(65 ILCS 5/11-23-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-2)
Sec. 11-23-2.
In case an annual hospital tax has been levied and
collected under this Division 23 for 3 or more consecutive years, and
the city has not established or maintained, or purchased and maintained,
a hospital in accordance with this Division 23, the mayor of the city,
with the approval of the city council, may authorize the payment of all
funds in the city treasury derived from that tax, to any nonsectarian
public hospital within or without the corporate limits of the city
maintained for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the city who
are sick or are injured or maimed. These funds, when so turned over to
such a hospital, shall be used solely for its maintenance under the sole
control of the management of the hospital. Thereafter, funds derived
from this annual hospital tax shall be turned over to that hospital as
soon as received by the city, until the city council shall provide
otherwise by an ordinance approved by a majority of the electors voting
thereon at any election. The city council may order
such ordinance certified by the clerk and submitted by the proper election
authority to the voters at any election in accordance with the general election law.
The management of such a hospital shall submit to the city council a
semi-annual report of the expenditure of such funds as have been
received from the city from the hospital tax.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
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