Chapter 75, LIBRARIES

(75 ILCS 60/3.1) (from Ch. 81, par. 34.1) Sec. 3.1. A corporation organized under this Act may amend its articles of incorporation, from time to time, in any respect which is consistent with this Act. An amendment shall be adopted at a meeting of the board of trustees, managers o…

(75 ILCS 12/30) Sec. 30. Assistance. To implement any part of this Act, the State Librarian may request any State agency, department, division, board, bureau, commission, or other entity or person to provide any services, assistance, or data that will enable the Office of the Sta…

(75 ILCS 12/35) Sec. 35. Rules. The Office of the Secretary of State may adopt rules necessary for implementation of this Act. (Source: P.A. 103-267, eff. 6-30-23.)

(75 ILCS 65/3a) (from Ch. 81, par. 44) Sec. 3a. The corporate authorities of any park district whose limits are co-extensive with the limits of any city, village, or incorporated town lying wholly within any congressional township, in which there is established and maintained a f…

(75 ILCS 65/3b) (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 3b. Suicide prevention information. A public library shall place contact information for the 9-8-8 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the library in a prominent location that…

(75 ILCS 60/4) (from Ch. 81, par. 35) Sec. 4. Organizations formed under this Act shall be bodies corporate and politic to be known under the names stated in the respective articles of incorporation; and by such corporate names they shall have and possess the ordinary rights and …

(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 40/4) (from Ch. 81, par. 16f) Sec. 4. Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 700.)

(75 ILCS 10/4) (from Ch. 81, par. 114) Sec. 4. (a) A library system shall be established in the following manner: The formation of a library system of 10 or more public libraries or of a public library serving a city of over 500,000 population shall first be approved by the board…

(75 ILCS 40/4.5) (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 4.5. Suicide prevention information. A public library shall place contact information for the 9-8-8 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the library in a prominent location th…

(75 ILCS 40/5) (from Ch. 81, par. 16g) Sec. 5. No new libraries. No new libraries shall be established under this Act on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1992. This amendatory Act of 1992 does not affect the maintenance of libraries established under this Act…

(75 ILCS 12/5) Sec. 5. Findings. The General Assembly finds: (1) It is in the best interests of the State for the State Librarian to be authorized to facilitate the acquisition and use of digital content by pooling the buying power of the Illinois' libraries and library systems a…

(75 ILCS 10/5) (from Ch. 81, par. 115) Sec. 5. Each library system created as provided in Section 4 of this Act shall be governed by a board of directors numbering at least 5 and no more than 15 persons, except as required by Section 6 for library systems in cities with a populat…

(75 ILCS 10/6) (from Ch. 81, par. 116) Sec. 6. The board and officers of the public library served by the library system defined in subparagraph (2) of the definition of "library system" in Section 2 shall administer that library system. That public library system shall annually …

(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 10/7) (from Ch. 81, par. 117) Sec. 7. Each board of library directors of a system shall carry out the spirit and intent of this Act and, in addition to the other powers conferred by this Act, shall have the following powers: 1. To develop and to amend the bylaws and the …

(75 ILCS 10/7.5) Sec. 7.5. Regional library service planning panels. (a) Each regional multitype library system shall establish one or more regional library service planning panels in such a manner that all territory within the system boundaries is assigned to a planning panel. A…

(75 ILCS 10/8) (from Ch. 81, par. 118) Sec. 8. State grants. (a) There shall be a program of State grants within the limitations of funds appropriated by the Illinois General Assembly together with other funds made available by the federal government or other sources for this pur…

(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…

(75 ILCS 10/8.1) (from Ch. 81, par. 118.1) Sec. 8.1. The State Librarian shall make grants annually under this Section to all qualified public libraries in the State from funds appropriated by the General Assembly. Such grants shall be in the amount of up to $1.475 per capita for…

(75 ILCS 10/8.2) (from Ch. 81, par. 118.2) Sec. 8.2. (a) After the General Assembly has appropriated funds to the State Librarian for grants to a library system and the Governor has signed the appropriation bill into law and the State Librarian has certified that the library syst…

(75 ILCS 10/8.3) (from Ch. 81, par. 118.3) Sec. 8.3. The State Librarian shall make grants annually to all cooperative public library systems, public library systems, and multitype library systems. Such grants shall be in the amounts specified in Section 8. (Source: P.A. 83-1362.…

(75 ILCS 10/8.4) (from Ch. 81, par. 118.4) Sec. 8.4. School library grants. Beginning July 1, 1989, the State Librarian shall make grants annually under this Section to all school districts in the State for the establishment and operation of qualified school libraries, or the add…

(75 ILCS 10/8.5) Sec. 8.5. Annual library technology grants. The State Librarian shall distribute annual library technology grants, upon the approval by the State Librarian of application from libraries, for initiatives of library development and technological innovations. The St…

(75 ILCS 10/8.6) Sec. 8.6. Illinois Veterans Home Libraries. The State Librarian shall distribute annual grants for initiatives of library development and services within Illinois Veterans Home libraries located in Quincy, Manteno, LaSalle, Chicago, and Anna upon the approval by …

(75 ILCS 10/8.7) Sec. 8.7. State grants; book banning. In order to be eligible for State grants, a library or library system shall adopt the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights that indicates materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or d…

(75 ILCS 12/85) Sec. 85. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 103-267, eff. 6-30-23; text omitted.)

(75 ILCS 10/9) (from Ch. 81, par. 119) Sec. 9. The board of directors of any tax-supported public library, or the contracting authority of other types of libraries which are eligible for membership in a library system and according to the rules and regulations of the State Librar…

(75 ILCS 35/9) (from Ch. 81, par. 54) Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the county clerk when making out the tax books for the collector to compute each taxable person's taxes in such township upon the total amount of taxable property as equalized by the State Board of Equalization…

(75 ILCS 12/90) Sec. 90. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 103-267, eff. 6-30-23; text omitted.)

(75 ILCS 12/99) Sec. 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 103-267, eff. 6-30-23.)