Chapter 55 — COUNTIES

(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 5/5-25027) Sec. 5-25027. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 97-439, eff. 8-18-11. Repealed internally, eff. 12-31-18.)

(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 …

(55 ILCS 5/5-30004) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30004) Sec. 5-30004. Authority to protect and preserve landmarks and preservation districts. The county board of each county shall have the following authority: (1) to establish and appoint by ordinance a preservation study committee and t…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30005) Sec. 5-30005. Appointment of preservation study committee. Prior to the establishment of a preservation commission the county board shall by ordinance or resolution appoint from nominations submitted by the chief executive officer o…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30006) Sec. 5-30006. Composition and term of preservation study committee. The preservation study committee shall consist of from 5 to 9 members who shall be residents of the county or of any incorporated municipality within it. Among the …

(55 ILCS 5/5-30007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30007) Sec. 5-30007. Compensation, expenses and funds. The county board may compensate the study committee on a per diem or per meeting basis with a mileage allowance for travel, and may appropriate to the study committee from any funds un…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30008) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30008) Sec. 5-30008. Authority of preservation study committee. The study committee shall have the following authority: (1) to review and evaluate any existing State, county or local surveys and to undertake a preliminary survey of incorpo…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30009) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30009) Sec. 5-30009. Presentation of preservation study committee report; termination of committee. The report and recommendations of the study committee, including the proposed preservation ordinance upon a recommendation that a preservat…

(55 ILCS 5/5-3001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-3001) Sec. 5-3001. Deeds and conveyances; validation. All deeds, grants and conveyances heretofore made, and duly acknowledged and recorded as other deeds, conveying any lands, tenements or hereditaments to any county or to the inhabitants …

(55 ILCS 5/5-30010) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30010) Sec. 5-30010. Minimum content of preservation ordinance. Every preservation ordinance proposed by a preservation study committee and enacted by a county board pursuant to this Division is required, at a minimum, to contain the follo…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30011) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30011) Sec. 5-30011. Authority of preservation commission. Every preservation commission established by ordinance of the county board pursuant to the report and recommendations of the preservation study committee shall have the following p…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30012) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30012) Sec. 5-30012. Appointment of preservation commission. The county board may by ordinance appoint a preservation commission from names submitted by the presiding officers of the county board. The preservation commission shall consist …

(55 ILCS 5/5-30013) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30013) Sec. 5-30013. Meetings of preservation commission. Meetings of a preservation commission shall be held monthly, except in those months when no business is pending, and shall be held at such times and places within the county as the …

(55 ILCS 5/5-30014) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30014) Sec. 5-30014. Nomination of landmarks and preservation districts. The preservation commission or any person may propose landmarks of preservation districts for designation by the county board by filing a nomination with the preserva…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30015) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30015) Sec. 5-30015. Conduct of public hearing. Oral or written testimony shall be taken at the public hearing from any person concerning the nomination. The preservation commission may solicit expert testimony or present its own evidence …

(55 ILCS 5/5-30016) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30016) Sec. 5-30016. Recommendation of preservation commission. Within 60 days following close of the public hearing, the preservation commission shall make its determination upon the evidence whether the proposed landmark or preservation …

(55 ILCS 5/5-30017) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30017) Sec. 5-30017. Designation by ordinance; publication of map. The county board, upon a recommendation from the preservation commission that the proposed landmark or preservation district should be designated, shall review the report a…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30018) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30018) Sec. 5-30018. Certificate of appropriateness. A certificate of appropriateness from a preservation commission established pursuant to this Division shall be required before any significant alteration, construction, demolition or rem…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30019) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30019) Sec. 5-30019. Certificate of economic hardship. A certificate of economic hardship shall be issued by a preservation commission established pursuant to this Division upon a determination by it that the failure to issue a certificate…

(55 ILCS 5/5-3002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-3002) Sec. 5-3002. Contractual rights of county; suits. All notes, bonds, bills, contracts, covenants, agreements or writings, made or to be made, whereby any person is or shall be bound to the People of the State of Illinois, or to any cou…

(55 ILCS 5/5-30020) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-30020) Sec. 5-30020. Evidence of economic hardship. An applicant for a certificate of economic hardship may submit any or all of the following information in order to assist a preservation commission in its determination on the application…