Chapter 60, TOWNSHIPS

(60 ILCS 1/1-1) Sec. 1-1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Township Code. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/1-5) Sec. 1-5. Use of terms. (a) A reference in another Act to a town (other than an incorporated town) shall be deemed a reference to a township as that term is used in this Code. (b) A reference in another Act to the board of trustees of a town (other than an incorpo…

(60 ILCS 1/5-10) Sec. 5-10. Referendum. Whenever a proposition or public question is required to be submitted under this Code for approval or rejection by the electors at an election, the time and manner of conducting the referendum shall be in accordance with the general electio…

(60 ILCS 1/5-15) Sec. 5-15. Form of proposition. The county board, on the petition of 10% or more of the legal voters of the county, shall certify and cause to be submitted to the voters of the county the question of township organization under this Article. The proposition shall…

(60 ILCS 1/5-20) Sec. 5-20. Abstract of election returns. The county clerk shall enter an abstract of the returns of the election, prepared and certified as in elections for county officers, file the abstract in the records of the county, and certify an exact copy of the abstract…

(60 ILCS 1/5-25) Sec. 5-25. Effect of vote. If it appears by the returns of the election that a majority of the legal voters of the county are for township organization, then, the county so voting in favor of adopting township organization shall be governed by and subject to the …

(60 ILCS 1/5-30) Sec. 5-30. Appointment of commissioners to divide county into townships. The presiding officer of the county board, with the advice and consent of the county board, shall at the next session of the county board appoint 3 commissioners to divide the county into to…

(60 ILCS 1/5-35) Sec. 5-35. Division of county into townships. The commissioners shall proceed to divide the county into townships, making them conform to the townships according to government surveys. Fractional townships may be attached to adjoining townships if the number of t…

(60 ILCS 1/5-40) Sec. 5-40. Township names. Townships shall be named in accordance with the express wish of the inhabitants of the township. If there is not a degree of unanimity as to the name, the commissioners may designate the name. The county board may change the name of any…

(60 ILCS 1/5-45) Sec. 5-45. Commissioners' report. The commissioners shall make a written report of their proceedings, giving the names and bounds of each township. They shall present the report to the county clerk on or before the first day of March next succeeding. (Source: P.A…

(60 ILCS 1/5-5) Sec. 5-5. Vote on organization. At any general election held in the several counties in this State, the qualified voters in any county may vote for or against township organization in the county. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/5-50) Sec. 5-50. Abstract of commissioners' report. The county clerk shall, within 30 days after receiving the commissioners' report, transmit by mail to the Secretary of State an abstract of the report. The abstract shall give the bounds of each township and the name …

(60 ILCS 1/5-55) Sec. 5-55. Duplicate township names. If the Secretary of State, on comparing the abstracts of the reports from the several counties, finds that any 2 or more townships within a single county are named alike, he or she shall so inform the clerk of the county. The …

(60 ILCS 1/5-60) Sec. 5-60. Record of township names and boundaries. The Secretary of State shall keep a record of the names and boundaries of the several townships. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/5-65) Sec. 5-65. Township election. The township election shall be scheduled in accordance with and conducted in the manner required by the Election Code. (Source: P.A. 87-471; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/5-70) Sec. 5-70. Refusal to organize township; annexation. (a) If any township refuses or neglects to organize and elect township officers, the county board of the county may order another election for that purpose at the time of the next regular election scheduled und…

(60 ILCS 1/5-75) Sec. 5-75. Township co-extensive with city or village. When, in any county under township organization, there is any territory co-extensive with the limits of a city or village situated in the county and not included within any organized township, that territory …

(60 ILCS 1/10-10) Sec. 10-10. Election in new township. When 2 or more townships are united into one, or when a township is divided into 2 or more townships, a new election shall be ordered in the new township or townships by the county board and held at the time scheduled under …

(60 ILCS 1/10-15) Sec. 10-15. Terms of officers of new township. The officers elected or appointed at a township meeting shall hold their offices until the next annual township meeting and until their successors are elected and qualified. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/10-20) Sec. 10-20. Detachment of part of township. (a) If any township lies partly within and partly without any city, village, or incorporated town and both the city, village, or incorporated town and the township are charged with the duty of providing relief and supp…

(60 ILCS 1/10-25) Sec. 10-25. Plan for changes in townships. (a) The county board of each county may, subject to a referendum in the townships affected as provided in this Section, adopt a plan for altering the boundaries of townships, changing township lines, dividing, enlarging…

(60 ILCS 1/10-30) Sec. 10-30. Election after alteration of township boundaries. When township boundaries have been altered under this Article, an election for township officers shall be held in the new townships at the time scheduled under the general election law for the electio…

(60 ILCS 1/10-35) Sec. 10-35. Assessment and collection of taxes. The union of 2 or more townships or the division or alteration of a township after the assessor's books have been made out in any year shall not in any manner affect the assessment or collection of taxes assessable…

(60 ILCS 1/10-40) Sec. 10-40. Disposition of township property. When a township possessing real estate is divided into 2 or more townships, the supervisors and assessors of the several townships constituted by the division shall meet as soon as may be practicable after the first …

(60 ILCS 1/10-45) Sec. 10-45. Meeting of supervisors and assessors. Except as provided by Section 10-20, when 2 or more townships possessing real estate are united, or when a part of any township possessing real estate is annexed to another township or townships or taken to form …

(60 ILCS 1/10-5) Sec. 10-5. County board powers. The county board of each county, except as provided in Article 15, may (i) alter the boundaries of townships, (ii) change township lines, (iii) divide, enlarge, consolidate, and create new townships in its county, (iv) make alterat…

(60 ILCS 1/10-50) Sec. 10-50. Apportionment of township personal property. Except as provided by Section 10-20, when 2 or more townships, any one or more of which possess or are entitled to moneys, rights or credits, or other personal estate, are united, or when a township posses…

(60 ILCS 1/10-55) Sec. 10-55. Notice of supervisors and assessors meeting. Whenever a meeting of the supervisors and assessors of 2 or more townships is required to carry into effect the provisions of this Article, the meeting may be called by either of the supervisors. The super…

(60 ILCS 1/10-60) Sec. 10-60. Cemetery exempt. Section 10-55 shall not apply to any cemetery or burial ground. A cemetery or burial ground shall belong to the township within which it is situated after a division is made. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/10-65) Sec. 10-65. Apportionment of township debts. Except as provided by Section 10-20, debts owed by a township or townships united, divided, or altered under this Article shall be apportioned in the same manner as the personal property of the township or townships, …

(60 ILCS 1/10-70) Sec. 10-70. Apportionment by court. If the several townships cannot agree on a division or apportionment of the real or personal property or debts or any part of the property or debts as provided in Sections 10-40 through 10-65, the dispute shall be submitted to…

(60 ILCS 1/10-75) Sec. 10-75. Inapplicability. This Article does not apply to multi-township jurisdictions for assessment purposes as provided in Sections 2-5 through 2-30 and Sections 2-70 and 9-30 of the Property Tax Code, and the establishment or discontinuance of or withdrawa…

(60 ILCS 1/15-10) Sec. 15-10. Disconnection of territory from township; annexation to adjacent township. Until the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, whenever a township is organized under this Article and any of the territory of the city not more than one-half square…

(60 ILCS 1/15-15) Sec. 15-15. Annexation of territory by coterminous city; referendum. (a) Whenever a city that is coterminous with a township has voted to annex any territory in an adjacent township, the city clerk shall, by registered or certified mail, file a certified copy of…

(60 ILCS 1/15-17) Sec. 15-17. Township officer after disconnection. A township officer of a township from which territory is disconnected shall continue as an officer of the township until the expiration of the term for which he or she was elected or appointed and until a success…

(60 ILCS 1/15-20) Sec. 15-20. Failure of proposition to disconnect; status quo. Where the proposition to disconnect the territory fails and it remains with the adjacent township, the status quo and operation of a township and the officers of a township coterminous with a city at …

(60 ILCS 1/15-25) Sec. 15-25. Parcel annexed less than 1% of total equalized assessed value of adjacent township. Within any 12 month period beginning on the date of a coterminous city's first annexation after August 11, 1986, when any parcel of territory lying in an adjacent tow…

(60 ILCS 1/15-30) Sec. 15-30. Payment for property taxes collected by coterminous city. After August 11, 1986, whenever territory is disconnected from a township and connected to a coterminous township before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly,…

(60 ILCS 1/15-35) Sec. 15-35. Automatic annexation of certain territory; exception; reconnection to adjacent township. (a) If, on August 11, 1986, any unincorporated territory in a township that is adjacent to a township that is coterminous with a city (i) is wholly bounded by th…

(60 ILCS 1/15-40) Sec. 15-40. Parcel with township hall and maintenance building; reconnection to adjacent township. Any parcel of land owned by a township on which both a township hall and a maintenance building are located and that consists of the entire territory that was anne…

(60 ILCS 1/15-45) Sec. 15-45. Territory deemed a township. The territory of any organized city, within the limits of any county under township organization and not situated within any township, shall be deemed a township. (Source: Laws 1877, p. 212; P.A. 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/15-5) Sec. 15-5. Township within city; organization; petition; hearing. (a) The county board in any county under township organization, by resolution, may provide (i) that the territory embraced within any city in the county, if the territory has a population of not le…

(60 ILCS 1/15-50) Sec. 15-50. Powers exercised by city council. All the powers vested in the township described in Section 15-45, including all the powers now vested by law in the highway commissioners of the township and in the township board of the township, shall be exercised …

(60 ILCS 1/15-55) Sec. 15-55. Combining offices. The city council in a city and township described in Section 15-45 may by ordinance provide (i) that the offices of city and township clerk are united in the same person, (ii) that the offices of city treasurer and township collect…

(60 ILCS 1/15-60) Sec. 15-60. Vacancies. Vacancies in any township office within a city and township described in Section 15-45 may be filled by the city council as provided in Section 60-5. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/15-65) Sec. 15-65. Inapplicability. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Article to the contrary, this Article has no application to the office of township assessor in townships organized under this Article that are situated in counties of 500,000 or more. (Source: L…

(60 ILCS 1/15-70) Sec. 15-70. City council meetings; township business. The city council of any coterminous city located in a county with a population of less than 1,000,000 may, by the affirmative vote of three-fourths of its members, authorize the township supervisor to preside…

(60 ILCS 1/20-10) Sec. 20-10. Election results. (a) The county clerk shall enter an abstract of the returns of the election held under Section 20-5, made out and certified as in an election for county officers, and shall record the abstract at length upon the records of the count…

(60 ILCS 1/20-15) Sec. 20-15. Assessor. For purposes of the election or appointment of a township or multi-township assessor, a township organized under this Article is subject to Sections 2-5 through 2-30 and Sections 2-70 and 9-30 of the Property Tax Code. (Source: P.A. 88-62; …

(60 ILCS 1/20-5) Sec. 20-5. Consolidation of townships within city; petition and referendum. When the territory of any city in a county under township organization is composed of 5 or more congressional townships or fractional parts of congressional townships and the legal voters…