55 ILCS 5/ Counties Code.

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55 ILCS 5/2-6005

(55 ILCS 5/2-6005) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6005)

Sec. 2-6005.

Oath of commissioners.

The said commissioners shall
severally, before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, take the
oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and they shall be known as
the board of commissioners of Cook County, and as such board shall possess
the powers, perform the duties and be subject to the rules, regulations and
restrictions hereinafter specified.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/2-6006

(55 ILCS 5/2-6006) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6006)

Sec. 2-6006.

Meetings of board of commissioners.

The board of
commissioners shall hold regular meetings on the first Monday of December,
January, February, March, June and September in each year, except that when
such a regularly scheduled meeting would fall on a legal holiday under
Section 17 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to promissory notes,
bonds, due bills and other instruments in writing", approved March 18,
1874, as amended, the board shall hold the meeting on the day immediately
following such a holiday. It shall be the duty of the president of the
board of commissioners to call special meetings of the board whenever, in
his opinion, the same may be necessary; and he shall preside at all the
meetings of the board, and generally perform the duties usually performed
by a presiding officer; provided, that in the absence of the president, or
of his inability to act, a president pro tempore may be elected, who shall,
during such absence or inability possess all the powers and perform all the
duties by law vested in and required of the president.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/2-6007

(55 ILCS 5/2-6007) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6007)

Sec. 2-6007.

Voting by president.

The president of the board of
commissioners shall have the same privilege of voting as any other
commissioner; but he shall not have a casting vote upon any question upon
which he has voted as commissioner.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/2-6008

(55 ILCS 5/2-6008) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6008)

Sec. 2-6008. Approval of ordinances.

All ordinances, resolutions or
motions shall be submitted to
said board of commissioners in writing, or reduced to writing before any
vote shall be taken thereon; and if adopted by the board, the same shall
not take effect until after the same shall have been approved in writing by
the president of said board, except as hereinafter provided. It shall be
the duty of the clerk of said board to deliver to the president thereof,
upon his request, the original (or a copy) of each ordinance, resolution or
motion, so passed or adopted by said board as aforesaid, within one day
after its passage or adoption; and in case the president approves thereof,
he shall sign the same, and it shall thereupon be in full force and effect.
In case the president shall not approve any such ordinance, resolution or
motion, he shall, within five days after the receipt of the same as
aforesaid, return it to the clerk of said board, with his objections
thereto in writing. Such veto by the president may extend to any one or
more items or appropriations contained in any resolution making an
appropriation, or to the entire resolution; and in case the veto only
extends to a part of such resolution making an appropriation, the residue
thereof not embraced within the veto shall take effect and be in force from
the time of the receipt by said clerk of such veto of such part. Upon the
return of any such ordinance, resolution or motion by the president, with
his objections thereto as aforesaid, the vote by which the same was passed
shall be reconsidered by the board of commissioners as to so much thereof
as may have been vetoed; and if, after such reconsideration, three-fifths
 of
all the members elected to the board shall agree to pass the same by yeas
and nays, to be entered on the journal, the same shall take effect,
notwithstanding the president may have refused to approve thereof. In case
the president shall fail or omit to either sign and approve or return, with
his objections as aforesaid, any such ordinance, motion or resolution which
shall have been passed or adopted by the board within six days after it
shall have been so passed or adopted, the same shall take effect without
the approval of the president.

(Source: P.A. 96-816, eff. 11-9-09.)

55 ILCS 5/2-6009

(55 ILCS 5/2-6009) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6009)

Sec. 2-6009.

Powers and duties of commissioners.

Said board of
commissioners shall have the management of the affairs of said Cook County,
in the manner provided by law, and may exercise the same powers, perform
the same duties, and shall be subject to the same rules, regulations and
penalties prescribed by law for the county board in other counties, except
as herein otherwise provided; and shall also be subject to the rules,
regulations and restrictions herein provided.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/2-6010

(55 ILCS 5/2-6010) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6010)

Sec. 2-6010.

Delegation of powers; appropriations; indebtedness.

The
said board of commissioners shall have no power or authority to delegate to
any committee or other person or persons the "power to act", when such
"power to act" shall involve the letting of any contract or the expenditure
of public money exceeding the sum of $2,500; and any action of said board,
or of any committee thereof, or of any other person or persons in violation
of this Section shall be null and void. No money shall be appropriated or
ordered paid by said county commissioners beyond the sum of $2,500, unless
such appropriation shall have been authorized by a vote of at least
two-thirds of the members elected to the said county board. And no officer
of Cook County, or other person, shall incur any indebtedness on behalf of
the county, unless first authorized by said board of commissioners.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/Art. 3

(55 ILCS 5/Art. 3 heading) ARTICLE 3.

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

55 ILCS 5/Div. 3-1

(55 ILCS 5/Div. 3-1 heading) Division 3-1.

Auditor

55 ILCS 5/3-1001

(55 ILCS 5/3-1001) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-1001)

Sec. 3-1001. Auditors in counties of 70,000 to 3,000,000.

In all
counties containing less than 3,000,000 and over 70,000 inhabitants by the
last federal census, there is created the office of county auditor, whose
term of office shall be 4 years and until his or her successor is elected and
qualified. The nomination and election shall be subject to the general
election laws of the State. Each county auditor shall take office the first
day of the month following the month of his or her election on which the office of
the county auditor is required, by statute or by action of the county
board, to be open. The qualifications and oath of office shall be the same
as apply to other county officers. Each county auditor shall, before
entering upon the duties of the office, give bond (or, if the county is
self-insured, the county through its self-insurance program may provide
bonding) in such penalty and with such security as the county board deems
sufficient, which bond shall be substantially in the form required by law to be
given by the county clerk. Such bond shall be filed with the county clerk on or
before the day the county auditor takes office. In case of a vacancy in the
office of county auditor caused by death, resignation, or removal from office,
the vacancy shall be filled as provided for filling vacancies of other county
offices. If the auditor is temporarily unable to perform his or her duties for
any reason, the deputy auditor, if there is one, shall assume the duties of the
auditor until the auditor is able to resume his or her duties or until a
replacement for the auditor is chosen.

(Source: P.A. 103-117, eff. 1-1-24.)