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90_HB2919
60 ILCS 1/85-10
Amends the Township Code. Provides that a township may
request, accept, and expend grants for flood projects from
private or public sources.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Township Code by changing Section
2 85-10.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing
6 Section 85-10 as follows:
7 (60 ILCS 1/85-10)
8 Sec. 85-10. Township corporate powers.
9 (a) Every township has the corporate capacity to
10 exercise the powers granted to it, or necessarily implied,
11 and no others. Every township has the powers specified in
12 this Section.
13 (b) A township may sue and be sued.
14 (c) A township may acquire (by purchase, gift, or
15 legacy) and hold property, both real and personal, for the
16 use of its inhabitants and may sell and convey that property.
17 A township may purchase any real estate or personal property
18 for public purposes under contracts providing for payment in
19 installments over a period of time of not more than 20 years
20 in the case of real estate and not more than 10 years in the
21 case of personal property. A township may finance the
22 purchase of any real estate or personal property for public
23 purpose under finance contracts providing for payment in
24 installments over a period of time of not more than 20 years
25 in the case of real estate and not more than 10 years in the
26 case of personal property. A township may construct a
27 township hall under contracts providing for payment over a
28 period of time of not more than 5 years. The interest on the
29 unpaid balance shall not exceed that permitted in the Bond
30 Authorization Act.
31 (d) A township may make all contracts necessary in the
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1 exercise of the township's powers.
2 (e) A township may expend or contract for the
3 expenditure of any federal funds made available to the
4 township by law for any purpose for which taxes imposed upon
5 township property or property within the township may be
6 expended.
7 (f) A township may acquire (singly or jointly with a
8 municipality or municipalities) land or any interest in land
9 located within its township limits. The township may acquire
10 the land or interest by gift, purchase, or otherwise, but not
11 by condemnation. A township may (singly or jointly) improve
12 or arrange for the improvement of the land for industrial or
13 commercial purposes and may donate and convey the land or
14 interest in land so acquired and so improved to the Illinois
15 Development Finance Authority.
16 (g) (Blank)
17 (h) It is the policy of this State that all powers
18 granted either expressly or by necessary implication by this
19 Code, any other Illinois statute, or the Illinois
20 Constitution to townships may be exercised by those townships
21 notwithstanding effects on competition. It is the intention
22 of the General Assembly that the "State action exemption" to
23 the application of federal antitrust statutes be fully
24 available to townships to the extent their activities are
25 authorized by law as stated in this Code.
26 (i) A township may receive funds under the federal
27 Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and may expend
28 or contract for the expenditure of those funds and other
29 township funds for the activities specified in Section 105 of
30 that Act. The powers granted under this subsection (i) are
31 in addition to powers otherwise possessed by a township and
32 shall not be construed as a limitation of those other powers.
33 (j) A township may establish reasonable fees for
34 recreation and instructional programs sponsored by the
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1 township.
2 (k) A township may request, accept, and expend grants
3 for flood projects from private or public sources.
4 (Source: P.A. 88-62; incorporates 88-356 and 88-360; 88-670,
5 eff. 12-2-94; 89-331, eff. 8-17-95.)