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COUNTIES
(55 ILCS 5/) Counties Code.

55 ILCS 5/5-23017

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23017) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23017)
    Sec. 5-23017. Trustee of donations. Any person desiring to make any donation or legacy of any money, personal property, or real estate, for the benefit of such sanitarium, shall have the right to vest the title to the money, personal property or real estate so donated, in the board of directors created under this Division, to be held and controlled by such board of directors, when accepted, according to the terms of the deed, gift or legacy of such property, and as to such property, the said board of directors shall be held and considered to be special trustees.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23018

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23018) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23018)
    Sec. 5-23018. Physicians, nurses and others subject to rules of the board. When any such sanitarium is established, the physicians, nurses, attendants, the persons sick therein, and all persons approaching or coming within the limits of the same or grounds thereof, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as said board of directors may prescribe; and such rules and regulations shall extend to all branches, dispensaries, and other auxiliary institutions located within such county, and to all employees in the same, and to all employees sent, as herein provided for, to the homes of the afflicted.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23019

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23019) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23019)
    Sec. 5-23019. Equal privileges for all reputable physicians. All reputable physicians shall have equal privileges in treating patients in any county tuberculosis sanitarium.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23020

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23020) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23020)
    Sec. 5-23020. Discontinuance of tax. In accordance with the general election law, any county which has adopted the provisions of this Division may discontinue it by a referendum initiated by a petition signed by not less than 5% of the registered voters in each of at least 2/3 of the townships or road districts within the county. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
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    Shall the tax for the county        YES
tuberculosis sanitarium be       -----------------------------
discontinued?                           NO
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    If a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition are for the discontinuance, the board of directors shall proceed at once to close up the affairs of the county tuberculosis sanitarium. After the payment of all obligations the money in the tuberculosis sanitarium fund shall become a part of the general funds in the county treasury and the county board shall take over all property and equipment in the custody and under the control of the board of directors. The county board may sell such property or make such other disposition as is for the best interests of the county.
    The terms of the board of directors shall terminate when their duties in connection with closing up the affairs of the tuberculosis sanitarium have ended.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23021

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23021) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23021)
    Sec. 5-23021. Issuance of bonds. Any county having a population of less than 500,000 inhabitants which has voted or hereafter votes to authorize a tax for tuberculosis sanitarium purposes at a rate in addition to the maximum rate now or hereafter authorized to be levied and extended for general county purposes is authorized to issue bonds as in this Division provided in an amount not to exceed one-half of one per cent on the dollar valuation of all taxable property of such county for the purpose of constructing or improving a county tuberculosis sanitarium within the county: Provided such bonds may not be issued to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in excess of the constitutional limit of indebtedness.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23022

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23022) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23022)
    Sec. 5-23022. Adoption of plans. Before any such county shall be authorized to issue bonds as in this Division provided:
    (a) The Board of Directors of said tuberculosis sanitarium shall adopt plans and specifications describing the sanitarium to be constructed or improved, the type of construction of or improvement to be made on such sanitarium and shall make an estimate of the cost of such construction or improvement, and shall procure approval of such plans and specifications and estimate of cost by the State Department of Public Health; and
    (b) The Board of Directors of said tuberculosis sanitarium shall transmit such plans and specifications and estimate of cost, together with the approval thereof by the State Department of Public Health, to the County Board with a request that the County Board adopt a resolution providing for the construction or improvement of such tuberculosis sanitarium and for the issuance of bonds to pay all or a part of the cost thereof.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23023

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23023) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23023)
    Sec. 5-23023. Bond maturity limitation referendum. Before any such county shall be authorized to issue bonds, as in this Division provided, having a maturity later than January first of the second calendar year following the period of years for which such additional tax for tuberculosis sanitarium purposes was voted (which January first of such year is hereafter referred to as the "maturity limitation heretofore mentioned"):
        (a) The County Board shall adopt a resolution of
    
determination to construct or improve a tuberculosis sanitarium and declare its intention to issue bonds therefor. Said resolution shall set forth the amount of bonds proposed to be issued and provide that notice of intention to issue such bonds be published at least once in a newspaper published and having a general circulation in such county if there be one, or, if there be no such newspaper, then such notice shall be posted in at least three public places in such county. The notice of intention to issue bonds as herein provided shall state the purpose for which bonds are to be issued, the date upon which the resolution of intention was adopted by the County Board, the amount of bonds to be issued, the time within which a petition may be filed requesting submission to the legal voters of such county of the proposition to issue the bonds, the specific number of voters required to sign the petition and the date of the prospective referendum. The county clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.
        (b) If, within 30 days after publication or posting
    
of such notice, a petition is filed with the County Clerk signed by voters of the county numbering 10% or more of the registered voters of the county requesting that the proposition to issue said bonds as authorized by this Division be submitted to the legal voters of such county, then such county shall not be authorized to issue said bonds until the proposition has been submitted to and approved by a majority of the legal voters voting on the proposition at a regular election. The number of legal voters shall be determined from the total votes cast at the last preceding election held in said county for the election of county officers. The county board shall certify the resolution and the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law.
    If no petition for referendum with the requisite number of signatures is filed within the time herein provided, it shall not be necessary for the County Board to cause submission to the legal voters of such county the question of issuing such bonds.
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 87-767.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23024

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23024) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23024)
    Sec. 5-23024. When referendum unnecessary. It shall not be necessary for the County Board to submit to the legal voters of such county the question of issuing such bonds where the final maturity thereof is not beyond the maturity limitation heretofore mentioned in Section 5-23023, and said County Board shall be authorized to issue such bonds without complying with the provisions of Section 5-23023 by adopting a resolution as provided by Section 5-23026.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23025

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23025) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23025)
    Sec. 5-23025. Form of proposition. If, in the case of bonds the final maturity date of which is beyond the maturity limitation heretofore mentioned in Section 5-23023, a petition for referendum with the requisite number of signatures is filed within the time as herein provided, then the County Board shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law.
    The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
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    Shall.... county, Illinois,
issue bonds in the amount of
$.... for the purpose of               YES
constructing or improving a
tuberculosis sanitarium of
the county heretofore designed     ---------------------------
and approved by the board of
directors of the tuberculosis
sanitarium, as authorized by           NO
Division 5-23 of the
Counties Code?
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(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23026

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23026) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23026)
    Sec. 5-23026. Details of bonds. Before issuing any bonds as provided in this Division, the County Board shall adopt a resolution specifying the amount of bonds to be issued, the date, denominations, rate of interest and maturities, and fix all the details with respect to the issue and execution thereof, and shall levy a tax sufficient to pay both the principal of and interest upon such bonds as they mature. Such bonds issued in compliance with the provisions of Section 5-23023 hereof, shall mature at such time or times as the County Board shall fix, but not to exceed twenty years from date thereof. Any such bonds, the final maturity of which is within such maturity limitation heretofore mentioned in said Section 5-23023, shall mature at such times as the County Board shall fix within said maturity limitation heretofore mentioned. All of such bonds shall bear interest at not more than six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall be payable at such place as the County Board shall fix.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23027

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23027) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23027)
    Sec. 5-23027. Signatures on bonds. In case any officer whose signature appears on the bonds shall cease to be such officer before delivery of such bonds, such signature shall nevertheless be valid or sufficient for all purposes the same as if such officer had remained in office until such delivery was effected.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23028

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23028) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23028)
    Sec. 5-23028. Annual tax to pay bonds. After the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds has been adopted, it shall be the duty of the County Clerk annually to extend taxes against all the taxable property situated in said County sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds as they mature. The rate at which such taxes shall be extended shall be in addition to the maximum rate now or hereafter authorized to be levied and extended for General County Purposes, and shall be in addition to the rates extended for any and all taxes now or hereafter authorized or permitted to be levied or extended for county purposes in excess of the maximum rate for general county purposes now or hereafter permitted by law; such tax shall not be subject to any limitation as to amount or rate except the constitutional limitation of 75¢ per $100.00 valuation.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23029

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23029) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23029)
    Sec. 5-23029. Tax for care and treatment of afflicted persons. The County Board of each County in this State shall have the power to provide for the care and treatment of the inhabitants thereof who may be afflicted with tuberculosis and to levy a tax not to exceed .075 per cent of the value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue annually on all taxable property of such county, such tax to be levied and collected in like manner with general taxes of such county and to form, when collected, a fund to be known as the "Tuberculosis Care and Treatment Fund", which tax shall be in addition to, in excess of and excluded from all other taxes which such county is now or hereafter may be, authorized to levy, on the aggregate valuation of all property within such county, and the county clerk in reducing tax levies under the provisions of Section 18-165 of the Property Tax Code shall not consider the tax for the tuberculosis care and treatment fund, authorized by this Division, as part of the general tax levy for county purposes, and shall not include the same in the limitation of one per cent of the assessed valuation upon which taxes are required to be extended.
(Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

55 ILCS 5/5-23030

    (55 ILCS 5/5-23030) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-23030)
    Sec. 5-23030. Petition for tax levy; submission to vote. Whenever 100 legal voters of any county shall present a petition to the County Board of such county asking that an annual tax may be levied for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, such County Board shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
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    Shall an annual tax of not
to exceed .075 per cent of              YES
value as equalized or assessed
by the Department of Revenue     -----------------------------
for the care and treatment
of persons afflicted with               NO
tuberculosis be levied?
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    If a majority of all votes cast upon the proposition shall be for the levy of a tax for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis the County Board of such County shall thereafter levy a tax of not to exceed .075 per cent of the value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, which tax shall be collected in like manner with the other general taxes in the County and shall be known as "Tuberculosis Care and Treatment Fund", and thereafter the County Board of such County shall in the annual appropriation bill, appropriate from such fund such sum or sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray the necessary cost and expense of providing care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)