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COUNTIES
(55 ILCS 5/) Counties Code.

55 ILCS 5/Div. 5-38

 
    (55 ILCS 5/Div. 5-38 heading)
Division 5-38. Public County
Library Service

55 ILCS 5/5-38001

    (55 ILCS 5/5-38001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38001)
    Sec. 5-38001. Establishment, equipment and maintenance. Subject to the provisions of Section 5-38012, every county board shall establish, equip and maintain a public county library service.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-38002

    (55 ILCS 5/5-38002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38002)
    Sec. 5-38002. Contract with existing library. In performing this duty, the county board may, if it is deemed advisable, contract in writing, with an existing library or libraries in any county, to establish, equip and maintain a public county library service. The contract shall contain provisions requiring the contracting library or libraries to (a) establish, equip and maintain a county library; (b) establish, equip and maintain such branches and stations of the county library in the various parts of the county as may be deemed necessary by the county board; (c) acquire and circulate books, periodicals, pamphlets, musical scores and records, pictures, stereopticon slides, motion picture films and other educational material, (d) do all other things necessary to carry on an efficient public county library service; also such contract shall contain provisions specifying that one or more representatives of each party to the contract, may participate in and vote at all meetings in which matters relating to the library service, furnished under the contract, are considered.
    The making and performance of any such contract shall be under the supervision of the county board.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-38003

    (55 ILCS 5/5-38003) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38003)
    Sec. 5-38003. County library board. The public county library service except in counties where such a service is maintained by contract with an existing library or libraries, shall be under the direct supervision and control of a county library board. This board shall consist of five members, who shall be appointed by the presiding officer of the county board with the advice and consent of the county board. Of the first members to be appointed, one member shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of four years, and another for a term of five years. Thereafter, upon the expiration of each of these terms, the members of the county library board shall be appointed for terms of five years each. A vacancy upon the county library board shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term in like manner. In counties where the public county library service is maintained by contract with an existing library or libraries, the making and performance of any such contract shall be under the supervision of the county board.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-38004

    (55 ILCS 5/5-38004) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38004)
    Sec. 5-38004. Expenses of board members. The members of the county library board shall serve without compensation but their actual and necessary expenses shall be a proper and legitimate charge against the library fund.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-38005

    (55 ILCS 5/5-38005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38005)
    Sec. 5-38005. Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Division shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act".
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/5-38006

    (55 ILCS 5/5-38006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38006)
    Sec. 5-38006. Officers of board. Immediately after their appointment the members of the county library board shall elect a president and a secretary-treasurer from among their number.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

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.)

55 ILCS 5/5-38011

    (55 ILCS 5/5-38011) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38011)
    Sec. 5-38011. Report of board. Within 30 days after the close of each fiscal year, the county library board shall make a written report to the county board. In cases where a public county library service is maintained by contract with an existing library or libraries, a report shall be made to the county board at the same time by the librarian or the secretary or some other officer of the county library board of such library or libraries. A copy of each report shall be filed at the same time with the Illinois State library.
    It shall contain (a), an itemized statement of the various sums of money received from the library fund, or from other sources; (b), an itemized statement of the objects and purposes to which those sums of money have been devoted; (c), a statement of the number of books and periodicals available for use, and the number thereof circulated during the fiscal year; (d), a statement of the real and personal property acquired by legacy, purchase, gift or otherwise, during the fiscal year; (e), a statement of the number, location and character of the branches or stations of the public county library service, if any, established during the fiscal year; (f), a statement of the character of any other extensions of public county library service undertaken during the fiscal year; and (g), any other statistics or information that may be required by the county board.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)