§ 5-23006 — Referendum; joint facilities

When 100 legal voters of any county shall present a petition, to the County Board of such county asking that an annual tax may be levied for the establishment and maintenance of a county tuberculosis sanitarium in such county, such County Board shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law. At such election every elector may vote for or against the levy of a tax for the establishment and maintenance of a county tuberculosis sanitarium. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Shall an annual tax of not to exceed .075 % of the value as YES equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue for the ------------------------ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - establishment and maintenance of a county tuberculosis sanitarium NO be levied? -------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition shall be for the levy of a tax for a county tuberculosis sanitarium the County Board of such county shall thereafter annually levy a tax of not to exceed .075 per cent of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, which tax shall be collected in like manner with other general taxes in such county and shall be known as the "Tuberculosis Sanitarium Fund", and thereafter the County Board of such county shall in the annual appropriation bill, appropriate from such fund such sum or sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of such county tuberculosis sanitarium. If a county has adopted a proposition for the levy of a tax of not to exceed one mill on the dollar for a county tuberculosis sanitarium such tax shall after January 1, 1946 be extended at a rate not to exceed .05 per cent of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, but may be increased to not to exceed .075 per cent of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, by ordering the submission of the proposition to increase such tax to the voters of such county at any regular election in accordance with the general election law; provided that if a county has adopted, prior to January 1, 1946, a proposition for the levy of a tax of not to exceed 1 1/2 mills on the dollar for a county tuberculosis sanitarium, such tax shall after January 1, 1946 be extended at a rate not to exceed .075 per cent of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue. The foregoing limitations upon tax rates, insofar as they are applicable to counties of less than 1,000,000 population, may be increased or decreased under the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois. The County boards of any 2 or more adjoining counties each having a population of less than 1,000,000 inhabitants may hereafter by agreement provide for the joint construction, maintenance and control of a tuberculosis sanitarium. Such agreement shall specify the site of the proposed sanitarium and the proportionate share of the cost of construction and the cost of maintenance which shall be borne by each of such counties. The proposition for such joint construction, maintenance and control shall be submitted to the voters of each such county at the next succeeding regular election in such county and shall state the proposed site of such sanitarium and the proportionate share of the cost of construction and maintenance to be borne by the respective counties concerned. Each county board shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials who shall submit the proposition at said election in accordance with the general election law. If such proposition is approved by a majority of the voters in each of such counties voting upon the proposition, the presiding officer of the county board of each county, with the advice and consent of that county board, shall appoint 3 directors. The qualifications, terms of office and removal of the directors appointed in each such county shall be as provided in Sections 5-23007 and 5-23008 and vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided in Section 5-23009. The directors so appointed by the several counties shall constitute a joint board of directors for the control and management of the tuberculosis sanitarium. The joint board of directors shall exercise the powers and be subject to the duties prescribed in this Division for boards of directors of tuberculosis sanitaria. The county board of each of the counties shall annually levy the tax herein provided, and may issue bonds as provided in this paragraph, for the purpose of defraying its proportionate share of the cost of construction and maintenance of the tuberculosis sanitarium. If any county shall issue bonds as hereinafter provided, then so long as taxes are required to be levied and extended to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds, the rate extended in any year for the benefit of the tuberculosis sanitarium fund shall be limited to the amount by which .075 per cent of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, exceeds the rate extended in such year to pay such principal of and interest on such bonds.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99 .)