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COUNTIES
(55 ILCS 5/) Counties Code.

55 ILCS 5/2-5016

    (55 ILCS 5/2-5016) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-5016)
    Sec. 2-5016. Policy concerning exercise of powers by counties. It is the policy of this State that any county with a chief executive officer elected by the electors of the county may (1) exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs, or (2) exercise those powers within traditional areas of county activity, except as limited by the Illinois Constitution or a proper limiting statute, notwithstanding effects on competition.
    It is the intention of the General Assembly that the "State action exemption" to the application of federal antitrust statutes be fully available to counties to the extent their activities are authorized by law as stated herein.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/2-5017

    (55 ILCS 5/2-5017)
    Sec. 2-5017. Regular meetings of the county board. Regular and special meetings of the county board may be held in any public building located within the county that such county board is elected to serve. Prior notice of the building selected for the meeting shall be provided by the board speaker to each member of the county board in the manner provided pursuant to the rules of the county board. Regular meetings of the board shall be held in June and September, and at such other times as may be determined by the board.
    At each regular and special meeting which is open to the public, members of the public and employees of the county shall be afforded time, subject to reasonable constraints, to comment to or ask questions of the board.
(Source: P.A. 102-1120, eff. 1-23-23.)

55 ILCS 5/2-5018

    (55 ILCS 5/2-5018)
    Sec. 2-5018. Special meetings. Special meetings of the board shall be held only when requested by at least one-third of the members of the board, or when requested by the county executive, which request shall be in writing, addressed to the clerk of the board, and specifying the time and place of such meeting, upon reception of which the clerk shall immediately transmit notice, in writing, of such meeting, to each of the members of the board. The clerk shall also cause notice of such meeting to be published in a newspaper printed in the county, if any. If a vacancy arises in the office of clerk, because of death or other reason, then the request shall be addressed to the circuit clerk who shall perform the duties of the clerk pursuant to this Section.
(Source: P.A. 102-1120, eff. 1-23-23.)

55 ILCS 5/2-5019

    (55 ILCS 5/2-5019)
    Sec. 2-5019. Speaker of the county board. The county board shall, at its first meeting in the month following the month in which county board members are elected, choose one of its members as speaker for a term of 2 years.
    A speaker may be removed, with or without cause, upon a motion adopted by an affirmative vote of four-fifths of the county board. Upon adoption of a motion to remove the speaker: (i) the speaker position becomes vacant and the former speaker's compensation shall be prorated to the date the motion was approved; and (ii) a new speaker shall be elected at the next regularly scheduled county board meeting. A speaker removed under this Section maintains his or her status as a member of the county board.
(Source: P.A. 102-1120, eff. 1-23-23.)

55 ILCS 5/2-5020

    (55 ILCS 5/2-5020)
    Sec. 2-5020. Quorum; omnibus votes. A majority of the members of any county board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and all questions, ordinances, resolutions, or motions which shall arise at meetings shall be determined by the votes of the majority of the members present, except in such cases as is otherwise provided.
    The county board at any properly noticed public meeting may by unanimous consent take a single vote by yeas and nays on the several questions of the passage of any 2 or more of the designated ordinances, orders, resolutions, or motions placed together for voting purposes in a single group. The single vote shall be entered separately in the minutes under the designation "omnibus vote", and the clerk may enter the words "omnibus vote" or "consent agenda" in the minutes in each case instead of entering the names of the members of the county board voting "yea" and those voting "nay" on the passage of each of the designated ordinances, orders, resolutions, and motions included in the omnibus group or consent agenda. The taking of a single or omnibus vote and the entries of the words "omnibus vote" or "consent agenda" in the minutes shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this Section to all intents and purposes and with like effect as if the vote in each case had been taken separately by yeas and nays on the question of the passage of each ordinance, order, resolution, and motion included in the omnibus group and separately recorded in the minutes. Likewise, the yeas and nays shall be taken upon the question of the passage of any other ordinance, resolution, or motion at the request of any county board member and shall be recorded in the minutes.
(Source: P.A. 102-1120, eff. 1-23-23.)

55 ILCS 5/2-5021

    (55 ILCS 5/2-5021)
    Sec. 2-5021. Open meetings. County board meetings are open to the public, and all persons may attend the meetings. The vote on all propositions to appropriate money from the county treasury shall be taken by "yeas" and "nays" and entered on the record of the meeting.
(Source: P.A. 102-1120, eff. 1-23-23.)

55 ILCS 5/2-5022

    (55 ILCS 5/2-5022)
    Sec. 2-5022. Administering oaths. The county executive, or designee, may administer an oath to any person concerning any matter submitted to the board, or connected with its powers and duties, and a member of the board may administer the oath required by law to a claimant presenting a claim against the county to be passed by the board. A member so administering an oath to a claimant may not charge a fee for administering the oath.
(Source: P.A. 102-1120, eff. 1-23-23.)

55 ILCS 5/Div. 2-6

 
    (55 ILCS 5/Div. 2-6 heading)
Division 2-6. Commissioners in Cook County

55 ILCS 5/2-6001

    (55 ILCS 5/2-6001) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6001)
    Sec. 2-6001. Election of Cook County commissioners. There shall be elected every 4 years by the legal voters of Cook County 17 county commissioners who shall hold their office respectively for the term of 4 years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Elections shall be held at the time provided by the general election law. Their term of office shall commence on the first Monday of the month following the month of their election. Ten of the commissioners shall be elected from the city of Chicago by the legal voters of that city, and 7 of the commissioners shall be elected from the towns outside of the city by the legal voters of those towns. If a vacancy occurs in the office of a commissioner from the city of Chicago, the remaining commissioners from the city of Chicago shall appoint a suitable person from the city of Chicago to fill the vacancy. If a vacancy occurs in the office of a commissioner from the towns outside the city of Chicago, the remaining commissioners from those towns shall appoint a suitable person from those towns to fill the vacancy.
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 87-570.)

55 ILCS 5/2-6002

    (55 ILCS 5/2-6002) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6002)
    Sec. 2-6002. Election of president of board. Every legal voter in said county may vote for and designate (upon his ballot cast for county commissioners) one of the candidates for commissioner to be president of the county board, and the person who shall receive the highest number of such votes shall be declared elected president of said board.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/2-6003

    (55 ILCS 5/2-6003) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6003)
    Sec. 2-6003. Vacancy in office of president. In case of the death, resignation, removal from office or other inability to act of the president so elected, the board of commissioners shall within 30 days appoint, by election, one of their number to serve as president. If more than 28 months of the unexpired term remain, a special election shall be held at the next general election to elect a person to serve the unexpired term of the president. In the case of a special election under this Section, the appointed officer shall serve until the election results are certified and the person elected at the special election is qualified. If 28 months or less of the unexpired term remain, the appointed officer shall serve for the remainder of the term.
(Source: P.A. 101-188, eff. 8-2-19.)