Chapter 55, COUNTIES

(55 ILCS 5/5-25006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25006) Sec. 5-25006. Canvass of votes in several counties. When the proposition is submitted to the voters of two or more adjacent counties, the ballots shall be counted and the returns made to the county clerk of each county, respectively…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25007) Sec. 5-25007. County clerk to record vote. Each county clerk shall record the result of the vote upon the proposition in his county, and the result may be proved in all courts and in all proceedings by the record or by a certified c…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25008) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25008) Sec. 5-25008. Jurisdiction of department. Each county and multiple-county health department has jurisdiction for the purposes of this Division throughout the entire county or multiple counties, except within: 1. Any public health di…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25009) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25009) Sec. 5-25009. Abandonment of city, village or town department. Any city, village or incorporated town, or combination thereof or any public health district which maintains its own independent health department may abandon the same a…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25010) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25010) Sec. 5-25010. Annual tax levy. The county board of any county which has established and is maintaining a county or multiple-county health department shall, when authorized as provided in Sections 5-25003 or 5-25004, levy annually th…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25011) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25011) Sec. 5-25011. Disposition of taxes collected. The entire amount collected from taxes levied under this Division on property subject to the general corporate tax of any city, village or incorporated town or combination thereof or pub…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25012) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25012) Sec. 5-25012. Board of health. Except in those cases where a board of 10 or 12 members is provided for as authorized in this Section, each county health department shall be managed by a board of health consisting of 8 members appoin…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25013) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25013) Sec. 5-25013. Organization of board; powers and duties. (A) The board of health of each county or multiple-county health department shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize, by the election of one of its number as pre…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25014) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25014) Sec. 5-25014. Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Division shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-25015) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25015) Sec. 5-25015. Officers and employees. Each county or multiple-county health department shall have the exclusive right to employ and discharge its officers and employees, except as otherwise provided in Section 5-25013; provided that…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25016) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25016) Sec. 5-25016. Lease or acquisition of property for department. The board of health of each county or multiple-county health department is authorized to lease or to acquire by purchase, construction, lease-purchase agreement or other…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25017) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25017) Sec. 5-25017. Discontinuance of department. Any health department may be discontinued; 1 - by resolution of the county board or county boards, if established in such manner; or, 2 - if established by referendum, then by a referendum…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25018) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25018) Sec. 5-25018. Board of Health in counties having civil service qualifications and appointment. When this Division is adopted by resolution in counties over 500,000 population where Civil Service Qualifications and appointment on all…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25019) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25019) Sec. 5-25019. Formation of consolidated health department. Any county which has established a county health department or any counties which have established a multiple-county health department may unite with one or more adjacent co…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25020) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25020) Sec. 5-25020. Withdrawal from consolidated health department. Any county which has established a county health department or counties which have established a multiple-county health department may withdraw from a consolidated health…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25021) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25021) Sec. 5-25021. Bonds for permanent improvements; referendum. Whenever the county board determines that it is necessary to issue bonds to enable it to provide buildings for or to make permanent improvements in the community health fac…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25022) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25022) Sec. 5-25022. Form of proposition. The proposition pursuant to Section 5-25021 shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall.... county issue bonds to the amount o…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25023) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25023) Sec. 5-25023. Sale of bonds. The bonds authorized by this Division shall be sold and the proceeds thereof used solely for the specified purpose. At or before the time of delivery of any bond, the county board shall file with the cou…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25024) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25024) Sec. 5-25024. Submission at same election. Both the proposition for the levy of an annual tax pursuant to Sections 5-25003 or 5-25004 and the proposition for issuance of bonds pursuant to Section 5-25021 may be submitted to the elec…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25025) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25025) Sec. 5-25025. Mental health program. If the county board of any county having a population of less than 1,000,000 inhabitants and maintaining a county health department under this Division desires the inclusion of a mental health pr…

(55 ILCS 5/5-25026) Sec. 5-25026. Locally grown foods. Except in emergency situations, including but not limited to a food-borne disease outbreak, the board of health of a county or multi-county health department may not discourage the purchase or consumption of locally grown foo…

(55 ILCS 5/5-26001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-26001) Sec. 5-26001. Submission of question of erecting memorial. Upon the petition of two hundred, or more, legal voters of a county being filed with the county clerk, praying that the proposition of erecting or completing a monument or m…

(55 ILCS 5/5-26002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-26002) Sec. 5-26002. Subscriptions. Whenever the people of any county shall desire to erect, or contribute to the erection of a memorial building in honor of their soldiers and sailors and shall procure bona fide subscription to the extent…

(55 ILCS 5/5-26003) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-26003) Sec. 5-26003. Lease of county building as memorial. If any county shall own and possess any real estate suitable for a site for a memorial building, it shall be lawful for the county board or board of county commissioners, as the ca…

(55 ILCS 5/5-26004) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-26004) Sec. 5-26004. Use. Available space in memorial buildings constructed under the provisions of this Division, may be set aside for the use of organizations of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the United States without char…

(55 ILCS 5/5-26005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-26005) Sec. 5-26005. Maintenance. Whenever any memorial building is erected through private subscriptions, as herein provided, or any veterans' memorial is erected, it shall be lawful for the county board or board of county commissioners, …

(55 ILCS 5/5-26006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-26006) Sec. 5-26006. Exempt from taxation. Memorial buildings erected in accordance with the provisions of this Division shall be deemed county property and shall be exempt from taxation. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-27001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-27001) Sec. 5-27001. Appointment of person to have charge of interment. Each county board shall designate some suitable person or persons to serve without compensation, who shall cause to be properly interred the body of any honorably disc…

(55 ILCS 5/5-27002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-27002) Sec. 5-27002. Fees. The expense of such burial shall not exceed the sum of $900; such burial shall not be made in any cemetery or burial ground used exclusively for the burial of the pauper dead, or in that portion of any burial gro…

(55 ILCS 5/5-27003) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-27003) Sec. 5-27003. Expenses paid by county. The expenses of such burial and headstone shall be paid by the county in which such veteran or his or her mother, father, husband, wife, widow, widower or minor children resided at the time of …

(55 ILCS 5/5-28001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-28001) Sec. 5-28001. County may procure burial grounds. The county board of each county has power to purchase suitable sites for burial grounds for deceased personnel of the Armed Services of the United States who died in service and for h…

(55 ILCS 5/5-28002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-28002) Sec. 5-28002. Petition; tax levy. When one hundred legal voters of any county shall present a petition to the county board of such county, asking that an annual tax may be levied for the establishment and maintenance of a Soldiers' …

(55 ILCS 5/5-28003) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-28003) Sec. 5-28003. Directors. When in any county such proposition for the levy of a tax for a county Soldiers' and Sailors' Burial Fund has been adopted, the chairman of the county board of such county shall, with the approval of the cou…

(55 ILCS 5/5-28004) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-28004) Sec. 5-28004. Terms of office. One of the directors shall hold office for one year, another for two years, and another for three years, from the first day of July following their appointment, but each until his successor is appointe…

(55 ILCS 5/5-28005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-28005) Sec. 5-28005. Vacancies; compensation. Vacancies in the board of directors occasioned by removal, resignation, or otherwise, shall be reported to the county board and be filled in like manner as original appointments. No director sh…

(55 ILCS 5/5-28006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-28006) Sec. 5-28006. Powers and duties. The directors shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize, by the election of one of their number as president and one as secretary. They shall make and adopt such by-laws, rules and regu…

(55 ILCS 5/5-28007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-28007) Sec. 5-28007. Donations; annual report. The board of directors, in the name of the county, may receive from any person any contribution or donation of money or property and shall pay over to the treasurer of such county for the Sold…

(55 ILCS 5/5-28008) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-28008) Sec. 5-28008. Payment of burial expenses. The board of directors are authorized to pay, out of the money which is appropriated to them from the county Soldiers' and Sailors' Burial Fund, the funeral and burial expenses of persons wh…

(55 ILCS 5/5-29001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-29001) Sec. 5-29001. Authorization. A county board may, by resolution, authorize the compilation, publication and maintenance of a county code consisting of ordinances and regulations duly adopted by the county board. (Source: P.A. 96-328,…

(55 ILCS 5/5-29002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-29002) Sec. 5-29002. Compilation of ordinances and regulations; index. A county board adopting this Division shall authorize the State's attorney, or any person or persons deemed by the county board to be qualified to compile existing ordi…

(55 ILCS 5/5-29003) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-29003) Sec. 5-29003. Title of code. The code of ordinances and regulations shall be titled "The (County Name) County Code". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-29004) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-29004) Sec. 5-29004. Adoption by resolution; effective date. Once the code has been compiled it shall be adopted by resolution of the county board and shall be effective on the date so adopted. (Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-29005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-29005) Sec. 5-29005. Record and memorandum. The county clerk shall record, in a book used exclusively for that purpose, all ordinances passed by the county board. Immediately following each ordinance the county clerk shall make a memorandu…

(55 ILCS 5/5-29006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-29006) Sec. 5-29006. Certificate of county clerk. The contents of county ordinances, the date of passage, and the date of publication or posting, where required, may be proved by the certificate of the county clerk. Whenever county ordinan…

(55 ILCS 5/5-29007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-29007) Sec. 5-29007. Public review and inspection; sale. The duly approved county code shall be made available for public review and inspection in the office of the county clerk. The county board may authorize the county clerk to sell copi…

(55 ILCS 5/5-29008) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-29008) Sec. 5-29008. Republication of code. The county code shall be updated and republished annually or more frequently as the county board may direct. The county board may authorize the State's attorney, or any person or persons deemed b…

(55 ILCS 5/5-29009) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-29009) Sec. 5-29009. Binding and effective as adopted by the county board. Where ordinances or regulations are intentionally or inadvertently omitted from the county code, such ordinances and regulations shall still be binding and effectiv…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30001) Sec. 5-30001. Subtitle. This Division shall be subtitled the "Illinois County Historic Preservation Law". (Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-30002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30002) Sec. 5-30002. Declaration of purpose. The purpose of this Division is to identify, protect, preserve, and provide for the restoration, rehabilitation and continued use of buildings, structures, objects, areas, sites, and landscapes …

(55 ILCS 5/5-30003) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30003) Sec. 5-30003. Definitions. As used in this Division, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows: "Alteration". Any act or process that changes one or more historic, architectural or physical features of …