(60 ILCS 1/Art. 175 heading)

(60 ILCS 1/175-5) Sec. 175-5. Petition and referendum to establish hospital. (a) Whenever not less than 5% of the registered voters (according to the voting registration records at the time the petition is filed) of a township file a petition with the township clerk requesting that an annual tax, not to exceed one and two-thirds mills on the dollar, be levied each year on all the taxable property of the township for the maintenance and operation of a public nonsectarian hospital described in the petition and located within or without the township, the township clerk shall give notice that at the next annual township election, or at an election in accordance with the general election law if one is requested, a referendum will be held on the question. If a referendum is ordered to be held at the township meeting, notice shall be given by posting notices in at least 10 of the most public places in the township at least 10 days before the day of the meeting. If an election is requested, the township clerk shall certify that proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition in accordance with the general election law. (b) The proposition at a referendum authorized by this Section shall be substantially as follows: Shall (name of township) levy an annual tax of not

more than one and two-thirds mills on the dollar for the maintenance and operation of the following described public nonsectarian hospital under Article 175 of the Township Code?

(Description of hospital.) The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No". (c) If a majority of all votes cast on the proposition is in favor of the proposition, the township shall annually levy a tax of not more than one and two-thirds mills on the dollar on all the taxable property of the township for the maintenance and operation of the hospital. The proceeds of the tax shall be paid into a fund known as the Hospital Fund. The county collector or the supervisor of the township shall pay all money in the Hospital Fund to the treasurer of the public nonsectarian hospital within 30 days after receiving the money. (d) For purposes of this Article, "public nonsectarian hospital" means any nonsectarian hospital operated by a nonprofit corporation or any nonsectarian hospital operated by any political subdivision of the State or by any municipal corporation in the State to which patients are admitted regardless of race, color, creed, sex, or national origin. (Source: P.A. 81-1489; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/175-10) Sec. 175-10. Discontinuance of hospital. (a) Whenever at least 10% of the voters of a township that has adopted the provisions of this Article presents a petition to the township clerk requesting that the maintenance and operation of the public nonsectarian hospital be discontinued, the township clerk shall give notice, in the manner provided in Section 175-5, that at the next annual township election, or at a referendum in accordance with the general election law, an election will be held on the question. If the referendum is ordered to be held at an election, the clerk shall certify that proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition in accordance with the general election law. (b) The proposition at the referendum shall be substantially as follows: Shall (name of township) discontinue the maintenance

and operation of the following described public nonsectarian hospital under Article 175 of the Township Code?

(Description of hospital.) The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No". (c) If a majority of the votes upon the proposition is in favor of the discontinuance of the maintenance and operation of the public nonsectarian hospital, the township shall not thereafter levy a tax for the maintenance and operation of the hospital unless the proposition is again submitted to and approved by the voters as provided in Section 175-5. (Source: P.A. 81-1489; 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/175-15) Sec. 175-15. Use of money; annual report. (a) Any moneys paid over by a township from the hospital fund to a public non-sectarian hospital shall be used solely for its maintenance and operation under the sole control of the management of the hospital. (b) The management of the hospital shall file with the clerk of each township that has paid money into the hospital fund, within 60 days after the close of its fiscal year, a report stating the financial affairs of the hospital, showing (i), the balance (if any) received by the management from its predecessor or from any other source; (ii) the amount of tax levied the preceding year for the hospital; (iii) the amount collected and paid over to it; (iv) the amount paid out by it and on what account, including any amount paid out on indebtedness (specifying the nature and amount of the indebtedness, the amount paid on the indebtedness, the amount paid on principal, and the amount paid on interest account); and (v) the amount and kind of all outstanding indebtedness due and unpaid, the amount and kind of indebtedness not yet due, and when the indebtedness not yet due will mature. (c) The township clerk shall record the report in the record book of the township as soon as it is filed and shall post a copy of the report at the place of holding the annual township meeting 2 days before the meeting is held. The clerk shall read the report aloud to the electors at the meeting. The township clerk shall cause the report to be published in a newspaper of general circulation published within the township in which the hospital is situated. If no newspaper of general circulation is published in the township, the report shall be published in any newspaper generally circulated in the township. (d) Any manager or township clerk who wilfully neglects to comply with this Section shall forfeit and pay to the township the sum of not less than $50 nor more than $200, to be sued for and recovered by the township in its corporate name and appropriated for repairs of highways and bridges in the township. (Source: Laws 1951, p. 110; P.A. 88-62.)

(60 ILCS 1/175-20) Sec. 175-20. The provisions of this Article do not apply to any township that avails itself of the provisions of Article 170. (Source: Laws 1945, p. 1739; P.A. 88-62.)