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55 ILCS 5/5-38007

(55 ILCS 5/5-38007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38007)

Sec. 5-38007.

Powers and duties of board.

The county library
board shall (a) establish, equip and maintain a
county library; (b) establish, equip and maintain branches and stations of
the county library in the various parts of the county; (c) acquire and
circulate books, periodicals, pamphlets, musical scores and records,
pictures, stereopticon slides, motion picture films, and other educational
material; (d) receive and administer legacies and gifts of real
and personal property; (e) appoint a county librarian and necessary
assistants and employees, and fix their compensation; (f) make, alter and
amend, from time to time, reasonable by-laws, rules and regulations for the
operation of the public county library service; and (g) do all other things
necessary to carry on an efficient public county library service.

In establishing, equipping and maintaining branches or stations of the
county library, the county library board may, if deemed advisable,
contract, in writing, with existing libraries to serve as such branches or
stations.

Whenever a county library board which has been duly appointed may desire
to erect a library building, or to purchase a building or a site, or both,
for a library, or to accumulate a fund for either or both of these
purposes, it shall proceed in the manner provided for the carrying out of
similar purposes in "An Act in relation to free public libraries for
cities, villages, incorporated towns and townships and to repeal Acts and
parts of Acts therein named", approved July 12, 1965, as amended.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-38008

(55 ILCS 5/5-38008) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38008)

Sec. 5-38008.

Annual tax levy.

An annual tax of
not to exceed .04%, or the rate limit in
effect on July 1, 1967, whichever is greater, of the value, as equalized
or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all
taxable property within each county which has established a public
county library service may be assessed, levied and collected by that
county in the manner provided for the assessment, levy and collection of
other taxes for county purposes.

Such tax rate may be increased in excess of .04% but not in excess of
.08% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue
under the following terms and conditions.  Prior to
the levy and collection of such a tax, the county board shall adopt a
resolution authorizing the levy and collection of the tax at a rate not
in excess of .08% of the value of all taxable property within the county
as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue,
and, within fifteen days after the adoption of such a resolution, it
shall be published once in a newspaper published or having a general
circulation in the county. The publication of the resolution shall include
a notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition
requesting that the question of the adoption of the resolution be submitted
to the electors of the county; (2) the time in which the petition must be
filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum.  The county clerk
shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.

If no petition is filed in the office of the county clerk, as
hereinafter provided in this Section, within 30 days after the
publication of the resolution, or if all such petitions so filed are determined
to be invalid or insufficient, the resolution shall be in effect.  But,
if within that 30 day period a petition is filed in the office of the
county clerk, signed by electors numbering not less than 5% of the
number of electors residing within the county, asking that the question
of levying and collecting such tax be submitted to the electors of the
county, the board shall certify that question to the proper election officials,
who shall submit the question at an election in accordance with the general
election law.  If a majority of electors voting upon the question voted in
favor of the levy and collection of the tax provided for, such county
shall be authorized and empowered to levy and collect such tax annually,
but if a majority of the electors voting upon the question are not in
favor thereof, the resolution shall not take effect.

Such tax rate may be increased to not to exceed .20% of the value, as
equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, if
the voters in such county shall so determine by a majority of those
voting upon the proposition at any regular election. The proposition shall be
in substantially the following form:

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    Shall the  annual tax  rate for
county library purposes in......        YES
County be increased from not to
exceed (insert present maximum      --------------------------
rate) to not to exceed .20% of
the assessed value of all taxable       NO
property within the county?
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Any such tax authorized by the voters shall not be included within
any constitutional or statutory limitation for county purposes, but
shall be excluded therefrom and be in addition thereto and in excess
thereof. The foregoing limitations upon tax rates may be increased or
decreased under the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of
Illinois.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-38009

(55 ILCS 5/5-38009) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38009)

Sec. 5-38009.

Proceeds of tax in separate fund.

In counties having a population of 25,000 or more, the proceeds of
this tax shall be deposited in the treasury of the county in a separate
library fund. In counties having a population of less than 25,000, the
proceeds thereof, shall be paid over by the person charged with the
collection thereof to the county library board and deposited by it in a
fund to be known as the county library fund; and in counties of such
population such library board shall require the treasurer of such board or
such other person as may be designated as the custodian of the moneys paid
over to such board to give a bond to be approved by it and in such amount,
not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000 as the board may determine,
conditioned that he will safely keep and will pay over upon the order of
such board all funds received and held by him for such board.

No part of this fund shall be expended except upon warrants certified to
as correct by the county librarian and approved by the president of the
county library board. In cases where the public county library service is
maintained by contract with an existing library or libraries, no part of
the library fund shall be expended except upon warrants certified to as
correct by the librarian or two (2) members of the board of any such
library and approved by the president of the board of trustees of any such
library.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-38010

(55 ILCS 5/5-38010) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38010)

Sec. 5-38010.

Fiscal year.

The fiscal year of any
public county library service shall be
co-extensive with the fiscal year of that county.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)