Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 Municipalities: Article 6 - Strong Mayor Form Government

Division 1. General Provisions

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-1-1
  Short Title. This article shall be known, may be cited, and is hereafter designated as "The Strong Mayor Form of Municipal Government". (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-1-2
  Application of Article 3. The provisions of Article 3 shall apply to all officers elected or appointed under this Article 6 unless otherwise provided...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-1-3
  This Article 6 does not apply to an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township. (Source: P.A. 76-746.)

Division 2. Organization

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-2-1
  Adoption. All municipalities of not less than 5,000 population and not exceeding 500,000 population which are treated as properly incorporated, or which hereafter are...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-2-2
  Petition - Submission of proposition. Electors of any municipality, equal in number to 1/10 the number of votes cast for all candidates for mayor...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-2-3
  Form of Petition. The petition provided in Section 6-2-2 shall be substantially in the following form and in accordance with the general election law:...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-2-5
  Election - Result. The referendum specified in Section 6-2-2 shall be conducted in accordance with the general election law. The proposition shall be in...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-2-6
  Canvass; record. A certified copy of the canvass of the votes on the proposition specified in Section 6-2-2, made by the proper officers of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-2-7
  Certificate of adoption. If the strong mayor form of municipal government is adopted, the mayor or president immediately shall transmit a certificate so stating...

Division 3. Election of Officers

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-1
  Initial division into wards. Not later than 30 days prior to the first day on which candidate petitions may be filed for the primary...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-2
  Termination of terms of office. The terms of office of all elected municipal officers holding office at the time of the issuance of the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-3
  Municipal officers - Terms. The municipality shall have the following elected officers: one mayor, one municipal clerk and one municipal treasurer, all of whom...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-4
  Terms of office. All terms of office of officials elected pursuant to this Division 3 of Article 6 shall be for terms of 4...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-5
  Division into wards. Every city shall have as many wards as one-half the total number of aldermen to which the city is entitled. The...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-6
  Redistricting of city. Whenever an official publication of any national, state, school, or city census shows that any city contains more or less wards...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-7
  Ward division and election of aldermen - Validation. If, after a census is officially published, any city is divided into a greater or lesser...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-8
  Resignation; vacancy. An alderman may resign from his or her office. A vacancy occurs in the office of alderman by reason of resignation, failure...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-9
  Qualifications of mayor, city clerk, city treasurer and aldermen - Eligibility for other office. No person shall be eligible to the office of mayor,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-10
  General elections - Time for. The first general election pursuant to this Division 3 of Article 6 shall be held at the time the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-3-11
  Primary elections. A primary election shall be held to nominate 2 candidates for each office. Primary and general elections shall otherwise be conducted at...

Division 4. Functions and Duties of Mayor, Council and Officers

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-1
  Mayor. The mayor shall be recognized as the official head of the city or village by the courts for the purpose of serving civil...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-2
  Ordinances - Approval - Veto. All ordinances passed by the council shall be deposited with the city or village clerk. If the mayor approves...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-3
  Reconsideration - Passage over veto. Every ordinance, which is returned to the council by the mayor shall be reconsidered by the council. If, after...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-4
  Vote of city council - Reconsideration. No vote of the city council shall be reconsidered or rescinded at a special meeting, unless there are...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-5
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 87-1119.)
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-6
  Powers of council. The powers of the council shall be purely legislative, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by any other act or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-7
  Mayor - Powers and duties. The powers and duties of the mayor shall be: (1) To enforce the laws and ordinances within the municipality;...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-8
  Departments and officers. Under the general supervision and administrative control of the mayor, there shall be such departments as the council may prescribe by...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-9
  Oaths. Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices all officers, whether elected or appointed, shall take and subscribe the following oath: I...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-10
  First council-General ordinance. At the first meeting of the council after this Article 6 becomes effective in any city or village, it shall pass...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-11
  Board of local improvements. In any city or village adopting the strong mayor form of municipal government, if such city or village has heretofore...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-12
  Administrative assistant to mayor. The mayor shall appoint one or more administrative assistants to assist him in the direction of the operations of the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-13
  Budget and finance director. The mayor in cities of 50,000 or more population shall appoint a budget and finance director whose functions shall include...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-14
  Board of fire and police commissioners. The mayor shall appoint a board of fire and police commissioners who shall have all the powers and...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-15
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 87-1119.)
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-4-16
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 87-1119.)

Division 5. Compensation

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 6-5-1
  Mayor, clerk, treasurer and aldermen. The mayor, clerk, treasurer and aldermen elected under the provisions of this Article 6 shall each receive for the...

Last modified: February 18, 2015