Illinois Compiled Statutes 75 Libraries: Article 30 - Trustees

• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-5
  Initial appointment of trustees; first election. (a) Within 60 days after the establishment of a library district, and if the district is wholly contained...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-10
  Election and terms of trustees. (a) Trustees shall be elected every 2 years at the regular election scheduled for trustees of public library districts under...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-20
  Nomination of candidates; ballot. (a) Nomination of candidates for election as trustees shall be by petition, signed by a number of qualified voters equivalent...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-25
  Vacancies. (a) Vacancies shall be declared in the office of trustee by the board when an elected or appointed trustee (i) declines, fails, or...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-30
  Compensation of trustees. Trustees shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed from district funds for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-35
  Board name; status; headquarters. (a) The board of trustees of each district shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-40
  Organization of board; qualification and oath of trustees. (a) Within 74 days after their election or appointment, the incumbent and new trustees shall take their...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-45
  Duties of officers. (a) The duties of the officers of the board are as provided in this Section. (b) The president shall preside over all...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-50
  Board meetings; quorum; voting. (a) The board shall call not fewer than 5 regular meetings each fiscal year. Each year, the board by ordinance...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-52
  Trustee's failure or neglect to discharge duty; penalty. Any trustee who, while acting as a trustee or as an officer, fails or neglects to...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55
  Powers of trustees. The board of trustees of a district shall carry out the spirit and intent of this Act in establishing, supporting, and...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.5
  Ordinances, regulations, and resolutions. The board may enact, amend, and rescind ordinances and may make and adopt regulations and resolutions for their own guidance...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.10
  Expenditure of moneys. The board shall have the exclusive control of the expenditure of all moneys collected for the library and deposited to the...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.12
  Purchases. Purchases made under this Act shall be made in compliance with the Local Government Prompt Payment Act. (Source: P.A. 87-1277.)
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.15
  Supervision of facilities. The board shall have exclusive control of the construction of any library building and of the supervision, care, and custody of...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.20
  Purchase or lease of property; construction of buildings. (a) The board may purchase or lease real or personal property and may construct an appropriate...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.25
  Remodeling or reconstructing a building. The board may remodel or reconstruct a building erected, purchased, or leased by the board when the building needs...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.30
  Disposal of property. The board may sell or otherwise dispose of real or personal property that it deems no longer necessary or useful for...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.32
  Sale or disposition of property. (a) When the board has determined to sell or otherwise dispose of real or personal property that it deems...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.35
  Administrator; legal counsel; consultants. (a) The board may appoint and fix the compensation of a qualified librarian to act as administrator of the district's...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.40
  Contracts for library services and other matters. The board may contract with any public or private corporation or entity for the purpose of providing...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.45
  Common library or services. The board may join with the board or boards of one or more public libraries within this State in maintaining...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.50
  Title to property. The board may enter into contracts and may take title to any property acquired by it for library purposes. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.55
  Exclusion of certain persons from library. The board may exclude from the use of the library any person who willfully violates an ordinance or...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.60
  Use of library by nonresidents. The board may extend the privileges and use of the library, including the borrowing of materials on an individual...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.65
  Encouraging additions to district. The board may undertake programs to encourage the addition to the district of adjacent areas without local tax supported library...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.70
  Fines and penalties. The board may provide, by ordinance, fines and penalties (i) for injury to any book or other library material or to...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.75
  Investment of funds. The board shall invest funds pursuant to the Public Funds Investment Act. (Source: P.A. 87-1277.)
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.80
  Eminent domain. The board may exercise the power of eminent domain. (Source: P.A. 87-1277.)
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.82
  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 Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.85
  Reserve funds for self-insurance. The board may accumulate and set apart as reserve funds portions of the unexpended balances of the proceeds received from...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.90
  Joining associations. The board may join the district and its employees or trustees as a member or members of the Illinois Library Association and...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-55.100
  Historical museum or library. The board may participate in maintaining a historical museum or library located in the district. (Source: P.A. 87-1277.)
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-60
  Resolution concerning library materials and facilities. The board of each district shall adopt, and review at least every 2 years, a resolution for the...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-65
  Reports and audits. (a) On or before September 1 of each year, the board shall prepare a written report for the past fiscal year....
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-75
  Donations of money or property. Any person or persons desiring to make donations of money, personal property, or real estate for the benefit of...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-85
  Budget and appropriation ordinance; levy ordinance. (a) The board shall, within the first quarter of each fiscal year and no later than the fourth...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-90
  Termination of appropriations. (a) Notwithstanding any limitations imposed by law, all appropriations made in the annual budget shall terminate with the close of the...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-95
  Working cash fund. (a) A board may, by ordinance, create and maintain a working cash fund, for the sole purpose of enabling the district to...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-100
  Abolition of working cash fund. The board may, by resolution, abolish a working cash fund established under Section 30-95 and direct the transfer of any...
• Illinois Public Library District Act of 1991. - 75 ILCS 16, Section 30-105
  Tax warrants. (a) When there is insufficient money in the general fund to defray the necessary expenses of the district, and the working cash...

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