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COUNTIES
(55 ILCS 5/) Counties Code.

55 ILCS 5/3-14048

    (55 ILCS 5/3-14048) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14048)
    Sec. 3-14048. County auditor. In the County of Cook, there is hereby created the office of auditor who shall be appointed by the President of the County Board, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the law in relation to civil service in said county, and whose compensation and official bond shall be fixed by said board; and there shall be formulated, installed and regulated by and under the direction and authority of the County Board, and subject to the provisions of "The Local Records Act", a uniform system of books of account, forms, reports and records to be used in the offices of every county officer of Cook County which said system of books of account, forms, reports and records so formulated under the direction of the said County Board and installed and regulated shall be used by said county officers for the purpose of keeping an accurate statement of moneys received by them and all the financial and business transactions of their respective offices; and said auditor shall audit or cause to be audited from day to day the receipts of the said several offices and the reports of the said offices of the business transactions of their respective offices and certify to their correctness or incorrectness to the County Board. Said auditor shall report monthly to the County Board a summarized and classified statement of the official transactions of each of the said offices of each officer of Cook County for each day of said month; and the said auditor shall further make a semi-annual report to the County Board containing a recapitulation of the receipts of the several offices for the preceding 6 months; such report to include the period covered by the semi-annual report of the several officers of the County of Cook to the County Board where a semi-annual report is required by law from said officers.
    For the purpose aforesaid the said County Board or any one authorized by it in addition to the power and authority vested in them by Sections 3-13001 and 3-13002, as heretofore or hereafter amended, are vested with power and authority to enter the office of any county officer of Cook County at all times and to have free and unrestricted access to all the books, papers, forms, reports, accounts and memoranda used by said officers for the transaction of the business of their respective offices for the purpose of auditing, checking or correcting the reports when reports to the County Board are required from said offices by law, or compiling the records provided herein to be made to the County Board, or auditing the general business of the offices.
    Said auditor may under the direction of the County Board prescribe new forms, reports, accounts or records to be used by said officers in the transaction of the said business of their several respective offices, or change, alter or amend the same from time to time.
    The said auditor may with the authority of the President of the County Board employ assistants, the number and compensation of whom shall be fixed by the County Board.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/3-14049

    (55 ILCS 5/3-14049) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-14049)
    Sec. 3-14049. Appointment of physicians and nurses for the poor and mentally ill persons. The appointment, employment and removal by the Board of Commissioners of Cook County of all physicians and surgeons, advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and nurses for the care and treatment of the sick, poor, mentally ill or persons in need of mental treatment of said county shall be made only in conformity with rules prescribed by the County Civil Service Commission to accomplish the purposes of this Section.
    The Board of Commissioners of Cook County may provide that all such physicians and surgeons who serve without compensation shall be appointed for a term to be fixed by the Board, and that the physicians and surgeons usually designated and known as interns shall be appointed for a term to be fixed by the Board: Provided, that there may also, at the discretion of the board, be a consulting staff of physicians and surgeons, which staff may be appointed by the president, subject to the approval of the board, and provided further, that the Board may contract with any recognized training school or any program for health professionals for health care services of any or all of such sick or mentally ill or persons in need of mental treatment.
(Source: P.A. 99-581, eff. 1-1-17; 100-513, eff. 1-1-18.)

55 ILCS 5/Div. 3-15

 
    (55 ILCS 5/Div. 3-15 heading)
Division 3-15. County Department of Corrections

55 ILCS 5/3-15001

    (55 ILCS 5/3-15001) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15001)
    Sec. 3-15001. Subtitle. This Division shall be subtitled the County Department of Corrections Law.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/3-15002

    (55 ILCS 5/3-15002) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15002)
    Sec. 3-15002. Creation. In any county having more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, there is created within the office of the Sheriff a Department of Corrections, referred to in this Division as the "Department".
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 87-895.)

55 ILCS 5/3-15003

    (55 ILCS 5/3-15003) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15003)
    Sec. 3-15003. Powers and duties. Under the direction of the Sheriff the Department shall have the powers and duties enumerated as follows:
    (a) To operate and have jurisdiction over the county jail, municipal houses of correction within the county and any other penal, corrections or prisoner diagnostic center facility operated by either the county jail or municipal houses of correction.
    (b) To have charge of all prisoners held in any institution, center or other facility in the county over which it has jurisdiction under subsection (a) of this Section, whether they are misdemeanants, felons, persons held for trial, persons held in protective custody, persons held for transfer to other detention facilities or persons held for non-payment of fines, for violations of ordinances or any other quasi-criminal charges. Nothing in this Division applies to minors subject to proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. It may transfer or recommit any prisoner from one institution, center or other such facility to any other institution, center or other facility whenever it determines that such transfer or recommitment would promote the welfare or rehabilitation of the prisoner, or that such transfer or recommitment is necessary to relieve overcrowding.
    (c) To establish diagnostic, classification and rehabilitation services and programs at the county jail and such other facilities over which it has jurisdiction under subsection (a) of this Section as may be appropriate.
    (d) To establish, whenever feasible, separate detention and commitment facilities and utilize the facilities over which it has jurisdiction under subsection (a) of this Section in a manner which provides separate detention and commitment facilities.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/3-15003.3

    (55 ILCS 5/3-15003.3)
    Sec. 3-15003.3. Voter registration; county jails. Upon discharge of a person who is eligible to vote from a county jail, the county jail shall provide the person with a voter registration application. Each election authority shall collaborate with the county jail within the jurisdiction of the election authority to facilitate voter registration for voters eligible to vote in that county who are confined or detained in the county jail. A county jail shall provide a voter registration application to any person in custody at the jail who requests an application and is eligible to vote.
(Source: P.A. 101-442, eff. 1-1-20.)

55 ILCS 5/3-15003.4

    (55 ILCS 5/3-15003.4)
    Sec. 3-15003.4. Voting rights; county jails; probation offices.
    (a) Each county jail and county probation office shall make available current resource materials, maintained by the Illinois State Board of Elections, containing detailed information regarding the voting rights of a person with a criminal conviction in print.
    (b) The current resource materials described under subsection (a) shall be provided:
        (1) upon discharge of a person from a county jail; and
        (2) upon intake of a person by a county probation
    
department.
(Source: P.A. 101-442, eff. 1-1-20.)