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Public Act 91-0583
SB283 Enrolled LRB9101118DHmgA
AN ACT concerning the powers and functions of the
Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by changing Section 46.37 as follows:
(20 ILCS 605/46.37) (from Ch. 127, par. 46.37)
Sec. 46.37. The Department shall provide for a central
clearing house for information concerning local government
problems and various solutions to those problems and shall
assist and aid local governments of the State in matters
relating to budgets, fiscal procedures and administration. In
performing this responsibility the Department shall have the
power and duty to:
(a) Maintain communication with all local governments
and assist them, at their request, to improve their
administrative procedures and to facilitate improved local
government and development;
(b) Assemble and disseminate information concerning
State and Federal programs, grants, gifts, and subsidies
available to local governments and to provide counsel and
technical services and other assistance in applying for such
programs, grants, gifts and subsidies;
(c) Assist in coordinating activities by obtaining
information, on forms provided by the Department or by
receipt of proposals and applications, concerning State and
Federal assisted programs, grants, gifts, and subsidies
applied for and received by all local governments;
(d) Provide direct consultative services to local
governments upon request and provide staff services to
special commissions, the Governor, the General Assembly or
its committees;
(e) Render advice and assistance with respect to the
establishment and maintenance of programs for the training of
local government officials and other personnel, including
programs of intergovernmental exchange of personnel;
(f) To act as the official State agency for the receipt
and distribution of federal funds which are or may be
provided to the State on a flat grant basis for distribution
to local governments or in the event federal law requires a
State agency to implement programs affecting local
governments and for State funds which are or may be provided
for the use of local governments unless otherwise provided by
law;
(g) To administer such laws relating to local government
affairs as the General Assembly may direct;
(h) Provide all advice and assistance to improve local
government administration, to insure the economical and
efficient provision of local government services, and to make
this Act effective;
(i) Give advice and counsel on fiscal problems of local
governments of the State to such local governments;
(j) Prepare uniform budgetary forms for use by the local
governments of the State;
(k) Assist and advise the local governments of the State
in matters pertaining to budgets, appropriation requests and
ordinances, the determination of property tax levies and
rates, and other matters of a financial nature;
(l) Be a repository for financial reports and statements
required by law of local governments of the State and publish
financial summaries thereof;
(m) (Blank) At the request of local governments, provide
assistance in preparing bond issues, review bonding
proposals, and assist in marketing bonds, and provide by
January 1, 1985, model forms for the disclosure of all
information of significance to potential purchasers of long
or short term debt of local governments and all information
required to be disclosed in connection with the sale of long
or short term debt by local governments;
(n) Prepare proposals and advise on the investment of
idle local government funds;
(o) Administer the program of grants, loans and loan
guarantees under the federal Public Works and Economic
Development Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 3121 et seq.,
and to receive and disburse State and federal funds provided
for that program and moneys received as repayments of loans
made under the program;
(p) After January 1, 1985, upon the request of local
governments, to prepare and provide model financial statement
forms designed to communicate to taxpayers, service
consumers, voters, government employees and news media, in a
non-technical manner, all significant financial information
regarding a particular local government, and to prepare and
provide to local governments a summary of local governments'
obligations concerning the adoption of an annual operating
budget which summary shall be set forth in a non-technical
manner and shall be designed principally for distribution to,
and the use of, taxpayers, service consumers, voters,
government employees and news media.
(Source: P.A. 83-1362.)
Section 10. The Center for Business Ownership Succession
and Employee Ownership Act is amended by changing Section 2
as follows:
(20 ILCS 609/2)
Sec. 2. Center for Business Ownership Succession and
Employee Ownership.
(a) There is created within the Department of Commerce
and Community Affairs the Center for Business Ownership
Succession and Employee Ownership.
The purpose of the Center is to foster greater awareness
of the most effective techniques that facilitate business
ownership succession and employee ownership with an emphasis
on the retention and creation of job opportunities.
(b) The Center shall have the authority to do the
following:
(1) Develop and disseminate materials to promote
effective business ownership succession and employee
ownership strategies.
(2) Provide counseling to individual companies and
referral services to provide professional advisors expert
in the field of business ownership succession and
employee ownership.
(3) Plan, organize, sponsor, or conduct conferences
and workshops on business ownership succession and
employee ownership issues.
(4) Network and contract with local economic
development agencies, business organizations, and
professional advisors to accomplish the goals of the
Center.
(5) Raise money from private sources to support the
work of the Center.
(c) (Blank) The work of the Center shall be supported
and guided by an Advisory Task Force on Business Ownership
Succession and Employee Ownership. The Task Force shall
consist of individuals from the private and public sectors,
at least two-thirds of whom shall be from the private sector.
The members and the Task Force chairperson shall be chosen by
the Governor.
(Source: P.A. 89-364, eff. 8-18-95.)
Section 15. The Illinois Coal and Energy Development
Bond Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1110/6) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106)
Sec. 6. The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
is authorized to use $120,000,000 for the purposes specified
in this Act. These funds shall be expended only on projects
for which previous approval of the Illinois Energy Resources
Commission has been granted or for a grant to the owner of a
generating station located in Illinois and having at least
three coal-fired generating units with accredited summer
capacity greater than 500 megawatts each at such generating
station as specifically authorized by this paragraph.
Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Act, in
considering the approval of projects to be funded under this
Act, the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs and the
Illinois Energy Resources Commission shall give special
consideration to projects which are designed to remove sulfur
and other pollutants in the preparation and utilization of
coal, and in the use and operation of electric utility
generating plants and industrial facilities which utilize
Illinois coal as their primary source of fuel. The
Department of Commerce and Community Affairs is directed to
enter into a contract with the owner of a generating station
located in Illinois and having at least three coal-fired
generating units with accredited summer capability greater
than 500 megawatts each at such generating station for a
grant of $35,000,000 to be made by the State of Illinois to
such owner to be used to pay costs of designing, acquiring,
constructing, installing and testing facilities to reduce
sulfur dioxide emissions at one such generating unit to allow
that unit to meet the requirements of the Federal Clean Air
Act Amendments of 1990 (P.L. 101-549) while continuing to use
coal mined in Illinois as its source of fuel.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
Section 20. The Recycled Newsprint Use Act is amended by
changing Section 2004 as follows:
(415 ILCS 110/2004) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 9754)
Sec. 2004. Consumer usage certification. Each consumer
of newsprint within the State shall, on or before March 1 of
each year, certify to the Department the amount in tons of
every type of newsprint used by the consumer of newsprint the
previous year and the percentage of recycled fibers present
in each type of newsprint, so that the Department can
calculate the recycled fiber usage for that consumer of
newsprint. All Illinois consumers of newsprint shall submit
the first consumer usage certificate by March 1, 1992, for
the calendar year 1991. The Department shall submit to the
General Assembly a report compiling the data contained in the
consumer usage certificates no later than May 1 of each year.
Only consumers of newsprint who provide timely usage
certificates shall receive credit for recycled fiber usage.
(Source: P.A. 86-1443.)
Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect
January 1, 2000.
INDEX
Statutes amended in order of appearance
20 ILCS 605/46.37 from Ch. 127, par. 46.37
20 ILCS 609/2
20 ILCS 1110/6 from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106
415 ILCS 110/2004 from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 9754
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