or employee elected or appointed under this Article shall request, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person owning, operating, or leasing...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-8-7
No mayor or commissioner elected under this article shall be an official of any public service corporation at the time he or she assumes office....
Division 9. Miscellaneous Provisions
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-9-1
Appeals shall lie as in other civil cases to review the final judgments in any proceeding under the provisions of Section 4-10-1. (Source: P.A.
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-9-2
Appeals may be taken as in other civil cases. (Source: P.A. 79-1361.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-9-3
Every public utility shall provide equal and uniform service to all residents of any municipality adopting, or which is treated as having adopted, this...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-9-4
In any municipality which has adopted, or which may hereafter adopt, the commission form of municipal government, any public library for that municipality shall...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 4-9-5
All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this article are inoperative in municipalities under the commission form of municipal government. However, nothing...
Division 10. Abandonment of Commission Form
Last modified: February 18, 2015