(75 ILCS 16/10-15)
Sec. 10-15.
Conversion by library board resolution and approval of
corporate authorities.
(a) The board of trustees of a tax supported public library
desiring to convert the existing library to a library maintained and
operated under this Act may, rather than utilizing the
procedures prescribed in Section 10-5, adopt a resolution calling for
the conversion and requesting the approval of the conversion by the
corporate authorities of the municipality, county, or township maintaining
the existing library. If the corporate authorities approve the conversion
within 60 days after the resolution is adopted by the board of trustees,
the board of trustees shall convert the public library to a public library
district.
(b) Any library in a home rule unit, as defined in Article VII,
Section 6, of the Illinois Constitution, converted under this Section shall
have a maximum tax rate not to exceed the greater of 0.15% or the last
rate levied by the municipality for library purposes for the most recent year
before the conversion, and that rate shall not be subject to any rate
limitations or referendum requirements imposed by this Act. That
rate may thereafter be increased, however, as provided in Section 35-10.
(Source: P.A. 87-1277.)
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