§ 6-7001 — Authorization for counties not home rule counties

The county Board of any County which is not a home rule unit and which has established a public hospital is authorized to issue and sell revenue bonds payable from the revenue derived from the operation of the hospital for the purpose of (1) constructing, reconstructing, repairing, remodeling, extending, equipping, improving and acquiring a site or sites for a hospital building or buildings, or (2) refunding any such revenue bonds theretofore issued from time to time when deemed necessary or advantageous in the public interest. These bonds shall be authorized by an ordinance without submission thereof to the electors of the county, shall mature at such time not to exceed 40 years from the date of issue, and bear such rate of interest not to exceed the greater of (i) the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, or (ii) 9% per annum, payable annually or semiannually as the County Board may determine, and may be sold by the County Board in such manner as they deem best in the public interest. However, such bonds shall be sold at such price that the interest cost of the proceeds therefrom will not exceed the greater of (i) the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, or (ii) 9% per annum based on the average maturity of such bonds and computed according to standard tables of bond values. No member of the County Board, Board of Directors of the public hospital or its administration shall have any personal economic interest in any bonds issued in accordance with this Division. 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 in relation to the issuance of revenue bonds by certain counties for public hospitals", approved June 29, 1973, 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 in relation to the issuance of revenue bonds by certain counties for public hospitals", approved June 29, 1973, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.

Legislative History

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