Illinois Compiled Statutes 110 Higher Education: Article III - Community College Districts; Organization; Powers And Duties; Elections

• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-1
  Any contiguous and compact territory, no part of which is included within any community college district, unless all of such district is included which...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-1.1
  Any petition filed under this Act, which bears the signatures of 25 or more persons, may designate a committee of 5 of the petitioners...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-2
  Upon the receipt of such a petition, the State Board shall, in cooperation with the regional superintendent of the county or counties in which...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-3
  If the Board of Higher Education disapproves the request for a new community college, no election shall be held or further proceedings had on...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-4
  At the hearing, any resident in the proposed district or any district affected thereby may appear in support of the petition or to object...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-4.1
  The costs of any referendum conducted under this Act shall be borne by the county or counties in which the territory involved in the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-5
  The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: FOR the establishment of a community college district with authority to levy taxes at the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-6
  If a majority of the votes cast at the election, as determined in the manner provided in Section 3-5, is in favor of the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-7
  (a) The election of the members of the board of trustees shall be nonpartisan and shall be held at the time and in the manner...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-7.1
  All elections held pursuant to this Act shall be governed by the provisions of the general election law. (Source: P.A. 81-1490.)
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-7.10
  Nominations for members of the board shall be made by a petition signed by at least 50 voters or 10% of the voters, whichever...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-7.11
  In addition to the notice requirements of the general election law, whenever a proposition to increase a tax rate under Section 3-14 is submitted...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-7.13
  More than one public measure may be submitted on the same ballot. No proposition under this Section which is substantially the same shall be...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-7.24
  Each community college board shall have one non-voting member who is a student enrolled in the community college under the jurisdiction of the board....
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-7a
  Trustee districts; Community College District No. 522. A board of trustees of a community college district which is contiguous or has been contiguous to an...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-7b
  Trustee districts prior to the 2013 consolidated election; Community College District No. 526. (a) In Community College District No. 526, the election of board members...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-7c
  Trustee districts for the 2013 consolidated election and thereafter; Community College District No. 526. (a) In Community College District No. 526, board of trustee members...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-8
  Following each election and canvass, the new board shall hold its organizational meeting on or before the 28th day after the election. If the election...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-9
  A majority of full voting membership of the Board shall constitute a quorum. For all meetings of the Board, a quorum of members must be...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-10
  The chairman shall preside at all meetings and shall perform such duties as are imposed upon him by law or by action of the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-11
  The board of each community college district is a body politic and corporate by the name of "Board of Trustees of Community College District...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-12
  Following election and organization of the community college board, as soon as may be, the board may draw upon the fund appropriated to the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-12.1
  Any community college district to which Article VII applies, and which has not previously received a grant, may receive upon application a grant from...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-12.2
  Any community college district which has been or is authorized by the State Board to establish a new branch or campus as provided in...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-13
  Unless otherwise provided in this Act, the forming of any territory into a community college district shall become effective upon the date of organization...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-14
  Subject to the limits imposed by this Article, the rates for any community college district may be increased at a regular scheduled election held...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-14.1
  Form of ballot and notice. Whenever any proposition to authorize or to levy an annual tax, or to increase the annual rate of tax...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-14.2
  In addition to any other tax levies authorized by law, the board of a community college district (1) whose boundaries are entirely within a...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-14.3
  In addition to any other tax levies authorized by law, the board of a community college district may levy an additional tax upon the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-15
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-322.)
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-16
  The academic term of community college districts shall be determined by the community college board with the consent of the State Board. However, days...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-17
  The community college districts shall admit all students qualified to complete any one of their programs including general education, transfer, occupational, technical, and terminal, as...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-18
  Community college boards shall appoint a treasurer to serve at the pleasure of the board. The treasurer may not be a member of the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-19
  Before entering upon his duties, each treasurer shall execute a bond with 2 or more persons having an interest in real estate who are...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-19.1
  When any warrant issued for the wages of an educational employee is presented to the treasurer and is not paid for want of funds,...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20
  The community college board, except a board to which Article VII applies, shall prepare and adopt a budget in the manner provided in this...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.1
  The board of each community college district shall within or before the first quarter of each fiscal year, adopt an annual budget which it...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.2
  Whenever the voters of a community college district have voted in favor of an increase in the annual tax rate for educational or operation...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.3
  Any sum expended or obligations incurred for the improvement, maintenance, repair or benefit of buildings and property, including the cost of interior decorating and...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.3.01
  Whenever, as a result of any lawful order of any agency, other than a local community college board, having authority to enforce any law or...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.4
  The county clerk shall furnish the board of any community college district, upon request, a certificate showing the last ascertained equalized, assessed value of...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.5
  (a) The board of each community college district shall ascertain, as near as practicable, annually, how much money must be raised by special tax...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.6
  When a district lies partly in two or more counties the board shall ascertain, as near as practicable, the amount to be raised by...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.7
  The assessors shall, when making assessments of personal property, designate the number of the community college district in which the person assessed resides. The...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.8
  Within 30 days after the delinquent date for the payment of any tax or installment thereof and after the delivery of the tax books...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.9
  If any collector fails to pay the taxes or any part thereof, the community college treasurer or other authorized person may proceed against him...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-20.10
  When there is no money in the treasury of any community college district to defray the necessary expenses of the district, including amounts necessary...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-21
  The board of community college districts shall have the duties enumerated in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section 3-30. Notwithstanding any provision of...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-22
  To maintain records to substantiate all claims for state apportionment in accordance with regulations prescribed by the State Board and to retain such records...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-22.1
  To cause an audit to be made as of the end of each fiscal year by an accountant licensed to practice public accounting in...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-22.2
  To publish annually a financial statement in accordance with rules and regulations issued by the State Board. Such statement shall be published at least...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-22.3
  Mailing list. To establish and maintain a mailing list of the names and addresses of persons who each year request inclusion thereon, and to...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-23
  To provide for the revenue necessary to maintain such community college. (Source: P.A. 78-669.)
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-24
  To designate the treasurer who is to receive the taxes of the district and to notify the collectors in writing accordingly. (Source: Laws 1965,...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-25
  To adopt and enforce all necessary rules for the management and government of the colleges of its district. (Source: Laws 1965, p. 1529.)
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-25.1
  To authorize application to the Illinois Community College Board for the approval of new units of instruction, research or public service as defined in...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-25.2
  Armed forces recruiting and training. (a) To provide, on an equal basis, access to the campus to the official recruiting representatives of the armed...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-26
  (a) To make appointments and fix the salaries of a chief administrative officer, who shall be the executive officer of the board, other administrative...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-26.1
  Any employee of a community college board who is a member of any reserve component of the United States Armed Services, including the Illinois...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-26.5
  Students called to active military service. A community college shall allow a currently enrolled student who is called to active military service to complete any...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-27
  To pay no orders except for teachers' wages unless at the time there are sufficient funds in the hands of the treasurer to pay...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-27.1
  Contracts. To award all contracts for purchase of supplies, materials or work involving an expenditure in excess of $25,000 or a lower amount as required...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-27.2
  To participate in joint purchases by governmental units pursuant to "An Act authorizing certain governmental units to purchase personal property, supplies and services jointly",...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-27.3
  Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly....
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-28
  To adopt regulations for the admission of students which do not conflict with the provisions in Section 3-17. (Source: P.A. 78-669.)
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29
  To indemnify and protect board members, employees, and student teachers of boards against civil rights damage claims and suits, constitutional rights damage claims and...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.1
  To grant to full time teachers and other employees sick leave not less in amount than 10 days at full pay in each school...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.2
  To establish a program to assess the oral English language proficiency of all persons providing classroom instruction to students at each community college and...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.3
  Sexual assault awareness education. A community college shall provide some form of sexual assault awareness education to all incoming students, whether through a seminar, online...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.4
  Buildings available for emergency purposes. The board shall make mutually agreed buildings of the college available for emergency purposes, upon the request of the Illinois...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.5
  Veterans' Day; moment of silence. If a community college holds any type of event at the community college on November 11, Veterans' Day, the board...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.6
  Faculty and staff contact with public officials. All faculty and staff members of a community college are free to communicate their views on any matter...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.7
  Faculty and staff political displays. A community college may not prohibit any faculty or staff member from (i) displaying political buttons, stickers, or patches while...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.8
  Administrator and faculty salary and benefits; report. Each board of trustees shall report to the Board of Higher Education, on or before July 1 of...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.9
  American Sign Language courses. To adopt regulations for the awarding of academic credit for the successful completion of any American Sign Language course offered or...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-29.10
  Priority enrollment; service member or veteran. (a) For the purposes of this Section: "Service member" means a resident of this State who is a member...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-30
  The board of any community college district has the powers enumerated in Sections 3-31 through 3-43 of this Act. This enumeration of powers is not...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-31
  To provide for or participate in provisions for insurance protection and benefits for its employees and their dependents, including but not limited to retirement...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-31.1
  To provide, for students and employees, auxiliary services related to the adequate operation of the college. In exercising this power the board may provide,...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-31.2
  To distribute to every manufacturer doing business within the community, by June 15th of each year, a technical and vocational skills directory of graduating...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-32
  To establish tenure policies for the employment of teachers and administrative personnel, and the cause for removal. (Source: P.A. 78-699.)
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-33
  To borrow money and issue or cause to be issued bonds for the purposes, and in the manner provided in this Act. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-33.1
  The board may, by resolution, establish a fund to be known as a "working cash fund" which shall be maintained and administered for the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-33.2
  Bonds for working cash fund. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Section, in order to create, maintain or increase such a working...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-33.3
  Before issuing any bonds under Section 3-33.2, the board shall adopt a resolution designating the purpose and fixing the amount of the bonds proposed...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-33.4
  Working cash fund; tax to pay bond principal and interest. The board by resolution, before or at the time of issuing the bonds, shall...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-33.5
  All monies derived from the issuance of bonds under Section 3-33.2 when received by the community college treasurer, shall be set apart in the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-33.6
  Monies may be transferred from the working cash fund to the educational fund or operations and maintenance fund only upon the authority of the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-33.7
  Establishment of lines of credit. The board may establish a line of credit with a bank or other financial institution in an amount not to...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-34
  To authorize the treasurer to make interfund loans from any fund to any other fund maintained by the board and to make the necessary...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-35
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 93-390, eff. 7-25-03. Repealed by P.A. 96-57, eff. 7-23-09.)
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-36
  To buy one or more sites for college purposes with necessary ground, and to take and purchase the site for a college site either...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-36.5
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-37
  To build, buy or lease suitable buildings upon a site approved by the State Board and issue bonds, in the manner provided in Article...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-38
  To lease, with or without an option to purchase, for a period not to exceed 5 years or purchase under an installment contract extending...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-38.1
  To procure fire and extended coverage insurance on the buildings, furnishings, machinery, equipment and other personal property used for community college purposes. To procure...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-38.2
  To enter into contracts with any municipality or fire protection district in which any community college buildings are located for the purpose of reimbursing...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-39
  To accept federal funds when proffered for all types of instructional programs, for student services and counseling, and for construction of physical facilities. (Source:...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-39.1
  To accept gifts, grants or legacies from any source when made for community college purposes. (Source: P.A. 83-388.)
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-40
  To enter into contracts with any person, organization, association, educational institution, or governmental agency for providing or securing educational services. Any initial contract with...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-40.1
  To enter into joint agreements with school boards to acquire and improve sites, construct and equip facilities thereon and lease and equip facilities deemed...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-40.2
  To enter into contracts or agreements with any corporation that is organized for educational purposes under the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-41
  To sell at private or public sale any personal or real property belonging to the district and not needed for community college purposes. (Source:...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-42
  To employ such personnel as may be needed, to establish policies governing their employment and dismissal, and to fix the amount of their compensation....
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-42.1
  (a) To appoint law enforcement officer and non-law enforcement officer members of the community college district police department or department of public safety. (b) Members...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-42.2
  (a) To establish parking regulations, to regulate, and control the speed of, travel on all paths, driveways and roadways which are owned and maintained by,...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-42.3
  Wind and solar farms. To own and operate a wind or solar generation turbine farm, either individually or jointly with a unit of local government,...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-43
  To grant use of the community college buildings, when not occupied by the college, for religious meetings, for evening schools and literary societies, and...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-44
  Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary all retirement rights that had accrued to the benefit of a teacher prior to the...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-45
  Notwithstanding any provision of this Article to the contrary a community college board may require tuition of students as provided in Section 6-4 of...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-46.1
  Accounts and claims. The board of trustees of a community college district may certify to the State Board the amount that is due and...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-47
  Community college funds are public funds within the meaning of the Public Funds Investment Act and may be invested by the board as provided...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-48
  No community college board member shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in his own name or in the name of any other person, association,...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-49
  Each Board of Trustees of a Community College District may, at its discretion, appoint an Employment Advisory Board. Such Employment Advisory Board shall consist...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-50
  The Employment Advisory Board shall, upon its first meeting, elect one of its members as chairman and another as vice chairman. A secretary, who...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-51
  The Employment Advisory Board shall meet at least once within each calendar quarter. It shall issue an advisory report, at least once within each...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3.52
  Employment Advisory Boards shall be nonpartisan. Nothing in this Act shall prevent appointees to Employment Advisory Boards from also being members of the Board...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-53
  Private-public partnership boards. (a) In this Section: "Advanced manufacturing technology" means a program of study that leads students to an industry certification, diploma, degree, or...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-55
  Community college boards may form, join and provide for the expenses of associations of Illinois community college boards formed, in compliance with this Section,...
• Illinois Public Community College Act. - 110 ILCS 805, Section 3-60
  Provision of student and social security information prohibited. (a) A community college, including its agents, employees, student or alumni organizations, or any affiliates, may not...

Last modified: February 18, 2015