55 ILCS 75/6

(55 ILCS 75/6) (from Ch. 23, par. 2686)

Sec. 6.

The electors of any county may adopt this act in the
following manner: Whenever the legal voters of such county to the number
of 25 per cent of the votes cast at the general election or 1,000 legal
voters of such county, whichever is less, shall petition the circuit
court for such county not less than 30 days before any regular election
in such county to submit the proposition whether or not the electors
shall adopt this Act, it shall be the duty of the court to certify the
proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit such
proposition to the voters at an election in
accordance with the general election law. The proposition so to be voted
for shall be in substantially the following
form:

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    For adoption of the act to
authorize county authorities to
establish and maintain a detention
home for delinquent minors and a               YES
shelter care home for minors who are
delinquent, neglected, addicted, abused,
dependent or require authoritative         -------------------
intervention, and to levy and collect
a tax not exceeding .10 per cent of
the value, as equalized or assessed            NO
by the Department of Revenue, to
pay the cost of its establishment
and maintenance.
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If the majority of the votes cast for and against such proposition
shall be for such proposition the act shall be adopted, and the court
shall enter of record an order declaring this act in force in such
county, and the tax provided for in the act shall thereafter be annually
levied and collected in such county for the purposes specified in this
act, until such time as the legal voters of the county shall abandon
this act in manner provided in section 7 of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 85-637.)