Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article -

• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 0.01
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-1324. Repealed by P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 1
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Museum District Act. (Source: P.A. 86-477.)
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 2
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-477. Repealed by P.A. 91-918, eff. 7-7-00.)
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 3
  Authorization to create district. Whenever an area of contiguous territory lying wholly within one county contains one or more historical sites and one or...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 4
  Petition for referendum. (a) Any 200 legal voters residing within the limits of a proposed district may petition the circuit court of the county...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 5
  Referendum. The proposition shall be substantially in the following form: "Shall the .... Museum District be organized in the territory described as follows: (insert...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 6
  Board of Commissioners. (a) The affairs of the district shall be managed by a board of commissioners consisting of 5 commissioners, who shall be...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 7
  Historical sites. A museum district has the power to acquire, improve, and maintain any interest in lands containing one or more historical sites, together...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 8
  Real estate. A museum district may acquire lands for its purposes (i) by lease, (ii) in fee simple by gift, grant, legacy, purchase, or...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 8.5
  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 Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 9
  Installment purchases and leases. The board of a museum district may by ordinance (i) purchase or lease as lessee real or personal property, or...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 10
  Licenses. The board of a museum district may by ordinance issue licenses for any activity reasonably connected with its purposes. (Source: P.A. 86-477.)
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 11
  Board and officers. (a) The board is the corporate authority of the district and may pass and enforce all necessary ordinances, rules, and regulations...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 12
  Contracts. All contracts for supplies, material, or work involving an expenditure in of more than $10,000 shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder,...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 13
  Funds of the district. (a) The board of commissioners, when requested by the treasurer of the district, shall designate one or more banks or...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 14
  Civil service. Whenever the county in which a district is located is governed by a law regulating its civil service and the method of...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 15
  Records and reports. The board shall keep a record of all ordinances and other proceedings which shall be open to the inspection of any...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 16
  Ordinances. An action of the board requires the affirmative vote of 3 commissioners. An ordinance imposing a fine or penalty or making an appropriation...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 17
  Debt and bonds. The board of a museum district may, for any of its authorized purposes, borrow money upon the faith and credit of...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 18
  Taxes. (a) After the first Monday in October and by the first Monday in December in each year, the board shall levy the general...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 19
  Lapse of appropriations and levies. Any appropriation or levy made for the purpose of constructing, restoring, reconditioning, reconstructing, or acquiring improvements and for the...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 20
  Fiscal year and appropriation ordinances. (a) The board shall fix a fiscal year for the district. The board shall, within or before the first...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 21
  Transfers and further appropriations. After the adoption of the annual appropriation ordinance, no further appropriations may be made at any other time during that...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 22
  Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the Local Government Prompt Payment Act, as now or hereafter...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 23
  Annexation. Any territory adjoining a museum district and situated in the same county as the district may become a part of the district as...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 24
  Charges for use of facilities. The district may enact and enforce rules and regulations for the management, maintenance, care, protection, and use of its...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 25
  Violations. A member of the board of a district or any other person holding any other office, trust, or employment under a district who...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 26
  Building codes. The board of commissioners of a district whose boundaries encompass 2 or more municipalities may elect to be governed exclusively by the...
• Illinois Museum District Act. - 70 ILCS 1105, Section 27
  Cessation of district organization. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a majority vote of the board of commissioners is in favor of the proposition...

Last modified: February 18, 2015