Chapter 65, MUNICIPALITIES

(65 ILCS 5/11-15.4-30) Sec. 11-15.4-30. Unreasonable restrictions and regulations; special assessments and levies. (a) A municipality may not exercise any of its powers to enact ordinances within an urban agricultural area in a manner that would unreasonably restrict or regulate …

(65 ILCS 5/11-15.4-5) Sec. 11-15.4-5. Definitions. As used in this Division: "Agricultural product" means an agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, aquacultural, or vegetable product, either in its natural or processed state, that has been produced, processed, or otherwise ha…

(65 ILCS 5/11-15.5-10) Sec. 11-15.5-10. Prohibitions. Notwithstanding any provision of this Code or other provision of law, the adoption of any ordinance or resolution or the exercise of any power, by municipality that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting the installation o…

(65 ILCS 5/11-15.5-20) Sec. 11-15.5-20. Costs; attorney's fees. In any litigation arising under this Division or involving the application of this Division, the prevailing party shall be entitled to costs and reasonable attorney's fees. (Source: P.A. 104-458, eff. 6-1-26.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-15.5-25) Sec. 11-15.5-25. Applicability. (a) As used in this Section, "shared roof" means any roof that (i) serves more than one unit, including, but not limited to, a contiguous roof serving adjacent units, or (ii) is part of the common elements or common area of a…

(65 ILCS 5/11-15.5-5) Sec. 11-15.5-5. Definitions. As used in this Division: "Low-voltage solar-powered device" means a piece of equipment designed for a particular purpose, including, but not limited to, doorbells, security systems, and illumination equipment, powered by a solar…

(65 ILCS 5/11-150-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-150-1) Sec. 11-150-1. The corporate authorities of any municipality operating a waterworks, sewerage or combined waterworks and sewerage system have the power by ordinance to collect a fair and reasonable charge for connection to any suc…

(65 ILCS 5/11-150.1-1) Sec. 11-150.1-1. Lead hazard cost recovery fee. The corporate authorities of any municipality that operates a waterworks system and that incurs reasonable costs to comply with Section 35.5 of the Illinois Plumbing License Law shall have the authority, by or…

(65 ILCS 5/11-151-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-1) Sec. 11-151-1. As used in this Article, "public water district" or "district" means a public water district organized under "An Act in relation to public water districts", approved July 25, 1945, as amended. (Source: P.A. 76-1356.…

(65 ILCS 5/11-151-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-2) Sec. 11-151-2. This Article does not apply to any public water district whose territory is situated in 2 or more municipalities, except where one of the municipalities is incorporated after June 1, 2004 pursuant to the amendatory …

(65 ILCS 5/11-151-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-3) Sec. 11-151-3. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, no municipality may furnish water or sanitary sewer service to any territory situated within a public water district and more than one mile from the corporate limits of …

(65 ILCS 5/11-151-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-4) Sec. 11-151-4. If a municipality annexes all of the territory of a public water district, the municipality shall take over all the properties and assets of the district, assume all debts, liabilities and obligations of the distric…

(65 ILCS 5/11-151-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-5) Sec. 11-151-5. If a municipality annexes part, but not all of the territory of a public water district, sanitary sewer district, or both, the corporate authorities of the municipality and of the district may enter contracts provid…

(65 ILCS 5/11-152-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-152-1) Sec. 11-152-1. (a) The corporate authorities of any municipality over 1,000,000 in population may establish a municipal insurance availability program to make available to the residents of such municipality, who are otherwise unab…

(65 ILCS 5/11-152-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-152-2) Sec. 11-152-2. (a) The municipal insurance availability program shall offer to each eligible resident coverage in the amount and type determined to be sufficient by the program administrator. (b) Premiums charged for coverage issu…

(65 ILCS 5/11-152-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-152-3) Sec. 11-152-3. Revenues received under the municipal insurance availability program shall be used to pay the costs of the program and to maintain and service the municipality's water and sewage drainage system. (Source: P.A. 84-14…

(65 ILCS 5/11-152-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-152-4) Sec. 11-152-4. Municipal insurance availability programs organized under this Division 152 of Article 11 of the Illinois Municipal Code shall be subject to all applicable provisions of the Illinois Insurance Code. (Source: P.A. 84…

(65 ILCS 5/11-16-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-16-1) Sec. 11-16-1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may provide for and maintain a board of health, consisting of more than one person, and to prescribe its powers and duties, except where a municipality has adopted the pro…

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-1) Sec. 11-17-1. When authorized in the manner provided by Section 11-17-2 the corporate authorities of each municipality with a population of more than 100,000 and less than 200,000 shall establish and maintain a public health board f…

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-10) Sec. 11-17-10. The question shall be substantially in the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the public health board of the city (or village or YES incorporated town, as the case m…

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-11) Sec. 11-17-11. When any ordinance specified in Section 11-17-9 has been so ratified, the corporate authorities, after discharging all financial obligations of the public health board, by appropriate ordinance may transfer any mone…

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-12) Sec. 11-17-12. Any public health board established and maintained under "An Act to authorize cities and villages of more than 100,000 and less than 200,000 inhabitants to establish and maintain public health boards and to levy an …

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-2) Sec. 11-17-2. When 100 electors of any municipality specified in Section 11-17-1 present a petition to the clerk of the municipality asking that an annual tax be levied for the establishment and maintenance of a public health board …

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-3) Sec. 11-17-3. When it has been decided to establish and maintain a public health board under this Division 17, the mayor or president, with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint a board of 5 directors, 2 of whom a…

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-4) Sec. 11-17-4. Immediately after their appointment, the directors shall meet and organize by electing one of their number as president and one as secretary and by electing such other officers as they may deem necessary. They shall ad…

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-5) Sec. 11-17-5. The public health board may initiate and maintain activities for the promotion of maternal child health, industrial hygiene, mental health, sanitary housing, public health education, and shall have the right to inspect…

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-6) Sec. 11-17-6. The public health board may accept gifts or gratuities of any kind, and may use such gifts or gratuities for any of the purposes authorized by this Division 17. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-7) Sec. 11-17-7. The board of directors may lease or acquire and take title in the name of public health board to such real estate as may be reasonably necessary for the housing and the proper functioning of any and all divisions of su…

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-8) Sec. 11-17-8. Rules and regulations adopted or enacted into an ordinance in conformity with Section 11-17-5 shall be enforced in the same manner as municipal ordinances. Any person who violates any of these rules and regulations is …

(65 ILCS 5/11-17-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-9) Sec. 11-17-9. When the board of directors of any public health board established and maintained under this Division 17 makes a written recommendation to the corporate authorities for the discontinuance of the public health board, st…

(65 ILCS 5/11-18-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-18-1) Sec. 11-18-1. When a municipality with a population of more than 5,000 and less than 100,000 has adopted this Division 18 in the manner provided by Section 11-18-3, the mayor or president shall appoint, upon the recommendation of th…

(65 ILCS 5/11-18-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-18-2) Sec. 11-18-2. A municipality which adopts this Division 18 may levy, annually, a tax of not more than .0075% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property therein, for the current year,…

(65 ILCS 5/11-18-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-18-3) Sec. 11-18-3. Whenever at least 100 electors of a specified municipality present a petition to the municipal clerk, asking that the question of the adoption of this Division 18 be submitted to the electors of the municipality the qu…

(65 ILCS 5/11-18-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-18-4) Sec. 11-18-4. Any municipality which has heretofore adopted "An Act providing for community nurses in certain cities, villages and incorporated towns, and permitting a tax therefor," approved June 30, 1925, as amended, shall be trea…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-1) Sec. 11-19-1. Contracts. (a) Any city, village, or incorporated town may make contracts with any other city, village, or incorporated town or with any person, corporation, or county, or any agency created by intergovernmental agreem…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-10) Sec. 11-19-10. Every city, village, and incorporated town may acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation any real property within or without the corporate limits of such city, village or incorporated town for the purpose of providi…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-2) Sec. 11-19-2. As used in this Division 19: (1) "Garbage" means wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food; wastes from the handling, storage and sale of produce. (2) "Refuse" means combustible t…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-3) Sec. 11-19-3. Whenever a city, village or incorporated town makes a contract that is authorized by this Division 19, the corporate authorities shall include in the annual appropriation ordinance for each fiscal year, an appropriatio…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-4) Sec. 11-19-4. The corporate authorities of each city, village and incorporated town, whether organized under the general law or special charter, with a population of less than 500,000, may establish and maintain systems or plants, b…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-5) Sec. 11-19-5. Every city, village or incorporated town may provide such method or methods as shall be approved by the corporate authorities for the disposition of garbage, refuse and ashes. Any municipality may provide by ordinance …

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-6) Sec. 11-19-6. Any city, village or incorporated town may exercise the powers granted by this Division 19 individually or jointly and cooperatively with any other one or more than one city, village or incorporated town or one or more…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-7) Sec. 11-19-7. When the corporate authorities of 2 or more cities, villages, or incorporated towns each declare by ordinance that it is in the best interests of such cities, villages, or incorporated towns to join with each other or …

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-8) Sec. 11-19-8. If a city, village or incorporated town exercises the powers granted by this Division 19 jointly and cooperatively with another city, village or incorporated town or county and it is agreed pursuant to the provisions o…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-9) Sec. 11-19-9. Except as otherwise provided in Section 11-19-10, whenever a city, village or incorporated town exercises the powers granted by this Division 19 jointly and cooperatively with any other city, village or incorporated to…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19.1-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19.1-11) Sec. 11-19.1-11. For the purposes of lessening or preventing the discharge of air contaminants, the corporate authorities of a city, village or incorporated town may prescribe by ordinance for the regulation of (1) the design …

(65 ILCS 5/11-19.2-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19.2-1) Sec. 11-19.2-1. Definitions. As used in this Division, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Code" means any municipal ordinance that pertains to or regulates: sanitation practices; forestry practices; the attachment of bi…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19.2-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19.2-10) Sec. 11-19.2-10. Sanctions appropriate to owner - property. The order to correct a code violation and the sanctions imposed by a municipality against a respondent property owner as the result of a finding of a code violation u…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19.2-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19.2-11) Sec. 11-19.2-11. (a) A person who contracts with the federal government or any of its agencies, including without limitation the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to care for vacant residential real estate shall be …

(65 ILCS 5/11-19.2-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19.2-12) Sec. 11-19.2-12. (a) Any fine, other sanction or costs imposed, or part of any fine, other sanction or costs imposed remaining unpaid after the exhaustion of, or the failure to exhaust, judicial review procedures under the Adm…

(65 ILCS 5/11-19.2-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19.2-13) Sec. 11-19.2-13. Adoption of Division by municipality. Any municipality establishing a code hearing unit by ordinance under this Division may adopt such other provisions as are necessary and proper to carry into effect the pow…