§ 6-18001 — Bonds for medical services and law enforcement

For the purpose of improving hospital, medical, and health services and for improving law enforcement, any county with a population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants may, prior to December 1, 1970, by resolution of its County Board, incur an indebtedness and issue bonds therefor in amounts not exceeding in the aggregate of $12,000,000. Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate of not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, and shall mature within 20 years from the date thereof. The resolution authorizing this issuance of bonds may be made effective without the submission thereof to the voters of the county for approval. The resolution authorizing such bonds shall provide for the levy of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property in the county sufficient to pay and discharge the principal of such bonds at maturity and to pay the interest thereon as it falls due. This tax shall be levied with the general taxes of the county and shall be in addition to the maximum of all other taxes and tax rates which the county is or may be authorized to levy. 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 Act or "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties", approved March 31, 1874, 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 Act or "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties", approved March 31, 1874, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.

Legislative History

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