Chapter 60 — TOWNSHIPS

(60 ILCS 1/135-20) Sec. 135-20. Powers of board of managers. The board of managers shall control and manage the cemeteries jointly acquired by the townships or road districts. The board of managers may receive in trust from the proprietors or owners of any lot in the cemeteries, …

(60 ILCS 1/135-25) Sec. 135-25. Vesting of gift or legacy. Every gift or legacy for any of the purposes set forth in Section 135-20 made to a cemetery by its name, if the cemetery has a board of managers appointed under this Article, shall vest in that board and take effect for a…

(60 ILCS 1/135-30) Sec. 135-30. Organization of board; treasurer and bond. (a) The board of managers, as soon as may be convenient after appointment, shall meet and organize by selecting one of its members to be president and another of its members to be clerk. (b) The board shal…

(60 ILCS 1/135-35) Sec. 135-35. Treasurer as custodian; annual report. (a) The treasurer shall have custody of all money and property received in trust by the board of managers and shall pay out the money and property only upon the written order of the board, signed by at least 4…

(60 ILCS 1/135-40) Sec. 135-40. Clerk's records; annual report. (a) The clerk of the board of managers, in a book provided for that purpose, shall keep a permanent record of the proceedings of the board, signed by the president and attested by the clerk, and shall also keep a per…

(60 ILCS 1/135-45) Sec. 135-45. Removal of officers; accounting. The township supervisors or highway commissioners may remove from office any or all of the members of the board of managers or the treasurer of the board for nonperformance of duties or for misappropriation or wrong…

(60 ILCS 1/135-5) Sec. 135-5. Joint township cemeteries. Any 2 or more townships or road districts, within or without the same county, may jointly unite in establishing and maintaining cemeteries within and without their corporate limits, may acquire lands for cemeteries in commo…

(60 ILCS 1/135-50) Sec. 135-50. Tax; petition and referendum. (a) When 50 legal voters of each township or road district present a petition to the board of managers asking that an annual tax be levied for the control and maintenance of cemeteries under this Article, the board sha…

(60 ILCS 1/135-55) Sec. 135-55. Ordinances; violation; jurors. (a) The board of managers may pass ordinances for the government of the cemeteries, including ordinances relating to the operating and speed of motor vehicles and the use of lots, walks, ponds, water courses, vaults, …

(60 ILCS 1/135-60) Sec. 135-60. Policemen. The board of managers may appoint policemen to protect the cemeteries and preserve order in the cemeteries. The policemen have the same power with respect to any offenses committed in the cemeteries, or any violation of Section 135-55, t…

(60 ILCS 1/135-65) Sec. 135-65. Transfer of funds. When a multi-township cemetery district takes over a cemetery or cemetery authority, the care fund of the cemetery or cemetery authority shall be transferred into the cemetery district fund of the multi-township cemetery district…

(60 ILCS 1/140-10) Sec. 140-10. Issuance of bonds; terms. (a) If a majority of the votes on the question under Section 140-5 are in favor of the question, the township may issue the bonds. To effectuate the issuance of the bonds, the township board shall adopt a resolution author…

(60 ILCS 1/140-15) Sec. 140-15. Tax. The township board shall, in the resolution authorizing the bonds, provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds as each falls due. A certified copy of the resolution authorizing th…

(60 ILCS 1/140-5) Sec. 140-5. Petition and referendum for township hall. (a) Whenever it is desired to build, purchase, or lease, for a longer period than 10 years, a township hall, a multi-purpose senior center, or a combined township hall and multi-purpose senior center in any …

(60 ILCS 1/145-10) Sec. 145-10. Issuance of bonds; terms. (a) If a majority of the votes cast on the question under Section 145-5 are in favor of the question, the township may issue bonds in denominations of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 each, payable respectively in n…

(60 ILCS 1/145-15) Sec. 145-15. City tax. The city council of the city whose territory is coextensive with the township shall provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on the debt as it falls due and also to pay and discharge the principal w…

(60 ILCS 1/145-20) Sec. 145-20. "Building" or "purchasing" a township hall, as used in this Article, means the purchasing of real estate upon which to build the township hall or upon which the township hall is situated, as well as to build or purchase the township hall. (Source: …

(60 ILCS 1/145-5) Sec. 145-5. Petition and referendum to build or purchase township hall. (a) Whenever it is desired to build or purchase a township hall in any township whose boundaries are coextensive with the limits of an incorporated city, 25 electors of the township may, bef…

(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 1/150-10) Sec. 150-10. Resolution for bond issuance; referendum. Beginning August 16, 1993, the board of managers elected under Section 150-15 in a township having a population of not more than 25,000 (according to the last preceding federal census) shall initiate procee…

(60 ILCS 1/150-15) Sec. 150-15. Board of managers; election; organization; salary. (a) The community building or buildings, if authorized at an election, shall be under the care and supervision of a board of managers. The board of managers shall consist of 3 persons who are regis…

(60 ILCS 1/150-20) Sec. 150-20. Issuance of bonds. (a) If a majority of the legal voters voting on the question at an election held under this Article, vote in favor of issuing bonds for community building purposes, the board of managers may thereafter issue bonds in an amount no…

(60 ILCS 1/150-25) Sec. 150-25. Tax. The board of managers shall, in the resolution authorizing the bonds, provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds as each falls due. A certified copy of the resolution authorizing…

(60 ILCS 1/150-30) Sec. 150-30. Use of bond sale proceeds. The proceeds of the sale of bonds shall be expended by the board of managers for the purpose of purchasing, erecting, or equipping a community building or buildings or acquiring a site for a community building or building…

(60 ILCS 1/150-35) Sec. 150-35. Acquisition of property or funds. A township may acquire, by dedication or gift, property or funds for community buildings. If community buildings or funds are acquired by dedication or gift, a board of managers shall be elected at the next succeed…

(60 ILCS 1/150-40) Sec. 150-40. Maintenance tax; referendum. (a) Any township that acquires community buildings by dedication, gift, purchase, or erection may levy annually a maintenance tax of not more than 0.05% of the value of all taxable property in the township, as equalized…

(60 ILCS 1/150-45) Sec. 150-45. Supervisor's bond. The supervisor of the township, before receiving any funds under this Article, shall execute (i) a good and sufficient bond with 2 or more sureties approved by the board of managers and filed with the board for the benefit of the…

(60 ILCS 1/150-5) Sec. 150-5. Bonds for community buildings. Subject to the provisions of this Article, any township having a population of not more than 25,000 may issue bonds for the purpose of purchasing, erecting, equipping, remodeling, or renovating community buildings. (Sou…

(60 ILCS 1/150-50) Sec. 150-50. Certain townships under 5,000 population. (a) Any township (i) in which a majority of those voting on the question voted in favor of levying a tax for the establishment, erection, and maintenance of a community building under the provisions of "An …

(60 ILCS 1/150-55) Sec. 150-55. Dedication to soldiers and sailors. The community buildings of a township may be dedicated to the soldiers and sailors of the township, and bronze tablets or other memorials in honor of those soldiers and sailors may be placed in the buildings by t…

(60 ILCS 1/150-60) Sec. 150-60. Use of buildings; private lessees. Subject to the reasonable rules and regulations of the board of managers, the community buildings shall be for the free use and benefit of the inhabitants of the township for lectures, concerts, free amusements an…

(60 ILCS 1/150-65) Sec. 150-65. Annual report. The board of managers shall make a full and complete annual report of all its actions to the township board. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/150-70) Sec. 150-70. Abandoning community building project; petition; referendum; transfer of moneys. (a) Upon the petition of not fewer than 50 owners or life tenants of real estate of any township that has adopted the provisions of this Article and provided a fund fo…

(60 ILCS 1/150-75) Sec. 150-75. Sale of community building, generally; petition and referendum; notice of sale. (a) Not fewer than 50 electors of any township that has adopted the provisions of this Article may file with the clerk of the board of managers a petition signed by the…

(60 ILCS 1/150-80) Sec. 150-80. Sale of community building to school district or municipality. (a) Not fewer than 50 electors of a township that has adopted the provisions of this Article may present to the clerk of the board of managers a petition requesting the sale of a commun…

(60 ILCS 1/150-85) Sec. 150-85. Deed. When any conveyance of real estate is made by the board of managers under Section 150-75 or 150-80, the deed shall recite the date and result of the election authorizing the sale and shall be signed by the president of the board of managers i…