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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/11-17-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-2)
    Sec. 11-17-2. When 100 electors of any municipality specified in Section 11-17-1 present a petition to the clerk of the municipality asking that an annual tax be levied for the establishment and maintenance of a public health board in the municipality, the municipal clerk shall certify the proposition for submission to the voters of the municipality at an election in accordance with the general election law. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
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    Shall the municipality of....            YES
establish and maintain a public health  ----------------------
board and levy an annual tax therefor?       NO
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    If a majority of the electors voting upon the question are in favor of the proposition, the corporate authorities of the municipality shall proceed as provided in Section 11-17-1. Thereafter, the corporate authorities shall include in the annual appropriation ordinance an appropriation from the public health board fund of such amount as may be necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of the public health board.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-3)
    Sec. 11-17-3. When it has been decided to establish and maintain a public health board under this Division 17, the mayor or president, with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint a board of 5 directors, 2 of whom are duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Illinois and have been in the actual practice of their profession, and the other 3 of whom are citizens of the municipality. The directors shall be chosen with reference to their special fitness for that office.
    One of the directors shall be appointed to hold office for one year, one for 2 years, one for 3 years, one for 4 years, and one for 5 years from the first day of July following their appointments. At the expiration of the term of any director, the mayor or president, with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint a successor, or reappoint that director, who shall hold office for 5 years and until his successor is appointed and has qualified. A majority of the directors, with the consent of the mayor or president and the corporate authorities, may remove any director for misconduct or neglect of duty.
    Vacancies in the board of directors, however occasioned, shall be filled in like manner as original appointments. No director shall receive compensation for serving as a director. No director shall be interested in a private capacity, either directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale of any supplies for the public health board.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-4)
    Sec. 11-17-4. Immediately after their appointment, the directors shall meet and organize by electing one of their number as president and one as secretary and by electing such other officers as they may deem necessary. They shall adopt such by-laws, rules, and regulations for their own guidance and for the government of the public health board as may be expedient and not inconsistent with this Division 17 or with the ordinances of the municipality. They have the exclusive control of the expenditure of all money collected to the credit of the public health board fund. All money received for the public health board shall be deposited in the municipal treasury to the credit of the public health board fund and shall not be used for any other purpose. The money shall be drawn upon by the proper municipal officer upon the properly authenticated vouchers of the board of directors.
    The board has the power to appoint suitable assistants and other employees and fix their compensation, and to remove such appointees. The board, in general, shall carry out the spirit and intent of this Division 17 in establishing and maintaining a public health board. In a city which has adopted or hereafter adopts Division 1 of Article 10, all appointments and all removals of assistants or other employees shall be made pursuant to the provisions of that Division 1 of Article 10 and not otherwise, except that persons may be employed temporarily until persons ranked upon the register under Division 1 of Article 10 for positions or offices which are held under Division 1 of Article 10 are available for service. Persons so appointed for temporary service shall hold their positions as temporary appointees under Division 1 of Article 10.
    Each officer and employee of the public health board is an officer or employee, as the case may be, of the municipality in which the public health board is established.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-5)
    Sec. 11-17-5. The public health board may initiate and maintain activities for the promotion of maternal child health, industrial hygiene, mental health, sanitary housing, public health education, and shall have the right to inspect and regulate all food and milk products kept or offered for sale within the jurisdiction of the board; may prevent and suppress contagious diseases, and may initiate and maintain programs or activities which from time to time may become necessary or proper for the promotion of public health within the jurisdiction of the board.
(Source: P.A. 76-649.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-6)
    Sec. 11-17-6. The public health board may accept gifts or gratuities of any kind, and may use such gifts or gratuities for any of the purposes authorized by this Division 17.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-7)
    Sec. 11-17-7. The board of directors may lease or acquire and take title in the name of public health board to such real estate as may be reasonably necessary for the housing and the proper functioning of any and all divisions of such health department and may make exchanges of real estate and may maintain, repair, remodel, or improve the same when in the judgment of the board of directors such exchanges, repairs, remodeling or improvements are reasonably necessary. Such leasing, acquisition, exchanges, maintenance, repairs, remodeling and improvements may be made with monies of the public health board fund.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-8)
    Sec. 11-17-8. Rules and regulations adopted or enacted into an ordinance in conformity with Section 11-17-5 shall be enforced in the same manner as municipal ordinances. Any person who violates any of these rules and regulations is guilty of a petty offense and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10, nor more than $100, for each offense. Each day a violation continues is a separate offense.
(Source: P.A. 77-2500.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-9

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-9)
    Sec. 11-17-9. When the board of directors of any public health board established and maintained under this Division 17 makes a written recommendation to the corporate authorities for the discontinuance of the public health board, stating in their recommendation the reasons therefor, or when at least 20% of the electors of the municipality, as shown by the last general municipal election, present a petition to the corporate authorities asking for the discontinuance of the public health board, the corporate authorities may pass an ordinance providing for the discontinuance of the board.
    This ordinance shall be certified by the local clerk and submitted to the electors of the municipality at an election in accordance with the general election law. The ordinance shall be effective only if approved by a majority of those voting upon the question.
    The methods of discontinuance provided by this section and Section 11-17-10 are exclusive.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-10

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-10)
    Sec. 11-17-10. The question shall be substantially in the following form:
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    Shall the public health board of
 the  city  (or  village  or                YES
 incorporated town, as the case may be)  ---------------------
 of.... as provided in  ordinance           NO
 No..... be discontinued?
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(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-11

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-11)
    Sec. 11-17-11. When any ordinance specified in Section 11-17-9 has been so ratified, the corporate authorities, after discharging all financial obligations of the public health board, by appropriate ordinance may transfer any money then in the public health board fund into the general fund of the municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-17-12

    (65 ILCS 5/11-17-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-12)
    Sec. 11-17-12. Any public health board established and maintained under "An Act to authorize cities and villages of more than 100,000 and less than 200,000 inhabitants to establish and maintain public health boards and to levy an annual tax therefor," approved March 4, 1937, as amended, which was in existence immediately prior to January 1, 1942 shall be treated as properly established under this Division 17 and shall be continued to be maintained under this Division 17 unless it is discontinued as provided in this Division 17. All cities and villages whose electors have approved the levy of an annual tax for a public health board under that Act may continue to levy the tax under this Division 17 without submitting the question of its levy to the electors for approval. The directors, assistants, or other employees appointed under that Act who were in office or employed immediately prior to January 1, 1942 shall continue in their offices and employments under this Division 17 until the respective terms for which they were elected or appointed have expired, subject to the applicable provisions of this Code or other Illinois statutes as to removal.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)