Chapter 65 — MUNICIPALITIES

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-103) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-103) Sec. 9-2-103. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, notice shall be given by the board of local improvements that bids will be received for the construction of such an improvement, either as a whole or in such sections as…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-104) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-104) Sec. 9-2-104. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, the successful bidder for the construction of such an improvement shall be required to enter into bond in a sum equal to one-third of the amount of his bid with sureties…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-105) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-105) Sec. 9-2-105. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, the board of local improvements may reject any and all proposals or bids, should they deem it best for the public good. If the board is of the opinion that a combination…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-106) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-106) Sec. 9-2-106. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, whenever any contract has been awarded to any bidder for the construction of any waterworks system, bridge, or viaduct referred to in Section 9-2-19, the bid of the part…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-107) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-107) Sec. 9-2-107. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, any owner or person interested in any of the property assessed and any bidder shall be entitled to a hearing before the board on any question connected with any such awa…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-108) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-108) Sec. 9-2-108. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, a notice of such an award of contract shall be published in one or more newspapers, designated by the board of local improvements in an order entered in its records, pub…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-109) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-109) Sec. 9-2-109. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, the owners of a majority of the frontage of the lots and land upon the street wherein the work is to be done, or their agents, who take oath that they are such owners or…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-11) Sec. 9-2-11. Accompanying any ordinance for a local improvement presented by the board of local improvements to the corporate authorities shall be a recommendation of such improvement by the board, signed by at least a majority of the…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-110) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-110) Sec. 9-2-110. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, if such original bidder fails or refuses for 20 days after the first publication of the notice of award, or in case a contract is made with the owners, and default by th…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-111) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-111) Sec. 9-2-111. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, if the owners or contractors, who may have taken any contract, do not complete the work within the time mentioned in the contract, or within such further time as the boa…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-112) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-112) Sec. 9-2-112. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-38, the board of local improvements in cities of 500,000 and over, may appoint an engineer for the board, and such assistant engineers, clerks, and inspectors as may be neces…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-113) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-113) Sec. 9-2-113. In any case where an improvement is to be constructed with the aid and assistance of any agency of the Federal Government, or any other governmental agency, the provisions of Sections 9-2-100 through 9-2-112 shall not …

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-114) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-114) Sec. 9-2-114. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-117, within 30 days after the final completion and, where required, acceptance of the work, as provided in Section 9-2-112, the board of local improvements shall have the cos…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-115) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-115) Sec. 9-2-115. In every assessment proceeding in which the assessment is divided into installments, the board of local improvements shall state in the certificate whether or not the improvement conforms substantially to the requireme…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-116) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-116) Sec. 9-2-116. If upon the hearing the court finds against the allegations of the certificate, it shall enter an order accordingly. The board of local improvements shall then procure the completion of the improvement in substantial a…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-117) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-117) Sec. 9-2-117. Where an improvement has been constructed with the aid of any agency of the Federal government, or other governmental agency, the provisions of Sections 9-2-114 through 9-2-116 shall not apply except as to the manner o…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-118) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-118) Sec. 9-2-118. The board of local improvements shall designate someone to carefully inspect the entire work done pursuant to any such proceeding and contract, and the materials therefor, during the progress of the work, to the end th…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-119) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-119) Sec. 9-2-119. For the purpose of anticipating the collection of the second and succeeding installments, provided for in this Division 2, a municipality may issue bonds, payable out of these installments, bearing interest at a rate s…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-12) Sec. 9-2-12. An estimate of the cost of the improvement, including the cost of engineering services, as originally contemplated, or as changed, altered, or modified at the public hearing, itemized so far as the board of local improvem…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-120) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-120) Sec. 9-2-120. The court having jurisdiction of the original assessment proceeding is authorized at any time after the assessment has been confirmed to extend the time of payment of the assessment, or any installment thereof, whether…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-121) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-121) Sec. 9-2-121. Whenever it is desired to extend the time of payment of any assessment or any of the installments thereof and issue refunding securities, any municipality that has issued securities in anticipation of the collection of…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-122) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-122) Sec. 9-2-122. The court shall hear the proceeding in a summary manner without a jury and there shall be no hearing on benefits or on any legal objections not arising subsequent and incidental to the proceeding provided for in Sectio…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-123) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-123) Sec. 9-2-123. Accompanying the petition there shall be filed an assessment roll setting forth a description of the lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land assessed in the original proceeding, the total amount of the unpaid install…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-124) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-124) Sec. 9-2-124. Any assessment and all installments, the time for collection of which has been extended, shall continue to be a lien on the land assessed the same as in the original assessment and the refunding securities issued under…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-125) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-125) Sec. 9-2-125. Whenever, in a proceeding under Sections 9-2-120 through 9-2-124, the refunding of securities and the extending of the time of payment of any assessment or installments thereof include an assessment or installments pas…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-126) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-126) Sec. 9-2-126. Whenever any voucher, bond or interest coupon issued by a municipality in anticipation of the collection of special assessments under any of the provisions of this Division 2 has been lost, destroyed or stolen and proo…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-127) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-127) Sec. 9-2-127. In lieu of the bonds authorized in Section 9-2-119, the municipality upon the written request of the holders of all of the outstanding and unpaid vouchers issued in payment of the work, may issue and deliver to such vo…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-128) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-128) Sec. 9-2-128. The bonds authorized in Section 9-2-127 may be in the following form: United States of America Number Dollars .... .... State of Illinois County of .... .... of .... IMPROVEMENT BOND KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, Tha…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-129) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-129) Sec. 9-2-129. The municipality shall have the right to call and pay the bonds authorized in Section 9-2-127, or any number thereof, in the following manner: Whenever there are sufficient funds in the hands of the treasurer to redeem…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-13) Sec. 9-2-13. Publication and posting of ordinances. Upon the presentation to the corporate authorities of the proposed ordinance, together with the required recommendation and estimate, if the estimate of cost exceeds the sum of $1,00…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-130) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-130) Sec. 9-2-130. The bonds may be sold, or paid to the contractor having the contract for the improvement for which the assessment was levied, at not less than their par value and interest accrued to time of delivery, whether sold, or …

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-131) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-131) Sec. 9-2-131. Payment for any improvement done or performed under the provisions of this Division 2, to be paid for out of any special assessment or special tax levied in installments, as provided in this Division 2, may be made in …

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-132) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-132) Sec. 9-2-132. Any property owner may pay his assessment wholly or in part, either before or after it is due, and whether or not the assessment has been withdrawn from collection or the property assessed has been sold to any municipa…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-133) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-133) Sec. 9-2-133. When any municipality provides by ordinance for the construction of a waterworks system, any portion of the cost of which is to be paid by special assessment and a direct annual tax is authorized by a vote as provided …

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-134) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-134) Sec. 9-2-134. The entire proceeds arising from the operation of such waterworks system shall be paid into the municipal treasury and shall be kept in a separate fund to be known as the "waterworks fund." After the payment therefrom …

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-135) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-135) Sec. 9-2-135. No person accepting the vouchers or bonds as provided in this Division 2 shall have any claim or lien upon the municipality in any event for the payment of his vouchers or bonds or the interest thereon, except from the…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-136) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-136) Sec. 9-2-136. From time to time, as the work under any contract for such an improvement progresses, upon certificates by the board of local improvements, or by some officer designated by the board for that purpose, payments may be m…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-137) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-137) Sec. 9-2-137. The board of local improvements before the crediting of the excess as provided for in Section 9-2-114, shall estimate an amount deemed sufficient to make up any probable deficiency of interest, in the event that from a…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-138) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-138) Sec. 9-2-138. If, after final settlement with the contractor for any improvement and after full payment of all vouchers or bonds except those bonds and interest coupons not presented for payment, although called and for which funds …

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-139) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-139) Sec. 9-2-139. The costs and expenses of maintaining the board of local improvements, for paying salaries of the members of the board, and the expense of making and levying special assessments or special taxes and of letting and exec…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-14) Sec. 9-2-14. If the ordinance provides for improvements which require the taking or damaging of property, the proceeding for making just compensation therefor shall be as described in Sections 9-2-15 through 9-2-37. Such a proceeding …

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-140) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-140) Sec. 9-2-140. Appeals from final judgments or orders of any court made in the proceedings provided for by this Division 2, may be taken in the manner provided in other civil cases, by the municipality or by any of the owners or part…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-141) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-141) Sec. 9-2-141. After the expiration of the 30 day period allowed for filing a notice of appeal under this Division 2, an appeal from any such judgment may be filed in the manner provided in other civil cases on petition or applicatio…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-142) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-142) Sec. 9-2-142. Any municipality, not already controlled by this Division 2, if it so determines by ordinance, may adopt the provisions of this Division 2, and where it has so adopted this Division 2, it has the right to take all the …

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-143) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-143) Sec. 9-2-143. Whenever, immediately prior to January 1, 1942, authority of law existed in corporate authorities to levy special assessments or special taxes for local improvements, and for that purpose to use the proceedings provide…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-144) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-144) Sec. 9-2-144. The laws subsisting immediately prior to January 1, 1942, the time of the taking effect of this Division 2, shall continue to apply to all proceedings for the condemnation of land, or the confirmation of special assess…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-15) Sec. 9-2-15. Whenever any local improvement ordinance is passed by the corporate authorities of any municipality, to be paid for wholly or in part by special assessment, or by special taxation, the making of which will require that pr…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-16) Sec. 9-2-16. The petition required in Section 9-2-15 shall contain a reasonably accurate description of lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of land which are to be taken or damaged; provided that in counties in which a property index nu…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-17) Sec. 9-2-17. When a petition is filed, a certified copy of the petition and the assessment roll of the municipality, hereinafter required in Section 9-2-18, shall be immediately delivered by the clerk of the court to the petitioner, w…

(65 ILCS 5/9-2-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-18) Sec. 9-2-18. The commissioners shall make an investigation as required and prepare and file in court their report accordingly. In this report the commissioners shall in one column describe the respective parcels of property to be take…