§ 6-11001 — Resolution directing issuance of bonds

If no petition for referendum is filed as provided in this Division, or if such petition is filed and election is had and a majority of the voters voting on the proposition vote in favor thereof, then the county board may adopt a resolution directing the issuance of any or all of the bonds described in the resolution of intention, fixing the details thereof and levying a tax to pay the same. The bonds shall mature at such time or times as is fixed in said resolution but not more than 20 years from the date of such bonds, shall bear interest at not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable annually or semi-annually, and be payable at such place or places as shall be fixed in said resolution, and shall be signed in the manner and by the officials directed by the resolution to sign the same. The amount of such bonds which may be issued shall not be subject to any statutory debt limitation. Any of the bonds authorized pursuant to the provisions of this Division may be exchanged for at least a like par amount of the claims described in the resolution of intention, or said bonds, or some of them, may be sold for not less than the par value thereof and the proceeds used to pay at least a like par amount of such claims, provided, however, said bonds may be delivered from time to time or all at one time. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section or its predecessor either before, on, or after the effective date of Public Act 86-4, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Division or "An Act to authorize any county having a population of less than 70,000 to issue funding bonds and to provide for the validation of claims to be paid by or from the proceeds of such bonds", filed June 19, 1939, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section or its predecessor are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section or its predecessor within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Division or "An Act to authorize any county having a population of less than 70,000 to issue funding bonds and to provide for the validation of claims to be paid by or from the proceeds of such bonds", filed June 19, 1939, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)