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COUNTIES
(55 ILCS 5/) Counties Code.

55 ILCS 5/6-5001

    (55 ILCS 5/6-5001) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-5001)
    Sec. 6-5001. Referendum. For the purpose of purchasing voting machines, the county board of any county having more than 500,000 inhabitants and in which county there has been a favorable vote on the proposition of adopting voting machines as provided by Article 24 of "The Election Code", as amended, may, by resolution, incur an indebtedness and issue bonds therefor in the aggregate of not more than $500,000 in addition to all bonded indebtedness authorized for that purpose prior to July 1, 1949.
    However, no resolution providing for the issuance of bonds as authorized by Sections 6-5001 through 6-5005 shall be effective until it has been submitted to referendum of the electors of that county. The 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. In addition to the requirements of the general election law, notice of the referendum shall also set forth the substance of the resolution. If a majority of those voting upon the proposition at such referendum vote in favor of issuing such bonds, then the resolution shall immediately become effective.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/6-5002

    (55 ILCS 5/6-5002) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-5002)
    Sec. 6-5002. Resolution authorizing bonds. The resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds shall specify the total amount of bonds to be issued, the form and denomination of the bonds, the date they are to bear, the place where they are payable, the date or dates of maturity, which shall not be more than 20 years after the date the bonds bear, the rate of interest which shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, and the dates on which interest is payable.
    Such resolution shall prescribe all the details of the bonds and shall provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all taxable property within the county sufficient to pay the principal thereof at maturity and to pay the interest thereon as it falls due, which tax shall not be subject to any statutory limitations relative to taxes which may be extended for county purposes.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section or its predecessor either before, on, or after the effective date of Public Act 86-4, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of these Sections 6-5001 through 6-5005 or "An Act to authorize the issuance of bonds by a county having more than 500,000 inhabitants for the purchase of voting machines, and to provide for the payment therefor", approved July 20, 1949, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section or its predecessor are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section or its predecessor within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of these Sections 6-5001 through 6-5005 or "An Act to authorize the issuance of bonds by a county having more than 500,000 inhabitants for the purchase of voting machines, and to provide for the payment therefor", approved July 20, 1949, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)