Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 Municipalities: Article 1 - General Provisions
Division 1. Short Title, Definitions, Scope of Code, Grant of Certain Powers
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-1
This Code shall be known and may be cited as the Illinois Municipal Code. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-2
Definitions. In this Code: (1) "Municipal" or "municipality" means a city, village, or incorporated town in the State of Illinois, but, unless the context...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-2.1
The president of a village or incorporated town may be referred to as mayor or president of such village or incorporated town. (Source: P.A.
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-3
All existing municipalities which were incorporated or which changed their corporate organization under "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages,"...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-4
This Code shall apply generally to all municipalities which are treated as properly incorporated under this Code as provided in the first paragraph of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-5
The corporate authorities of each municipality may exercise jointly, with one or more other municipal corporations or governmental subdivisions or districts, all of the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-6
Town under special charter superseding civil township; powers. The corporate authorities of any town incorporated under a special charter that has superseded a civil...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-7
Power of municipality to contract with school boards, hospitals, commercial and industrial facilities, and owners of shopping centers or apartment complexes. The corporate authorities...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-7.1
Any municipality may establish community based committees which shall consist of community leaders, and such committees shall coordinate all State and federal economic programs...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-8
Whenever this Code requires or authorizes the submission of a proposition or question to referendum, whether initiated by action of the corporate authorities or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-9
If a municipality which is a home rule unit under Section 6 of Article VII of the Constitution by reason of having a population...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-10
It is the policy of this State that all powers granted, either expressly or by necessary implication, by this Code, by Illinois statute, or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-11
Contractual assessments; renewable energy sources. A municipality may enter into voluntary agreements with the owners of property within the municipality to provide for contractual assessments...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-1-12
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,...
Division 2. Ordinances
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-1
The corporate authorities of each municipality may pass all ordinances and make all rules and regulations proper or necessary, to carry into effect the powers...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-1.1
The corporate authorities of each municipality may pass ordinances, not inconsistent with the criminal laws of this State, to regulate any matter expressly within the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-1.2
Felony DUI prosecutions prohibited. (a) A unit of local government, including a home rule unit, may not enforce any ordinance that prohibits driving under the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-2
The ordaining clause of ordinances in cities shall be: "Be it ordained, by the City Council of ....." The ordaining clause of ordinances in...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-3
The mayor may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the city council, one or more competent persons to prepare and submit...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-3.1
Building codes. Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, any municipality with a population of less than...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-4
All ordinances of cities, villages and incorporated towns imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment, or forfeiture, or making any appropriation, shall (1) be printed or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-5
The municipal clerk shall record, in a book used exclusively for that purpose, all ordinances passed by the corporate authorities. Immediately following each ordinance...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-6
The contents of all municipal ordinances, the date of passage, and the date of publication or posting, where required, may be proved by the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-7
All actions brought to enforce any fine, imprisonment, penalty, or forfeiture under any ordinance of any municipality, shall be brought in the corporate name...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-8
All fines, penalties, and forfeitures for the violation of ordinances, when collected, and all other money collected for a municipality shall be paid into...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-9
Except as provided in Section 1-2-9.1 of this Act, in all actions for the violation of any municipal ordinance, the first process shall be...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-9.1
Service by certified mail. In all actions for violation of any municipal ordinance where the fine would not be in excess of $750 and...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-9.2
Service of notice of violation of ordinance governing parking or standing of vehicles in cities with a population over 500,000. In cities with a...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-11
(a) A sheriff may serve any process or make any arrest in a municipality or a part of a municipality located in the county in...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-12
Any person incarcerated on a charge of violating a bailable municipal ordinance who does not supply bail and against whom a fine is levied...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2-12.1
Municipal bond fees. A municipality may impose a fee up to $20 for bail processing against any person arrested for violating a bailable municipal ordinance...
Division 2.1. Administrative Adjudications
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-1
Applicability. This Division 2.1 applies only to municipalities that are home rule units. (Source: P.A. 90-516, eff. 1-1-98.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-2
Administrative adjudication of municipal code violations. Any municipality may provide by ordinance for a system of administrative adjudication of municipal code violations to the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-3
Administrative adjudication procedures not exclusive. The adoption by a municipality of a system of administrative adjudication does not preclude the municipality from using other...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-4
Code hearing units; powers of hearing officers. (a) An ordinance establishing a system of administrative adjudication, pursuant to this Division, shall provide for a...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-5
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 Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-6
Rules of evidence shall not govern. The formal and technical rules of evidence do not apply in an adjudicatory hearing permitted under this Division....
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-7
Judicial review. Any final decision by a code hearing unit that a code violation does or does not exist shall constitute a final determination...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-8
Enforcement of judgment. (a) Any fine, other sanction, or costs imposed, or part of any fine, other sanction, or costs imposed, remaining unpaid after...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-9
Impact on existing administrative adjudication systems. This Division shall not affect the validity of systems of administrative adjudication that were authorized by State law,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.1-10
Impact on home rule authority. This Division shall not preempt municipalities from adopting other systems of administrative adjudication pursuant to their home rule powers....
Division 2.2. Code Hearing Departments
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-1
Applicability. This Division 2.2 applies only to municipalities that are non-home rule units. Nothing in this Division 2.2 allows a non-home rule municipality to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-5
Definitions. As used in this Division, unless the context requires otherwise: "Code" means any municipal ordinance except for (i) building code violations that must...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-10
Code hearing department. The corporate authorities of any municipality may adopt this Division and establish a code hearing department within an existing code enforcement...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-15
Hearing procedures not exclusive. In any municipality where this Division is adopted, this Division does not preclude the municipality from using other methods to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-20
Instituting code hearing proceedings. When a police officer or other individual authorized to issue a code violation finds a code violation to exist, he or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-25
Subpoenas; defaults. At any time prior to the hearing date, the hearing officer assigned to hear the case may, at the request of either...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-30
Continuances; representation at code hearings. No continuances shall be authorized by the hearing officer in proceedings under this Division except in cases where a...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-35
Hearing; evidence. At the hearing a hearing officer shall preside, shall hear testimony, and shall accept any evidence relevant to the existence or non-existence...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-40
Qualifications of hearing officers. Prior to conducting proceedings under this Division, hearing officers shall successfully complete a formal training program that includes the following:...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-45
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 Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-50
Review under Administrative Review Law. The findings, decision, and order of the hearing officer shall be subject to review in the circuit court of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-55
Judgment on findings, decision, and order. (a) Any fine, other sanction, or costs imposed, or part of any fine, other sanction, or costs imposed,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-2.2-60
Adoption of Division by municipality. This Division may be adopted by a non-home rule municipality by incorporating the provisions of this Division in an...
Division 3. Incorporation by Reference of Certain Construction Regulations
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-3-1
As used in the text of this Division 3, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated as follows, unless the context otherwise requires:...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-3-2
Adoption by reference; regulations and public records. A municipality may adopt by reference, as criteria for the issuance of construction, reconstruction, alteration, or installation...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-3-2a
Any municipality is authorized to adopt by reference the county subdivision code of the county wherein such municipality is situated, without setting forth the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-3-3
Nothing contained in this Division 3 shall be deemed to relieve any municipality from the requirement of publishing the ordinance in full which adopts...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-3-4
Nothing contained in this Division 3 shall be deemed to permit the adoption of the penalty clauses by reference which may be established in...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-3-5
Any amendment which may be made to any regulations or public record incorporated by reference by a municipality hereunder, may be likewise adopted by...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-3-6
Any municipality which has heretofore enacted a regulation or public record by reference thereto shall not be required to re-enact such regulation or public...
Division 4. Actions Against and Liabilities of Municipalities
Division 5. Taxpayer Suits
Division 6. Competency of Municipal Inhabitants to Serve as Judge or Juror (Heading Amended by P. A. 79-1361)
Division 7. Census Provisions
Division 8. Membership in Illinois Municipal League
Division 9. Cumulative Effect, Savings Clauses, Repeal, Other Provisions
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-9-1
The provisions of this Code shall be cumulative in effect and if any provision is inconsistent with another provision of this Code or with...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-9-2
The repeal of the acts or parts thereof specified in Section 1-9-8 shall not (1) affect suits pending or rights existing immediately prior to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-9-3
The provisions of this Code insofar as they are the same or substantially the same as those of any prior statute, shall be construed...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-9-4
Any bond or other evidence of indebtedness issued under the provisions of any act repealed by this Code which is outstanding and unpaid on...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-9-5
Article, division or section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner affect the scope, meaning or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-9-6
The invalidity of any provision of this Code shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Code. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-9-7
Where, in this Code, reference is made to a section, division or article by its number and no act is specified, the reference is...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-9-8
The following acts and parts of acts are repealed except as provided in Section 1-9-9: "An Act authorizing any city of this State having...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 1-9-9
Nothing in this Code shall be construed to repeal any section of the various laws of which this Code is comprised when such section...
Last modified: February 18, 2015