Chapter 65, MUNICIPALITIES

(65 ILCS 5/11-78-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-78-1) Sec. 11-78-1. Any city or village, whether incorporated under a general or special law, which holds any real or personal estate which has been conveyed to it for school or academy purposes by ordinance or resolution of the corporate…

(65 ILCS 5/11-78-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-78-2) Sec. 11-78-2. If any real estate conveyed by virtue of Section 11-78-1 ceases at any time to be used for school purposes for a period of 3 years, the school officers, holding the title to the real estate, shall convey the real estat…

(65 ILCS 5/11-78-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-78-3) Sec. 11-78-3. If real or personal estate is under the control of trustees, appointed or elected by virtue of any general or special law of this state, when it is conveyed as specified in Section 11-78-1, the duties of those trustees…

(65 ILCS 5/11-78-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-78-4) Sec. 11-78-4. When authorized by ordinance, any municipality incorporated under a special charter, holding title to or having an interest in any real estate, may sell and convey the real estate, or the municipality's interest therei…

(65 ILCS 5/11-79-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-79-1) Sec. 11-79-1. In addition to all the rights and powers conferred on any municipality under this Code or any other Acts to acquire, under lease or otherwise, any real or personal property for corporate purposes, the corporate authori…

(65 ILCS 5/11-8-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-8-1) Sec. 11-8-1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may establish and maintain for reasonable charges electrical appliances in public or private buildings for fire and police protection upon application of the custodian of pub…

(65 ILCS 5/11-8-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-8-2) Sec. 11-8-2. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prevent the dangerous construction, installation and condition of chimneys, fireplaces, hearths, stoves, furnaces, pipes, ovens, boilers, fuel conduits, electric wiring a…

(65 ILCS 5/11-8-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-8-3) Sec. 11-8-3. For the purpose of guarding against the calamities of fire, the corporate authorities of each municipality may prescribe the limits within which wooden buildings shall not be erected, placed, or repaired, without permissi…

(65 ILCS 5/11-8-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-8-4) Sec. 11-8-4. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prevent the storage of turpentine, tar, pitch, resin, hemp, cotton, gunpowder, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of their products, and other similar combust…

(65 ILCS 5/11-8-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-8-5) Sec. 11-8-5. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prohibit the keeping of any lumber or coal yard, or the placing, piling, or selling of any lumber, timber, wood, coal, or other combustible material within t…

(65 ILCS 5/11-8-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-8-6) Sec. 11-8-6. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate persons engaged in the business of servicing, repairing or refilling fire extinguishers. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-1) Sec. 11-80-1. All provisions of this Code relating to the control of streets, alleys, sidewalks and all other public ways are subject to the provisions of "The Illinois Vehicle Code", as now and hereafter amended, and the Illinois H…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-10) Sec. 11-80-10. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prevent the depositing of ashes, offal, dirt, garbage, or any other offensive matter in, and to prevent injury to streets, alleys, or other municipal p…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-11) Sec. 11-80-11. The corporate authorities of each municipality may provide for and regulate cross-walks, curbs, and gutters. However, after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1973, all new curbs which are provided for by …

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-12) Sec. 11-80-12. The corporate authorities of each municipality may authorize the construction of and may regulate mills, mill-races, and feeders on, through, or across the streets and other municipal property. (Source: Laws 1961, p…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-13) Sec. 11-80-13. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the use of sidewalks, the construction, repair, and use of openings in sidewalks, and all vaults and structures thereon and thereunder, including telephone…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-14) Sec. 11-80-14. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prevent the use of streets, sidewalks, and public property for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, telegraph poles, watering places, racks, posti…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-15) Sec. 11-80-15. Street advertising; adult entertainment advertising. (a) The corporate authorities of each municipality may license street advertising by means of billboards, sign boards, and signs and may regulate the character an…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-16) Sec. 11-80-16. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carrying of banners, signs, placards, advertisements, or handbills on the sidewalks, streets, or other municipal property. (…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-17) Sec. 11-80-17. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prevent the flying of flags, banners, or signs across streets or from houses. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-18) Sec. 11-80-18. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the numbering of buildings and lots. No change in the numbering of buildings and lots shall be effective until 30 days after the election authorities havin…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-19) Sec. 11-80-19. The corporate authorities of each municipality may name originally and then may change the name of any street, avenue, alley, or other public place. No change in the name of any street, avenue, alley or other public…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-2) Sec. 11-80-2. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the use of the streets and other municipal property. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-20) Sec. 11-80-20. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate traffic and sales upon the streets, sidewalks, public places, and municipal property. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-21) Sec. 11-80-21. The corporate authorities by condemnation or otherwise may extend any street or alley over or across, or may construct any sewer under any railroad track, or through the right-of-way or land of any railroad company.…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-23) Sec. 11-80-23. The corporate authorities of each municipality may employ and fix the compensation of persons to serve as school crossing guards, on a part-time basis, by directing traffic and protecting children crossing the stree…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-24) Sec. 11-80-24. Collocation of small wireless facilities. (a) A municipality may propose that a small wireless facility be collocated on an existing utility pole within 200 feet of the wireless providers proposed location within its public rights-of-way under …

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-25) Sec. 11-80-25. Municipal use of utility pole for municipal public safety. (a) As used in this Section: "Communications space" has the meaning given to that term in the National Electric Safety Code as published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics E…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-2a) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-2a) Sec. 11-80-2a. In areas zoned for residential use, the corporate authorities may restrict part of each street for "residents parking only". (Source: P.A. 79-545.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-3) Sec. 11-80-3. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prevent and remove encroachments or obstructions upon the streets and other municipal property. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-4) Sec. 11-80-4. The corporate authorities of each municipality may provide for the lighting of streets and other municipal property. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-5) Sec. 11-80-5. The corporate authorities of each municipality, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all of the alderpersons, trustees or commissioners elected therein, may levy and collect annually, in addition to all other taxes no…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-6) Sec. 11-80-6. The corporate authorities of each municipality may provide for the cleaning of streets and other municipal property. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-7) Sec. 11-80-7. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the openings in streets and other municipal property for the laying, building, repairing, and removing of gas or water mains and pipes, or sewers, tunnels, an…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-8) Sec. 11-80-8. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the use of the space over the streets, alleys, other municipal property, and public places of the city, and upon payment of proper compensation, to be fixed b…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-9) Sec. 11-80-9. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prevent and regulate all amusements and activities having a tendency to annoy or endanger persons or property on the sidewalks, streets, and other municipal property. …

(65 ILCS 5/11-81-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-81-1) Sec. 11-81-1. The corporate authorities of each municipality, whether incorporated under the general law or a special charter, which includes wholly within its corporate limits a township or townships, or a road district, may levy, …

(65 ILCS 5/11-81-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-81-2) Sec. 11-81-2. The city council of any city and the board of trustees of any village or incorporated town, whether organized under the general law or special charter, which does not correspond to the description set out in Section 11…

(65 ILCS 5/11-82-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-82-1) Sec. 11-82-1. The corporate authorities of any city or village with a population of less than 20,000 may, for the purpose of oiling the streets or public highways within the corporate limits of the city or village, direct the paymen…

(65 ILCS 5/11-83-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-83-1) Sec. 11-83-1. In addition to all other means or methods authorized by law for the repair, maintenance, resurfacing, or reconstruction of street pavements, any municipality, by ordinance, may provide for the resurfacing of streets pa…

(65 ILCS 5/11-83-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-83-2) Sec. 11-83-2. The corporate authorities of any municipality may, of their own motion, pass ordinances providing for the resurfacing of streets as specified in Section 11-83-1, and for the nature, character, and locality, and descrip…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-1) Sec. 11-84-1. In addition to any other manner authorized by law, any municipality, by ordinance, may provide for the construction and repair of sidewalks therein, along or upon any streets or part of streets therein. The corporate a…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-2) Sec. 11-84-2. Such an ordinance shall define the location of the proposed sidewalk or the sidewalk to be repaired with reasonable certainty, shall prescribe its width, the materials of which it is to be constructed and the manner of…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-3) Sec. 11-84-3. Such an ordinance may provide that a bill of the costs of the sidewalk, showing the cost of the construction or repair and supervision thereof, shall be made by the officer or board designated by the ordinance to take …

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-4) Sec. 11-84-4. Upon failure to collect the special tax as hereinbefore provided in this Division 84, the municipal collector, or the officer designated to collect the tax on or before the first day of August in each year, shall make …

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-5) Sec. 11-84-5. When the specified general officer of the county receives such a report, he shall at once proceed to obtain judgment against the lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land enumerated therein for the special tax remaining…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-6) Sec. 11-84-6. Whenever payment of the cost of such sidewalk is required to be made in part by special tax and in part out of any general fund of the municipality, and the owner of a lot, block, tract, or parcel of land constructs or…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-7) Sec. 11-84-7. Except as herein otherwise provided for municipalities of more than 500,000 population, all contracts for the construction or repair of sidewalks as provided in this Division 84, when the expense thereof exceeds $1,500…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-8) Sec. 11-84-8. If a special tax for the construction or repair of a sidewalk is annulled by the corporate authorities or set aside by any court, a new ordinance may be passed and a new tax may be made and returned. This power to pass…

(65 ILCS 5/11-85-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-85-1) Sec. 11-85-1. Municipalities lying within one or more townships, or whose boundaries are coextensive with the boundaries of a township, have the power to enter into a contract with any township within which the municipality lies, or…