Chapter 75 — LIBRARIES

(75 ILCS 16/35-20) Sec. 35-20. Status of taxes; multiple counties; annexation. (a) The library taxes provided for in this Act shall be in addition to all other taxes or tax rates authorized to be levied by the district or any other taxing authority lying wholly or partially withi…

(75 ILCS 16/35-25) Sec. 35-25. Levy, collection, and deposit of taxes. (a) The library taxes provided for in this Act shall be levied by the district and collected in the same manner as other general taxes by the county collector or collectors affected by the levy. The proceeds o…

(75 ILCS 16/35-30) Sec. 35-30. Building restoration tax. (a) If a library building is destroyed or seriously impaired by storm, fire, or other casualty, the board, in order to rebuild or restore that library building, may levy an annual tax (to be called the Restoration Fund Tax)…

(75 ILCS 16/35-35) Sec. 35-35. Working cash fund tax. (a) For the purpose of providing money to establish and replenish a library district working cash fund authorized by Section 30-95, the board may levy an annual tax not to exceed 0.05% of the value, as equalized or assessed by…

(75 ILCS 16/35-40) Sec. 35-40. Fiscal year. The first fiscal year of any district shall close on June 30 following establishment of the district. Thereafter, the fiscal year of any district shall commence on July 1 and close on June 30. (Source: P.A. 87-1277.)

(75 ILCS 16/35-5) Sec. 35-5. Tax levy for establishment, maintenance, and support of district library. (a) When a district has been organized and established under this Act, the board, upon its formation and qualification of the trustees to serve, may levy an annual public librar…

(75 ILCS 16/40-10) Sec. 40-10. Bonds for buildings and equipment. (a) If the board of trustees determines that funds for any or all of the purposes authorized in Section 40-5 are to be provided by a bond issue, 30 days after the posting of the notice required under Section 40-5, …

(75 ILCS 16/40-15) Sec. 40-15. Voter approval of bonds. (a) Bonds shall not be issued, nor the special tax imposed, until the proposition to issue the bonds has been submitted to and approved by a majority of the voters of the district voting upon the proposition at a regular ele…

(75 ILCS 16/40-20) Sec. 40-20. Funds instead of bonds. (a) If the board of trustees determines to provide funds for any or all of the purposes authorized in Section 40-5 by the annual certification and apportionment of costs (instead of issuing bonds for that purpose), the board …

(75 ILCS 16/40-25) Sec. 40-25. Mortgage on library building or site. If the trustees deem it best, in order to provide and secure the necessary money to do any or all of the things they are authorized to do in this Article, they may, at any time, borrow money and execute a mortga…

(75 ILCS 16/40-30) Sec. 40-30. Special tax rate; referendum. (a) No board or district may levy the special tax provided for in Section 40-20 or 40-25 unless the ordinance authorizing the special tax is submitted to and approved by a majority of the voters voting on the question a…

(75 ILCS 16/40-35) Sec. 40-35. Filing of documents; levy and collection of special tax. (a) Upon the voters' approval of a bond issue or a special tax supporting an annual certification or a mortgage, the secretary shall file certified copies of each ordinance, and of the certifi…

(75 ILCS 16/40-40) Sec. 40-40. Accumulation of funds. (a) The board shall determine when it will proceed with constructing a building, purchasing a site or building, remodeling, repairing, or improving an existing library building, building an addition to an existing library buil…

(75 ILCS 16/40-45) Sec. 40-45. Bids for construction, improvements, or equipment purchases. (a) When the trustees determine to commence constructing the building, purchasing a site or a building, remodeling, repairing, or improving an existing library building, erecting an additi…

(75 ILCS 16/40-5) Sec. 40-5. Buildings and equipment. (a) Whenever the board determines or resolves to erect a building to be used as a library, purchase a site for erecting such a building, purchase a building, repair, remodel, or improve an existing library building, build an a…

(75 ILCS 16/40-50) Sec. 40-50. Special reserve fund; plan. (a) The board may, by ordinance, establish a special reserve fund, for the purpose of Section 40-5 or for emergency expenditures for the repair of an existing library building or its equipment. The board may transfer to t…

(75 ILCS 16/40-55) Sec. 40-55. Insurance Reserve Fund; transfers. The board of the Byron Public Library District may, within one year from the effective date of this Amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, by proper resolution following a public hearing (that is preceded by …

(75 ILCS 16/45-5) Sec. 45-5. Bonds and referenda under repealed Acts. Repeal of "An Act in relation to the creation of public library districts", approved May 16, 1957, and repeal of the Illinois Public Library District Act shall not abrogate any referendum held under either of t…

(75 ILCS 16/5-10) Sec. 5-10. Petition to establish district. (a) The organization of a district library in a territory without a local tax supported library or in such a territory and contiguous territory of a municipality, township, or county operating a local tax supported libr…

(75 ILCS 16/5-15) Sec. 5-15. Order for hearing; notice. (a) Upon the submission of the petition to the circuit court as provided in Section 5-10, the circuit court shall enter an order setting the date of the hearing on the petition and naming the judge who will preside at the he…

(75 ILCS 16/5-20) Sec. 5-20. Hearing. At the hearing ordered under Section 5-15, the petitioners shall present proof of the notice of the hearing and of the matters alleged in the petition to the presiding judge. All persons residing within the proposed district shall have a reas…

(75 ILCS 16/5-25) Sec. 5-25. Order for election; notice. (a) The judge, after hearing the statements, evidence, and suggestions of the petitioners and other persons appearing before the court, shall enter an order calling an election. The order shall do the following: (1) Fix the…

(75 ILCS 16/5-30) Sec. 5-30. Election; form of proposition. (a) The proposition at the election shall be in substantially the following form: Shall a public library district be established in all or part of (name of county)? (b) If no tax rate limit is specified in the ballot, th…

(75 ILCS 16/5-35) Sec. 5-35. Election results. (a) The election authority shall, within 10 days after the election, file with the circuit court ordering the election its certificate setting forth the results of the election in each precinct. (b) The judge assigned to hear the cas…

(75 ILCS 16/5-40) Sec. 5-40. Transfer and sharing of assets. (a) Any assets, including real and personal property and tax and other monies, received or due for the purposes of the library and held by the corporate authority of a municipal, township, or county library included in …

(75 ILCS 16/5-45) Sec. 5-45. Authorization to levy tax. When the establishment of a library district has been approved and the district includes wholly within its territory a municipal, township, or county library, only the library district shall levy the annual public library ta…

(75 ILCS 16/5-5) Sec. 5-5. Authorization. All or any portion of the territory within one or more counties may, under this Act, be organized and formed into a district for the purpose of levying a tax or taxes to pay for establishing, equipping, maintaining, and supporting library…

(75 ILCS 16/50-10) Sec. 50-10. Other Acts of the 87th General Assembly. If any other Act of the 87th General Assembly changes, adds, or repeals a provision of prior law that is continued in this Act, then that change, addition, or repeal in the other Act shall be construed togeth…

(75 ILCS 16/50-15) Sec. 50-15. Home rule; mandates. Nothing in this Act 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 exist…

(75 ILCS 16/50-20) Sec. 50-20. Repeal. The following Act is repealed: The Illinois Public Library District Act. (Source: P.A. 87-1277.)

(75 ILCS 16/50-5) Sec. 50-5. Prior law. (a) A provision of this Act 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 an Act…

(75 ILCS 16/55-5) Sec. 55-5. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 87-1277.)

(75 ILCS 20/0.01) (from Ch. 81, par. 29.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Chicago Public Library Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(75 ILCS 20/1) (from Ch. 81, par. 30) Sec. 1. The Chicago Public Library is authorized to take possession of the piece of ground now known as Dearborn Park, in that part of the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, known as the Fort Dearborn Addition to Chicago, and bounded on the …

(75 ILCS 20/2) (from Ch. 81, par. 31) Sec. 2. The Soldiers' Home in Chicago is hereby authorized to sell, assign, transfer and convey to the Chicago public library, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, all the right, title and interest which said Soldiers' Home i…

(75 ILCS 23/10-1) Sec. 10-1. Short title. This Article may be cited as the Maywood Public Library District Tax Levy Validation (2002) Law. (Source: P.A. 92-884, eff. 1-13-03.)

(75 ILCS 23/10-5) Sec. 10-5. Tax levy ordinances of the Maywood Public Library District. If the Maywood Public Library District has, during the fiscal years 2001 and 2002, within the time required by law adopted annual appropriation ordinances for those years but failed to adopt …

(75 ILCS 23/10-905) Sec. 10-905. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 92-884, eff. 1-13-03; text omitted.)

(75 ILCS 23/99-99) Sec. 99-99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 92-884, eff. 1-13-03.)

(75 ILCS 25/0.01) (from Ch. 81, par. 16.1h) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Township Library Bond Validation (1963) Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(75 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 81, par. 16.2) Sec. 1. Where in any township, prior to the time this Act becomes effective, a majority of the votes cast at an election on the proposition to issue township library bonds were in favor of such proposition, and the ballots used and notice g…

(75 ILCS 30/0.01) (from Ch. 81, par. 16.2h) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Township Library Bond Validation (1969) Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(75 ILCS 30/1) (from Ch. 81, par. 16.3) Sec. 1. Where in any township, prior to the time this Act becomes effective, a majority of the votes cast at an election on the proposition to issue township library bonds were in favor of such proposition, and the ballots used and notice g…

(75 ILCS 35/0.01) (from Ch. 81, par. 45.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Township Library Bond Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(75 ILCS 35/1) (from Ch. 81, par. 46) Sec. 1. That for the purpose of erecting, repairing or improving library buildings or purchasing sites for library buildings, the directors of any township library, organized under the laws of this state, when thereunto authorized by majority…

(75 ILCS 35/2) (from Ch. 81, par. 47) Sec. 2. All bonds authorized to be issued by virtue of the foregoing section before being so issued, negotiated and sold shall be signed by the president and secretary of such board of directors, and shall be registered, numbered and counters…

(75 ILCS 35/3) (from Ch. 81, par. 48) Sec. 3. All moneys borrowed under the authority granted by this act shall be paid to the supervisor of the township wherein the bonds issued therefor are required to be registered, and upon receiving such moneys, the supervisor shall deliver …

(75 ILCS 35/4) (from Ch. 81, par. 49) Sec. 4. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: "For" or "Against" the proposition to issue the bonds of ....... township to the amount of $.... due (here insert the times of payment, giving the amount falling due in eac…

(75 ILCS 35/7) (from Ch. 81, par. 52) Sec. 7. In all cases where any board of directors of any township library have issued or may hereafter issue bonds, or other evidence of indebtedness for money on account of any public library building, or for the improvement thereof, which r…

(75 ILCS 35/8) (from Ch. 81, par. 53) Sec. 8. The board of directors of the public library of any township, which has issued bonds pursuant to the provisions of this Act, shall, on or before the first Tuesday in August, of each year, ascertain as near as practicable, the amount o…