103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB3597

 

Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Rachel Ventura

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/5-1135

    Amends the Counties Code. In provisions allowing a county board to borrow money for any corporate purpose from any bank or other financial institution under specified conditions, modifies the definition of "financial institution" to include the Illinois Finance Authority.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
5Section 5-1135 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/5-1135)
7    Sec. 5-1135. Borrowing from financial institutions. The
8county board of a county may borrow money for any corporate
9purpose from any bank or other financial institution provided
10such money shall be repaid within 2 years from the time the
11money is borrowed. The county board chairman or county
12executive, as the case may be, shall execute a promissory note
13or similar debt instrument, but not a bond, to evidence the
14indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. The obligation to make
15the payments due under the promissory note or other debt
16instrument shall be a lawful direct general obligation of the
17county payable from the general funds of the county and such
18other sources of payment as are otherwise lawfully available.
19The promissory note or other debt instrument shall be
20authorized by an ordinance passed by the county board and
21shall be valid whether or not an appropriation with respect to
22that ordinance is included in any annual or supplemental
23appropriation adopted by the county board. The indebtedness

 

 

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1incurred under this Section, when aggregated with the existing
2indebtedness of the county, may not exceed any debt limitation
3otherwise provided for by law. "Financial institution" means
4any bank subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings and
5loan association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan Act
6of 1985, any savings bank subject to the Savings Bank Act, any
7credit union subject to the Illinois Credit Union Act, and any
8federally chartered commercial bank, savings and loan
9association, savings bank, or credit union organized and
10operated in this State pursuant to the laws of the United
11States, and the Illinois Finance Authority.
12(Source: P.A. 98-525, eff. 8-23-13; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14.)