Local Government Committee

Filed: 5/11/2005

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 847

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 847 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Public Library District Act of 1991 is
5 amended by adding Section 15-82 as follows:
 
6     (75 ILCS 16/15-82 new)
7     Sec. 15-82. Disconnection from district.
8     (a) Any municipality or township may be disconnected from a
9 public library district as follows:
10         (1) upon a vote of the majority of the members of its
11     governing body, the municipality or township may authorize
12     an advisory question of public policy to be placed on the
13     ballot at the next regularly scheduled election in each
14     public library district in which the municipality or
15     township is located. The governing body shall certify the
16     question to the proper election authority, which must
17     submit the question to the electors of each affected
18     library district at an election in accordance with the
19     Election Code.
20         The election authority must submit the question in
21     substantially the following form:
22             Should the (insert name of township or
23         municipality) be disconnected from (insert name of
24         library district)?

 

 

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1     The election authority must record the votes as "Yes" or
2     "No".
3         (2) After the completion of an advisory referendum
4     under item (1), the governing body of the municipality or
5     township may adopt an ordinance to disconnect the territory
6     of the municipality or township from the public library
7     district. Any ordinance adopted under this item (2) shall
8     not take effect until it is approved by the board of
9     trustees of each public library district in which any part
10     of the municipality or township is located.
11     (b) The municipality or township shall, upon enactment of a
12 disconnection ordinance, file with the circuit court in which a
13 majority of the disconnected territory lies an appropriate
14 petition and a certified copy of the ordinance. The petition
15 shall request entry of an order of disconnection and the
16 preparation of an appraisal setting forth the value of the
17 tangible property of the district, the liabilities of the
18 district, and the excess of the liabilities over tangible
19 assets or property. Notice shall be published by and within the
20 disconnecting territory.
21     The circuit court shall, after a hearing upon the matter,
22 enter its order revising the limits and boundaries of the
23 district and setting forth the liability, if any, yet to be
24 retired and paid for by the property owners of the disconnected
25 territory.
26     (d) When any territory has been disconnected from a
27 district under this Section and the court order providing for
28 the disconnection also sets forth a continuing liability to be
29 paid by the property owners of the disconnected territory, then
30 the county collector of each county affected shall debit upon
31 his or her books the taxes to be paid and thereafter levied by
32 the district and extended against taxable property within the
33 disconnected territory. The county clerk shall continue to
34 extend district library taxes upon the taxable property within

 

 

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1 the disconnected territory, and the county collector shall
2 continue to collect district library taxes upon the taxable
3 property within the disconnected territory until the excess
4 liability has been paid and retired.
5     The residents and property owners of the disconnected
6 territory are entitled to full and free library service from
7 the district until the earlier of: (i) the final and full
8 payment of the liability; or (ii) the submission of a
9 referendum under Section 2-2 of the Illinois Local Library Act
10 to the electors of the municipality or township. Upon the date
11 of disconnection, the residents and property owners of the
12 disconnected territory shall no longer be subject to any tax
13 levies by the district. Upon full and final payment of the
14 liability and thereafter, no resident or property owner of the
15 disconnected territory shall have any right, title, and
16 interest in and to the assets and tangible property of the
17 district affected by the disconnection.
18     (d) The board must record a certified copy of the
19 disconnection order with the recorder of deeds and with the
20 county clerk and county collector of each county affected.
21     (e) No later than 90 days after the certified copy of the
22 disconnection order is recorded, the governing body of the
23 municipality or township must adopt an ordinance for a
24 referendum to establish a public library under Section 2-2 of
25 the Illinois Local Library Act.
 
26     Section 10. The Illinois Local Library Act is amended by
27 changing Section 2-2 as follows:
 
28     (75 ILCS 5/2-2)  (from Ch. 81, par. 2-2)
29     Sec. 2-2. To provide local public institutions of general
30 education for citizens of Illinois, the citizens residing in a
31 village, incorporated town or township without local library
32 service may establish and maintain a public library for the use

 

 

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1 and benefit of the residents of the respective village,
2 incorporated town or township as herein provided.
3     Upon the adoption of an ordinance by the governing body of
4 an incorporated town, village, or township or when When 100
5 legal voters of any incorporated town, village or township
6 present a petition to the clerk thereof asking for the
7 establishment and maintenance of a public library in such
8 incorporated town, village or township, the clerk shall certify
9 the question of whether to establish and maintain a public
10 library to the proper election authorities who shall submit the
11 question at a regular election in accordance with the general
12 election law.
13     The petition shall specify the maximum library tax rate, if
14 the rate is to be in excess of .15%. In no case shall the rate
15 specified in the petition be in excess of .60% of the value as
16 equalized and assessed by the Department of Revenue. The
17 proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
18 -------------------------------------------------------------
19     Shall a public library be established    YES
20 and maintained in (name of incorporated  --------------------
21 town, village or township)?                  NO
22 -------------------------------------------------------------
23     If the petition specified a maximum tax rate in excess of
24 the statutory maximum tax rate of .15%, the proposition shall
25 be in substantially the following form:
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27     Shall a public library be
28 established and maintained in (name of
29 incorporated town, village or township),     YES
30 with a maximum annual public library tax --------------------
31 rate at. % of the value of all taxable       NO
32 property as equalized and assessed by the
33 Department of Revenue?
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1     If the majority of all votes cast in the incorporated town,
2 village or township on the proposition are in favor of a public
3 library, an annual tax may be levied for the establishment and
4 maintenance of such library, subject to the limitations of
5 Article 3.
6 (Source: P.A. 85-751.)
 
7     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8 becoming law.".