Chapter 60, TOWNSHIPS

(60 ILCS 1/30-165) Sec. 30-165. Fire protection; special taxing district. (a) The electors may authorize the township board to contract with one or more municipalities in the township or with the county within which the township is located to furnish fire protection in the uninco…

(60 ILCS 1/30-166) Sec. 30-166. Civil penalties for false fire alarms. The township board of any township providing fire protection services may impose reasonable civil penalties on individuals who repeatedly cause false fire alarms. (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

(60 ILCS 1/30-167) Sec. 30-167. Charge against non-residents. (a) The township board of each township may fix, charge, and collect fees not exceeding the reasonable cost of the service for all services rendered by the township against persons, businesses, and other entities who a…

(60 ILCS 1/30-170) Sec. 30-170. Mosquito abatement district. (a) The electors may authorize the township board to contract for the furnishing of mosquito abatement services in the unincorporated area of the township. (b) The township board may adopt a resolution declaring the uni…

(60 ILCS 1/30-180) Sec. 30-180. Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. The electors may authorize the supervisor to file an application for the township and all other bodies politic established by or subject to the control of the electors to participate in the Illinois Municipal Ret…

(60 ILCS 1/30-185) Sec. 30-185. Transfer of money to city or village. In townships wholly within the limits of an incorporated city or village, the electors may transfer any money in the treasury of the township to the treasury of the city or village. The money shall be used by t…

(60 ILCS 1/30-190) Sec. 30-190. Rules; fines. The electors may make all by-laws, rules, and regulations deemed necessary to carry into effect the powers granted in this Article 30 and may impose fines deemed proper, except when a fine or penalty is already allowed by law. No offe…

(60 ILCS 1/30-195) Sec. 30-195. Use of penalties collected. The electors may apply all penalties, when collected, in the manner deemed most to the interest of the township. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/30-20) Sec. 30-20. Powers of electors at annual township meeting. (a) The electors present at the annual township meeting have the powers enumerated in this Article 30. An elector is a person registered to vote within the township no less than 28 days before the date o…

(60 ILCS 1/30-200) Sec. 30-200. Limitation in certain townships. In townships in which there are incorporated cities or villages, the boundaries of which are co-extensive with the limits of the township, and in townships that lie wholly within the limits of an incorporated city o…

(60 ILCS 1/30-205) Sec. 30-205. Advisory referenda. Any group of registered voters may request an advisory question of public policy for consideration by the electors at the annual meeting by giving written notice of the specific advisory question to the township clerk in the sam…

(60 ILCS 1/30-25) Sec. 30-25. Exercise of corporate powers. The electors may take all necessary measures and give directions for the exercise of their corporate powers. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/30-30) Sec. 30-30. Time of township meetings. The electors may fix the hour at which township meetings are held. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/30-41) Sec. 30-41. Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary, the township board of trustees may make contracts relating to insurance. In no event shall the duration of the contract exceed the board term by more than one year. The township board of trus…

(60 ILCS 1/30-42) Sec. 30-42. The board of trustees may provide for the purchase of insurance, including coverage obtained from a risk management association, against any loss or liability of any officer, employee, or agent of the township resulting from the wrongful or negligent…

(60 ILCS 1/30-45) Sec. 30-45. Property record system. The electors may expend monies for the preparation, establishment, and maintenance of a detailed property record system to provide information useful to assessment officials. The electors may enter into contracts with persons,…

(60 ILCS 1/30-5) Sec. 30-5. Annual township meeting. (a) The annual township meeting in the respective townships for the transaction of the business of the township shall be held on the second Tuesday of April in each year, after 6 p.m., at the place appointed for those meetings.…

(60 ILCS 1/30-50) Sec. 30-50. Purchase and use of property. (a) The electors may make all orders for the purchase, sale, conveyance, regulation, or use of the township's corporate property (including the direct sale or lease of single township road district property) that may be …

(60 ILCS 1/30-51) Sec. 30-51. Competitive bidding exceptions. Contracts and purchases that by their nature are not adapted to award by competitive bidding, such as contracts for goods procured from another governmental agency and purchases of equipment previously owned by some en…

(60 ILCS 1/30-53) Sec. 30-53. Surplus property. The majority of electors present at an annual or special town meeting may declare property of the township to be surplus for purposes of donating the property to a historical society or other not-for-profit corporation as provided i…

(60 ILCS 1/30-60) Sec. 30-60. Public graveyards. The electors may authorize the township board to appropriate monies, in excess of the sum provided in the Public Graveyards Act, for the purpose of putting any old, neglected graves and cemeteries in the township in a cleaner and m…

(60 ILCS 1/30-65) Sec. 30-65. Graves of former armed forces members. The electors may provide for the decoration and maintenance of graves of persons who at any time served in the armed forces of the United States that are within the township. (Source: P.A. 84-371; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/30-70) Sec. 30-70. Court room and office space. The electors at any annual or special township meeting may set aside and maintain space in any township buildings or may obtain and maintain space in privately owned buildings for court room and office use by the circuit …

(60 ILCS 1/30-75) Sec. 30-75. Zoning. The electors may authorize the township board to exercise the zoning powers conferred by Article 110. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/30-85) Sec. 30-85. Trees. The electors may offer premiums and take actions to induce the planting and cultivating of trees along the highways in the township. The electors may protect and preserve trees standing along or on highways and may purchase, plant, and cultiva…

(60 ILCS 1/30-90) Sec. 30-90. Fences. The electors may make rules and regulations for ascertaining the sufficiency of all fences in the township and may determine what is a lawful fence within the township except as otherwise provided by law. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/30-95) Sec. 30-95. Livestock running at large. The electors may restrain, regulate, or prohibit the running at large of poultry, cattle, horses, mules, asses, swine, sheep, or goats and may determine the time and manner in which those animals may go at large, unless th…

(60 ILCS 1/35-10) Sec. 35-10. Notice of special meeting; business at meeting. (a) Notice of a special township meeting shall be given in the same manner and for the same length of time as for regular township meetings. (b) The notice shall set forth the object of the meeting as c…

(60 ILCS 1/35-15) Sec. 35-15. Quorum and powers of electors at special meeting. No special township meeting shall be convened unless 15 or more electors are present at the meeting. The electors at special township meetings when convened have the powers enumerated in this Article.…

(60 ILCS 1/35-20) Sec. 35-20. Matters postponed from annual meeting. The electors may act upon any subject within the powers of the electors at any annual township meeting that may have been postponed for want of time at the preceding annual meeting to be considered at a future t…

(60 ILCS 1/35-25) Sec. 35-25. Exercise of annual meeting powers. When the special meeting is called by the township board in the manner provided by this Article, the electors may take any action authorized by Article 30 that could have been taken at an annual township meeting. (S…

(60 ILCS 1/35-30) Sec. 35-30. Hour of township meetings. The electors may fix the hour at which township meetings shall be held. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/35-35) Sec. 35-35. Filling vacancy in township offices. If a vacancy exists in any township office and the vacancy is not filled within 60 days, the electors at a special township meeting may select a qualified person to fill the vacancy and to serve until the expirati…

(60 ILCS 1/35-40) Sec. 35-40. Conveyance of land for highway purposes. The electors may convey any land or any interest in land held by the township to the county or State where the conveyance is made for highway purposes. The conveyance shall be made in the same manner and form …

(60 ILCS 1/35-45) Sec. 35-45. Control of public graveyards; tax. (a) The electors may vest control of public graveyards not under the control of any corporation sole, organization, or society in 3 trustees and may elect the 3 trustees. (b) The electors may authorize the cemetery …

(60 ILCS 1/35-5) Sec. 35-5. Special township meeting. Special township meetings shall be held when the township board (or at least 15 voters of the township) file in the office of the township clerk a written statement that a special meeting is necessary for the interests of the …

(60 ILCS 1/35-50) Sec. 35-50. Definitions. As used in Sections 35-50.1 through 35-50.6, unless the context requires otherwise: "Township board" means the board of trustees, board of town auditors, board of township trustees, or town trustees provided for in the Township Law of 18…

(60 ILCS 1/35-50.1) Sec. 35-50.1. Senior citizens' housing. A township may construct, purchase, improve, extend, or equip senior citizens' housing. The township board shall have the power to do the following: (1) Own and manage residential rental property for senior citizens. (2)…

(60 ILCS 1/35-50.2) Sec. 35-50.2. Construction of senior citizens' housing; revenue bonds. (a) For the purpose of defraying the cost of the construction, purchase, improvement, extension, or equipping from time to time of senior citizens' housing, including feasibility, engineeri…

(60 ILCS 1/35-50.3) Sec. 35-50.3. Ordinance describing project; submission to voters. A township board shall initiate proceedings for the issuance of bonds under Sections 35-50.1 through 35-50.6 by adopting an election ordinance describing briefly the authority under which the bo…

(60 ILCS 1/35-50.4) Sec. 35-50.4. Security for bonds. To secure payment of any or all of the bonds, any additional ordinance supplementing or amending the election ordinance shall set forth the covenants and undertakings of the township in connection with (i) the issuance of the …

(60 ILCS 1/35-50.5) Sec. 35-50.5. Rules and regulations; rates and charges; use of revenues from operation. (a) The township board of any township availing itself of Sections 35-50.1 through 35-50.6 may (i) make, enact, and enforce all needful rules and regulations for the acquis…

(60 ILCS 1/35-50.6) Sec. 35-50.6. Supervisor; bond proceeds and revenues. (a) The township supervisor shall be ex officio treasurer and the custodian of all funds derived from the issuance and sale of bonds under Sections 35-50.1 through 35-50.6 and of all income and revenue deri…

(60 ILCS 1/35-55) Sec. 35-55. Senior citizens services; authorization of tax levy. (a) The electors may authorize the township board to levy a tax (at a rate of not more than 0.15% of the value, as equalized and assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property in th…

(60 ILCS 1/35-60) Sec. 35-60. Youth service programs; authorization of tax levy. The electors may authorize the township board to levy a tax (at a rate of not more than 0.15% of the value, as equalized and assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property in the town…

(60 ILCS 1/35-65) Sec. 35-65. General assistance tax. If the electors at the annual township meeting fail in any year to levy any tax for general assistance to persons needing that assistance, or a tax for general assistance of an amount sufficient to meet those needs, or a tax o…

(60 ILCS 1/35-70) Sec. 35-70. Township library tax. The electors may levy a tax for the support and maintenance of a township library under the Illinois Local Library Act. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/35-75) Sec. 35-75. Cemetery tax. The electors may authorize the board of managers to levy a tax for the establishment and maintenance of cemeteries under Article 135. (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/35-80) Sec. 35-80. Participation in Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. The electors may elect to have the township and all other bodies politic established by or under the control of the electors participate as a single municipality in the Illinois Municipal Retiremen…

(60 ILCS 1/40-10) Sec. 40-10. Clerk of the meeting. (a) The township clerk, if there is one and he or she is present, shall act as clerk of the meeting and shall keep faithful minutes of the proceedings in a book to be known as the township record. The clerk shall enter at length…