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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/8-13-20

    (65 ILCS 5/8-13-20)
    Sec. 8-13-20. Home rule. A home rule unit may not enter into assignment agreements in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this Article. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 9

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 9 heading)
ARTICLE 9
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS

65 ILCS 5/Art. 9 Div. 1

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 9 Div. 1 heading)
DIVISION 1. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE

65 ILCS 5/9-1-1

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-1)
    Sec. 9-1-1. The provisions of Sections 9-1-2 through 9-1-10 apply in all municipalities unless otherwise provided in any of such sections.
    The provisions of Sections 9-1-11 through 9-1-14 are alternative to and not in exclusion of other methods of disposition of undistributed or unclaimed money received from the making of any local improvement paid for wholly or in part by special assessment or special taxation.
    Any municipality in making local improvements may use either the procedure set out in Division 2 of this Article or the procedure set out in Division 3 of this Article subject to any restrictions appearing in such divisions. Once a local improvement is begun under one of the procedures it must be completed pursuant to the same procedure.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-2

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-2)
    Sec. 9-1-2. When the ordinance under which a local improvement is ordered to be made provides that the improvement shall be made by general taxation, the cost of the improvement shall be added to the annual appropriation ordinance of the municipality ordering the improvement and shall be levied and collected with and as a part of the general taxes of that municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-3

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-3)
    Sec. 9-1-3. No ordinance ordering a local improvement shall be repealed except on a written recommendation of the board of local improvements, or committee on local improvements, as the case may be, stating the reasons therefor. This section shall not apply to municipalities having a population of less than 100,000.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-4

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-4)
    Sec. 9-1-4. The board of local improvements or committee on local improvements, as the case may be, shall submit to the corporate authorities, during the months of May and October of each year, for 3 years following the completion of any public work, a written report of its condition based upon a careful examination of the public work by the board of local improvements, or by the committee on local improvements, as the case may be, or by its representative, who shall be an experienced and capable person of good character. This section shall not apply to municipalities having a population of less than 100,000.
(Source: P.A. 80-324.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-5

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-5)
    Sec. 9-1-5. Any municipality having any undistributed or unclaimed money received from the making of any local improvement paid for wholly or in part by special assessment or special taxation, and which money has remained in the possession of the municipality for a period of 4 years or more from the due date of the last installment undistributed or unclaimed as a rebate or refund, after complying with all provisions for the distribution of such rebates or refunds set out in Divisions 2 and 3 of this Article, may set aside and transfer the money, so undistributed or unclaimed, into a special fund to be known as the unclaimed rebate fund. This fund may be used as provided in Sections 9-1-6 through 9-1-10.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2431.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-6

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-6)
    Sec. 9-1-6. Before the money so remaining undistributed or unclaimed and in the possession of a municipality is set aside and transferred into the unclaimed rebate fund, the board of local improvements, or the committee on local improvements, as the case may be, of the municipality shall have a notice published at least once a week for 8 successive weeks in a newspaper published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in a newspaper with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality.
    The notice shall describe in a general manner the improvement in which there is an undistributed or unclaimed rebate or refund, giving the location of the improvement and the warrant number, and shall give notice that the municipality, by ordinance after the expiration of 60 days from the date of the first publication of this notice, will set aside and transfer all money which has remained for a period of 4 years, or more, undistributed or unclaimed as a rebate or refund, into the unclaimed rebate fund, and shall state that unless the money is claimed by the person entitled thereto within the 60 day period, and the passage of an ordinance by the municipality, all interest therein and all right and title thereto shall be forfeited and barred.
    A certificate of the publication of this notice, with a copy thereof, accompanied by the affidavit of the publisher that the publication has been made and setting forth the date of the first and last publication thereof shall be filed in the office of the board of local improvements, or the committee on local improvements, as the case may be. The board or committee thereupon shall certify the fact of the publication to the corporate authorities of the municipality and shall therewith recommend the passage of an ordinance making transfer of the specified money into the unclaimed rebate fund.
(Source: P.A. 80-179.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-7

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-7)
    Sec. 9-1-7. The corporate authorities, by ordinance, may create an unclaimed rebate fund and may provide for its regulation and control, and from time to time upon the recommendation specified in Section 9-1-6, may direct that the undistributed and unclaimed money described in Section 9-1-5, be set aside and transferred to the unclaimed rebate fund.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-8

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-8)
    Sec. 9-1-8. Unless a claim is made by the person entitled thereto before the passage of an ordinance by a municipality, as specified in Section 9-1-6, all interest therein and all right and title thereto of all claimants shall be forfeited and barred. No action shall be begun or claim made for any money undistributed or unclaimed as a rebate or refund, received from the making of any local improvement, paid for wholly or in part by special assessment or special taxation, after the money has remained in the possession of a municipality undistributed or unclaimed as a rebate or refund, for a period of 4 years or more from the due date of the last installment, and where the money has been set aside and transferred into the unclaimed rebate fund in the manner provided in Sections 9-1-5 through 9-1-7.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2431.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-9

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-9)
    Sec. 9-1-9. Any municipality having an unclaimed rebate fund as provided in Sections 9-1-5 through 9-1-7, by ordinance may at its option direct the use of the money in that fund for any public purpose for which the municipality is authorized by law to expend funds.
(Source: P.A. 84-581.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-10

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-10)
    Sec. 9-1-10. Whenever any municipality creates an unclaimed rebate fund and by ordinance directs the use of the money in that fund for the purpose of paying rebates or refunds due on any warrant for any special assessment or special tax, the equivalent of any such money so used shall be returned to the unclaimed rebate fund as soon as the warrants, which were deficient, have been collected. Whenever any municipality directs the use of the money in that fund for the purpose of paying unpaid special assessment vouchers or special assessment bonds or special tax vouchers or interest or deficiency in interest or public benefits in any warrant in which there is a deficiency, the equivalent of any such money so used or any part thereof shall be returned to the unclaimed rebate fund in the event there is collected in the warrant any surplus in excess of the amount required to pay the bonds and vouchers issued to anticipate such warrant. Whenever any municipality directs the use of the money in the fund for the purpose of purchasing any lot, block or tract or parcel of land, or any real estate at any sale had to enforce the collection of special assessments or special taxes, the proceeds of any redemption from such sale or from any sale of the certificate or title acquired by such sale, to an amount equivalent to any such money so used or any part thereof, shall be returned to the unclaimed rebate fund.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-11

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-11)
    Sec. 9-1-11. Whenever the treasurer of any municipality has petitioned a court of record for directions as to the distribution of undistributed or unclaimed money received from the making of any local improvement paid for wholly or in part by special assessment or special taxation, and, under order of the court, public notice has been given of the amounts of rebates payable and of the names of the persons entitled to them by publication one time in a secular newspaper of general circulation in the county where the municipality is located, and more than one year has elapsed since the publication of the notice, the judge of the court of record may order the money remaining unclaimed to be paid to the treasurer of the municipality in trust. However, in all cases where all special assessment bonds in a special assessment warrant have been paid and retired and where reimbursements have been made, all moneys remaining in such warrants shall be paid over and transferred to the general corporate fund of the municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/9-1-12

    (65 ILCS 5/9-1-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-1-12)
    Sec. 9-1-12. If the corporate authorities have created an unclaimed rebate fund, the treasurer shall transfer to the unclaimed rebate fund, in trust any funds which the court of record may have ordered paid to such treasurer. Subject to the provisions of Section 9-1-14, the funds may be used as provided in Sections 9-1-9 and 9-1-10.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)