Chapter 60, TOWNSHIPS

(60 ILCS 1/235-10) Sec. 235-10. Rate of tax; referendum to increase maximum rate. (a) In townships having an equalized assessed valuation of $36,000,000 or more, taxes authorized by subsection (a) may be extended at a rate not exceeding 0.25% of value, as equalized or assessed by…

(60 ILCS 1/235-13) Sec. 235-13. Truth in taxation. Tax levies by a township shall be subject to the Truth in Taxation Act to the extent that Act applies. (Source: P.A. 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/235-15) Sec. 235-15. Special tax for sidewalks, street lighting, or traffic control devices. (a) The township board of a township in a county with a population between 300,000 and 3,000,000 may provide for the construction or installation and repair of sidewalks or str…

(60 ILCS 1/235-16) Sec. 235-16. Special tax for sidewalks, street lighting, street repairs, or traffic control devices; counties of 3,000,000 or more. (a) The township board of a township in a county with a population of more than 3,000,000 may provide for the construction or ins…

(60 ILCS 1/235-20) Sec. 235-20. General assistance tax. (a) The township board may raise money by taxation deemed necessary to be expended to provide general assistance in the township to persons needing that assistance as provided in the Illinois Public Aid Code, including perso…

(60 ILCS 1/235-25) Sec. 235-25. Tentative budget and appropriation ordinance and tax for road purposes. In each road district comprised of a single township, the township board shall adopt a tentative budget and appropriation ordinance for road purposes and shall levy the amount …

(60 ILCS 1/235-5) Sec. 235-5. Township taxes for various purposes. The township board may raise money, by taxation not exceeding the rates established in Section 235-10, for the following purposes: (1) Prosecuting or defending suits by or against the township or in which the town…

(60 ILCS 1/240-5) Sec. 240-5. Borrowing money. The township board may borrow money (i) from any bank or financial institution if the money is to be repaid within 10 years from the time it is borrowed or (ii) with the approval of the highway commissioner, from a township road dist…

(60 ILCS 1/245-10) Sec. 245-10. Treasurer; payment of funds. Whenever the legal voters at an annual township meeting or a special township meeting direct the transfer and payment of any surplus township fund or funds into some other township fund or funds or into the treasury of …

(60 ILCS 1/245-15) Sec. 245-15. Claim against transferred surplus. Whenever any surplus township fund or funds are paid into the treasury of the road and bridge fund or into another township fund under this Article, any valid and enforceable claim that any individual, firm, or co…

(60 ILCS 1/245-20) Sec. 245-20. Transfer of interest income. The township board of any township, when requested by the treasurer, may authorize the transfer of interest earned on any of the moneys of the township into the fund of the township that is most in need of the interest.…

(60 ILCS 1/245-5) Sec. 245-5. Resolution at township meeting for transfer among township funds. (a) The legal voters of a township at an annual township meeting or at a special township meeting called for that purpose may, by written resolution by a majority vote of the legal vot…

(60 ILCS 1/250-5) Sec. 250-5. Transfers from general fund to general assistance fund. The township board may direct the transfer of any amount from the township general fund to the township general assistance fund that is not appropriated for purposes other than general assistanc…

(60 ILCS 1/255-10) Sec. 255-10. Treasurer; payment of balance. Whenever the legal voters at an annual township meeting or a special township meeting direct the transfer and payment of any balance in the road and bridge fund to the general township fund or to any other township fu…

(60 ILCS 1/255-15) Sec. 255-15. Claim against transferred funds. Whenever any balance from the road and bridge fund is paid into the general township fund or into any other township fund or funds under this Article, any valid and enforceable claim that any person has against fund…

(60 ILCS 1/255-5) Sec. 255-5. Transfer from road and bridge fund. Whenever the road and bridge fund of any township in a county with a population of 50,000 or more contains a balance no longer needed for road and bridge purposes, occasioned by the fact that the township no longer…

(60 ILCS 1/260-5) Sec. 260-5. Distributions from general fund, generally. To the extent that moneys in the township general fund have not been appropriated for other purposes, the township board may direct that distributions be made from that fund as follows: (1) To (i) school di…

(60 ILCS 1/265-10) Sec. 265-10. Limitation on action. No action shall be taken under Section 265-5 at any annual or special township meeting unless the notice of the meeting, published at least 10 days before the meeting, included notification that the matter of distribution of e…

(60 ILCS 1/265-15) Sec. 265-15. Notice of meeting. The township clerk or other township officer charged with posting notices of the annual or special township meeting shall include in the published notice of the annual or special township meeting a statement that the matter of th…

(60 ILCS 1/265-5) Sec. 265-5. Distribution to school districts. (a) Whenever the electors attending an annual or special township meeting of a township in a county with a population of more than 1,000,000 (counties of the third class) determine that the general township fund of t…

(60 ILCS 1/275-10) Sec. 275-10. Purposes of museum or historical society. Any museum or historical society for which township funds are distributed under this Article shall be maintained and operated, in addition to any other purposes, for the following purposes: (1) To foster an…

(60 ILCS 1/275-15) Sec. 275-15. Use of funds; financial statement. (a) Any funds paid to a not for profit museum or historical society must be used solely for the maintenance and operation of the museum or historical society. (b) Within 60 days after the close of the fiscal year …

(60 ILCS 1/275-5) Sec. 275-5. Distribution to museum or historical society. Whenever a township board determines that the general township fund of the township contains funds not derived from a township tax levy that are not needed for township purposes during the remainder of th…

(60 ILCS 1/280-10) Sec. 280-10. Refunding bond ordinance; tax rate. (a) The ordinance authorizing the refunding bonds shall prescribe all details of the refunding bonds and shall provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property within the t…

(60 ILCS 1/280-15) Sec. 280-15. Exchange or sale of refunding bonds. (a) The refunding bonds may be exchanged for the bonds to be refunded on the basis of dollar for dollar for the par value of the bonds, interest coupons, and interest not represented by coupons, if any. Instead …

(60 ILCS 1/280-20) Sec. 280-20. Form of refunding bonds; use of tax proceeds. (a) The refunding bonds shall be of a form and denomination, payable at a place, bear a date, and be executed by officials as provided by the corporate authorities of the township in the bond ordinance.…

(60 ILCS 1/280-25) Sec. 280-25. Abatement of taxes. (a) Whenever any refunding bonds are purchased and cancelled under Section 280-20, the taxes thereafter to be extended for payment of the principal of and interest on the remainder of the issue shall be reduced in an amount equa…

(60 ILCS 1/280-30) Sec. 280-30. Sinking fund. (a) Money that becomes available from taxes that were levied for prior years for payment of bonds or interest coupons that were paid or refunded before those taxes were collected, after payment of all warrants that may have been issue…

(60 ILCS 1/280-35) Sec. 280-35. Notice to owners of unpaid bonds; refunding plan. (a) The corporate authorities of a township may take any action that may be necessary to inform the owners of unpaid bonds regarding the financial condition of the township and the necessity of refu…

(60 ILCS 1/280-40) Sec. 280-40. Application and construction. This Article applies to any township, regardless of the law under which it is organized and operating, and constitutes complete authority for issuing refunding bonds under this Article without reference to other laws. …

(60 ILCS 1/280-5) Sec. 280-5. Refunding bonds. (a) The corporate authorities of any township, without submitting the question to the electors of the township for approval, may authorize by ordinance the issuance of refunding bonds (i) to refund its bonds before their maturity; (i…

(60 ILCS 1/285-10) Sec. 285-10. Use of moneys. (a) Moneys paid to the township supervisor under subsection (a) of Section 285-5, may be appropriated and expended for defraying the general charges and expenses of the township; for laying out, making, and repairing the roads and br…

(60 ILCS 1/285-15) Sec. 285-15. Payment to highway commissioner. Whenever a township board that obtains or receives surplus moneys under Section 285-5 determines by resolution that a particular amount or portion of the surplus moneys be paid to the highway commissioner of the tow…

(60 ILCS 1/285-5) Sec. 285-5. Payment of bond fund balance to township. (a) Whenever all the bonds of any township have been fully paid and canceled and there remains in the hands of the county collector of taxes or county treasurer, after the payment, any balance to the credit o…

(60 ILCS 1/290-5) Sec. 290-5. Severability. If any Section, paragraph, clause, or provision of this Code is held invalid, the invalidity of that Section, paragraph, clause, or provision shall not affect any other provision of this Code. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 1735; P.A. 88-62.)…

(60 ILCS 1/305-105) Sec. 305-105. Prior law. (a) A provision of this Code that is the same or substantially the same as a prior law shall be construed as a continuation of the prior law and not as a new or different law. (b) A citation in another Act to an Act or to a Section of …

(60 ILCS 1/305-110) Sec. 305-110. Other Acts of the 88th General Assembly. If any other Act of the 88th General Assembly changes, adds, or repeals a provision of prior law that is continued in this Code, then that change, addition, or repeal in the other Act shall be construed to…

(60 ILCS 1/305-115) Sec. 305-115. Home rule; mandates. Nothing in this Code as initially enacted (i) is a denial or limitation on home rule powers where no denial or limitation existed under prior law or (ii) creates a State mandate under the State Mandates Act where no mandate e…

(60 ILCS 1/310-105) Sec. 310-105. Repeals. (a) The following Acts or parts of Acts are repealed: Sections 36 through 36.6 of the Fees and Salaries Act. The Township Law of 1874. The Township Annexation Act. The Townships Within Cities Act. The Township Consolidation Act. The Town…

(60 ILCS 1/315-105) Sec. 315-105. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 1, 1994. (Source: P.A. 88-62.)