(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 1 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-1) Sec. 8-1-1. The corporate authorities may control the finances of the corporation. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-1.5) Sec. 8-1-1.5. Internal auditor. The city council or board of trustees, as appropriate, may create the office of internal auditor. The duties of the internal auditor shall be to report directly to the council or board regarding the state of the finances of the municipality. The internal auditor may be appointed as provided by ordinance. (Source: P.A. 93-483, eff. 1-1-04.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-2) Sec. 8-1-2. The corporate authorities may appropriate money for corporate purposes only and provide for payment of debts and expenses of the corporation. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-2.5) Sec. 8-1-2.5. Expenses for economic development. The corporate authorities may appropriate and expend funds for economic development purposes, including, without limitation, the making of grants to any other governmental entity or commercial enterprise that are deemed necessary or desirable for the promotion of economic development within the municipality. (Source: P.A. 97-94, eff. 7-11-11.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-3) Sec. 8-1-3. The corporate authorities may borrow money on the credit of the corporation for corporate purposes, and issue bonds therefor, in such amounts and form, and on such conditions unless otherwise provided in this Code as the corporate authorities prescribe. Before, or at the time of incurring any indebtedness, the corporate authorities shall provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on the debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within 20 years after contracting the debt. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-3.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-3.1) Sec. 8-1-3.1. Borrowing from financial institutions. The corporate authorities may borrow money for corporate purposes from one fund for the use of another fund providing such borrowing shall be repaid within the current fiscal year. The corporate authorities may also borrow money from any bank or other financial institution provided such money shall be repaid within 10 years from the time the money is borrowed. The mayor or president of the municipality, as the case may be, shall execute a promissory note or similar debt instrument, but not a bond, to evidence the indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. The obligation to make the payments due under the promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful direct general obligation of the municipality payable from the general funds of the municipality and such other sources of payment as are otherwise lawfully available. The promissory note or other debt instrument shall be authorized by an ordinance passed by the corporate authorities and shall be valid whether or not an appropriation with respect to that ordinance is included in any annual or supplemental appropriation adopted by the corporate authorities. The indebtedness incurred under this Section, when aggregated with the existing indebtedness of the municipality, may not exceed the debt limitation provided in Section 8-5-1 of this Code. "Financial institution" means any bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union established under the laws of the United States, this State, or any other state; or any regional planning commission or joint regional planning commission established in accordance with Section 5-14001 or Section 5-14003 of the Counties Code. (Source: P.A. 100-854, eff. 8-14-18.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-4) Sec. 8-1-4. The corporate authorities may provide for the consolidation or refunding of maturing bonds and the funding of judgment debts, and to issue bonds in place of maturing bonds or judgment debts. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-5) Sec. 8-1-5. Whenever in any fiscal year an ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds is approved by the electors in any municipality with a population of 500,000 or more, subsequent to the passage of the annual appropriation ordinance, the corporate authorities have the power, anything in this Code to the contrary notwithstanding, to make a supplemental appropriation of so much of the proceeds of the bonds, so authorized, as is required for expenditure during the remainder of the current fiscal year for the purpose set forth in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-6) Sec. 8-1-6. Neither the corporate authorities nor any department or officer of any municipality shall add to the municipal expenditures in any fiscal year anything over and above the amount provided for in the annual appropriation ordinance of that year. No expenditure for an improvement to be paid for out of the general fund of the municipality shall exceed in any fiscal year the amount provided for that improvement in the annual appropriation ordinance. However, nothing herein contained shall prevent the corporate authorities, by a two-thirds vote, from making additional appropriations for the purpose of making improvements or restorations, the necessity for which is caused by any casualty or accident happening after the annual appropriation ordinance is passed, nor from making additional appropriations necessary to meet any emergency, happening after and unforeseen at the time of passing the annual appropriation ordinance. Emergency, as used in this section, means a condition requiring immediate action to suppress or prevent the spread of disease, or to prevent or remove imminent danger to persons or property. For the purpose of providing for these additional appropriations, the corporate authorities, by a two-thirds vote, may authorize the mayor, or village president, and the finance committee, or in municipalities under the commission form of municipal government the mayor and commissioner of accounts and finances, to borrow the amount of money necessary therefor for a space of time not extending beyond the close of the next fiscal year. The sum borrowed and the interest thereon, shall be added to the amount authorized to be raised in the next general tax levy and embraced therein. Should a judgment be obtained against a municipality, the mayor, or village president, and the finance committee, or the mayor and commissioner of accounts and finances, in commission form municipalities, under the sanction of the corporate authorities, may borrow a sufficient amount to pay the judgment for a space of time not extending beyond the close of the next fiscal year. This sum and the interest thereon shall in like manner be added to the amount authorized to be raised in the general tax levy of the next year and embraced therein. This section shall not apply to municipalities operating under special charters. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-7) Sec. 8-1-7. (a) Except as provided otherwise in this Section, no contract shall be made by the corporate authorities, or by any committee or member thereof, and no expense shall be incurred by any of the officers or departments of any municipality, whether the object of the expenditure has been ordered by the corporate authorities or not, unless an appropriation has been previously made concerning that contract or expense. Any contract made, or any expense otherwise incurred, in violation of the provisions of this section shall be null and void as to the municipality, and no money belonging thereto shall be paid on account thereof. However, pending the passage of the annual appropriation ordinance for any fiscal year, the corporate authorities may authorize heads of departments or other separate agencies of the municipality to make necessary expenditures for the support thereof upon the basis of the appropriations of the preceding fiscal year. However, if it is determined by two-thirds vote of the corporate authorities then holding office at a regularly scheduled meeting of the corporate authorities that it is expedient and in the best public interest to begin proceedings for the construction of a needed public work, then the provisions of this section shall not apply to the extent that the corporate authorities may employ or contract for professional services necessary for the planning and financing of such public work. (b) Notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary, the corporate authorities of any municipality may make contracts for a term exceeding one year and not exceeding the term of the mayor or president holding office at the time the contract is executed, relating to: (1) the employment of a municipal manager, administrator, engineer, health officer, land planner, finance director, attorney, police chief or other officer who requires technical training or knowledge; (2) the employment of outside professional consultants such as engineers, doctors, land planners, auditors, attorneys or other professional consultants who require technical training or knowledge; (3) the provision of data processing equipment and services; or (4) the provision of services which directly relate to the prevention, identification or eradication of disease. In such case the corporate authorities shall include in the annual appropriation ordinance for each fiscal year, an appropriation of a sum of money sufficient to pay the amount which, by the terms of the contract, is to become due and payable during the current fiscal year. (c) This section shall not apply to municipalities operating under special charters. (d) In order to promote orderly collective bargaining relationships, to prevent labor strife and to protect the interests of the public and the health and safety of the citizens of Illinois, this Section shall not apply to multi-year collective bargaining agreements between public employers and exclusive representatives governed by the provisions of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary, the corporate authorities of any municipality may enter into multi-year collective bargaining agreements with exclusive representatives under the provisions of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. (e) Notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary, the corporate authorities of any municipality may enter into any multi-year contract or otherwise associate for any term under the provisions of Section 10 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution or the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. (Source: P.A. 90-517, eff. 8-22-97.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-8) Sec. 8-1-8. All warrants drawn upon the municipal treasurer must be signed by the mayor or president and countersigned by the municipal clerk, or the city comptroller if there is one, stating the particular fund and the appropriation to which the warrant is chargeable, and the person to whom payable. No money shall be paid otherwise than upon such warrants so drawn, except as otherwise provided. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-9) Sec. 8-1-9. No warrant payable on demand shall be drawn upon the municipal treasurer or against any fund in his possession unless at the time of the drawing there is sufficient money in the appropriate fund in the municipal treasury to pay the warrant. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-10) Sec. 8-1-10. Interest received by a municipality upon deposits of money derived from special assessments or special taxes and that part of the interest, penalties, and costs received on account of any delinquent special assessment or special tax, which is in excess of 6% annually on the amount of that delinquent special assessment or special tax from the date of the first voucher issued on account of work done to the date of the receipt of the interest, penalties, and costs by the municipality, shall be used first for paying any expense of the municipality in connection with the collection or withdrawal from collection of any delinquent special assessment or special tax or the preservation of the lien thereof, or in connection with the sale or forfeiture of any real estate for delinquent special assessments or special taxes, or in the preservation of the lien of any certificate of sale or tax deed, and secondly shall be used to pay any warrant, for which there are not sufficient funds, for the payment of past due principal or interest on vouchers and bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of the special assessments or special taxes identified by such warrant. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-11) Sec. 8-1-11. Whenever a municipality does not have sufficient money in its treasury to meet all necessary expenses and liabilities of the municipality, including all expenses for building purposes, the corporate authorities may issue and sell warrants drawn against and in anticipation of taxes already levied for the particular funds from which these expenses and liabilities may be paid, to the extent of 85% of the total amount of those taxes. However, in municipalities in which there has been created a working cash fund pursuant to the provisions of Division 6 of this Article 8, no tax anticipation warrants shall be drawn against taxes levied for general corporate purposes for such an amount that the aggregate of (1) the amount of those warrants, and the interest to accrue thereon, and (2) the aggregate amount of those warrants theretofore drawn against those taxes and the interest accrued and to accrue thereon, and (3) the aggregate amount of money theretofore transferred from the working cash fund to the general fund of that municipality, exceeds 90% of the actual or estimated amount of those taxes extended or to be extended by the county clerk upon the books of the collector or collectors of state and county taxes within that municipality. Tax anticipation warrants drawn and issued under this section shall show upon their face that they are payable in the numerical order of their issuance solely from the anticipated taxes when these anticipated taxes are collected and not otherwise. These warrants shall be received by any collector of taxes in payment of the taxes against which they are issued, and the taxes against which these warrants are drawn shall be set apart and held for their payment. (Source: P.A. 81-165.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-12) Sec. 8-1-12. Each warrant issued under Section 8-1-11 may be made payable at the time fixed in the warrant and shall bear interest, payable only out of the taxes against which it is drawn, at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, from the date of its issuance until paid, or until notice that the money for its payment is available, and that it will be paid on presentation, is given by publication in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality. However, a lower rate of interest may be specified in the warrant, in which case the interest shall be computed and paid at that lower rate. The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86-4.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-13) Sec. 8-1-13. Every municipality holding in its treasury funds which are set aside for use for particular purposes, but which are not immediately necessary for those purposes, by ordinance, may use those funds, or any of them, in the purchase of tax anticipation warrants issued by the municipality possessing the funds against taxes levied by that municipality. These warrants shall bear interest not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract. All interest upon these warrants, and all money paid in redemption of these warrants or received from the resale thereof, shall at once be credited to and placed in the particular fund used to purchase the specified warrants. However, a municipality so using any of its funds for the purchase of such tax anticipation warrants shall not apply to the payment thereof while so held by it any taxes against and in anticipation of which the warrants were issued, unless and until all warrants and the interest thereon, issued by that municipality against and in anticipation of the same taxes and sold to other purchasers have been first paid or money sufficient for the payment thereof has been deposited in the municipal treasury as a special fund to be used solely for the purpose of paying to the other purchasers the warrants and the interest thereon when presented. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the resale or reissue of any warrants as provided in Section 8-1-14. Likewise, every municipality by ordinance may use the money in those funds in the purchase of bonds issued by the municipality, possessing the funds and representing the obligation and pledging the credit of that municipality, or bonds and other interest bearing obligations of the United States or of the State of Illinois. All interest upon these bonds or obligations and all money paid in redemption of these bonds or obligations or realized from the sale thereof, if afterwards sold, shall at once be credited to and placed in the particular fund used to purchase specified bonds or obligations. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86-4.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-14) Sec. 8-1-14. If at any time it is deemed expedient to convert into money any tax anticipation warrants theretofore issued and purchased with public funds pursuant to the provisions of Section 8-1-13, before receipt of the taxes in anticipation of which the warrants were issued, the corporate authorities of the municipality, by ordinance or resolution, may authorize a resale of such warrants and adjust the interest rate thereon, or may authorize the issuance and sale of a like principal amount of new warrants for the same purpose and in anticipation of the same taxes as the original warrants were issued. These new warrants may have any date subsequent to the date of the original tax anticipation warrants. The new tax anticipation warrants shall be of the denomination and shall bear interest at the rate, not to exceed the statutory rate, that is authorized by the ordinance or resolution specified in this section. In a municipality which constitutes a school district, and in which the corporate authorities are required annually to levy all school taxes, the issuance of such new warrants in anticipation of school taxes, or the resale of such original warrants with adjusted interest rate, shall be approved by the board of education of that school district. Simultaneously with the delivery of these new tax anticipation warrants, a like principal amount of the original warrants that were issued against the same tax that is anticipated by the new warrants shall be paid and cancelled. The proceeds of the sale of these new tax anticipation warrants shall be used first to restore to the fund or funds so invested in the original tax anticipation warrants, money equivalent to the par value and accrued interest of the original tax anticipation warrants and the balance, if any, shall revert to the fund for the creation of which the tax so anticipated was levied. Warrants resold or reissued pursuant to the provisions of this section shall have the same incidents of priority with respect to payment and shall be paid in all respects in the same manner as other warrants issued in anticipation of the same tax and sold in the first instance to any purchaser other than the issuing municipality. When tax anticipation warrants are reissued they shall bear the index numerical designation of the original warrants and shall be subnumbered consecutively in the order of reissuance, and shall be paid in the direct order of reissuance, beginning with the earliest subnumber. In determining the priority of payment of more than one series of tax anticipation warrants against the collection of the same tax, the various series shall be treated as having been issued on the date of the original issue of each series of warrants. The series prior in point of time as thus determined shall be paid first. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-15) Sec. 8-1-15. Any municipality having a population of 500,000 or more, holding in its treasury any fund set aside for use for a particular purpose that is not immediately necessary for that purpose, at any time by ordinance may advance the money in that fund, or such part thereof as may be required, to the board of local improvements of that municipality. The board shall apply this money toward the payment of any final judgment of condemnation rendered in any proceeding involving the taking or damaging of private property for a local improvement of that municipality, the cost of which is to be defrayed wholly or partly by special assessment or special taxation. Before any money is actually so advanced, the corporate authorities, by the same ordinance, shall require the board of local improvements to execute and deposit with the comptroller of the municipality a written pledge or security to the entire extent of the special assessment or special tax, for the repayment of the advance out of the proceeds of the special assessment or special tax. The comptroller shall give a written receipt for this pledge or security. After such a pledge or security is so executed and deposited, all money paid on account of the principal and interest of the special assessment or special tax shall be at once credited to and placed in the fund from which the advance was made until the fund is reimbursed for the advance made therefrom. Thereupon, the corporate authorities by ordinance may cancel and release the pledge or security. The entire amount of the advance shall be repaid to the specified fund within 5 years from the date of the passage of the ordinance providing for the advance. An advance shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract. The corporate authorities shall make provision for the payment, out of any corporate funds legally available therefor, of any part of this interest which is in excess of the interest paid on account of the special assessment or special tax and placed in the specified fund. If there is no comptroller in the municipality, the municipal clerk shall perform the duties of the comptroller specified in this section. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86-4.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-16) Sec. 8-1-16. In any municipality with a population of 500,000 or more the corporate authorities may levy a tax annually upon all the taxable property in the municipality at a rate that will produce not to exceed $4,500,000 upon the valuation to be ascertained by the assessment of such property for purposes of taxation for the year in which each such levy is made. This tax, if levied, shall be for the purpose of paying judgments entered against the municipality prior to January 1, 1941, and tort judgments and judgments for damage to or for the taking of private property for public use entered after January 1, 1941. This tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner as the general taxes of the municipality. It shall be known as the judgment tax and shall be in addition to the maximum of all other taxes which the municipality is now, or may be hereafter, authorized by law to levy upon the aggregate valuation of all taxable property within the municipality. All money received from this tax shall be set apart in a separate fund and shall be used solely for the purpose of paying judgments as provided for in this section. Judgments against the municipality shall be paid out of this fund in the order in which the judgments were obtained. This order of payment shall not apply to judgments of $1000 or less, which judgments may be paid out of said order and in the order in which these judgments of $1000 or less were obtained. Interest accrued on these judgments shall be paid with the principal thereof. However, the interest accrued to any particular date on all judgments payable out of this fund may be paid ratably at any time without payment of the principal thereof. Warrants issued in anticipation of the judgment tax under the provisions of Sections 8-1-11 and 8-1-12 shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86-4.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-17) Sec. 8-1-17. The corporate authorities of any municipality may receive funds from the United States pursuant to the "Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973", Public Law 93-203, and may disburse such funds together with any other municipal funds for the purposes specified in that public law. The provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the powers of a home rule municipality. (Source: P.A. 79-389.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-1-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-1-18) Sec. 8-1-18. Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly. (Source: P.A. 84-731.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 2 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-1) Sec. 8-2-1. Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 8-2-1 through 8-2-8, the corporate authorities in municipalities with a population of 500,000 or more, shall pass an ordinance within the last 60 days of each fiscal year, to be termed the annual appropriation ordinance. In this ordinance the corporate authorities, subject to the limitations contained in Sections 8-2-1 through 8-2-8, may appropriate such sums of money as are deemed necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of the municipality to be paid or incurred during the next fiscal year. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-2) Sec. 8-2-2. Prior to November 15 of each year, the mayor in municipalities specified in Section 8-2-1 shall submit to the corporate authorities the executive budget for the ensuing fiscal year as prepared by the budget director of the municipality and approved by the mayor. The executive budget, as the same may be revised or altered by the corporate authorities, shall provide the basis upon which the annual appropriation ordinance is prepared and enacted. The budget document shall set forth estimates, by classes, of all current assets and liabilities of each fund of the municipality, as of the beginning of the fiscal year, for which appropriations are to be made, and the amount of those assets which will be available for appropriation in that year, either for expenditures or charges to be made or incurred during that year or for liabilities unpaid at the beginning thereof. Estimates of taxes to be received from the levies of prior years shall be net, after deducting the amounts estimated to be sufficient to cover the loss and cost of collecting these taxes. These amounts shall include (1) uncollectible taxes, (2) the cost of collecting taxes, (3) the amount of these taxes for the nonpayment of which real estate has been or will be forfeited to the State, and (4) the abatement in the amount of these taxes extended or to be extended upon the collector's books. In order to secure net estimates there also shall be deducted the principal of all unpaid tax anticipation warrants and all interest accrued thereon and an amount estimated to be sufficient to cover all interest to accrue thereon until redemption of these tax anticipation warrants. Estimates of the liabilities of the respective funds shall include (1) all final judgments, including accrued interest thereon, entered against the municipality and unpaid at the beginning of the fiscal year for which the appropriations are made, (2) any amount for which the corporate authorities of the municipality are required to reimburse the working cash fund from the general corporate fund pursuant to the provisions of Division 6 of this Article 8, (3) the taxes levied for the purposes of the reserves provided for in the Illinois Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended and (4) all other liabilities. However, for the purpose of these estimates, judgments, for the payment of which a special tax has been authorized by law, shall not be deemed liabilities of the general corporate fund of the municipality. Also, estimates of taxes to be received from the levies of the years prior to 1945 for general corporate purposes and estimates of the liabilities of the general corporate fund incurred prior to January 1, 1945, shall not be included in the budget document. The budget document shall also set forth detailed estimates of all taxes to be levied for the fiscal year for which the appropriations are to be made, and detailed estimates of all other current revenue to be derived from sources other than such taxes, which will be applicable to expenditures or charges to be made or incurred during that year. All of these estimates shall be so segregated and classified as to funds and in such other manner as to give effect to the requirements of law relating to the respective purposes to which these assets, taxes, and other current revenue are applicable to the end that no expenditure shall be authorized or made for any purpose in excess of funds lawfully available therefor. (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2505.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-3) Sec. 8-2-3. Proposed appropriations in municipalities specified in Section 8-2-1 shall be arranged according to funds and also according to departments and other separate agencies of the municipal government. The budget document shall specify the objects and purposes for which appropriations are to be made and the amount proposed to be appropriated for each object or purpose. It shall include proposed appropriations for (1) all current expenditures or charges to be made or incurred during the fiscal year for which appropriations are made; (2) all final judgments, including accrued interest thereon, entered against the municipality and unpaid at the beginning of that fiscal year, (3) any amount for which the corporate authorities of the municipality are required to reimburse the working cash fund from the general corporate fund pursuant to the provisions of Division 6 of this Article 8, (4) the taxes levied for the purposes of the reserves provided for in the Illinois Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended, (5) all other liabilities, and (6) an amount estimated to be sufficient to cover the loss and cost of collecting taxes to be levied for that fiscal year. This last designated amount shall include (1) uncollectible taxes, (2) the cost of collecting taxes (3) the amount of taxes levied for the nonpayment of which real estate will be forfeited to the state, and (4) the amount of taxes extended upon the collector's books which will be abated. However, the corporate authorities of the municipality shall not be required to appropriate any amount from the general corporate fund of the municipality for the payment of any judgment, for which a special tax has been authorized by law, or for the payment of any other liability of the general corporate fund incurred prior to January 1, 1945. (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2505.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-4) Sec. 8-2-4. The objects and purposes for which appropriations shall be made in municipalities specified in Section 8-2-1 are classified and standardized by the following items, and by such items shall be designated in the budget document, and the annual appropriation ordinance: (1) Personal services (2) Contractual services (3) Travel (4) Commodities (5) Equipment (6) Permanent improvements (7) Land (8) Contingencies An appropriation in one or more of the items above specified shall be construed in accordance with the definitions and limitations specified in Sections 8-2-1 through 8-2-8, unless the appropriation ordinance otherwise provides. An appropriation for a purpose other than one specified and defined in this section and in Section 8-2-5 may be made only as an additional, separate and distinct item, specifically stating the object and purpose thereof. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-5) Sec. 8-2-5. The items specified in Section 8-2-4 when used in the budget document and appropriation ordinance of municipalities specified in Section 8-2-1 are defined as follows: (1) "Personal services": the reward or recompense made for personal services rendered for the municipality by an individual as an officer or employee of a municipality or an instrumentality thereof, or as an independent contractor, including any amount required to be deducted from the reward or recompense of any such person under the provisions of any retirement or tax law, or both. (2) "Contractual service": the expenditures incident to the completion of a project or the current conduct and operation of an office, department, board, commission or agency, including, but not limited to, postage and postal charges, surety bond premiums, title insurance, publications, office conveniences and services, exclusive of "commodities" as herein defined, and including also expenditures for rental of property or equipment, repair or maintenance of property or equipment, utility services, professional or technical services, and transportation charges exclusive of "travel" as herein defined. (3) "Travel": any expenditure directly incident to official travel by municipal officers and employees or by wards or charges of the municipality involving reimbursement to travelers or direct payment to private agencies providing transportation or related services. (4) "Commodities": expenditures in connection with current operation and maintenance for the purchase of articles of a consumable nature which show a material change or appreciable depreciation with first usage, repair parts, and small tools having a unit value not in any instance exceeding $10. (5) "Equipment": expenditures for the acquisition, replacement or increase of visible tangible personal property of a non-consumable nature, including livestock. (6) "Permanent improvements": expenditures for the acquisition, enlargement or improvement of existing buildings and structures (other than repair), the erection or construction of any structure or work which constitutes a substantial addition to real estate, including the total cost thereof in labor, material and supplies and any other costs and charges necessary or incident to the completion of the building or structure but not including "equipment" as herein defined. (7) "Land": expenditures for the acquisition of real estate (or rights therein other than leasehold interests obtained through rental), and consequential damage to real estate occasioned by public improvements, whether obtained by purchase or by condemnation under the eminent domain laws of the state, and for expenses necessarily incidental to such purchase or condemnation. (8) "Contingencies": expenditures for purposes not covered in any other item, which purposes could not reasonably have been foreseen and provided for at the time of the enactment of the appropriation ordinance. The amount of any such contingency item for any office, department, board, commission or agency shall in no case exceed $100,000. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-6) Sec. 8-2-6. Budget document; availability; hearing; limitations on appropriations. (a) The corporate authorities in municipalities specified in Section 8-2-1 shall make the budget document as submitted by the mayor conveniently available to public inspection for at least 10 days before the passage of the annual appropriation ordinance, by publication in the journal of the proceedings of the corporate authorities or in another form prescribed by the corporate authorities. (b) Not less than one week after the publication of the budget document, and before final action on the appropriation ordinance, the corporate authorities shall hold at least one public hearing on the budget document. Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper having a general circulation in the municipality at least one week before the time of the hearing. After the public hearing and before final action is taken on the appropriation ordinance, the corporate authorities may revise, alter, increase, or decrease the items contained in the budget document. Upon completion of its action on the budget document, the corporate authorities shall enact the budget document as so revised as the annual appropriation ordinance. (c) All of the requirements pertaining to the form and substance of the budget document, including limitations, as prescribed in Sections 8-2-1 through 8-2-8, shall be applicable to the appropriation ordinance. Detailed schedules supporting the appropriation ordinance shall be attached to the ordinance and shall be published in the official record of the municipalities simultaneously with the appropriation ordinance, but shall not be considered as an official part of the ordinance. (d) The aggregate amount finally appropriated by the appropriation ordinance, including any subsequent amendment of the ordinance, from any fund or for any purpose (including amounts appropriated for judgments and all other unpaid liabilities and all other purposes for which the corporate authorities are by this Section or otherwise by law required to appropriate) shall not exceed the aggregate amount available in that fund or for that purpose as shown by the estimates of the available assets thereof at the beginning of the fiscal year for which appropriations are made and of taxes and other current revenue set forth in the budget document as submitted to the corporate authorities or as revised by the budget director. If the appropriations from any fund as set forth in the appropriation ordinance as finally adopted exceed in the aggregate the maximum amount that the corporate authorities are authorized by this Section to appropriate from the fund, all appropriations made from that fund by the appropriation ordinance are void. In this latter event, the several amounts appropriated for current operation and maintenance expense in the appropriation ordinance of the last preceding fiscal year shall be deemed to be appropriated for the fiscal year for which the void appropriations were made for the objects and purposes, respectively, as specified in the last preceding appropriation ordinance. The several amounts so deemed to be appropriated shall constitute lawful appropriations upon which taxes for the fiscal year for which the void appropriations were made may be levied under Section 8-3-1. (e) The corporate authorities may amend the annual appropriation ordinance at their next regular meeting occurring not less than 5 days after the passage of the ordinance, in the same manner as other ordinances. If any item of appropriation contained in the appropriation ordinance is vetoed by the mayor, with a recommendation for a change in that item, the adoption of the recommendation by a yea and nay vote shall be regarded as the equivalent of an amendment of the annual appropriation ordinance with the same effect as if an amendatory ordinance were duly passed. The appropriation ordinance, as originally passed or as subsequently amended, also may be amended at any regular or special meeting of the corporate authorities held not more than 15 days after the first regular meeting of the corporate authorities occurring not less than 5 days after the passage of the ordinance, by repealing or reducing the amount of any item of appropriation contained in the ordinance. (Source: P.A. 87-1119.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-7) Sec. 8-2-7. Except as otherwise specially provided by law, no further appropriations in municipalities specified in Section 8-2-1 shall be made prior to the passage of the next succeeding annual appropriation ordinance. However, during any fiscal year the corporate authorities in such municipalities may adopt a supplemental appropriation ordinance in an amount not in excess of the aggregate of any additional revenue available to the municipality, or estimated to be received by the municipality subsequent to the adoption of the annual appropriation ordinance for that fiscal year. Such supplemental appropriation ordinance shall only affect revenue that was not available for appropriation when that annual appropriation ordinance was adopted, and the provisions of Section 8-2-6 relating to publication, notice and public hearing shall not be applicable to such supplemental appropriation ordinance or to the budget document forming the basis of such ordinance. At any time during the fiscal year, the corporate authorities by a majority vote of all their members and upon request of the mayor, may make transfers within any department or other separate agency of the municipal government, of sums of money appropriated for one corporate object or purpose to another corporate object or purpose, but the aggregate of transfers from any appropriation shall not exceed 5% of the appropriation. At any time after the first half of each fiscal year, the corporate authorities may, by a two-thirds vote of all of their members, make transfers within any department or other separate agency of the municipal government, of sums of money appropriated for one corporate object or purpose to another corporate object or purpose in excess of the 5% limitation, but no appropriation for any object or purpose shall by virtue of any transfer herein authorized be reduced below an amount sufficient to cover all obligations incurred or to be incurred against that appropriation. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 2672.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-8) Sec. 8-2-8. Nothing contained in Sections 8-2-1 through 8-2-7 shall deprive the corporate authorities of power to provide for the payment from the funds of the municipality of any charge imposed by law without the action of any corporate authority thereof, whenever the payment of the charge has been ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9) Sec. 8-2-9. In municipalities with less than 500,000 inhabitants, the corporate authorities shall pass an ordinance within the first quarter of each fiscal year, to be termed the annual appropriation ordinance. In this ordinance, the corporate authorities (i) may appropriate sums of money deemed necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of the municipalities, including the amounts to be deposited in the reserves provided for in the Illinois Pension Code and (ii) shall specify the objects and purposes for which these appropriations are made and the amount appropriated for each object or purpose. Among the objects and purposes specified shall be the reserves provided for in the Illinois Pension Code. Except as otherwise provided, no further appropriations shall be made at any other time within the same fiscal year, unless a proposition to make each additional appropriation has been first sanctioned by a petition signed by electors of the municipality numbering more than 50% of the number of votes cast for the candidates for mayor or president at the last preceding general municipal election at which a mayor or president was elected, by a petition signed by them, or by a majority of those voting on the question at a regular election or at an emergency referendum authorized in accordance with the general election law. The corporate authorities may by ordinance initiate the submission of the proposition. During any fiscal year, the corporate authorities in municipalities subject to this Section may adopt a supplemental appropriation ordinance in an amount not in excess of the aggregate of any additional revenue available to the municipality, or estimated to be received by the municipality after the adoption of the annual appropriation ordinance for that fiscal year, or from fund balances available when the annual appropriation ordinance was adopted but that were not appropriated at that time. The provisions of this Section prohibiting further appropriations without sanction by petition or election shall not be applicable to the supplemental appropriation for that fiscal year. The corporate authorities at any time, however, by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the body, may make transfers within any department or other separate agency of the municipal government of sums of money appropriated for one corporate object or purpose to another corporate object or purpose, but no appropriation for any object or purpose shall thereby be reduced below an amount sufficient to cover all obligations incurred or to be incurred against the appropriation. Nothing in this Section shall deprive the corporate authorities of the power to provide for and cause to be paid from the funds of the municipality any charge imposed by law without the action of the corporate authorities, the payment of which is ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction. At least 10 days before the adoption of the annual appropriation ordinance, the corporate authorities of municipalities over 2,000 in population shall make the proposed appropriation ordinance or a formally prepared appropriation or budget document upon which the annual appropriation ordinance will be based conveniently available to public inspection. In addition, the corporate authorities shall hold at least one public hearing on that proposed appropriation ordinance. Notice of this hearing shall be given publication in one or more newspapers published in the municipality or, if there is none published in the municipality, in a newspaper published in the county and having general circulation in the municipality at least 10 days before the time of the public hearing. The notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the place where copies of the proposed appropriation ordinance or formally prepared appropriation or budget document will be accessible for examination. The annual appropriation ordinance may be adopted at the same meeting at which the public hearing is held or at any time after that public hearing. After the public hearing and before final action is taken on the appropriation ordinance, the corporate authorities may revise, alter, increase, or decrease the items contained in the ordinance. Notwithstanding any above provision of this Section, any municipality in which Article 5 becomes effective after the annual appropriation ordinance has been passed for the current fiscal year may amend the appropriation ordinance in any manner necessary to make Article 5 fully operative in that municipality for that fiscal year. No amendment shall be construed, however, to affect any tax levy made on the basis of the original appropriation ordinance. This Section does not apply to municipalities operating under special charters. (Source: P.A. 86-1470; 87-365.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.1) Sec. 8-2-9.1. Budget officer. Every municipality with a population of less than 500,000 (except special charter municipalities having a population in excess of 50,000) that has adopted this Section 8-2-9.1 and Sections 8-2-9.2 through 8-2-9.10 by a two-thirds majority vote of those members of the corporate authorities then holding office shall have a budget officer who shall be designated by the mayor or president, with the approval of the corporate authorities. In municipalities operating under the commission form of government, the commissioner of accounts and finances shall designate the budget officer, with the approval of the council or board of trustees, as the case may be. In municipalities with a managerial form of government, the municipal manager shall designate the budget officer. The budget officer shall take an oath and post a bond as provided in Section 3.1-10-25. The budget officer may hold another municipal office, either elected or appointed (including, but not limited to, the office of mayor or president in municipalities with a population under 10,000), and may receive compensation for both offices except when a mayor or president in a municipality with a population under 10,000 is also the budget officer. Article 10 of this Code shall not apply to an individual serving as the budget officer. The budget officer shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor or municipal manager, as the case may be. (Source: P.A. 99-386, eff. 8-17-15.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.2) Sec. 8-2-9.2. The municipal budget officer appointed in any municipality pursuant to Section 8-2-9.1 shall have the following powers and duties: (a) Permit and encourage and establish the use of efficient planning, budgeting, auditing, reporting, accounting, and other fiscal management procedures in all municipal departments, commissions, and boards. (b) Compile an annual budget in accordance with Section 8-2-9.3. (c) Examine all books and records of all municipal departments, commissions, and boards which relate to monies received by the municipality, municipal departments, commissions, and boards, and paid out by the municipality, municipal departments, commissions, and boards, debts and accounts receivable, amounts owed by or to the municipality, municipal departments, commissions, and boards. (d) Obtain such additional information from the municipality, municipal departments, commissions, and boards as may be useful to the budget officer for purposes of compiling a municipal budget, such information to be furnished by the municipality, municipal departments, commissions, and boards in the form required by the budget officer. Any department, commission or board which refuses to make such information as is requested of it available to the budget officer shall not be permitted to make expenditures under any subsequent budget for the municipality until such municipal department, commission, or board shall comply in full with the request of the budget officer. (e) Establish and maintain such procedures as shall insure that no expenditures are made by the municipality, municipal departments, commissions, or board except as authorized by the budget. (Source: P.A. 76-1117.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.3) Sec. 8-2-9.3. The municipal budget officer shall compile a budget, such budget to contain estimates of revenues available to the municipality for the fiscal year for which the budget is drafted, together with recommended expenditures for the municipality and all of the municipality's departments, commissions, and boards. Revenue estimates and expenditure recommendations shall be presented in a manner which is in conformity with good fiscal management practices. Substantial conformity to a chart of accounts, now or in the future, recommended by the National Committee on Governmental Accounting, or the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Illinois, or the Division of Local Governmental Affairs and Property Taxes of the Department of Revenue of the State of Illinois or successor agencies shall be deemed proof of such conformity. The budget shall contain actual or estimated revenues and expenditures for the two years immediately preceding the fiscal year for which the budget is prepared. So far as is possible, the fiscal data for such two preceding fiscal years shall be itemized in a manner which is in conformity with the chart of accounts approved above. Each budget shall show the specific fund from which each anticipated expenditure shall be made. (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.4) Sec. 8-2-9.4. Passage of the annual budget by the corporate authorities shall be in lieu of passage of the appropriation ordinance as required by Section 8-2-9 of this Act. The annual budget need not be published except in a manner provided for in Section 8-2-9.9. The annual budget shall be adopted by the corporate authorities before the beginning of the fiscal year to which it applies. (Source: P.A. 76-1117.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.5) Sec. 8-2-9.5. In the preparation by the municipal budget officer of the annual budget, an amount not to exceed 3% of the equalized assessed value of property subject to taxation by the municipality may be accumulated in a separate fund for the purpose or purposes of specific capital improvements, repairs, and/or replacements of specific types of municipal equipment or other tangible property, both real and personal, to be designated as the "Capital Improvement, Repair or Replacement Fund". Expenditures from the Capital Improvement, Repair or Replacement Fund shall be budgeted in the fiscal year in which the capital improvement, repair or replacement will occur. Upon the completion or abandonment of any object for which the Capital Improvement, Repair or Replacement Fund, or should any surplus monies remain after the completion or abandonment of any object for which the Capital Improvement, Repair or Replacement Fund was inaugurated, then such funds no longer necessary for capital improvement, repair or replacement shall be transferred into the general corporate fund of the municipality on the first day of the fiscal year following such abandonment, completion, or discovery of surplus funds. (Source: P.A. 84-147.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.6) Sec. 8-2-9.6. The corporate authorities may delegate authority to heads of municipal departments, boards, or commissions to delete, add to, change or create sub-classes within object classes budgeted previously to the department, board, or commission, subject to such limitation or requirement for prior approval by the budget officer or executive officer of the municipality as the council, upon a two-thirds vote of the corporate authorities then holding office, may establish. By a vote of two-thirds of the members of the corporate authorities then holding office, the annual budget for the municipality may be revised by deleting, adding to, changing or creating sub-classes within object classes and object classes themselves. No revision of the budget shall be made increasing the budget in the event funds are not available to effectuate the purpose of the revision. (Source: P.A. 76-1117.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.7) Sec. 8-2-9.7. Funds for contingency purposes. The annual budget may contain money set aside for contingency purposes not to exceed ten percent of the total budget, less the amount set aside for contingency purposes, which monies may be expended for contingencies upon a majority vote of the corporate authorities then holding office. (Source: P.A. 76-1117.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.9) Sec. 8-2-9.9. The corporate authorities shall make the tentative annual budget conveniently available to public inspection for at least ten days prior to the passage of the annual budget, by publication in the journal of the proceedings of the corporate authorities or in such other form as the corporate authorities may prescribe. Not less than one week after the publication of the tentative annual budget, and prior to final action on the budget, the corporate authorities shall hold at least one public hearing on the tentative annual budget, after which hearing or hearings the tentative budget may be further revised and passed without any further inspection, notice or hearing. Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper having a general circulation in the municipality at least one week prior to the time of the hearing. (Source: P.A. 76-1117.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.10) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.10) Sec. 8-2-9.10. Any municipality that has previously adopted the provisions of these Sections 8-2-9.1 through 8-2-9.9 may abandon the provisions hereof by a 2/3 majority vote of the corporate authorities then holding office. (Source: P.A. 76-1117.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.11) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-9.11) Sec. 8-2-9.11. Whenever any municipality has entered into a contract for the repair, remodeling, renovation or construction of a building or structure or the construction or maintenance of a road or highway, which provides for retention of a percentage of the contract price until final completion and acceptance of the work, upon the request of the contractor and with the approval of the municipality, the amount so retained may be deposited under a trust agreement with an Illinois bank of the contractor's choice and subject to the approval of the municipality. The contractor shall receive any interest thereon. Upon application by the contractor, the trust agreement must contain, as a minimum, the following provisions: a. The amount to be deposited subject to the trust; b. The terms and conditions of payment in case of default of the contractor; c. The termination of the trust agreement upon completion of the contract; and d. The contractor shall be responsible for obtaining the written consent of the bank trustee, and any costs or service fees shall be borne by the contractor. The trust agreement may, at the discretion of the municipality and upon request of the contractor, become operative at the time of the first partial payment in accordance with existing statutes, ordinances and municipality procedures. (Source: P.A. 82-503.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 3 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-1) Sec. 8-3-1. The corporate authorities may levy and collect taxes for corporate purposes. They shall do this in the following manner: On or before the last Tuesday in December in each year, the corporate authorities shall ascertain the total amount of appropriations legally made or budgeted for and any amount deemed necessary to defray additional expenses and liabilities for all corporate purposes to be provided for by the tax levy of that year. Then, by an ordinance specifying in detail in the manner authorized for the annual appropriation ordinance or budget of the municipality, the purposes for which the appropriations, budgeting or such additional amounts deemed necessary have been made and the amount assignable for each purpose respectively, the corporate authorities shall levy upon all property subject to taxation within the municipality as that property is assessed and equalized for state and county purposes for the current year. A certified copy of this ordinance shall be filed with the county clerk of the proper county. He shall ascertain the rate per cent which, upon the value of all property subject to taxation within the municipality, as that property is assessed or equalized by the Department of Revenue, will produce a net amount of not less than the total amount so directed to be levied. The county clerk shall extend this tax in a separate column upon the books of the collector of state and county taxes within the municipality. However, in ascertaining the rate per cent in municipalities having a population of 500,000 or more, the county clerk shall not add to the amount of the tax so levied for any purpose any amount to cover the loss and cost of collecting the tax, except in the case of amounts levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness, or interest thereon, and in the case of amounts levied for the purposes of pension funds. Where the corporate limits of a municipality lie partly in 2 or more counties, the corporate authorities shall ascertain the total amount of all taxable property lying within the corporate limits of that municipality in each county, as the property is assessed or equalized by the Department of Revenue for the current year, and shall certify the amount of taxable property in each county within that municipality under the seal of the municipality, to the county clerk of the county where the seat of government of the municipality is situated. That county clerk shall ascertain the rate per cent which, upon the total valuation of all property subject to taxation within that municipality, ascertained as provided in this Section, will produce a net amount not less than the total amount directed to be levied. As soon as that rate per cent is ascertained, that clerk shall certify the rate per cent under his signature and seal of office to the county clerk of each other county wherein a portion of that municipality is situated. A county clerk to whom a rate per cent is certified shall extend the tax in a separate column upon the books of the collector of state and county taxes for his county against all property in his county within the limits of that municipality. But in municipalities with 500,000 or more inhabitants, the aggregate amount of taxes so levied exclusive of the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness, or interest thereon, and exclusive of taxes levied for the payment of judgments, for which a special tax is authorized by law, and exclusive of the amounts levied for the purposes of pension funds, working cash fund, public library, municipal tuberculosis sanitarium, the propagation and preservation of community trees, and exclusive of taxes levied pursuant to Section 19 of the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency Act of 1975 and for the general assistance for needy persons lawfully resident therein, shall not exceed the estimated amount of taxes to be levied for each year for the purposes specified in Sections 8-2-2 through 8-2-5 and set forth in its annual appropriation ordinance and in any supplemental appropriation ordinance authorized by law for that year. In municipalities with less than 500,000 inhabitants, the aggregate amount of taxes so levied for any one year, exclusive of the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness, or interest thereon, and exclusive of taxes levied pursuant to Section 13 of the Illinois Civil Defense Act of 1951 and exclusive of taxes authorized by this Code or other Acts which by their terms provide that those taxes shall be in addition to taxes for general purposes authorized under this Section, shall not exceed the rate of .25%, or the rate limit in effect on July 1, 1967, whichever is greater, and on a permanent basis, upon the aggregate valuation of all property within the municipality subject to taxation therein, as the property is equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue for the current year. However, if the maximum rate of such municipality for general corporate purposes is less than .20% on July 1, 1967, the corporate authorities may, without referendum, increase such maximum rate not to exceed .25%; but such maximum rate shall not be raised by more than 1/2 of such increase in any one year. However, if the corporate authorities of a municipality with less than 500,000 inhabitants desire to levy in any one year more than .25%, or the rate limit in effect on July 1, 1967, whichever is greater, and on a permanent basis, but not more than .4375% for general corporate purposes, exclusive of the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness, or interest thereon, and exclusive of taxes authorized by this Code or other Acts which by their terms provide that those taxes shall be in addition to taxes for general purposes authorized under this Section the corporate authorities, by ordinance, stating the per cent so desired, may order a proposition for the additional amount to be submitted to the electors of that municipality at any election. The clerk shall certify the proposition to the proper election authority who shall submit the question to the electors at such election. If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition are in favor of the proposition, the corporate authorities of that municipality may levy annually for general corporate purposes, exclusive of the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness, or interest thereon, and exclusive of taxes authorized by this Code or other Acts which by their terms provide that those taxes are in addition to taxes for general purposes authorized under this Section a tax in excess of .25%, or the rate in effect on July 1, 1967, whichever is greater, and on a permanent basis, but not exceeding the per cent mentioned in the proposition. Any municipality voting after August 1, 1969, to increase its rate limitation for general corporate purposes under this Section shall establish such increased rate limitation on an ongoing basis unless otherwise changed by referendum. In municipalities that are not home rule units, any funds on hand at the end of the fiscal year, which funds are not pledged for or allocated to a particular purpose, may by action of the corporate authorities be transferred to the capital improvement fund and accumulated therein, but the total amount accumulated in such fund may not exceed 3% of the aggregate assessed valuation of all taxable property in the municipality. (Source: P.A. 87-17.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-1.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-1.1) Sec. 8-3-1.1. The corporate authorities of any municipality of less than 500,000 inhabitants, by ordinance, may order the submission to the electors of a proposition to accumulate a surplus from the tax levy for general corporate purposes for a specified building project to be undertaken by the municipality when such accumulation becomes sufficient therefor. Such proposition shall be certified by the clerk to the proper election authority who shall submit the question at an election in accordance with the general election law. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the municipality of....... accumulate general YEScorporate funds for the -----------------------------purpose of building..........(here state building purpose)? NO-------------------------------------------------------------- If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor thereof, the municipality may use a portion of the funds levied for general corporate purposes, within the tax rate and to the extent allowed by Section 8-3-1, for the purpose of accumulating funds for such building project. (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-2) Sec. 8-3-2. The taxes levied under Section 8-3-1 shall be collected and enforced in the same manner and by the same officers as state and county taxes, and shall be paid over by the officers collecting the tax to the municipal treasurer, or, in the case of a tax levied for library purposes in municipalities having not to exceed 50,000 inhabitants, to the board of directors of the library. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 2674.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-3) Sec. 8-3-3. The officer collecting the taxes levied under Section 8-3-1 shall settle with and pay over to the municipal treasurer, or, in the case of a tax levied for library purposes in municipalities having not to exceed 50,000 inhabitants, to the board of trustees of the library, as often as once in 2 weeks from the time he commences the collection thereof, all taxes he has then collected, till the whole tax collected is paid over. The expenditures of taxes levied for library purposes, whether expended by the municipal treasurer or by the board of library trustees shall be made pursuant to the direction of the board of library trustees. (Source: P.A. 84-770.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-4) Sec. 8-3-4. Whenever a municipality is required to levy a tax for the payment of a particular debt, appropriation, or liability of the municipality, the tax for that purpose shall be included in the total amount levied by the corporate authorities, and certified to the county clerk as provided in Section 8-3-1. However, if a municipality has funds arising from any source whatsoever, including allocations received or to be received under the Motor Fuel Tax Law, as heretofore and hereafter amended which may lawfully be used for the retirement of a particular debt, appropriation or liability of the municipality, or the payment of the next maturing installment thereof, then if the municipality by resolution directs the application of such funds to the payment of the particular debt, appropriation or liability or next maturing installment thereof, it shall certify such resolution to the county clerk as provided in Section 8-3-1. The county clerk shall abate the levy for the payment of the particular debt, appropriation or liability or the next maturing installment thereof to the extent of the funds so certified as available for such payment. The corporate authorities shall determine, in the ordinance making that levy, what proportion of that total amount shall be applied to the payment of the particular debt, appropriation or liability. The municipal treasurer shall set apart that proportion of the tax, collected and paid to him, for the payment of the particular debt, appropriation or liability, and shall not disburse that proportion of the tax for any other purpose until the debt, appropriation or liability has been discharged. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-5) Sec. 8-3-5. All taxes levied by a municipality, except special assessments for local improvements, shall be uniform upon all taxable property and persons within the limits of the municipality, and no property shall be exempt therefrom other than such property as may be exempt from taxation under the constitution and general laws of the State. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-6) Sec. 8-3-6. Every municipality incorporated under a special act shall levy and collect its taxes in the manner provided for in this Division 3 and in the manner provided for in the General Revenue Law of this state, even though its special act contains inconsistent provisions. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-7) Sec. 8-3-7. Every municipality incorporated under a special act has the power to levy and collect annually its taxes for general purposes, exclusive of the amounts levied (1) for the payment of bonded indebtedness, or interest thereon, (2) for school purposes, (3) under acts which provide that all taxes levied thereunder shall be in addition to taxes authorized to be levied for general purposes, and (4) for the purpose of providing general assistance for persons in need thereof as provided in "The Illinois Public Aid Code", approved April 11, 1967, as now or hereafter amended, at whichever of the following rates is higher: (1) the rate specified in or allowed under its special act, or (2) a rate which will not exceed 1% of the aggregate valuation of all property within the municipality, subject to taxation therein, as the property was equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue for the current year. The foregoing limitations upon tax rates may be increased or decreased according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-7a) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-7a) Sec. 8-3-7a. (a) Whenever a petition containing the signatures of at least 1,000 or 10% of the registered voters, whichever is less, residing in a municipality of 500,000 or fewer inhabitants is presented to the corporate authorities of the municipality requesting the submission of a proposition to levy a tax at a rate not exceeding .075% upon the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all property within the municipality subject to taxation, for the purpose of financing a public transportation system for elderly persons and persons with disabilities, the corporate authorities of such municipality shall adopt an ordinance or resolution directing the proper election officials to place the proposition on the ballot at the next election at which such proposition may be voted upon. The petition shall be filed with the corporate authorities at least 90 days prior to the next election at which such proposition may be voted upon. The petition may specify whether the transportation system financed by a tax levy under this Section is to serve only the municipality levying such tax or specified regions outside the corporate boundaries of such municipality in addition thereto. The petition shall be in substantially the following form: We, the undersigned registered voters residing in ..... (specify the municipality), in the County of ..... and State of Illinois, do hereby petition that the corporate authorities of ....... (specify the municipality) be required to place on the ballot the proposition requiring the municipality to levy an annual tax at the rate of ...... (specify a rate not exceeding .075%) on all taxable property in ....... (specify the municipality) for the purpose of financing a public transportation system for elderly persons and persons with disabilities within ...... (specify the municipality and any regions outside the corporate boundaries to be served by the transportation system). Name......... Address...........State of Illinois) )ssCounty of... ) I ........, do hereby certify that I am a registered voter, that I reside at No....... street, in the ...... of ......... County of ......... and State of Illinois, and that signatures in this sheet were signed in my presence, and are genuine, and that to the best of my knowledge and belief the persons so signing were at the time of signing the petitions registered voters, and that their respective residences are correctly stated, as above set forth. ................... Subscribed and sworn to me this ........... day of .......... A.D.... The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: --------------------------------------------------------------Shall a tax of ...... % (specifya rate not exceeding .075%) be leviedannually on all taxable property in......(specify the municipality) to pay YESthe cost of operating and maintaininga public transportation system for -------------------elderly persons and persons with disabilities within........(specify the municipality NOand any regions outside the corporateboundaries to be served by thetransportation system)?-------------------------------------------------------------- If the majority of the voters of the municipality voting therein vote in favor of the proposition, the corporate authorities of the municipality shall levy such annual tax at the rate specified in the proposition. If the majority of the vote is against such proposition, such tax may not be levied. (b) Municipalities under this Section may contract with any not-for-profit corporation, subject to the General Not for Profit Corporation Act and incorporated primarily for the purpose of providing transportation to elderly persons and persons with disabilities, for such corporation to provide transportation-related services for the purposes of this Section. Municipalities should utilize where possible existing facilities and systems already operating for the purposes outlined in this Section. (c) Taxes authorized under this Section may be used only for the purpose of financing a transportation system for elderly persons and persons with disabilities as authorized in this Section. (d) For purposes of this Section, "persons with disabilities" means any individuals who, by reason of illness, injury, age, congenital malfunction, or other permanent or temporary disability, are unable without special public transportation facilities or special planning or design to utilize ordinary public transportation facilities and services as effectively as persons who are not so affected. "Public transportation for elderly persons and persons with disabilities" means a transportation system for persons who have mental or physical difficulty in accessing or using the conventional public mass transportation system, or for any other reason. (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-8) Sec. 8-3-8. Whenever any property listed or assessed for municipal taxation is destroyed by fire, in whole or in part, before the levy thereon of municipal taxes, or before the municipal taxes levied thereon have been collected, the mayor or president may rebate or remit as much of the municipal taxes levied upon that property, as in his opinion should be rebated or remitted because the property has been, in whole or in part, destroyed by fire. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-9) Sec. 8-3-9. Whenever (1) a large portion of the taxable property of a municipality is destroyed by fire so as to seriously impair or affect the ability of the owners thereof to pay taxes or special assessments thereon, and (2) an appropriation ordinance has been passed, or special improvements ordered, before the fire, and (3) the taxes or special assessments have not been levied or collected, the corporate authorities of that municipality may (1) alter or repeal that appropriation ordinance, or any part thereof, (2) order the discontinuance of the special improvements, or any of them, (3) reduce the amount of taxes or special assessments ordered to be levied or collected for any general or special purpose, or (4) pass a new appropriation ordinance. This new appropriation ordinance shall have the same force and effect as if it had been passed within the time elsewhere prescribed by law. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-10) Sec. 8-3-10. No municipality shall receive from the county treasury of any county in which the municipality is situated in whole or in part, any greater proportion of the surplus of all taxes which may be collected for county purposes, than any other municipality within the county. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-11) Sec. 8-3-11. No municipality shall receive from the county treasury any greater drawback of its proportion of the taxes paid into the county treasury of the county, in which it is situated in whole or in part, by reason of any appropriation by the county board, for the purpose of making and repairing roads and highways, or building and repairing bridges, situated in the county but outside the corporate limits of the municipality than is allowed by law to all other municipalities situated in whole or in part in that county. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-12) Sec. 8-3-12. In any city having a population of less than 20,000 which is operating under a special act and whose public schools within its corporate limits are governed by virtue of this special act, upon a petition signed by a majority of the electors in any territory which has been heretofore or may be hereafter annexed to the city for general corporate purposes, the annexed territory shall be included in and subject to the control and government of the city for school purposes as fully as if the annexed territory had been originally within the corporate limits of the city. The territory, when so annexed, shall be thereby disconnected from any school district of which it was a part prior to the annexation. The city may levy and collect taxes for school purposes in the annexed territory in the same manner and to the same extent as in the territory comprised within the original corporate limits of the city. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-13) Sec. 8-3-13. The corporate authorities of any municipality containing 500,000 or more inhabitants may impose a tax prior to July 1, 1969, upon all persons engaged in the municipality in the business of renting, leasing or letting rooms in a hotel, as defined in the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act, at a rate not to exceed 1% of the gross rental receipts from the renting, leasing or letting, excluding, however, from gross rental receipts, the proceeds of the renting, leasing or letting to permanent residents of that hotel and proceeds from the tax imposed under subsection (c) of Section 13 of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act. The tax imposed by a municipality under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a lessor under the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the registrant to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under this Section without registering separately with the Department under the ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this Section; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act and the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if the provisions contained in those Acts were set forth herein. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the warrant to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Illinois tourism tax fund. Persons subject to any tax imposed under authority granted by this Section may reimburse themselves for their tax liability for that tax by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax imposed under the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act. The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex-officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder. On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities from which lessors have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of the municipality, less 4% of the balance, which sum shall be retained by the State Treasurer to cover the costs incurred by the Department in administering and enforcing the provisions of this Section, as provided herein. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the amount so retained by the State Treasurer, which shall be paid into the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the General Revenue Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the warrants to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business that, under the Constitution of the United States, may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. An ordinance or resolution imposing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be effective on the first day of the calendar month next following the expiration of the publication period provided in Section 1-2-4 in respect to municipalities governed by that Section. The corporate authorities of any municipality that levies a tax authorized by this Section shall transmit to the Department of Revenue on or not later than 5 days after the effective date of the ordinance or resolution a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution imposing the tax; whereupon, the Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section on behalf of the municipality as of the effective date of the ordinance or resolution. Upon a change in rate of a tax levied hereunder, or upon the discontinuance of the tax, the corporate authorities of the municipality shall, on or not later than 5 days after the effective date of the ordinance or resolution discontinuing the tax or effecting a change in rate, transmit to the Department of Revenue a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution effecting the change or discontinuance. The amounts disbursed to any municipality under this Section shall be expended by the municipality solely to promote tourism, conventions and other special events within that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresidents to visit the municipality. Any municipality receiving and disbursing money under this Section shall report on or before the first Monday in January of each year to the Advisory Committee of the Illinois Tourism Promotion Fund, created by Section 12 of the Illinois Promotion Act. The reports shall specify the purposes for which the disbursements were made and shall contain detailed amounts of all receipts and disbursements under this Section. This Section may be cited as the Tourism, Conventions and Other Special Events Promotion Act of 1967. (Source: P.A. 87-205; 87-733; 87-895.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-14) Sec. 8-3-14. Municipal hotel operators' occupation tax. The corporate authorities of any municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in such municipality in the business of renting, leasing or letting rooms in a hotel, as defined in "The Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act," at a rate not to exceed 6% in the City of East Peoria and in the Village of Morton and 5% in all other municipalities of the gross rental receipts from such renting, leasing or letting, excluding, however, from gross rental receipts, the proceeds of such renting, leasing or letting to permanent residents of that hotel and proceeds from the tax imposed under subsection (c) of Section 13 of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act, and may provide for the administration and enforcement of the tax, and for the collection thereof from the persons subject to the tax, as the corporate authorities determine to be necessary or practicable for the effective administration of the tax. The municipality may not impose a tax under this Section if it imposes a tax under Section 8-3-14a. Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to authority granted by this Section may reimburse themselves for their tax liability for such tax by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax imposed under "The Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act". Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. Except as otherwise provided in this Division, the amounts collected by any municipality pursuant to this Section shall be expended by the municipality solely to promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the municipality. No funds received pursuant to this Section shall be used to advertise for or otherwise promote new competition in the hotel business. (Source: P.A. 101-204, eff. 8-2-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-14a) Sec. 8-3-14a. Municipal hotel use tax.(a) The corporate authorities of any municipality may impose a tax upon the privilege of renting or leasing rooms in a hotel within the municipality at a rate not to exceed 5% of the rental or lease payment. The corporate authorities may provide for the administration and enforcement of the tax and for the collection thereof from the persons subject to the tax, as the corporate authorities determine to be necessary or practical for the effective administration of the tax.(b) Each hotel in the municipality shall collect the tax from the person making the rental or lease payment at the time that the payment is tendered to the hotel. The hotel shall, as trustee, remit the tax to the municipality.(c) The tax authorized under this Section does not apply to any rental or lease payment by a permanent resident of that hotel or to any payment made to any hotel that is subject to the tax imposed under subsection (c) of Section 13 of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act. A municipality may not impose a tax under this Section if it imposes a tax under Section 8-3-14. Nothing in this Section may be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business that under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.(d) Except as otherwise provided in this Division, the moneys collected by a municipality under this Section may be expended solely to promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the municipality. No moneys received under this Section may be used to advertise for or otherwise promote new competition in the hotel business.(e) As used in this Section, "hotel" has the meaning set forth in Section 2 of the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act. (Source: P.A. 101-204, eff. 8-2-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-14b) (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2023)Sec. 8-3-14b. Municipal hotel operators' tax in DuPage County. For any municipality located within DuPage County that belongs to a not-for-profit organization headquartered in DuPage County that is recognized by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as a certified local tourism and convention bureau entitled to receive State tourism grant funds, not less than 75% of the amounts collected pursuant to Section 8-3-14 shall be expended by the municipality to promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the municipality, and the remainder of the amounts collected by a municipality within DuPage County pursuant to Section 8-3-14 may be expended by the municipality for economic development or capital infrastructure.This Section is repealed on January 1, 2023. (Source: P.A. 101-204, eff. 8-2-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-14c) (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2023)Sec. 8-3-14c. Municipal hotel use tax in DuPage County. For any municipality located within DuPage County that belongs to a not-for-profit organization headquartered in DuPage County that is recognized by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as a certified local tourism and convention bureau entitled to receive State tourism grant funds, not less than 75% of the amounts collected pursuant to Section 8-3-14a shall be expended by the municipality to promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the municipality, and the remainder of the amounts collected by a municipality within DuPage County pursuant to Section 8-3-14a may be expended by the municipality for economic development or capital infrastructure.This Section is repealed on January 1, 2023. (Source: P.A. 101-204, eff. 8-2-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-15) Sec. 8-3-15. The corporate authorities of each municipality shall have all powers necessary to enforce the collection of any tax imposed and collected by such municipality, whether such tax was imposed pursuant to its home rule powers or statutory authorization, including but not limited to subpoena power and the power to create and enforce liens. No such lien shall affect the rights of bona fide purchasers, mortgagees, judgment creditors or other lienholders who acquire their interests in such property prior to the time a notice of such lien is placed on record in the office of the recorder or the registrar of titles of the county in which the property is located. However, nothing in this Section shall permit a municipality to place a lien upon property not located or found within its corporate boundaries. A municipality creating a lien may provide that the procedures for its notice and enforcement shall be the same as that provided in the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, as that Act existed prior to the adoption of the State Tax Lien Registration Act, for State tax liens, and any recorder or registrar of titles with whom a notice of such lien is filed shall treat such lien as a State tax lien for recording purposes. (Source: P.A. 100-22, eff. 1-1-18.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-16) Sec. 8-3-16. The corporate authorities of any municipality may annually levy, for emergency services and disaster operations as defined in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, a tax not to exceed 0.05% of the full fair cash value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all of the taxable property in the municipality for the current year. However, the amount collectible under a levy shall in no event exceed 25¢ per capita. The annual tax shall be in addition to the amount authorized to be levied for general corporate purposes. (Source: P.A. 87-168.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-3-17) Sec. 8-3-17. The corporate authorities of a municipality may not impose a tax on any tuition or fees received by a public or private post-secondary educational institution or on any student with respect to his or her being enrolled in such an institution. This Section is a denial and limitation under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of the power of a home rule municipality to impose a tax in violation of this Section. (Source: P.A. 86-1476.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-18) Sec. 8-3-18. A municipality, upon a majority vote of its governing authority, may abate taxes levied for corporate purposes under Section 8-3-1 in an amount not to exceed 50% of the donation by a taxpayer who donates not less than $10,000 to a qualified program. The abatement shall not exceed the tax extension on the taxpayer's real property for the levy year in which the donation is made. For purposes of this Section, "qualified program" means a facility or a program in an area designated as a target area by the governing authority of the municipality for the creation or expansion of job training and counseling programs, youth day care centers, congregate housing programs for senior adults, youth recreation programs, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, mental health counseling programs, domestic violence shelters, and other programs, facilities or services approved by the governing authority as qualified programs in a target area. (Source: P.A. 88-389.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-19) Sec. 8-3-19. Home rule real estate transfer taxes. (a) After the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly and subject to this Section, a home rule municipality may impose or increase a tax or other fee on the privilege of transferring title to real estate, on the privilege of transferring a beneficial interest in real property, and on the privilege of transferring a controlling interest in a real estate entity, as the terms "beneficial interest", "controlling interest", and "real estate entity" are defined in Article 31 of the Property Tax Code. Such a tax or other fee shall hereafter be referred to as a real estate transfer tax. (b) Before adopting a resolution to submit the question of imposing or increasing a real estate transfer tax to referendum, the corporate authorities shall give public notice of and hold a public hearing on the intent to submit the question to referendum. This hearing may be part of a regularly scheduled meeting of the corporate authorities. The notice shall be published not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality. The notice shall be published in the following form: Notice of Proposed (Increased) Real Estate Transfer

Tax for (commonly known name of municipality).

A public hearing on a resolution to submit to

referendum the question of a proposed (increased) real estate transfer tax for (legal name of the municipality) in an amount of (rate) to be paid by the buyer (seller) of the real estate transferred will be held on (date) at (time) at (location). The current rate of real estate transfer tax imposed by (name of municipality) is (rate).

Any person desiring to appear at the public hearing

and present testimony to the taxing district may do so.

(c) A notice that includes any information not specified and required by this Section is an invalid notice. All hearings shall be open to the public. At the public hearing, the corporate authorities of the municipality shall explain the reasons for the proposed or increased real estate transfer tax and shall permit persons desiring to be heard an opportunity to present testimony within reasonable time limits determined by the corporate authorities. A copy of the proposed ordinance shall be made available to the general public for inspection before the public hearing. (d) Except as provided in subsection (i), no home rule municipality shall impose a new real estate transfer tax after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996 without prior approval by referendum. Except as provided in subsection (i), no home rule municipality shall impose an increase of the rate of a current real estate transfer tax without prior approval by referendum. A home rule municipality may impose a new real estate transfer tax or may increase an existing real estate transfer tax with prior referendum approval. The referendum shall be conducted as provided in subsection (e). An existing ordinance or resolution imposing a real estate transfer tax may be amended without approval by referendum if the amendment does not increase the rate of the tax or add transactions on which the tax is imposed. (e) The home rule municipality shall, by resolution, provide for submission of the proposition to the voters. The home rule municipality shall certify the resolution and the proposition to the proper election officials in accordance with the general election law. If the proposition is to impose a new real estate transfer tax, it shall be in substantially the following form: "Shall (name of municipality) impose a real estate transfer tax at a rate of (rate) to be paid by the buyer (seller) of the real estate transferred, with the revenue of the proposed transfer tax to be used for (purpose)?". If the proposition is to increase an existing real estate transfer tax, it shall be in the following form: "Shall (name of municipality) impose a real estate transfer tax increase of (percent increase) to establish a new transfer tax rate of (rate) to be paid by the buyer (seller) of the real estate transferred? The current rate of the real estate transfer tax is (rate), and the revenue is used for (purpose). The revenue from the increase is to be used for (purpose).". If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor of it, the municipality may impose or increase the municipal real estate transfer tax or fee. (f) Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1996 shall limit the purposes for which real estate transfer tax revenues may be collected or expended. (g) A home rule municipality may not impose real estate transfer taxes other than as authorized by this Section. This Section is a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. (h) Notwithstanding subsection (g) of this Section, any real estate transfer taxes adopted by a municipality at any time prior to January 17, 1997 (the effective date of Public Act 89-701) and any amendments to any existing real estate transfer tax ordinance adopted after that date, in accordance with the law in effect at the time of the adoption of the amendments, are not preempted by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly. (i) Within 6 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, by ordinance adopted without a referendum, a home rule municipality with a population in excess of 1,000,000 may increase the rate of an existing real estate transfer tax by a rate of up to $1.50 for each $500 of value or fraction thereof, or in the alternative may impose a real estate transfer tax at a rate of up to $1.50 for each $500 of value or fraction thereof, which may be on the buyer or seller of real estate, or jointly and severally on both, for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to the Chicago Transit Authority. All amounts collected under such supplemental tax, after fees for costs of collection, shall be provided to the Chicago Transit Authority pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement as promptly as practicable upon their receipt. Such municipality shall file a copy of any ordinance imposing or increasing such tax with the Illinois Department of Revenue and shall file a report with the Department each month certifying the amount paid to the Chicago Transit Authority in the previous month from the proceeds of such tax. (Source: P.A. 95-708, eff. 1-18-08.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 4 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-1) Sec. 8-4-1. No bonds shall be issued by the corporate authorities of any municipality until the question of authorizing such bonds has been submitted to the electors of that municipality provided that notice of the bond referendum, if held before July 1, 1999, has been given in accordance with the provisions of Section 12-5 of the Election Code in effect at the time of the bond referendum, at least 10 and not more than 45 days before the date of the election, notwithstanding the time for publication otherwise imposed by Section 12-5, and approved by a majority of the electors voting upon that question. Notices required in connection with the submission of public questions on or after July 1, 1999 shall be as set forth in Section 12-5 of the Election Code. The clerk shall certify the proposition of the corporate authorities to the proper election authority who shall submit the question at an election in accordance with the general election law, subject to the notice provisions set forth in this Section. Notice of any such election shall contain the amount of the bond issue, purpose for which issued, and maximum rate of interest. In addition to all other authority to issue bonds, the Village of Indian Head Park is authorized to issue bonds for the purpose of paying the costs of making roadway improvements in an amount not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of $2,500,000, provided that 60% of the votes cast at the general primary election held on March 18, 2014 are cast in favor of the issuance of the bonds, and the bonds are issued by December 31, 2014. However, without the submission of the question of issuing bonds to the electors, the corporate authorities of any municipality may authorize the issuance of any of the following bonds: (1) Bonds to refund any existing bonded indebtedness; (2) Bonds to fund or refund any existing judgment

indebtedness;

(3) In any municipality of less than 500,000

population, bonds to anticipate the collection of installments of special assessments and special taxes against property owned by the municipality and to anticipate the collection of the amount apportioned to the municipality as public benefits under Article 9;

(4) Bonds issued by any municipality under Sections

8-4-15 through 8-4-23, 11-23-1 through 11-23-12, 11-25-1 through 11-26-6, 11-71-1 through 11-71-10, 11-74.3-1 through 11-74.3-7, 11-74.4-1 through 11-74.4-11, 11-74.5-1 through 11-74.5-15, 11-94-1 through 11-94-7, 11-102-1 through 11-102-10, 11-103-11 through 11-103-15, 11-118-1 through 11-118-6, 11-119-1 through 11-119-5, 11-129-1 through 11-129-7, 11-133-1 through 11-133-4, 11-139-1 through 11-139-12, 11-141-1 through 11-141-18 of this Code or 10-801 through 10-808 of the Illinois Highway Code, as amended;

(5) Bonds issued by the board of education of any

school district under the provisions of Sections 34-30 through 34-36 of The School Code, as amended;

(6) Bonds issued by any municipality under the

provisions of Division 6 of this Article 8; and by any municipality under the provisions of Division 7 of this Article 8; or under the provisions of Sections 11-121-4 and 11-121-5;

(7) Bonds to pay for the purchase of voting machines

by any municipality that has adopted Article 24 of The Election Code, approved May 11, 1943, as amended;

(8) Bonds issued by any municipality under Sections

15 and 46 of the "Environmental Protection Act", approved June 29, 1970;

(9) Bonds issued by the corporate authorities of any

municipality under the provisions of Section 8-4-25 of this Article 8;

(10) Bonds issued under Section 8-4-26 of this

Article 8 by any municipality having a board of election commissioners;

(11) Bonds issued under the provisions of "An Act to

provide the manner of levying or imposing taxes for the provision of special services to areas within the boundaries of home rule units and nonhome rule municipalities and counties", approved September 21, 1973;

(12) Bonds issued under Section 8-5-16 of this Code; (13) Bonds to finance the cost of the acquisition,

construction or improvement of water or wastewater treatment facilities mandated by an enforceable compliance schedule developed in connection with the federal Clean Water Act or a compliance order issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the Illinois Pollution Control Board; provided that such bonds are authorized by an ordinance adopted by a three-fifths majority of the corporate authorities of the municipality issuing the bonds which ordinance shall specify that the construction or improvement of such facilities is necessary to alleviate an emergency condition in such municipality;

(14) Bonds issued by any municipality pursuant to

Section 11-113.1-1;

(15) Bonds issued under Sections 11-74.6-1 through

11-74.6-45, the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law of this Code;

(16) Bonds issued under the Innovation Development

and Economy Act, except as may be required by Section 35 of that Act.

(Source: P.A. 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 98-654, eff. 6-18-14.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-2) Sec. 8-4-2. Such question shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall bonds in the amount of $....... be issued by the city (orYES village or incorporated town as the case may be) of .... for the----------------------- purpose of ............ (state purpose), bearing interest at the NO rate of not to exceed ....%?-------------------------------------------------------------- (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-3) Sec. 8-4-3. The corporate authorities of any municipality, without submitting the question to the electors thereof for approval, may authorize by ordinance the issuance of refunding bonds (1) to refund its bonds prior to their maturity; (2) to refund its unpaid matured bonds; (3) to refund matured coupons evidencing interest upon its unpaid bonds; (4) to refund interest at the coupon rate upon its unpaid matured bonds that has accrued since the maturity of these bonds; and (5) to refund its bonds which by their terms are subject to redemption before maturity. The refunding bonds may be made registerable as to principal and may bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable at such time and place as may be provided in the bond ordinance. The refunding bonds shall remain valid even though one or more of the officers executing the bonds cease to hold his or their offices before the bonds are delivered. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit. (Source: P.A. 86-4.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-4) Sec. 8-4-4. The ordinance authorizing the refunding bonds shall prescribe all details thereof and shall provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property within the municipality sufficient to pay the principal thereof and interest thereon as it matures. This tax shall be in addition to and exclusive of the maximum of all other taxes authorized to be levied by the municipality. Tax limitations applicable to the municipality provided by this Code or by other Illinois statutes shall not apply to taxes levied for payment of these refunding bonds. A certified copy of the bond ordinance shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which the municipality or any portion thereof is situated, and shall constitute the authority for the extension and collection of refunding bond and interest taxes as required by the constitution. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-5) Sec. 8-4-5. The refunding bonds may be exchanged for the bonds to be refunded on the basis of dollar for dollar for the par value of the bonds, interest coupons, and interest not represented by coupons, if any. Instead of this exchange, the refunding bonds may be sold at not less than their par value and accrued interest. The proceeds received from their sale shall be used to pay the bonds, interest coupons, and interest not represented by coupons, if any. This payment may be made without any prior appropriation therefor under Section 8-2-1 or 8-2-9. Bonds and interest coupons which have been received in exchange or paid shall be cancelled and the obligation for interest, not represented by coupons, which has been discharged, shall be evidenced by a written acknowledgment of the exchange or payment thereof. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-6) Sec. 8-4-6. The refunding bonds shall be of such form and denomination, payable at such place, bear such date, and be executed by such officials as may be provided by the corporate authorities of the municipality in the bond ordinance. They shall mature within not to exceed 20 years from their date, and may be made callable on any interest payment date at par and accrued interest after notice has been given at the time and in the manner provided in the bond ordinance. If there is no default in payment of the principal of or interest upon the refunding bonds, and if after setting aside a sum of money equal to the amount of interest that will accrue on the refunding bonds, and a sum of money equal to the amount of principal that will become due thereon, within the next 6 months period, the treasurer and comptroller, if there is a comptroller, of the municipality shall use the money available from the proceeds of taxes levied for the payment of the refunding bonds in calling them for payment, if, by their terms, they are subject to redemption. However, a municipality may provide in the bond ordinance that, whenever the municipality is not in default in payment of the principal of or interest upon the refunding bonds and has set aside the sums of money provided in this paragraph for interest accruing and principal maturing within the next 6 months period, the money available from the proceeds of taxes levied for the payment of refunding bonds shall be used, first, in the purchase of the refunding bonds at the lowest price obtainable, but not to exceed their par value and accrued interest, after sealed tenders for their purchase have been advertised for as may be directed by the corporate authorities thereof. Refunding bonds called for payment and paid or purchased under this section shall be marked paid and cancelled. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-7) Sec. 8-4-7. Whenever any refunding bonds are purchased or redeemed and cancelled, as provided in Section 8-4-6, the taxes thereafter to be extended for payment of the principal of and the interest on the remainder of the issue shall be reduced in an amount equal to the principal of and the interest that would have thereafter accrued upon the refunding bonds so cancelled. A resolution shall be adopted by the corporate authorities of the municipality finding these facts. A certified copy of this resolution shall be filed with the county clerk specified in Section 8-4-4. Whereupon the county clerk shall reduce and extend such tax levies in accordance therewith. Whenever refunding bonds are issued, proper reduction of taxes, theretofore levied for the payment of the bonds refunded and next to be extended for collection, shall be made by the county clerk upon receipt of a certificate signed by the treasurer and the comptroller, if there is a comptroller, of the municipality, showing the bonds refunded and the tax to be abated. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-8) Sec. 8-4-8. Money which becomes available from taxes that were levied for prior years for payment of bonds or interest coupons that were paid or refunded before these taxes were collected, after payment of all warrants that may have been issued in anticipation of these taxes, shall be placed in the sinking fund account provided in this section. It shall be used to purchase, call for payment, or to pay at maturity refunding bonds and interest thereon as provided in Sections 8-4-3 through 8-4-9. Money received from the proceeds of taxes levied for the payment of the principal of and interest upon refunding bonds shall be deposited in a special fund of the municipality. It shall be designated as the "Refunding Bond and Interest Sinking Fund Account of ....." This fund shall be faithfully applied to the purchase or payment of refunding bonds and the interest thereon as provided in Sections 8-4-3 through 8-4-9. If the money in this fund is not immediately necessary for the payment or redemption of refunding bonds or if refunding bonds can not be purchased before maturity, then, under the direction of the corporate authorities of the municipality, the money may be invested by the treasurer and the comptroller, if there is a comptroller, of the municipality, in bonds or other interest bearing obligations of the United States or in bonds of the State of Illinois or in general obligation bonds of the issuing municipality. The maturity date of the securities in which this money is invested shall be prior to the due date of any issue of refunding bonds of the investing municipality. The corporate authorities may sell these securities whenever necessary to obtain cash to meet bond and interest payments. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-9) Sec. 8-4-9. The corporate authorities of a municipality may take any action that may be necessary to inform the owners of unpaid bonds regarding the financial condition of the municipality, the necessity of refunding its unpaid bonds and readjusting the maturities thereof in order that sufficient taxes may be collected to take care of these bonds, and thus re-establish the credit of the municipality. The corporate authorities may enter into any agreement required to prepare and carry out any refunding plan and, without any previous appropriation therefor under Section 8-2-1 or 8-2-9, may incur and pay expenditures that may be necessary in order to accomplish the refunding of the bonds of the municipality. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-10) Sec. 8-4-10. Sections 8-4-3 through 8-4-10 apply to all municipalities, whether incorporated under a general or a special act, and shall constitute complete authority for issuing refunding bonds without reference to other laws, and shall be construed as conferring powers in addition to, but not as limiting powers granted under other laws or under any other provisions of this Code. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-11) Sec. 8-4-11. In every municipality there shall be a sinking fund commission, composed of the mayor or president, as the case may be, the chairman of the finance committee, and the comptroller, or if there is no comptroller, the municipal clerk. Sections 8-4-11 and 8-4-12 shall not be applicable to the refunding bond and interest sinking fund account provided for in Section 8-4-8. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-12) Sec. 8-4-12. Whenever there is a sum in the municipality's sinking fund in excess of the amount required for the payment of the municipality's bonded indebtedness maturing in that, or the succeeding, fiscal year, and the interest due in that period, the sinking fund commission may use this excess in the purchase of unpaid bonds for the payment of which, at maturity, the sinking fund was or shall be created, paying therefor no more than the market price. When such bonds are so purchased, they shall be cancelled, and thereafter no taxes for the payment of those bonds or the interest thereon shall be levied. The money in a municipality's sinking fund may be applied to the payment of such bonds without any further appropriation by the municipality than is made under this section. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-13) Sec. 8-4-13. Every municipality incorporated by and operating under a special charter may borrow money upon the credit of the municipality for lawful corporate purposes, including the funding and refunding of any judgment indebtedness heretofore or hereafter incurred, and may issue its negotiable coupon bonds therefor in such form, of such denomination, payable at such place and at such time or times, not exceeding 20 years from their date, as the corporate authorities of the municipality may prescribe by ordinance. Every such municipality, prior to or at the time of issuing its bonds under this section, shall provide for the collection of a direct annual tax upon all of the taxable property of the municipality, which, in addition to all other taxes, shall be sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds as it falls due and also to pay the principal of the bonds within 20 years from their date. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-14) Sec. 8-4-14. Without submitting the question to the legal voters thereof for approval the corporate authorities of any municipality having a population of less than 500,000 may by ordinance authorize the issue of refunding revenue bonds, payable solely from the revenues of a municipally-owned water utility, combined water and sewer utility, sewer utility, gas utility, swimming pool or airport, to refund the principal or accrued interest, or both, of its outstanding revenue bonds, revenue certificates of indebtedness or revenue notes, prior to their maturity, and the principal and accrued interest of its matured outstanding revenue bonds, revenue certificates of indebtedness or revenue notes issued under the provisions of any law of this State, and which by their terms are payable solely from the revenues of a municipally-owned water utility, combined water and sewer utility, sewer utility, gas utility, swimming pool or airport. The refunding revenue bonds may be made registerable as to principal and bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable at such time or at such place as may be provided for in the ordinance authorizing the issue thereof. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit. (Source: P.A. 86-4.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-15) Sec. 8-4-15. The ordinance authorizing such refunding revenue bonds shall prescribe all the details thereof and the bonds shall be in such form and denomination, payable at such places, bear such date and be executed by such officials as may be provided in the bond ordinance. The ordinance also shall determine the period of usefulness of the utility. The refunding revenue bonds shall mature within the determined period of usefulness of the utility and shall mature, in any event, within not to exceed 40 years from their date, and may be made callable on any interest payment date at a price of par and accrued interest, after notice shall be given by publication or otherwise at any time or times and in the manner as may be provided for in the bond ordinance. The ordinance may contain such covenants and restrictions upon the issuance of additional refunding revenue bonds, or revenue bonds for the improvement and extension of such utility or facility as may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of the payment of the refunding revenue bonds thereby authorized. Such bonds shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from such municipally-owned utility or facility and such bonds shall not, in any event, constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation, and it shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision or limitation. The validity of any refunding revenue bonds shall remain unimpaired, although one or more of the officials executing the same shall cease to be such officer or officers before delivery thereof, and such bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the Law Merchant and Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code. (Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-16) Sec. 8-4-16. If any revenue securities which are refunded are secured by an indenture of mortgage or deed of trust, such indenture of mortgage or deed of trust shall be properly released of record. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-17) Sec. 8-4-17. Whenever refunding revenue bonds are issued under this Division 4, sufficient revenues received from the operation of the municipally-owned utility or facility shall be set aside as collected and be deposited in a separate fund, which shall be used only in paying the cost of operation and maintenance of the utility or facility, providing an adequate depreciation fund, and paying the principal of and interest upon the revenue bonds issued that are payable by their terms only from such revenues. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-18) Sec. 8-4-18. Rates charged for service and the use of the utility or facility shall be sufficient at all times to pay the cost of operation and maintenance, provide an adequate depreciation fund and pay the principal of and interest upon all revenue bonds which by their terms are payable solely from the revenues derived from the operation of the utility or facility. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-19) Sec. 8-4-19. Any holder of a bond or bonds, or of any of the coupons of any bond or bonds of a municipality issued under Sections 8-4-14 through 8-4-23, may in any civil action, mandamus, injunction or other proceeding, enforce and compel performance of all duties required by this Division 4, including the maintaining and collecting of sufficient rates for that purpose and the application of income and revenue thereof. (Source: P.A. 83-345.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-20) Sec. 8-4-20. After the ordinance providing for the issuance of the refunding revenue bonds has been passed, it shall be published at least once within 10 days after its passage in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality. The ordinance shall not become effective until 10 days after its publication. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-21) Sec. 8-4-21. Such refunding revenue bonds may be exchanged on a basis of par for the securities to be refunded, or such bonds may be sold at not less than their par value and accrued interest and the proceeds received shall be used to pay the securities which are to be refunded thereby. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-22) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-22) Sec. 8-4-22. The corporate authorities of any such municipality are authorized to take any action that may be necessary to inform owners of outstanding securities regarding the financial condition of the fund out of which the securities are payable and the necessity of refunding the same and readjusting the maturities thereof and the corporate authorities may enter into any agreements required to prepare and carry out any refunding plan, and without previous appropriation therefor under any law may incur and pay expenditures that may be necessary in order to accomplish the refunding of such securities. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-23) Sec. 8-4-23. Sections 8-4-14 through 8-4-23 constitute complete authority for the issue of refunding revenue bonds as herein provided without reference to any other laws or provisions of this Code and shall be construed as conferring power in addition to but not in limitation of the powers granted under any other existing laws or provisions of this Code. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-24) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-24) Sec. 8-4-24. Whenever bonds have been issued by any municipality for the purpose of constructing an incinerator, and the corporate authorities decide that such project is not feasible and substitute a different method of refuse disposal, they may adopt an ordinance ordering the submission to the electors of a proposition to use the proceeds of such bond issue, or any balance thereof, for some other specified municipal purpose. The clerk shall certify such question to the proper election authority who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law. (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-25) Sec. 8-4-25. Subject to the requirements of the Bond Issue Notification Act, any municipality is authorized to issue from time to time full faith and credit general obligation notes in an amount not to exceed 85% of the specific taxes levied for the year during which and for which such notes are issued, provided no notes shall be issued in lieu of tax warrants for any tax at any time there are outstanding tax anticipation warrants against the specific taxes levied for the year. Such notes shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, if issued before January 1, 1972 and not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, if issued after January 1, 1972 and shall mature within two years from date. The first interest payment date on any such notes shall not be earlier than the delinquency date of the first installment of taxes levied to pay interest and principal of such notes. Notes may be issued for taxes levied for the following purposes: (a) Corporate. (b) For the payment of judgments. (c) Public Library for Maintenance and Operation. (d) Public Library for Buildings and Sites. (e) Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. (f) Relief (General Assistance). In order to authorize and issue such notes, the corporate authorities shall adopt an ordinance fixing the amount of the notes, the date thereof, the maturity, rate of interest, place of payment and denomination, which shall be in equal multiples of $1,000, and provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property in the municipality sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such notes as the same becomes due. A certified copy of the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the notes shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk of the county in which the municipality is located, or if the municipality lies partly within two or more counties, a certified copy of the ordinance authorizing such notes shall be filed with the County Clerk of each of the respective counties, and it shall be the duty of the County Clerk, or County Clerks, whichever the case may be, to extend the tax therefor in addition to and in excess of all other taxes heretofore or hereafter authorized to be levied by such municipality. From and after any such notes have been issued and while such notes are outstanding, it shall be the duty of the County Clerk or County Clerks, whichever the case may be, in computing the tax rate for the purpose for which the notes have been issued to reduce the tax rate levied for such purpose by the amount levied to pay the principal of and interest on the notes to maturity, provided the tax rate shall not be reduced beyond the amount necessary to reimburse any money borrowed from the working cash fund, and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the municipality annually, not less than thirty (30) days prior to the tax extension date, to certify to the County Clerk, or County Clerks, whichever the case may be, the amount of money borrowed from the working cash fund to be reimbursed from the specific tax levy. No reimbursement shall be made to the working cash fund until there has been accumulated from the tax levy provided for the notes an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such notes as the same become due. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 89-655, eff. 1-1-97.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4-26) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-26) Sec. 8-4-26. Subject to the requirements of the Bond Issue Notification Act, the corporate authorities of any municipality having a board of election commissioners may issue bonds, in such amounts as may be required for the purpose of acquiring voting machines or electronic voting systems as required by Sections 24-1.1 and 24A-3 of The Election Code and may levy a direct annual tax upon all taxable property in the municipality for the purpose of paying the principal of and interest on such bonds. The ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds shall specify the total amount of bonds to be issued, the form and denomination of the bonds, the date they are to bear, the place where they are payable, the date or dates of maturity, which shall not be more than 10 years from the date of issuance, the rate of interest, and the dates on which interest is payable. Such ordinance shall prescribe all the details of the bonds and shall provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all taxable property in the municipality sufficient to pay the principal of the bonds at maturity and the interest thereon as it falls due. Such tax is in addition to taxes for general corporate purposes and is not included in any statutory tax rate limitation. (Source: P.A. 89-655, eff. 1-1-97.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 4.1 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-1) Sec. 8-4.1-1. This Division shall be known and may be cited as the "Municipal Bond Reform Act." (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-2) Sec. 8-4.1-2. In addition to other words and terms as defined in this Code, the following words or terms shall as used in this Division have the meanings set forth opposite each unless the context or usage clearly indicates that another meaning is intended. "Applicable Law" means any provision of this Code or any other provision of law authorizing municipalities to issue Bonds. "Backdoor Referendum" means the submission of a public question to the voters of a municipality, initiated by a petition of voters or residents or property owners of such municipality, to determine whether an action by the corporate authorities of such municipality shall be effective, adopted or rejected. "Bonds" means any instrument evidencing the obligation to pay money authorized or issued by or on behalf of a municipality under Applicable Law including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, bonds, notes, installment or financing contracts, leases, certificates, tax anticipation warrants or notes, vouchers, or any evidence of indebtedness. "General Obligation Bonds" means Bonds of a municipality for the payment of which the municipality is empowered to levy ad valorem property taxes upon all taxable property in the municipality without limitation as to rate or amount. "Municipality" for the purpose of this Division also includes water commissions under Division 135 of Article 11 of this Code or any other entity created by intergovernmental agreement and comprised solely of cities, villages, or incorporated towns. "Revenue Bonds" means any Bonds of a municipality other than General Obligation Bonds. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-3) Sec. 8-4.1-3. The provisions of this Act are intended to be supplemental and in addition to all other power or authority granted to municipalities, shall be construed liberally and shall not be construed as a limitation of any power or authority otherwise granted. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-4) Sec. 8-4.1-4. Whenever Applicable Law provides that the authorization or the issuance of Bonds, or the becoming effective of an ordinance or resolution providing for the authorization or issuance of Bonds, may be subject to a backdoor referendum, the provisions of this Section may be used as an alternative to the specific procedures as otherwise set forth by Applicable Law. A. The corporate authorities may adopt an authorizing ordinance describing briefly the authority under which Bonds are proposed to be issued, the nature of the project or purpose to be financed, the estimated total costs of the project or purpose, including in such costs all items related to financing the project or purpose, and the maximum amount of Bonds authorized to be issued to pay such costs. No further details or specifications are required in such authorizing ordinance. Such authorizing ordinance, along with any other notice as required by Applicable Law, including any notice as to the right of electors to file a petition and the number of voters required to sign any such petition, shall be published or posted as required by Applicable Law. A petition may be filed after such publication or posting during the period as provided by Applicable Law; but upon the expiration of any such period, the corporate authorities shall be authorized to issue such Bonds as if they had followed all necessary procedures set forth in such Applicable Law. B. If no petition meeting the requirements of the Applicable Law is filed during the petition period hereinabove referred to, then the corporate authorities may adopt additional ordinances or proceedings supplementing or amending the authorizing ordinance so long as the maximum amount of Bonds as set forth in the authorizing ordinance hereinabove provided for is not exceeded, and there is no material change in the project or purpose described in the authorizing ordinance. Such additional ordinances or proceedings shall in all instances become effective immediately without publication or posting or any further act or requirement. The authorizing ordinance, together with such additional ordinances or proceedings, shall constitute complete authority for the issuance of such Bonds under the Applicable Law. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-5) Sec. 8-4.1-5. The corporate authorities may provide for a reserve fund solely for the payment of the principal of and interest on Bonds. Bond proceeds may be used to provide such reserve fund. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-6) Sec. 8-4.1-6. The corporate authorities are authorized and may covenant and contract with the holders of Revenue Bonds to levy, charge and collect moneys pledged as security for the payment of Revenue Bonds in amounts sufficient to provide for the prompt payment of the principal of and interest on such Bonds, and to provide an additional amount of money, as debt service coverage, computed as a percentage of the amount of principal and interest scheduled to be payable in any given year. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-7) Sec. 8-4.1-7. The proceeds of Bonds may be used to provide for the payment of interest upon such Bonds for a period not to exceed the greater of 2 years or a period ending 6 months after the estimated date of completion of the acquisition and construction of the project or accomplishment of the purpose for which such Bonds are issued. In addition it shall be lawful for the corporate authorities of any municipality issuing Bonds to appropriate money for the purpose of paying interest on such Bonds during the period described above. Such appropriation may be made in the ordinance authorizing such Bonds and shall be fully effective upon the effective date of such ordinance without any further notice, publication or approval whatsoever. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-8) Sec. 8-4.1-8. Bonds authorized by Applicable Law may be issued in one or more series, bear such date or dates, become due at such time or times within the period of years provided by Applicable Law, bear interest payable at such intervals and at such rate or rates as authorized under Section 2 of "An Act to authorize public corporations to issue bonds, other evidences of indebtedness and tax anticipation warrants subject to interest rate limitations set forth therein," approved May 26, 1970, as now or hereafter amended, which rates may be fixed or variable, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered or book-entry, carry such conversion, registration, and exchange privileges, be subject to defeasance upon such terms, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment at such place or places within or without the State of Illinois, be subject to such terms of redemption with or without premium, and be sold in such manner at private or public sale and at such price as the corporate authorities shall determine. Whenever such bonds are sold at a price less than par, they shall be sold at such price and bear interest at such rate or rates such that the net interest rate received upon the sale of such Bonds does not exceed the maximum rate determined under Section 2 of "An Act to authorize public corporations to issue bonds, other evidences of indebtedness and tax anticipation warrants subject to interest rate limitations set forth therein", approved May 26, 1970, as now or hereafter amended. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-9) Sec. 8-4.1-9. Any redemption premium payable upon the redemption of Bonds may be payable from the proceeds of refunding Bonds which may be issued under Applicable Law for the purpose of refunding such Bonds, from any other lawfully available source or from both proceeds and such other sources. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-10) Sec. 8-4.1-10. In addition to the authority otherwise available to invest funds, corporate authorities may authorize and upon such authorization the Treasurer of any municipality may invest proceeds of Bonds or money on deposit in any debt service or reserve fund or account relating to Bonds in obligations the interest upon which is tax exempt under the provisions of Section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or successor code or provision, subject to such tax-exempt obligations being rated at the time of purchase within the 4 highest general classifications established by a rating service of nationally recognized expertise in rating bonds of states and the political subdivisions thereof. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-11) Sec. 8-4.1-11. A municipality may pledge, as security for the payment of its Bonds, (a) revenues derived from the operation of any utility system or revenue producing enterprise; (b) moneys deposited or to be deposited in any special fund of the municipality; (c) grants or other revenues expected to be received by the municipality from the state or federal government; (d) special assessments to be collected with respect to a local improvement financed with the proceeds of Bonds; or (e) payments to be made by another unit of local government pursuant to a service agreement with the municipality. Any such pledge made by a municipality shall be valid and binding from the time such pledge is made. The revenues, moneys and other funds so pledged and thereafter received by the municipality shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act; and, subject only to the provisions of prior agreements, the lien of such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in trust, contract or otherwise against the municipality irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. No ordinance, resolution, trust agreement or other instrument by which such pledge is created need be filed or recorded; except in the records of the municipality. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-4.1-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4.1-12) Sec. 8-4.1-12. Bonds which are issued in part pursuant to this Act may contain a recital to that effect and any such recital shall be conclusive as against the municipality and the corporate authorities thereof and any other person as to the validity of the Bonds and as to their compliance with the provisions of this Act. (Source: P.A. 85-158.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 5 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-5-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-5-1) Sec. 8-5-1. Except as hereinafter provided in this Division 5, no municipality having a population of less than 500,000 shall become indebted in any manner or for any purpose, to an amount, including existing indebtedness in the aggregate exceeding 8.625% on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county purposes, previous to the incurring of the indebtedness or, until January 1, 1983, if greater, the sum that is produced by multiplying the municipality's 1978 equalized assessed valuation by the debt limitation percentage in effect on January 1, 1979. The indebtedness limitation set forth in this Section may be inapplicable to indebtedness incurred for the purpose of pumping water from Lake Michigan to one or more municipalities having a population of less than 500,000, whether before or after such indebtedness is incurred, if the majority of voters in such municipality approve such inapplicability at an election on the issue held in accordance with the general election law. The governing authority of any such municipality may, by proper ordinance or resolution, cause the proposition of the inapplicability of the limitation of indebtedness set forth in this Section to the indebtedness incurred for such purpose to be certified to the proper election authorities and submitted to the voters of the municipality at a regularly scheduled election in accordance with the general election law. If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition are in favor thereof, indebtedness incurred for the purpose of pumping water from Lake Michigan to one or more municipalities shall not be subject to the limitation set forth in this Section. The indebtedness limitation set forth in this Section shall not apply to any indebtedness of any municipality incurred to finance the cost of the acquisition, construction or improvement of water or wastewater treatment facilities mandated by an enforceable compliance schedule developed in connection with the federal Clean Water Act or a compliance order issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the Illinois Pollution Control Board. Any village or incorporated town may provide by resolution, and any city may provide by ordinance, for the taking of a census of the population thereof in order to determine the number of that population for any purpose of this Division 5. The courts in this state shall take judicial notice of the population of any municipality as it appears from the latest municipal census so taken. However, no municipal census shall be taken by the authority of this section, oftener than once in 3 years. The amendatory Act of 1973 is not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit. (Source: P.A. 85-925.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-5-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-5-2) Sec. 8-5-2. The limitation prescribed in Section 8-5-1 shall not apply to any indebtedness of any municipality incurred in connection with the issuance of funding bonds. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-5-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-5-15) Sec. 8-5-15. In a city or village having a population of less than 500,000, a petition, signed by electors of the city or village equal in number to not less than 10% of the number of votes cast for the candidates for mayor or president at the last preceding general municipal election at which a mayor or president was elected, may be presented to the corporate authorities of such a city or village asking that the question, whether that city or village shall incur additional indebtedness for the construction of impounding dams and artificial lakes for water supply purposes, together with the land and equipment necessary and incidental thereto, be submitted to the electors of that city or village. Thereupon, this question shall be certified by the clerk to the proper election authority and submitted at an election in accordance with the general election law. This question shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the city (or village) of.... incuradditional indebtedness for the constructionYESof impounding dams and artificial lakes for --------------water supply purposes, together with the land NOand equipment necessary and incidental thereto?-------------------------------------------------------------- If a majority of the votes cast on this question are in the affirmative, the additional indebtedness for water supply purposes is approved. (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-5-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-5-16) Sec. 8-5-16. The corporate authorities of any municipality which is not a home rule unit under the Constitution of 1970 are authorized to issue the bonds of such municipality without referendum subject to the limitation contained herein and the requirements of the Bond Issue Notification Act. Such bonds shall be payable from ad valorem tax receipts. The amount of such bonds, together with other bonds issued pursuant to this Section and outstanding, shall not exceed at the time of issue one-half of 1% of the assessed value of all of the taxable property located within the municipality. Such bonds shall be authorized by a bond ordinance adopted by the corporate authorities of the municipality. The bond ordinance shall make provision for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds by the levy of a direct annual irrepealable tax upon all of the taxable property within the municipality. A properly certified copy of the bond ordinance shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of each county in which any portion of the municipality is situated. Such county clerk or clerks shall extend the taxes levied in the bond ordinance for collection against all of the taxable property situated within the municipality. The taxes levied in the bond ordinance shall be extended annually by the county clerk or clerks without limitation as to rate or amount and such taxes shall be in addition to and in excess of all other taxes levied or authorized to be levied by the municipality. Bonds heretofore or hereafter issued and outstanding which are approved by referendum, bonds issued under this Section which have been paid in full or for which provision for payment has been made by an irrevocable deposit of funds in an amount sufficient to pay the principal and interest on any such bonds to their respective maturity date, non-referendum bonds issued pursuant to other provisions of this Code, and bonded indebtedness assumed from another municipality, shall not operate to limit in any way the right of the municipality to issue its non-referendum bonds in accord with this Section. (Source: P.A. 89-655, eff. 1-1-97.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 6 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-6-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-1) Sec. 8-6-1. In each municipality with a population of more than 500,000, a fund to be known as a working cash fund may be created, set apart, maintained, and administered in the manner prescribed in this Division 6, for the purpose of enabling the municipality to have in its treasury at all times sufficient money to meet demands thereon for ordinary and necessary expenditures for corporate purposes and payment of corporate liabilities. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-6-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-2) Sec. 8-6-2. For the purpose of creating a working cash fund, the corporate authorities may incur an indebtedness and issue bonds therefor in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $20,000,000 in addition to all bonded indebtedness authorized for that purpose prior to July 1, 1949. These 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 corporate authorities may provide that the ordinance authorizing the issuance of these bonds shall be operative and valid without the submission thereof to the electors of the municipality for approval in accordance with the requirements of Sections 8-4-1 and 8-4-2. The corporate authorities before or at the time of issuing these bonds, shall provide for the collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property in the issuing municipality, sufficient to pay and discharge the principal thereof at maturity and to pay the interest thereon as it falls due. The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86-4.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-6-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-3) Sec. 8-6-3. For the purpose of providing money for such a working cash fund, the corporate authorities also have the power to levy annually, upon all the taxable property in the municipality, a tax of not to exceed .05% upon the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of that property for purposes of taxation for the year in which each such levy is made. The collection of this tax shall not be anticipated by the issuance of any warrants drawn against the tax. This tax shall be levied and collected, except as otherwise provided in this Section, in like manner as are the general taxes of the collecting municipality. It shall be known as the working cash fund tax and shall be in addition to the maximum of all other taxes which that municipality is now, or may be hereafter, authorized by law to levy upon the taxable property within the municipality. This tax may be levied by a separate ordinance prior to March 28 in each year. This tax may be levied for the purpose specified in this Section without any appropriation thereof being made in the annual or supplemental appropriation ordinance. No tax shall be levied under this Section if the municipality has previously issued the maximum amount of bonds permitted under Section 8-6-2. (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-6-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-4) Sec. 8-6-4. All money received from the issuance of bonds as authorized in Section 8-6-2, or from any tax levied pursuant to the authority granted by Section 8-6-3, shall be set apart in the specified working cash fund by the municipal treasurer and shall be used only for the purposes and in the manner provided in this section. The fund and the money therein shall not be regarded as current assets available for appropriation and shall not be appropriated by the corporate authorities in the annual appropriation ordinance. The corporate authorities may appropriate moneys to the working cash fund up to the maximum amount allowable in the fund, and the working cash fund may receive such appropriations and any other contributions. In order to provide money with which to meet ordinary and necessary disbursements for salaries and other corporate purposes, the fund may be transferred in whole or in part to the general corporate fund of the municipality and so disbursed therefrom in anticipation of the collection of any taxes lawfully levied for general corporate purposes, or in the anticipation of such taxes, as by law now or hereafter enacted or amended, imposed by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois to replace revenue lost by units of local government and school districts as a result of the abolition of ad valorem personal property taxes, pursuant to Article IX, Section 5(c) of the Constitution of the State of Illinois. Money so transferred to the general corporate fund shall be deemed to have been transferred in anticipation of the collection of that part of the taxes so levied or to be received which is in excess of the amount required to pay any tax anticipation warrants, and the interest thereon. Taxes levied for general corporate purposes, when collected, shall be applied first to the payment of tax anticipation warrants or notes and the interest thereon, and then to the reimbursement of the working cash fund. Upon the receipt by the municipal treasurer of any taxes, in anticipation of the collection of which, money in the working cash fund has been so transferred for disbursement, the fund shall be immediately reimbursed therefrom until the full amount so transferred has been retransferred to the fund. (Source: P.A. 85-459.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-6-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-5) Sec. 8-6-5. Money shall be transferred from the working cash fund to the general corporate fund only upon the authority of the corporate authorities who, from time to time by a separate ordinance, shall direct the municipal treasurer to make a transfer of such sums as may be required for the purposes authorized in this Division 6. That ordinance shall set forth (1) the taxes in anticipation of the collection of which the transfer is to be made and from which the working cash fund is to be reimbursed, (2) the entire amount of taxes extended, or which the corporate authorities estimate will be extended, or received, for any particular year in anticipation of the collection of all or part of which the transfer is to be made, (3) the aggregate amount of warrants or notes theretofore issued in anticipation of the collection of these taxes together with the amount of the interest which has accrued and which, the corporate authorities estimate, will accrue thereon, (4) the aggregate amount of receipts from taxes imposed to replace revenue lost by units of local government and school districts as a result of the abolition of ad valorem personal property taxes, pursuant to Article IX, Section 5(c) of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, which the corporate authorities estimate will be set aside for the payment of the proportionate amount of debt service and pension or retirement obligations, as required by Section 12 of "An Act in relation to State Revenue Sharing with local government entities", approved July 31, 1969, as amended, and (5) the aggregate amount of money theretofore transferred from the working cash fund to the general corporate fund in anticipation of the collection of such taxes. The amount which that ordinance shall direct the treasurer so to transfer in anticipation of the collection of taxes levied or to be received for any particular year, together with the aggregate amount of such tax anticipation warrants or notes theretofore drawn against such taxes and the amount of the interest accrued and estimated to accrue thereon, the amount estimated to be required to satisfy debt service and pension or retirement obligations, as set forth in Section 12 of "An Act in relation to State revenue sharing with local government entities", approved July 31, 1969, as amended, and the aggregate amount of such transfers theretofore made in anticipation of the collection of these taxes, shall not exceed 90% of the actual or estimated amount of such taxes extended or to be extended or to be received as set forth in that ordinance. If money is available in the working cash fund, it shall be transferred to the general corporate fund and disbursed for the payment of salaries and other corporate expenses so as to avoid, whenever possible, the issuance of tax anticipation warrants or notes. (Source: P.A. 81-1506.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-6-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-6-6) Sec. 8-6-6. Any person holding an office, trust, or employment under a municipality with a population of more than 500,000, who is guilty of the wilful violation of any of the provisions of this Division 6 shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not exceeding $10,000, and shall forfeit his right to his office, trust, or employment and shall be removed therefrom. Any such person shall be liable for any sum that he unlawfully diverted from the specified working cash fund, or otherwise used, and that sum may be recovered by the municipality, or by any taxpayer in the name and for the benefit of the municipality, in a civil action. Such a taxpayer, however, shall file a bond for all costs and shall be liable for all costs taxed against the municipality in such a suit, and judgment shall be rendered accordingly. But nothing in this Section shall bar other remedies. (Source: P.A. 79-1361.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 7 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-7-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-7-1) Sec. 8-7-1. In each municipality with less than 500,000 inhabitants, a fund to be known as a working cash fund may be created, set apart, maintained, and administered in the manner prescribed in this Division 7 for the purpose of enabling the municipality to have in its treasury at all times sufficient money to meet demands thereon for ordinary and necessary expenditures for all general and special corporate purposes. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-7-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-7-2) Sec. 8-7-2. For the purpose of creating such a working cash fund, the corporate authorities may incur an indebtedness and issue bonds therefor in an amount or amounts not exceeding in the aggregate $700,000. These 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 corporate authorities may provide that the ordinance authorizing the issue of these bonds shall be operative and valid without the submission thereof to the electors of the municipality for approval in accordance with the requirements of Sections 8-4-1 and 8-4-2 and the requirements of the Bond Issue Notification Act. The corporate authorities, before or at the time of issuing these bonds, shall provide for the collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property in the issuing municipality, sufficient to pay and discharge the principal thereof at maturity and to pay the interest thereon as it falls due. The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, 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 that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 89-655, eff. 1-1-97.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-7-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-7-3) Sec. 8-7-3. For the purpose of providing money for such a working cash fund, the corporate authorities shall also have power to levy, annually, upon all the taxable property in the municipality, a tax of not to exceed .05% upon the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue for the year in which each such levy is made. The collection of this tax shall not be anticipated by the issuance of any warrants drawn against the tax. This tax shall be levied and collected, except as otherwise provided in this Section, in like manner as are the general taxes of the collecting municipality. It shall be known as the working cash fund tax and shall be in addition to the maximum of all other taxes which that municipality is now, or may be hereafter, authorized by law to levy upon the taxable property within the municipality. This tax may be levied by a separate ordinance on or before the second Tuesday in September in each year, for the purpose specified in this Section, without any appropriation thereof being made in the annual or supplemental appropriation ordinance. No tax shall be levied under this Section if the municipality has previously issued the maximum amount of bonds permitted under Section 8-7-2. The foregoing limitation upon tax rate may be increased or decreased according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-7-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-7-4) Sec. 8-7-4. All money received from the issuance of bonds as authorized in Section 8-7-2, or from any tax levied pursuant to the authority granted by Section 8-7-3, shall be set apart in the working cash fund by the municipal treasurer and shall be used only for the purposes and in the manner provided in this section. The fund and the money therein shall not be regarded as current assets available for appropriation and shall not be appropriated by the corporate authorities in the annual appropriation ordinance. The corporate authorities may appropriate moneys to the working cash fund up to the maximum amount allowable in the fund, and the working cash fund may receive such appropriations and any other contributions. In order to provide money with which to meet ordinary and necessary disbursements for salaries and other general and special corporate purposes, the fund may be transferred in whole or in part to the general or special corporate funds of the municipality, and so disbursed therefrom in anticipation of the collection of any taxes lawfully levied for general or special corporate purposes or, in anticipation of such taxes, as by law now or hereafter enacted or amended, imposed by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois to replace revenue lost by units of local government and school districts as a result of the abolition of ad valorem personal property taxes, pursuant to Article IX, Section 5(c) of the Constitution of the State of Illinois. Money so transferred to the general or special corporate funds shall be deemed to have been transferred in anticipation of the collection of that part of the taxes so levied or to be received which is in excess of the amount required to pay any tax anticipation warrants, and the interest thereon. Taxes levied for general or special corporate purposes, when collected shall be applied first to the payment of tax anticipation warrants or notes and the interest thereon, and then to the reimbursement of the working cash fund. Upon the receipt by the municipal treasurer of any taxes, in anticipation of the collection of which money in the working cash fund has been so transferred for disbursement, the fund shall be immediately reimbursed therefrom until the full amount so transferred has been retransferred to the fund. Unless the taxes so received and applied to the reimbursement of the working cash fund, prior to the first day of the eighth month following the month in which due and unpaid real property taxes by law begin to bear interest, are sufficient to effect a complete reimbursement of the fund for any money transferred therefrom in anticipation of the collection of taxes, the working cash fund shall be reimbursed for the amount of the deficiency therein from any other revenues accruing to the general corporate fund, and the corporate authorities shall provide for the immediate reimbursement of the amount of such a deficiency in its next annual appropriation ordinance. Any municipality holding in its working cash fund money not immediately necessary for the purposes set forth in this Section may, by ordinance, use such money to invest in its own bonds issued by the municipality which represent the obligation of such municipality, or, may use such money to invest in bonds and other interest bearing obligations of the State of Illinois, or securities authorized for investment in "An Act relating to certain investments of public funds by public agencies," approved July 23, 1943, as heretofore or hereafter amended; provided, however, that no investment authorized by this Section 8-7-4 shall be made in bonds or interest bearing obligations which are in default or in bonds or interest bearing obligations for which accrued interest is due. All money realized by the municipality from the sale or redemption of the securities authorized for investment under this Section shall be placed in the working cash fund. Interest on the investments may also be placed in such fund, or, if so provided in the ordinance authorizing such investments, may be transferred in whole or in part to the general or special corporate funds of the municipality. (Source: P.A. 85-459.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-7-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-7-5) Sec. 8-7-5. Money shall be transferred from the working cash fund to the general corporate or special funds only upon the authority of the corporate authorities, who from time to time by a separate ordinance shall direct the municipal treasurer to make a transfer of such sums as may be required for the purposes authorized in this Division 7. That ordinance shall set forth (1) the taxes in anticipation of the collection of which the transfer is to be made and from which the working cash fund is to be reimbursed, (2) the entire amount of taxes extended, or which the corporate authorities estimate will be extended or received for any particular year in anticipation of the collection of all or part of which the transfer is to be made, (3) the aggregate amount of warrants or notes theretofore issued in anticipation of the collection of these taxes together with the amount of interest which has accrued, and which, the corporate authorities estimate, will accrue thereon, (4) the aggregate amount of receipts from taxes imposed to replace revenue lost by units of local government and school districts as a result of the abolition of ad valorem personal property taxes, pursuant to Article IX, Section 5(c) of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, which the corporate authorities estimate will be set aside for the payment of the proportionate amount of debt service and pension or retirement obligations, as required by Section 12 of "An Act in relation to State Revenue Sharing with local government entities", approved July 31, 1969, as amended, and (5) the aggregate amount of money theretofore transferred from the working cash fund to such general or special corporate fund in anticipation of the collection of such taxes. The amount which that ordinance shall direct the treasurer so to transfer in anticipation of the collection of taxes levied or to be received for any particular year, together with the aggregate amount of such tax anticipation warrants or notes theretofore drawn against such taxes and the amount of the interest, accrued and estimated to accrue thereon, the amount estimated to be required to satisfy debt service and pension or retirement obligations, as set forth in Section 12 of "An Act in relation to State revenue sharing with local government entities", approved July 31, 1969, as amended, and the aggregate amount of such transfers theretofore made in anticipation of the collection of these taxes, shall not exceed 90% of the actual or estimated amount of such taxes extended or to be extended or to be received as set forth in that ordinance. If money is available in the working cash fund, it shall be transferred to such general or special corporate fund and disbursed for the payment of salaries and other corporate expenses so as to avoid, whenever possible, the issuance of tax anticipation warrants or notes. (Source: P.A. 81-1506.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-7-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-7-6) Sec. 8-7-6. Any person holding an office, trust, or employment under a municipality with less than 500,000 inhabitants, who is guilty of the wilful violation of any of the provisions of this Division 7 shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not exceeding $10,000, and shall forfeit his right to his office, trust, or employment, and shall be removed therefrom. Any such person shall be liable for any sum that he unlawfully diverted from the specified working cash fund, or otherwise used, and that sum may be recovered by the municipality, or by any taxpayer in the name and for the benefit of the municipality in a civil action. Such a taxpayer, however, shall file a bond for all costs and shall be liable for all costs taxed against the municipality in such a suit, and judgment shall be rendered accordingly. But nothing in this section shall bar other remedies. (Source: P.A. 79-1361.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-7-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-7-7) Sec. 8-7-7. Abolishment of working cash fund. (a) The corporate authority of any municipality may abolish its working cash fund by resolution and may transfer any balance remaining in the fund, including any interest that may have accrued, to the general corporate fund at the end of the fiscal year. (b) A municipality that has abolished its working cash fund may not establish another working cash fund under this Division 7 for 4 years after the date the fund was abolished. Any general obligation bonds that were previously issued for working cash purposes must be retired before a municipality may establish another working cash fund. (Source: P.A. 87-982.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 8 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-8-1) Sec. 8-8-1. This Division 8 may be cited as The Illinois Municipal Auditing Law. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-8-2) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-2. The following terms shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, have the following meanings: (1) "Municipality" or "municipalities" means all cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of less than 500,000 as determined by the last preceding Federal census. (2) "Corporate authorities" means a city council, village board of trustees, library board, police and firemen's pension board, or any other body or officers having authority to levy taxes, make appropriations, or approve claims for any municipality. (3) "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the State of Illinois. (4) "Accountant" or "accountants" means all persons licensed to practice public accounting under the laws of this State. (5) "Audit report" means the written report of the accountant or accountants and all appended statements and schedules relating thereto, presenting or recording the findings of an examination or audit of the financial transactions, affairs, or condition of a municipality. (6) "Annual report" means the statement filed, in lieu of an audit report, by the municipalities of less than 800 population, which do not own or operate public utilities and do not have bonded debt. (7) "Supplemental report" means the annual statement filed, in addition to any audit report provided for herein, by all municipalities, except municipalities of less than 800 population which do not own or operate public utilities and do not have bonded debt. (8) "Auditor" means a licensed certified public accountant, as that term is defined in Section 0.03 of the Illinois Public Accounting Act, who performs an audit of municipal financial statements and records and expresses an assurance or disclaims an opinion on the audited financial statements.(Source: P.A. 100-837, eff. 8-13-18.) (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-2. The following terms shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, have the following meanings: (1) "Municipality" or "municipalities" means all cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of less than 500,000 as determined by the last preceding Federal census. (2) "Corporate authorities" means a city council, village board of trustees, library board, police and firemen's pension board, or any other body or officers having authority to levy taxes, make appropriations, or approve claims for any municipality. (3) "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the State of Illinois. (4) (Blank). (5) "Audit report" means the written report of the auditor or auditors and all appended statements and schedules relating thereto, presenting or recording the findings of an examination or audit of the financial transactions, affairs, or condition of a municipality. (6) "Annual report" means the statement filed, in lieu of an audit report, by the municipalities of less than 800 population, which do not own or operate public utilities and do not have bonded debt. (7) "Supplemental report" means the annual statement filed, in addition to any audit report provided for herein, by all municipalities, except municipalities of less than 800 population which do not own or operate public utilities and do not have bonded debt. (8) "Auditor" means a licensed certified public accountant, as that term is defined in Section 0.03 of the Illinois Public Accounting Act, or the substantial equivalent of a licensed CPA, as provided under Section 5.2 of the Illinois Public Accounting Act, who performs an audit of municipal financial statements and records and expresses an assurance or disclaims an opinion on the audited financial statements.(9) "Generally accepted accounting principles" means accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. (10) "Generally accepted auditing standards" means auditing standards generally accepted in the United States. (Source: P.A. 100-837, eff. 8-13-18; 101-419, eff. 1-1-20.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-8-3)(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-419)Sec. 8-8-3. Audit requirements. (a) The corporate authorities of each municipality coming under the provisions of this Division 8 shall cause an audit of the funds and accounts of the municipality to be made by an accountant or accountants employed by such municipality or by an accountant or accountants retained by the Comptroller, as hereinafter provided.(b) The accounts and funds of each municipality having a population of 800 or more or having a bonded debt or owning or operating any type of public utility shall be audited annually. The audit herein required shall include all of the accounts and funds of the municipality. Such audit shall be begun as soon as possible after the close of the fiscal year, and shall be completed and the report submitted within 180 days after the close of such fiscal year, unless an extension of time shall be granted by the Comptroller in writing. The accountant or accountants making the audit shall submit not less than 2 copies of the audit report to the corporate authorities of the municipality being audited. Municipalities not operating utilities may cause audits of the accounts of municipalities to be made more often than herein provided, by an accountant or accountants. The audit report of such audit when filed with the Comptroller together with an audit report covering the remainder of the period for which an audit is required to be filed hereunder shall satisfy the requirements of this section.(c) Municipalities of less than 800 population which do not own or operate public utilities and do not have bonded debt, shall file annually with the Comptroller a financial report containing information required by the Comptroller. Such annual financial report shall be on forms devised by the Comptroller in such manner as to not require professional accounting services for its preparation.(d) In addition to any audit report required, all municipalities, except municipalities of less than 800 population which do not own or operate public utilities and do not have bonded debt, shall file annually with the Comptroller a supplemental report on forms devised and approved by the Comptroller.(e) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if a municipality (i) has a population of less than 200, (ii) has bonded debt in the amount of $50,000 or less, and (iii) owns or operates a public utility, then the municipality shall cause an audit of the funds and accounts of the municipality to be made by an accountant employed by the municipality or retained by the Comptroller for fiscal year 2011 and every fourth fiscal year thereafter or until the municipality has a population of 200 or more, has bonded debt in excess of $50,000, or no longer owns or operates a public utility. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as limiting the municipality's duty to file an annual financial report with the Comptroller or to comply with the filing requirements concerning the county clerk. (f) All audits and reports to be filed with the Comptroller under this Section must be submitted electronically and the Comptroller must post the audits and reports on the Internet no later than 45 days after they are received. If the municipality provides the Comptroller's Office with sufficient evidence that the audit or report cannot be filed electronically, the Comptroller may waive this requirement. The Comptroller must also post a list of municipalities that are not in compliance with the reporting requirements set forth in this Section. (g) Subsection (f) of this Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule municipalities of powers and functions exercised by the State. (h) Any financial report under this Section shall include the name of the purchasing agent who oversees all competitively bid contracts. If there is no purchasing agent, the name of the person responsible for oversight of all competitively bid contracts shall be listed.(Source: P.A. 99-459, eff. 8-25-15.) (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-419)Sec. 8-8-3. Audit requirements. (a) The corporate authorities of each municipality coming under the provisions of this Division 8 shall cause an audit of the funds and accounts of the municipality to be made by an auditor or auditors employed by such municipality or by an auditor or auditors retained by the Comptroller, as hereinafter provided.(b) The accounts and funds of each municipality having a population of 800 or more or having a bonded debt or owning or operating any type of public utility shall be audited annually. The audit herein required shall include all of the accounts and funds of the municipality. Such audit shall be begun as soon as possible after the close of the fiscal year, and shall be completed and the report submitted within 180 days after the close of such fiscal year, unless an extension of time shall be granted by the Comptroller in writing. The auditor or auditors perform the audit shall submit not less than 2 copies of the audit report to the corporate authorities of the municipality being audited. Municipalities not operating utilities may cause audits of the accounts of municipalities to be made more often than herein provided, by an auditor or auditors. The audit report of such audit when filed with the Comptroller together with an audit report covering the remainder of the period for which an audit is required to be filed hereunder shall satisfy the requirements of this section.(c) Municipalities of less than 800 population which do not own or operate public utilities and do not have bonded debt, shall file annually with the Comptroller a financial report containing information required by the Comptroller. Such annual financial report shall be on forms devised by the Comptroller in such manner as to not require professional accounting services for its preparation.(d) In addition to any audit report required, all municipalities, except municipalities of less than 800 population which do not own or operate public utilities and do not have bonded debt, shall file annually with the Comptroller a supplemental report on forms devised and approved by the Comptroller.(e) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if a municipality (i) has a population of less than 200, (ii) has bonded debt in the amount of $50,000 or less, and (iii) owns or operates a public utility, then the municipality shall cause an audit of the funds and accounts of the municipality to be performed by an auditor employed by the municipality or retained by the Comptroller for fiscal year 2011 and every fourth fiscal year thereafter or until the municipality has a population of 200 or more, has bonded debt in excess of $50,000, or no longer owns or operates a public utility. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as limiting the municipality's duty to file an annual financial report with the Comptroller or to comply with the filing requirements concerning the county clerk. (f) All audits and reports to be filed with the Comptroller under this Section must be submitted electronically and the Comptroller must post the audits and reports on the Internet no later than 45 days after they are received. If the municipality provides the Comptroller's Office with sufficient evidence that the audit or report cannot be filed electronically, the Comptroller may waive this requirement. The Comptroller must also post a list of municipalities that are not in compliance with the reporting requirements set forth in this Section. (g) Subsection (f) of this Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule municipalities of powers and functions exercised by the State. (h) Any financial report under this Section shall include the name of the purchasing agent who oversees all competitively bid contracts. If there is no purchasing agent, the name of the person responsible for oversight of all competitively bid contracts shall be listed.(Source: P.A. 101-419, eff. 1-1-20.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-3.5) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-3.5. Tax Increment Financing Report. The reports filed under subsection (d) of Section 11-74.4-5 of the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act and the reports filed under subsection (d) of Section 11-74.6-22 of the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law in the Illinois Municipal Code must be separate from any other annual report filed with the Comptroller. The Comptroller must, in cooperation with reporting municipalities, create a format for the reporting of information described in paragraphs (1.5) and (5) and in subparagraph (G) of paragraph (7) of subsection (d) of Section 11-74.4-5 of the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act and the information described in paragraphs (1.5) and (5) and in subparagraph (G) of paragraph (7) of subsection (d) of Section 11-74.6-22 of the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law that facilitates consistent reporting among the reporting municipalities. The Comptroller may allow these reports to be filed electronically and may display the report, or portions of the report, electronically via the Internet. All reports filed under this Section must be made available for examination and copying by the public at all reasonable times. A Tax Increment Financing Report must be filed electronically with the Comptroller within 180 days after the close of the municipal fiscal year or as soon thereafter as the audit for the redevelopment project area for that fiscal year becomes available. If the Tax Increment Finance administrator provides the Comptroller's office with sufficient evidence that the report is in the process of being completed by an auditor, the Comptroller may grant an extension. If the required report is not filed within the time extended by the Comptroller, the Comptroller shall notify the corporate authorities of that municipality that the audit report is past due. The Comptroller may charge a municipality a fee of $5 per day for the first 15 days past due, $10 per day for 16 through 30 days past due, $15 per day for 31 through 45 days past due, and $20 per day for the 46th day and every day thereafter. These amounts may be reduced at the Comptroller's discretion. In the event the required audit report is not filed within 60 days of such notice, the Comptroller shall cause such audit to be made by an accountant or accountants. The Comptroller may decline to order an audit and the preparation of an audit report if an initial examination of the books and records of the municipality indicates that books and records of the municipality are inadequate or unavailable to support the preparation of the audit report or the supplemental report due to the passage of time or the occurrence of a natural disaster. All fees collected pursuant to this Section shall be deposited into the Comptroller's Administrative Fund. In the event the Comptroller causes an audit to be made in accordance with the requirements of this Section, the municipality shall pay to the Comptroller reasonable compensation and expenses to reimburse her for the cost of preparing or completing such report. Moneys paid to the Comptroller pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be deposited into the Comptroller's Audit Expense Revolving Fund. (Source: P.A. 98-497, eff. 8-16-13; 98-922, eff. 8-15-14.) (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-3.5. Tax Increment Financing Report. The reports filed under subsection (d) of Section 11-74.4-5 of the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act and the reports filed under subsection (d) of Section 11-74.6-22 of the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law in the Illinois Municipal Code must be separate from any other annual report filed with the Comptroller. The Comptroller must, in cooperation with reporting municipalities, create a format for the reporting of information described in paragraphs (1.5) and (5) and in subparagraph (G) of paragraph (7) of subsection (d) of Section 11-74.4-5 of the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act and the information described in paragraphs (1.5) and (5) and in subparagraph (G) of paragraph (7) of subsection (d) of Section 11-74.6-22 of the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law that facilitates consistent reporting among the reporting municipalities. The Comptroller may allow these reports to be filed electronically and may display the report, or portions of the report, electronically via the Internet. All reports filed under this Section must be made available for examination and copying by the public at all reasonable times. A Tax Increment Financing Report must be filed electronically with the Comptroller within 180 days after the close of the municipal fiscal year or as soon thereafter as the audit for the redevelopment project area for that fiscal year becomes available. If the Tax Increment Finance administrator provides the Comptroller's office with sufficient evidence that the report is in the process of being completed by an auditor, the Comptroller may grant an extension. If the required report is not filed within the time extended by the Comptroller, the Comptroller shall notify the corporate authorities of that municipality that the audit report is past due. The Comptroller may charge a municipality a fee of $5 per day for the first 15 days past due, $10 per day for 16 through 30 days past due, $15 per day for 31 through 45 days past due, and $20 per day for the 46th day and every day thereafter. These amounts may be reduced at the Comptroller's discretion. In the event the required audit report is not filed within 60 days of such notice, the Comptroller shall cause such audit to be made by an auditor or auditors. The Comptroller may decline to order an audit and the preparation of an audit report if an initial examination of the books and records of the municipality indicates that books and records of the municipality are inadequate or unavailable to support the preparation of the audit report or the supplemental report due to the passage of time or the occurrence of a natural disaster. All fees collected pursuant to this Section shall be deposited into the Comptroller's Administrative Fund. In the event the Comptroller causes an audit to be made in accordance with the requirements of this Section, the municipality shall pay to the Comptroller reasonable compensation and expenses to reimburse her for the cost of preparing or completing such report. Moneys paid to the Comptroller pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be deposited into the Comptroller's Audit Expense Revolving Fund. (Source: P.A. 101-419, eff. 1-1-20.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-8-4) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-4. Overdue reports. (a) In the event the required audit report for a municipality is not filed with the Comptroller in accordance with Section 8-8-7 within 180 days after the close of the fiscal year of the municipality, the Comptroller shall notify the corporate authorities of that municipality in writing that the audit report is due, and may also grant an extension of time of 60 days, for the filing of the audit report. In the event the required audit report is not filed within the time specified in such written notice, the Comptroller shall cause such audit to be made by an accountant or accountants. In the event the required annual or supplemental report for a municipality is not filed within 6 months after the close of the fiscal year of the municipality, the Comptroller shall notify the corporate authorities of that municipality in writing that the annual or supplemental report is due and may grant an extension in time of 60 days for the filing of such annual or supplemental report. (b) In the event the annual or supplemental report is not filed within the time extended by the Comptroller, the Comptroller shall cause such annual or supplemental report to be prepared or completed and the municipality shall pay to the Comptroller reasonable compensation and expenses to reimburse him for the cost of preparing or completing such annual or supplemental report. Moneys paid to the Comptroller pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be deposited into the Comptroller's Audit Expense Revolving Fund. (c) The Comptroller may decline to order an audit or the completion of the supplemental report if an initial examination of the books and records of the municipality indicates that books and records of the municipality are inadequate or unavailable to support the preparation of the audit report or the supplemental report due to the passage of time or the occurrence of a natural disaster. (d) The State Comptroller may grant extensions for delinquent audits or reports. The Comptroller may charge a municipality a fee for a delinquent audit or report of $5 per day for the first 15 days past due, $10 per day for 16 through 30 days past due, $15 per day for 31 through 45 days past due, and $20 per day for the 46th day and every day thereafter. These amounts may be reduced at the Comptroller's discretion. All fees collected under this subsection (d) shall be deposited into the Comptroller's Administrative Fund. (Source: P.A. 98-922, eff. 8-15-14; 99-459, eff. 8-25-15.) (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-4. Overdue reports. (a) In the event the required audit report for a municipality is not filed with the Comptroller in accordance with Section 8-8-7 within 180 days after the close of the fiscal year of the municipality, the Comptroller shall notify the corporate authorities of that municipality in writing that the audit report is due, and may also grant an extension of time of 60 days, for the filing of the audit report. In the event the required audit report is not filed within the time specified in such written notice, the Comptroller shall cause such audit to be made by an auditor or auditors. In the event the required annual or supplemental report for a municipality is not filed within 6 months after the close of the fiscal year of the municipality, the Comptroller shall notify the corporate authorities of that municipality in writing that the annual or supplemental report is due and may grant an extension in time of 60 days for the filing of such annual or supplemental report. (b) In the event the annual or supplemental report is not filed within the time extended by the Comptroller, the Comptroller shall cause such annual or supplemental report to be prepared or completed and the municipality shall pay to the Comptroller reasonable compensation and expenses to reimburse him for the cost of preparing or completing such annual or supplemental report. Moneys paid to the Comptroller pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be deposited into the Comptroller's Audit Expense Revolving Fund. (c) The Comptroller may decline to order an audit or the completion of the supplemental report if an initial examination of the books and records of the municipality indicates that books and records of the municipality are inadequate or unavailable to support the preparation of the audit report or the supplemental report due to the passage of time or the occurrence of a natural disaster. (d) The State Comptroller may grant extensions for delinquent audits or reports. The Comptroller may charge a municipality a fee for a delinquent audit or report of $5 per day for the first 15 days past due, $10 per day for 16 through 30 days past due, $15 per day for 31 through 45 days past due, and $20 per day for the 46th day and every day thereafter. These amounts may be reduced at the Comptroller's discretion. All fees collected under this subsection (d) shall be deposited into the Comptroller's Administrative Fund. (Source: P.A. 101-419, eff. 1-1-20.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-8-5) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-5. (a) Prior to fiscal year 2019, the audit shall be made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Reporting on the financial position and results of financial operations for each fund of the municipality shall be in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or other comprehensive basis of accounting. Each audit report shall include only financial information, findings, and conclusions that are adequately supported by evidence in the auditor's working papers to demonstrate or prove, when called upon, the basis for the matters reported and their correctness and reasonableness. In connection with this, each municipality shall retain the right of inspection of the auditor's working papers and shall make them available to the Comptroller, or his or her designee, upon request. The audit report shall consist of the professional opinion of the auditor or auditors with respect to the financial statements or, if an opinion cannot be expressed, a declaration that the auditor is unable to express such opinion and an explanation of the reasons he or she cannot do so. Municipal authorities shall not impose limitations on the scope of the audit to the extent that the effect of such limitations will result in the qualification of the opinion of the auditor or auditors. Each audit report filed with the Comptroller shall be accompanied by a copy of each official statement or other offering of materials prepared in connection with the issuance of indebtedness of the municipality since the filing of the last audit report. (b) For fiscal year 2019 and each fiscal year thereafter, the audit shall be made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Each audit report shall include only financial information, findings, and conclusions that are adequately supported by evidence in the auditor's working papers to demonstrate or prove, when called upon, the basis for the matters reported and their correctness and reasonableness. In connection with this, each municipality shall retain the right of inspection of the auditor's working papers and shall make them available to the Comptroller, or his or her designee, upon request. The audit report shall also consist of the professional opinion of an auditor or auditors with respect to the financial statements or, if an opinion cannot be expressed, a declaration that the auditor is unable to express an opinion and an explanation of the reasons he or she cannot do so. Municipal authorities shall not impose limitations on the scope of the audit to the extent that the effect of the limitations will result in the qualification of the opinion of the auditor or auditors. Each audit report filed with the Comptroller shall be accompanied by a copy of each official statement or other offering of materials prepared in connection with the issuance of indebtedness of the municipality since the filing of the last audit report.(c) For fiscal year 2019 and each fiscal year thereafter, audit reports shall contain financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and audited in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards if the last audit report filed preceding fiscal year 2019 expressed an unmodified or modified opinion by the independent auditor that the financial statements were presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. (d) For fiscal year 2019 and each fiscal year thereafter, audit reports containing financial statements prepared in accordance with an other comprehensive basis of accounting may follow the best practices and guidelines outlined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and shall be audited in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. If the corporate authority of a municipality submits an audit report containing financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, thereafter all future audit reports shall also contain financial statements presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.(e) Audits may be made on financial statements prepared using either an accrual or cash basis of accounting, depending upon the system followed by the municipality, and audit reports shall comply with this Section.(Source: P.A. 100-837, eff. 8-13-18.) (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-5. (a) Prior to fiscal year 2019, the audit shall be made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Reporting on the financial position and results of financial operations for each fund of the municipality shall be in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or other comprehensive basis of accounting. Each audit report shall include only financial information, findings, and conclusions that are adequately supported by evidence in the auditor's working papers to demonstrate or prove, when called upon, the basis for the matters reported and their correctness and reasonableness. In connection with this, each municipality shall retain the right of inspection of the auditor's working papers and shall make them available to the Comptroller, or his or her designee, upon request. The audit report shall consist of the professional opinion of the auditor or auditors with respect to the financial statements or, if an opinion cannot be expressed, a declaration that the auditor is unable to express such opinion and an explanation of the reasons he or she cannot do so. Municipal authorities shall not impose limitations on the scope of the audit to the extent that the effect of such limitations will result in the qualification of the opinion of the auditor or auditors. Each audit report filed with the Comptroller shall be accompanied by a copy of each official statement or other offering of materials prepared in connection with the issuance of indebtedness of the municipality since the filing of the last audit report. (b) For fiscal year 2019 and each fiscal year thereafter, the audit report shall include the financial statements for governmental activities, business-type activities, discretely presented component units, and each major fund and aggregated nonmajor fund. The audit report shall also include the professional opinion or opinions of the auditor or auditors with respect to the financial statements or, if an opinion cannot be expressed, a declaration that the auditor is unable to express an opinion and an explanation of the reasons he or she cannot do so. Each auditor's report shall include a representation by the auditor or auditors conducting the audit has been performed in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Municipal authorities shall not impose limitations on the scope of the audit to the extent that the effect of the limitations will result in the modification of the opinion or opinions of the auditor or auditors. Each audit report filed with the Comptroller shall be accompanied by a copy of each official statement or other offering of materials prepared in connection with the issuance of indebtedness of the municipality since the filing of the last audit report.(c) For fiscal year 2019 and each fiscal year thereafter, audit reports shall contain financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and audited in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards if the last audit report filed preceding fiscal year 2019 expressed an unmodified or modified opinion by the auditor that the financial statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. (d) For fiscal year 2019 and each fiscal year thereafter, audit reports containing financial statements prepared in accordance with an other comprehensive basis of accounting may follow the best practices and guidelines outlined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and shall be audited in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. If the corporate authority of a municipality submits an audit report containing financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, thereafter all future audit reports shall also contain financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.(e) Audits may be made on financial statements prepared using either an accrual or cash basis of accounting, depending upon the system followed by the municipality, and audit reports shall comply with this Section.(Source: P.A. 100-837, eff. 8-13-18; 101-419, eff. 1-1-20.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-8-7) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-7. When the accountant or accountants have completed the audit, not less than 2 copies of a report of the audit shall be made and signed by the accountant making such audit, and shall immediately be filed with the municipality audited. Each audit report shall include the certification of the accountant or accountants making the audit that the audit has been performed in compliance with generally accepted auditing standards. The municipality shall immediately make one copy of the report, or one copy of the report authorized by this Division 8 in lieu of an audit report, a part of its public records and at all times thereafter this copy shall be open to public inspection. In addition, the municipality shall file one copy of the report with the Comptroller. An audit report which fails to meet the requirements of this Act shall be rejected by the Comptroller and returned to the municipal authorities for corrective action. Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing a municipality, in filing its audit report with the Comptroller, from transmitting with such report any comment or explanation that it may desire to make concerning that report. The audit report filed with the Comptroller, together with any accompanying comment or explanation, shall immediately become a part of his public records and shall at all times thereafter be open to public inspection. It shall be unlawful for the accountant to make any disclosure of the result of any examination of any public account excepting as he does so directly to the corporate authorities of the municipality audited. (Source: P.A. 85-1000.) (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-7. When the auditor or auditors have completed the audit, not less than 2 copies of a report of the audit shall be made and signed by the making such audit, and shall immediately be filed with the municipality audited. Each audit report shall include the certification of the auditor or auditors making the audit that the audit has been performed in compliance with generally accepted auditing standards. The municipality shall immediately make one copy of the report, or one copy of the report authorized by this Division 8 in lieu of an audit report, a part of its public records and at all times thereafter this copy shall be open to public inspection. In addition, the municipality shall file one copy of the report with the Comptroller. An audit report which fails to meet the requirements of this Act shall be rejected by the Comptroller and returned to the municipal authorities for corrective action. Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing a municipality, in filing its audit report with the Comptroller, from transmitting with such report any comment or explanation that it may desire to make concerning that report. The audit report filed with the Comptroller, together with any accompanying comment or explanation, shall immediately become a part of his public records and shall at all times thereafter be open to public inspection. It shall be unlawful for the auditor to make any disclosure of the result of any examination of any public account excepting as he does so directly to the corporate authorities of the municipality audited. (Source: P.A. 101-419, eff. 1-1-20.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-8-8) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-8. The expenses of the audit and investigation of public accounts provided for in Division 8, whether ordered by the corporate authorities or the Comptroller, shall be paid by the municipality for which the audit is made. Payment shall be ordered by the corporate authorities out of the funds of the municipality and it shall be the duty of such authorities to make provisions for payment. Contracts for the performance of audits required by this Division 8 may be entered into without competitive bidding. If the audit is made by an accountant or accountants retained by the Comptroller, the municipality shall pay to the Comptroller reasonable compensation and expenses to reimburse him for the cost of making such audit. The corporate authorities of all municipalities coming under the provisions of this Division 8 shall have the power to annually levy a "Municipal Auditing Tax" upon all of the taxable property of the municipalities at the rate on the dollar which will produce an amount which will equal a sum sufficient to meet the cost of all auditing and reports thereunder. Such municipal auditing tax shall be held in a special fund and used for no other purpose than the payment of expenses occasioned by this Division 8. The tax authorized by this Section shall be in addition to taxes for general corporate purposes authorized under Section 8-3-1 of this Act. (Source: P.A. 81-824.) (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-419) Sec. 8-8-8. The expenses of the audit and investigation of public accounts provided for in Division 8, whether ordered by the corporate authorities or the Comptroller, shall be paid by the municipality for which the audit is made. Payment shall be ordered by the corporate authorities out of the funds of the municipality and it shall be the duty of such authorities to make provisions for payment. Contracts for the performance of audits required by this Division 8 may be entered into without competitive bidding. If the audit is made by an auditor or auditors retained by the Comptroller, the municipality shall pay to the Comptroller reasonable compensation and expenses to reimburse him for the cost of making such audit. The corporate authorities of all municipalities coming under the provisions of this Division 8 shall have the power to annually levy a "Municipal Auditing Tax" upon all of the taxable property of the municipalities at the rate on the dollar which will produce an amount which will equal a sum sufficient to meet the cost of all auditing and reports thereunder. Such municipal auditing tax shall be held in a special fund and used for no other purpose than the payment of expenses occasioned by this Division 8. The tax authorized by this Section shall be in addition to taxes for general corporate purposes authorized under Section 8-3-1 of this Act. (Source: P.A. 101-419, eff. 1-1-20.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-8-9) Sec. 8-8-9. The provisions of the Division 8 shall not be construed to relieve any officer of any duties now required by law of him with relation to the auditing of public accounts or the disbursement of public funds. Failure of the corporate authorities of any municipality to comply with any of the provisions of this Division 8 shall not affect the legality of taxes levied for any of the funds of such municipality. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, any municipality which files audits or audit reports with the Comptroller in compliance with this Act shall not be required to file any additional audits or audit reports with any state governmental agency providing motor fuel tax funds to such municipality. Any such state governmental agency may obtain copies of all audits and audit reports from the Comptroller. (Source: P.A. 80-423.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-8-10) Sec. 8-8-10. The corporate authorities of a municipality may establish an audit committee, and may appoint members of the corporate authority or other appropriate officers to the committee, to review audit reports prepared under this Act and any other financial reports and documents, including management letters prepared by or on behalf of the municipality. (Source: P.A. 82-644.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-8-10.5) Sec. 8-8-10.5. Audit report disclosure. Each fiscal year, within 60 days of the close of an audit under this Act, the auditor conducting the audit of all of the funds and accounts of a municipality shall do each of the following: (1) Provide a copy of any management letter and a

copy of any audited financial statements to each member of the municipality's corporate authorities. If the municipality maintains an Internet website, the corporate authorities shall post this information to its website.

(2) Present the information from the audit to the

municipality's corporate authorities either in person or by a live phone or web connection during a public meeting.

(Source: P.A. 98-738, eff. 1-1-15.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 9 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-9-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-9-1) Sec. 8-9-1. In municipalities of less than 500,000 except as otherwise provided in Articles 4 and 5 any work or other public improvement which is not to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessment or special taxation, when the expense thereof will exceed $25,000, shall be constructed either (1) by a contract let to the lowest responsible bidder after advertising for bids, in the manner prescribed by ordinance, except that any such contract may be entered into by the proper officers without advertising for bids, if authorized by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen or trustees then holding office; or (2) in the following manner, if authorized by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen or trustees then holding office, to-wit: the commissioner of public works or other proper officers to be designated by ordinance, shall superintend and cause to be carried out the construction of the work or other public improvement and shall employ exclusively for the performance of all manual labor thereon, laborers and artisans whom the municipality shall pay by the day or hour; and all material of the value of $25,000 and upward used in the construction of the work or other public improvement, shall be purchased by contract let to the lowest responsible bidder in the manner to be prescribed by ordinance. However, nothing contained in this section shall apply to any contract by a city, village or incorporated town with the federal government or any agency thereof. In every city which has adopted Division 1 of Article 10, every such laborer or artisan shall be certified by the civil service commission to the commissioner of public works or other proper officers, in accordance with the requirement of that division. In municipalities of 500,000 or more population the letting of contracts for work or other public improvements of the character described in this section shall be governed by the provisions of Division 10 of this Article 8. (Source: P.A. 100-338, eff. 8-25-17.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-9-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-9-2) Sec. 8-9-2. (a) In municipalities of less than 500,000 population, the corporate authorities may provide by ordinance that all supplies needed for use of the municipality shall be furnished by contract, let to the lowest bidder. In municipalities of more than 500,000 population the provisions of Division 10 of this Article 8 shall apply to and govern the purchase of supplies. The provisions of this Section are subject to any contrary provisions contained in "An Act concerning the use of Illinois mined coal in certain plants and institutions", filed July 13, 1937, as heretofore and hereafter amended. (b) The corporate authorities of a municipality may by ordinance provide that contracts to provide goods and services to the municipality contain a provision requiring the contractor and its affiliates to collect and remit Illinois Use Tax on all sales of tangible personal property into the State of Illinois in accordance with the provisions of the Illinois Use Tax Act, and municipal use tax on all sales of tangible personal property into the municipality in accordance with a municipal ordinance authorized by Section 8-11-6 or 8-11-1.5, during the term of the contract or for some other specified period, regardless of whether the contractor or affiliate is a "retailer maintaining a place of business within this State" as defined in Section 2 of the Use Tax Act. The provision may state that if the requirement is not met, the contract may be terminated by the municipality, and the contractor may be subject to such other penalties or the exercise of such remedies as may be stated in the contract or the ordinance adopted under this Section. An ordinance adopted under this Section may contain exceptions for emergencies or other circumstances when the exception is in the best interest of the public. For purposes of this Section, the term "affiliate" means any entity that (1) directly, indirectly, or constructively controls another entity, (2) is directly, indirectly, or constructively controlled by another entity, or (3) is subject to the control of a common entity. For purposes of this subsection (b), an entity controls another entity if it owns, directly or individually, more than 10% of the voting securities of that entity. As used in this subsection (b), the term "voting security" means a security that (1) confers upon the holder the right to vote for the election of members of the board of directors or similar governing body of the business or (2) is convertible into, or entitles the holder to receive upon its exercise, a security that confers such a right to vote. A general partnership interest is a voting security. (Source: P.A. 93-25, eff. 6-20-03.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-9-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-9-3) Sec. 8-9-3. In the event of a conflict between the application of this Division 9 of Article 8 and the application of "An Act concerning municipalities, counties and other political subdivisions", enacted by the 85th General Assembly, the provisions of "An Act concerning municipalities, counties and other political subdivisions" shall prevail. (Source: P.A. 85-854.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-9-4) Sec. 8-9-4. Long-term contracts. Any municipality may enter into a long-term energy contract, even if the length of the contract would exceed the term of office of the corporate authorities that approved the contract. (Source: P.A. 93-58, eff. 1-1-04.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 10 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-1) Sec. 8-10-1. This division shall be known and is hereafter designated as "Municipal purchasing act for cities of 500,000 or more population." (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-2) Sec. 8-10-2. In addition to all the rights, powers, privileges, duties, and obligations conferred thereon elsewhere in this division or any other Acts, all cities of 500,000 or more population shall have the rights, powers and privileges and shall be subject to the duties and obligations conferred thereon by this Division 10. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-2.5) Sec. 8-10-2.5. Airports. This Division 10 applies to purchase orders and contracts relating to airports owned or operated by a municipality of more than 500,000 population. (Source: P.A. 89-405, eff. 11-8-95.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-3) Sec. 8-10-3. (a) Except as otherwise herein provided, all purchase orders or contracts of whatever nature, for labor, services or work, the purchase, lease, or sale of personal property, materials, equipment or supplies, involving amounts in excess of $10,000, made by or on behalf of any such municipality, shall be let by free and open competitive bidding after advertisement, to the lowest responsible bidder, or in the appropriate instance, to the highest responsible bidder, depending upon whether such municipality is to expend or to receive money. All such purchase orders or contracts, as defined above, which shall involve amounts of $10,000, or less, shall be let in the manner described above whenever practicable, except that such purchase orders or contracts may be let in the open market in a manner calculated to insure the best interests of the public, after solicitation of bids by mail, telephone, or otherwise. The provisions of this Section are subject to any contrary provision contained in "An Act concerning the use of Illinois mined coal in certain plants and institutions", filed July 13, 1937, as heretofore and hereafter amended. (b) The corporate authorities of a municipality may by ordinance provide that contracts to provide goods and services to the municipality contain a provision requiring the contractor and its affiliates to collect and remit Illinois Use Tax on all sales of tangible personal property into the State of Illinois in accordance with the provisions of the Illinois Use Tax Act, and municipal use tax on all sales of tangible personal property into the municipality in accordance with a municipal ordinance authorized by Section 8-11-6 or 8-11-1.5, during the term of the contract or for some other specified period, regardless of whether the contractor or affiliate is a "retailer maintaining a place of business within this State" as defined in Section 2 of the Use Tax Act. The provision may state that if the requirement is not met, the contract may be terminated by the municipality, and the contractor may be subject to such other penalties or the exercise of such remedies as may be stated in the contract or the ordinance adopted under this Section. An ordinance adopted under this Section may contain exceptions for emergencies or other circumstances when the exception is in the best interest of the public. For purposes of this Section, the term "affiliate" means any entity that (1) directly, indirectly, or constructively controls another entity, (2) is directly, indirectly, or constructively controlled by another entity, or (3) is subject to the control of a common entity. For purposes of this subsection (b), an entity controls another entity if it owns, directly or individually, more than 10% of the voting securities of that entity. As used in this subsection (b), the term "voting security" means a security that (1) confers upon the holder the right to vote for the election of members of the board of directors or similar governing body of the business or (2) is convertible into, or entitles the holder to receive upon its exercise, a security that confers such a right to vote. A general partnership interest is a voting security. (Source: P.A. 93-25, eff. 6-20-03.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-4) Sec. 8-10-4. Contracts which by their nature are not adapted to award by competitive bidding, such as but not limited to contracts for the services of individuals possessing a high degree of professional skill where the ability or fitness of the individual plays an important part, contracts for supplies, materials, parts or equipment which are available only from a single source, contracts for printing of finance committee pamphlets, comptroller's estimates, and departmental reports, contracts for the printing or engraving of bonds, water certificates, tax warrants and other evidences of indebtedness, contracts for utility services such as water, light, heat, telephone or telegraph, and contracts for the purchase of magazines, books, periodicals and similar articles of an educational or instructional nature, and the binding of such magazine, books, periodicals, pamphlets, reports and similar articles shall not be subject to the competitive bidding requirements of this Article. The purchasing agent hereinafter provided for is hereby expressly authorized to procure from any federal, state or local governmental unit or agency thereof such materials, supplies, commodities or equipment as may be made available through the operation of any legislation heretofore or hereafter enacted without conforming to the competitive bidding requirements of this Division 10. Regular employment contracts in the municipal service, whether with respect to the classified service or otherwise, shall not be subject to the provisions of this Division 10, nor shall this Division 10 be applicable to the granting or issuance pursuant to powers conferred by laws, ordinances or resolutions, of franchises, licenses, permits or other authorizations by the corporate authorities of the municipality, or by departments, offices, institutions, boards, commissions, agencies or other instrumentalities thereof, nor to contracts or transactions, other than the sale or lease of personal property, pursuant to which the municipality is the recipient of money. The purchasing agent may sell or cause to be loaned with proper surety, materials common only to the municipal water distribution system, to such corporations and individuals, upon a proper showing that they are unable to obtain such materials for the purpose of obtaining water from the water system, or while awaiting shipment from manufacturers or vendors of such material, provided, that proper charges for the sale of such material shall be made to such extent as to save the municipality from monetary losses in such transactions. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3599.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-5) Sec. 8-10-5. In the case of an emergency affecting the public health or safety, so declared by the corporate authorities of the municipality at a meeting thereof duly convened, which declaration shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members thereof and shall set forth the nature of the danger to the public health or safety, contracts may be let to the extent necessary to resolve such emergency without public advertisement. The resolution or ordinance in which such declaration is embodied shall fix the date upon which such emergency shall terminate, which date may be extended or abridged by the corporate authorities as in their judgment the circumstances require. The purchasing agent hereinafter provided for, may purchase or may authorize in writing any agency of such municipal government or of the institutions, boards or commissions thereof, if any, to purchase in the open market without filing requisition or estimate therefor, and without advertisement, any supplies, materials or equipment, for immediate delivery to meet bona fide operating emergencies where the amount thereof is not in excess of $40,000. A full written account of any such emergency together with a requisition for the materials, supplies or equipment required therefor shall be submitted immediately to the purchasing agent and shall be open to public inspection for a period of at least one year subsequent to the date of such emergency purchase. The exercise of the authority herein vested in the purchasing agent in respect to purchases for such bona fide operating emergencies shall not be dependent upon a declaration of emergency by the corporate authorities under the first paragraph of this section. (Source: P.A. 81-1376.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-6) Sec. 8-10-6. The responsible head of each major department, office, institution, board, commission, agency or instrumentality of such municipal government shall certify in writing to the purchasing agent the names of such officers or employees who shall be exclusively authorized to sign requests for purchase for such respective department, office, institution, board, commission, agency or instrumentality, and all requests for purchase shall be void unless executed by such certified officers or employees and approved by the purchasing agent. Except as to emergency contracts authorized by Section 8-10-5, no undertaking involving amounts in excess of $10,000 shall be split into parts, by the requisitioning agent or otherwise, so as to produce amounts of $10,000 or less, for the purpose of avoiding the provisions of this Division 10. The term "responsible head" as used herein shall, in the case of the corporate authorities of the municipality, be such member, members, or committee thereof as shall be designated by appropriate resolution or order adopted by such corporate authorities. (Source: P.A. 81-1376.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-7) Sec. 8-10-7. All proposals to award purchase orders or contracts involving amounts in excess of $10,000 shall be published at least 10 days, excluding Sundays and legal holidays, in advance of the date announced for the receiving of bids, in a secular English language daily newspaper of general circulation throughout such municipality and shall simultaneously be posted on readily accessible bulletin boards in the office of the purchasing agent. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the purchasing agent from placing additional announcements in recognized trade journals. Advertisements for bids shall describe the character of the proposed contract or agreement in sufficient detail to enable the bidders thereon to know what their obligations will be, either in the advertisement itself, or by reference to detailed plans and specifications on file at the time of the publication of the first announcement. Such advertisement shall also state the date, time and place assigned for the opening of bids, and no bids shall be received at any time subsequent to the time indicated in the announcement. However, an extension of time may be granted for the opening of such bids upon publication in a secular English newspaper of general circulation throughout such municipality of the date to which the bid opening has been extended. The time of the bid extension opening shall not be less than 5 days after the publication thereof, Sundays and legal holidays excluded. Cash, cashier's check, a certified check, a comptroller's certificate of moneys owed the particular vendor, or a bid bond with adequate surety approved by the purchasing agent as a deposit of good faith, in a reasonable amount, but not in excess of 10% of the contract amount may be required of each bidder by the purchasing agent on all bids involving amounts in excess of $10,000 and, if so required, the advertisement for bids shall so specify. (Source: P.A. 84-1269.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-8) Sec. 8-10-8. Any agreement or collusion among bidders or prospective bidders in restraint of freedom of competition by agreement to bid a fixed price, or otherwise, shall render the bids of such bidders void. Each bidder shall accompany his bid with a sworn statement, or otherwise swear or affirm, that he has not been a party to any such agreement. Any disclosure in advance of the opening of bids, of the terms of the bids submitted in response to an advertisement, made or permitted by the purchasing agent shall render the proceedings void and shall require re-advertisement and re-award. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-8.5) Sec. 8-10-8.5. Disclosure. Each person submitting a bid or proposal in relation to any contract in excess of $10,000 under this Division 10, including contracts exempt from competitive bidding under Section 8-10-4 or 8-10-5, must disclose in his or her application the name of each individual having a beneficial interest of more than 7 1/2% in the enterprise and, if the person wishing to submit a bid or proposal is a corporation, the names of all its officers and directors. The person shall notify the municipality of any changes in its ownership or officers at the time such changes occur. In the case of emergency contracts under Section 8-10-5, disclosure under this Section shall be made within 14 days after the contract. (Source: P.A. 89-405, eff. 11-8-95.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-9) Sec. 8-10-9. All sealed bids shall be publicly opened by the purchasing agent of such municipality, or by an officer or employee in the office of the purchasing agent duly authorized in writing by the purchasing agent to open such bids, and all such bids shall be open to public inspection in the office of the purchasing agent for a period of at least 48 hours before award is made. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-10) Sec. 8-10-10. The award of any contract involving amounts in excess of $10,000 shall be made by the purchasing agent to the lowest or highest responsible bidder as provided in Section 8-10-3. Every contract involving amounts in excess of $10,000 shall be signed by the mayor or his duly designated agent, by the comptroller and by the purchasing agent, respectively, of such municipality. Each bid, with the name of the bidder, shall be entered on a record which record with the name of the successful bidder indicated thereon, shall, after award of contract, be open to public inspection in the office of the purchasing agent of such municipality. All purchase orders or contracts involving amounts of $10,000 or less shall be awarded by the purchasing agent to the lowest or highest responsible bidder as provided in Section 8-10-3 and shall be signed by the purchasing agent and by the comptroller. An official copy of each awarded purchase order or contract together with all necessary attachments thereto, including assignments and written consents thereto of the purchasing agent as authorized by Section 8-10-14, shall be retained by the purchasing agent in an appropriate file open to the public for such period of time after termination of contract during which action against the municipality might ensue under applicable laws of limitation. After such period such purchase orders, contracts and attachments may be destroyed by direction of the purchasing agent. (Source: P.A. 81-1376.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-11) Sec. 8-10-11. In determining the responsibility of any bidder the purchasing agent may take into account other factors in addition to financial responsibility, such as past records of transactions with the bidder, experience, adequacy of equipment, ability to complete performance within a specified time limit and other pertinent considerations. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-12) Sec. 8-10-12. Any and all bids received in response to an advertisement may be rejected by the purchasing agent if the bidder is not deemed responsible, or the character or quality of the services, supplies, materials, equipment or labor does not conform to requirements or if the public interest may otherwise be served thereby. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-13) Sec. 8-10-13. Bond, with sufficient sureties, in such amount as shall be deemed adequate, not only to insure performance of contract in the time and manner prescribed in the contract, but also to save, indemnify, and keep harmless the municipality against all loss, damages, claims, liabilities, judgments, costs, and expenses which may in anywise accrue against the municipality in consequence of the granting of the contract, or which may in anywise result therefrom, may be required of each bidder upon contracts involving amounts in excess of $10,000 when, in the opinion of the purchasing agent, the public interests will be served thereby. (Source: P.A. 81-1376.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-14) Sec. 8-10-14. No contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder or to the highest responsible bidder, as the case may be, shall be assignable or sublet by the successful bidder without the written consent of the purchasing agent. In no event shall a contract or any part thereof be assigned or sublet to a bidder who had been declared not to be a responsible bidder in the consideration of bids submitted in response to advertisement for the particular contract. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3599.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-15) Sec. 8-10-15. In all municipalities within the purview of this Division 10, there shall be a purchasing agent who shall be appointed by the mayor by and with the consent of the corporate authorities of the municipality. The purchasing agent shall hold office for a term of 4 years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Such purchasing agent may be removed from office for cause after public hearing before the corporate authorities at which hearing the purchasing agent with counsel shall be entitled to be heard. His salary shall be fixed by the corporate authorities and he shall be required to give bond, with adequate surety, for the faithful performance of his duties in an amount to be determined by the corporate authorities. He shall be exempt from the provisions of Division 1 of Article 10, relating to civil service, in any municipality which has or may hereafter adopt that Division 1. In making the appointment of the purchasing agent, the mayor and corporate authorities shall give due consideration to the executive experience and ability required for the proper and effective discharge of the duties of the office, and no person shall be appointed purchasing agent unless he has served for at least 3 years in a responsible executive capacity requiring knowledge of and experience in large scale purchasing activities. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-16) Sec. 8-10-16. The purchasing agent may appoint the necessary employees of his office in accordance with law. The number and salaries of such employees shall be fixed by the corporate authorities. The purchasing agent shall: (a) adopt, promulgate and from time to time revise rules and regulations for the proper conduct of his office; (b) constitute the sole agent of the municipality in contracting for labor, materials, services, or work, the purchase, lease, or sale of personal property, materials, equipment or supplies, in conformity with the provisions of this Division 10; (c) open all sealed bids; (d) determine the lowest or highest responsible bidder, as the case may be, as required by this Division 10, and purchase orders in conformity with this Division 10; (e) enforce written specifications describing standards established in conformity with this Division 10; (f) operate or require such physical, chemical or other tests as may be necessary to insure conformity to such specifications with respect to quality of materials; (g) exercise, or require, at central storerooms or otherwise, such control as may be necessary to insure conformity to contract provisions with respect to quantity; (h) distribute or cause to be distributed, to the various requisitioning agencies of such municipality, such supplies, materials or equipment, as may be purchased by him; (i) transfer materials, supplies and equipment to or between the various requisitioning agencies and to trade in, sell or dispose of such materials, supplies or equipment as may become surplus, obsolete or unusable; (j) control inventories and inventory records of all stocks of materials, supplies and equipment of common usage contained in any central or principal storeroom, stockyard or warehouse of such municipality; (k) assume such related activities as may be assigned to him from time to time by the mayor or the corporate authorities of such municipality, and (l) submit to the mayor of such municipality an annual report faithfully describing the activities of his office, which report shall be spread upon the official public records of the corporate authorities of such municipality or given comparable public distribution. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3599.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-17) Sec. 8-10-17. The corporate authorities of any such municipality may establish a revolving fund in such amount as may be necessary to enable the purchasing agent to purchase items of common usage in advance of immediate need, the revolving fund to be reimbursed from the annual appropriation of the requisitioning agencies. Neither the purchasing agent, nor any officer or employe of his office, nor any member of the board of standardization hereinafter provided for, shall be financially interested, directly or indirectly, in any purchase order or contract coming under the purview of his official duties. The above named officials and employes are expressly prohibited from accepting, directly or indirectly, from any person, company, firm or corporation to which any purchase order or contract may be awarded, any rebate, gift, money, or anything of value whatsoever. Any officer or employe, as above defined, convicted of violating this section, shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not to exceed $10,000 and shall forfeit the right to his public office, trust or employment and shall be removed therefrom. (Source: P.A. 77-2500.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-18) Sec. 8-10-18. No department, office, institution, commission, board, agency or instrumentality of any such municipality, or any officer or employe thereof, shall be empowered to execute any purchase order or contract as defined in Section 8-10-3 except as herein specifically authorized, but all such purchase orders or contracts shall be executed by the purchasing agent in conformity with the provisions of this Division 10. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-19) Sec. 8-10-19. In all municipalities to which the provisions of this Division 10 shall apply, there shall be a board of standardization, which board shall be composed of the purchasing agent for such municipality, who shall be chairman, and 6 other members who shall be appointed by the mayor of such municipality. Three of the members shall be responsible heads of a major office, department, institution, commission or board of such municipality and shall receive no compensation for their services on the board of standardization. The other 3 members may be officers or employees of the municipality but only those such members who are not officers or employees shall be entitled to receive such compensation as the corporate authorities may provide. Any member, excepting the purchasing agent, may deputize a proxy to act in his stead. The board of standardization shall meet at least once each 2 calendar months upon notification by the chairman at least 5 days in advance of the date announced for such meeting. Official action of the board shall require the vote of a majority of all members of the board. The chairman shall cause to be prepared a report faithfully describing the proceedings of each meeting, which report shall be transmitted to each member and shall be made available to the mayor and to the corporate authorities, respectively, of such municipality within 5 days, excluding Sundays and legal holidays, subsequent to the date of the meeting. The board of standardization shall: (a) classify the requirements of such municipality, including the departments, offices, institutions, commissions and boards thereof, with respect to supplies, materials, and equipment, of common usage, (b) adopt as standards, the smallest numbers of the various qualities, sizes and varieties of such supplies, materials and equipment as may be consistent with the efficient operation of such municipal government, and (c) prepare, adopt, promulgate, and from time to time revise, written specifications describing such standards. Specifications describing in detail the physical, chemical and other characteristics of supplies, material or equipment to be acquired by purchase order or contract shall be prepared by the board of standardization. In the preparation or revision of standard specifications the board of standardization shall solicit the advice, assistance and cooperation of the several requisitioning agencies and shall be empowered to consult such public or non-public laboratory or technical services as may be deemed expedient. After adoption, each standard specification shall, until rescinded, apply alike in terms and effect to every purchase or contract for the purchase of any commodity, material, supply or equipment and shall be made available to the public upon request. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3599.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-20) Sec. 8-10-20. Official ordinances in conformity with the provisions of this Division 10 shall be adopted by formal action of the corporate authorities of such municipality and shall be published for the information of the public. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-21) Sec. 8-10-21. Any purchase order or contract executed in violation of this Division 10 shall be null and void as to the municipality and if public funds shall have been expended thereupon the amount thereof may be recovered in the name of the municipality in an appropriate action instituted therefor. An official who knowingly and intentionally lets a contract in violation of the competitive bid requirements of this Division 10 forfeits his or her office. (Source: P.A. 89-405, eff. 11-8-95.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-22) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-22) Sec. 8-10-22. Nothing contained in this Division 10 shall be deemed to apply to the letting of contracts and accepting of bids for the construction of local improvements pursuant to Division 2 of Article 9. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-23) Sec. 8-10-23. The comptroller of each municipality to which this Division 10 applies shall conduct audits of all expenditures incident to all purchase orders and contracts awarded hereunder by the purchasing agent. The comptroller shall make reports on such audits to the mayor and corporate authorities. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-24) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-24) Sec. 8-10-24. All specifications pertaining to the construction, alteration, rehabilitation or repair of any real property of such municipality shall be prepared by the engineering agency engaged in the design of such construction, alteration, rehabilitation or repair, prior to approval by the purchasing agent, and any such specification shall form a part of any such purchase order or contract, and the performance, inspection and testing of all such contracts shall be supervised by the engineering agency designated in such contracts. If after award of such contracts changes or modifications are necessitated therein, such changes or modifications may be accomplished or ordered in writing by the engineering agency, but if the costs thereof are estimated to exceed $5,000 written approval of the purchasing agent must be first obtained. A modification agreement therefor shall thereafter be executed by the contractor, the mayor or his duly designated agent, by the comptroller and by the purchasing agent. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3599.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-25) Sec. 8-10-25. In the event of a conflict between the application of this Division 10 of Article 8 and the application of "An Act concerning municipalities, counties and other political subdivisions", enacted by the 85th General Assembly, the provisions of "An Act concerning municipalities, counties and other political subdivisions" shall prevail. (Source: P.A. 85-854.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-10-26) Sec. 8-10-26. Long-term contracts. Any municipality may enter into a long-term energy contract, even if the length of the contract would exceed the term of office of the corporate authorities that approved the contract. (Source: P.A. 93-58, eff. 1-1-04.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 11 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1) Sec. 8-11-1. Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than an item of tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, at retail in the municipality on the gross receipts from these sales made in the course of such business. If imposed, the tax shall only be imposed in 1/4% increments. On and after September 1, 1991, this additional tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 8-11-22. For purposes of this Act, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly are a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. The tax imposed by a home rule municipality under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are deposited into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein. No tax may be imposed by a home rule municipality under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-5 of this Act. Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating that tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Act for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the State. As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification. In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding paragraph and in order to mitigate delays caused by distribution procedures, an allocation shall, if requested, be made within 10 days after January 14, 1991, and in November of 1991 and each year thereafter, to each municipality that received more than $500,000 during the preceding fiscal year, (July 1 through June 30) whether collected by the municipality or disbursed by the Department as required by this Section. Within 10 days after January 14, 1991, participating municipalities shall notify the Department in writing of their intent to participate. In addition, for the initial distribution, participating municipalities shall certify to the Department the amounts collected by the municipality for each month under its home rule occupation and service occupation tax during the period July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1990. The allocation within 10 days after January 14, 1991, shall be in an amount equal to the monthly average of these amounts, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The monthly average for the period of July 1, 1990 through June 30, 1991 will be determined as follows: the amounts collected by the municipality under its home rule occupation and service occupation tax during the period of July 1, 1990 through September 30, 1990, plus amounts collected by the Department and paid to such municipality through June 30, 1991, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The monthly average for each subsequent period of July 1 through June 30 shall be an amount equal to the monthly distribution made to each such municipality under the preceding paragraph during this period, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The distribution made in November 1991 and each year thereafter under this paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the amount allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the preceding period of July 1 through June 30. The Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller for disbursement the allocations made in accordance with this paragraph. For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the United States Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of June, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of September next following the adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of October next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1993, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing. However, a municipality located in a county with a population in excess of 3,000,000 that elected to become a home rule unit at the general primary election in 1994 may adopt an ordinance or resolution imposing the tax under this Section and file a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution with the Department on or before July 1, 1994. The Department shall then proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of October 1, 1994. Beginning April 1, 1998, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing. When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered. Any unobligated balance remaining in the Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund on December 31, 1989, which fund was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of municipal tax as a result of audits of liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for distribution as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135. All receipts of municipal tax as a result of an assessment not arising from an audit, for liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for distribution before July 1, 1990, as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135; and on and after July 1, 1990, all such receipts shall be distributed as provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act. As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town that has superseded a civil township. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1.1)Sec. 8-11-1.1. Non-home rule municipalities; imposition of taxes. (a) The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may, upon approval of the electors of the municipality pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section, impose by ordinance or resolution the tax authorized in Sections 8-11-1.3, 8-11-1.4 and 8-11-1.5 of this Act.(b) The corporate authorities of the municipality may by ordinance or resolution call for the submission to the electors of the municipality the question of whether the municipality shall impose such tax. Such question shall be certified by the municipal clerk to the election authority in accordance with Section 28-5 of the Election Code and shall be in a form in accordance with Section 16-7 of the Election Code.Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if the proceeds of the tax may be used for municipal operations pursuant to Section 8-11-1.3, 8-11-1.4, or 8-11-1.5, then the election authority must submit the question in substantially the following form: Shall the corporate authorities of the municipality

be authorized to levy a tax at a rate of (rate)% for expenditures on municipal operations, expenditures on public infrastructure, or property tax relief?

If a majority of the electors in the municipality voting upon the question vote in the affirmative, such tax shall be imposed.Until January 1, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing the tax of not more than 1% hereunder or discontinuing the same shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof, together with a certification that the ordinance or resolution received referendum approval in the case of the imposition of such tax, filed with the Department of Revenue, on or before the first day of June, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce the additional tax or to discontinue the tax, as the case may be, as of the first day of September next following such adoption and filing.Beginning January 1, 1992 and through December 31, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of October next following such adoption and filing.Beginning January 1, 1993, and through September 30, 2002, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing.Beginning October 1, 2002, and through December 31, 2013, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax under this Section or effecting a change in the rate of tax must either (i) be adopted and a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing.Beginning January 1, 2014, if an ordinance or resolution imposing the tax under this Section, discontinuing the tax under this Section, or effecting a change in the rate of tax under this Section is adopted, a certified copy thereof, together with a certification that the ordinance or resolution received referendum approval in the case of the imposition of or increase in the rate of such tax, shall be filed with the Department of Revenue, either (i) on or before the first day of May, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing. Notwithstanding any provision in this Section to the contrary, if, in a non-home rule municipality with more than 150,000 but fewer than 200,000 inhabitants, as determined by the last preceding federal decennial census, an ordinance or resolution under this Section imposes or discontinues a tax or changes the tax rate as of July 1, 2007, then that ordinance or resolution, together with a certification that the ordinance or resolution received referendum approval in the case of the imposition of the tax, must be adopted and a certified copy of that ordinance or resolution must be filed with the Department on or before May 15, 2007, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of July 1, 2007. Notwithstanding any provision in this Section to the contrary, if, in a non-home rule municipality with more than 6,500 but fewer than 7,000 inhabitants, as determined by the last preceding federal decennial census, an ordinance or resolution under this Section imposes or discontinues a tax or changes the tax rate on or before May 20, 2009, then that ordinance or resolution, together with a certification that the ordinance or resolution received referendum approval in the case of the imposition of the tax, must be adopted and a certified copy of that ordinance or resolution must be filed with the Department on or before May 20, 2009, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of July 1, 2009. A non-home rule municipality may file a certified copy of an ordinance or resolution, with a certification that the ordinance or resolution received referendum approval in the case of the imposition of the tax, with the Department of Revenue, as required under this Section, only after October 2, 2000.The tax authorized by this Section may not be more than 1% and may be imposed only in 1/4% increments.(Source: P.A. 98-584, eff. 8-27-13.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1.2) Sec. 8-11-1.2. Definition. As used in Sections 8-11-1.3, 8-11-1.4 and 8-11-1.5 of this Act: (a) "Public infrastructure" means municipal roads and streets, access roads, bridges, and sidewalks; waste disposal systems; and water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and sewage treatment facilities. For purposes of referenda authorizing the imposition of taxes by the City of DuQuoin under Sections 8-11-1.3, 8-11-1.4, and 8-11-1.5 of this Act that are approved in November, 2002, or for purposes of referenda authorizing the imposition of taxes by the Village of Forsyth under Sections 8-11-1.3, 8-11-1.4, and 8-11-1.5 of this Act that are approved after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, "public infrastructure" shall also include public schools. (b) "Property tax relief" means the action of a municipality to reduce the levy for real estate taxes or avoid an increase in the levy for real estate taxes that would otherwise have been required. Property tax relief or the avoidance of property tax must uniformly apply to all classes of property. (Source: P.A. 94-1078, eff. 1-9-07; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1.3) (Text of Section from P.A. 101-10) Sec. 8-11-1.3. Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than on an item of tangible personal property which is titled and registered by an agency of this State's Government, at retail in the municipality for expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief or both as defined in Section 8-11-1.2 if approved by referendum as provided in Section 8-11-1.1, of the gross receipts from such sales made in the course of such business. If the tax is approved by referendum on or after July 14, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-1057), the corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may, until December 31, 2020, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. The tax imposed may not be more than 1% and may be imposed only in 1/4% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 8-11-22. For purposes of this Act, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. The tax imposed by a municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit such retailer to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda, arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are deposited into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein. No municipality may impose a tax under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.4 of this Code. Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the non-home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund. Except as otherwise provided, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Act for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount which the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification. For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale, by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois, is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the Federal Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease such amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered. The Department of Revenue shall implement Public Act 91-649 so as to collect the tax on and after January 1, 2002. As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act". (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-10, eff. 6-5-19.) (Text of Section from P.A. 101-47) Sec. 8-11-1.3. Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than on an item of tangible personal property which is titled and registered by an agency of this State's Government, at retail in the municipality for expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief or both as defined in Section 8-11-1.2 if approved by referendum as provided in Section 8-11-1.1, of the gross receipts from such sales made in the course of such business. If the tax is approved by referendum on or after July 14, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-1057), the corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may, until July 1, 2030, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. The tax imposed may not be more than 1% and may be imposed only in 1/4% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The tax imposed by a municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit such retailer to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda, arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein. No municipality may impose a tax under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.4 of this Code. Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the non-home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund. The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder. As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount which the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification. For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale, by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois, is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the Federal Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease such amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered. The Department of Revenue shall implement Public Act 91-649 so as to collect the tax on and after January 1, 2002. As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act". (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-47, eff. 1-1-20.) (Text of Section from P.A. 101-81) Sec. 8-11-1.3. Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than on an item of tangible personal property which is titled and registered by an agency of this State's Government, at retail in the municipality for expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief or both as defined in Section 8-11-1.2 if approved by referendum as provided in Section 8-11-1.1, of the gross receipts from such sales made in the course of such business. If the tax is approved by referendum on or after July 14, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-1057), the corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may, until December 31, 2020, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. The tax imposed may not be more than 1% and may be imposed only in 1/4% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The tax imposed by a municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit such retailer to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda, arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein. No municipality may impose a tax under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.4 of this Code. Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the non-home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund. The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder. As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount which the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts which were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification. For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale, by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois, is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the Federal Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease such amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered. The Department of Revenue shall implement Public Act 91-649 so as to collect the tax on and after January 1, 2002. As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act". (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1.4) Sec. 8-11-1.4. Non-Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged, in such municipality, in the business of making sales of service for expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief or both as defined in Section 8-11-1.2 if approved by referendum as provided in Section 8-11-1.1, of the selling price of all tangible personal property transferred by such servicemen either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale of service. If the tax is approved by referendum on or after July 14, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-1057), the corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may, until December 31, 2020, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. The tax imposed may not be more than 1% and may be imposed only in 1/4% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act. Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 8-11-22. For purposes of this Act, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. The tax imposed by a municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit such registrant to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2, 2a, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the taxing municipality), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the taxing municipality), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this municipal tax may not be taken against any State tax, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are deposited into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the taxing municipality), the first paragraph of Section 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein. No municipality may impose a tax under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.3 of this Code. Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the municipal retailers' occupation tax fund. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the municipal retailers' occupation tax fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Act for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which suppliers and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities, the General Revenue Fund, and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification. The Department of Revenue shall implement Public Act 91-649 so as to collect the tax on and after January 1, 2002. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. As used in this Section, "municipal" or "municipality" means or refers to a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Non-Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act". (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1.5) Sec. 8-11-1.5. Non-Home Rule Municipal Use Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may impose a tax upon the privilege of using, in such municipality, any item of tangible personal property which is purchased at retail from a retailer, and which is titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, based on the selling price of such tangible personal property, as "selling price" is defined in the Use Tax Act, for expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief or both as defined in Section 8-11-1.2, if approved by referendum as provided in Section 8-11-1.1. If the tax is approved by referendum on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may, until December 31, 2020, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. The tax imposed may not be more than 1% and may be imposed only in 1/4% increments. Such tax shall be collected from persons whose Illinois address for title or registration purposes is given as being in such municipality. Such tax shall be collected by the municipality imposing such tax. A non-home rule municipality may not impose and collect the tax prior to January 1, 2002. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Non-Home Rule Municipal Use Tax Act". (Source: P.A. 96-1057, eff. 7-14-10; 97-837, eff. 7-20-12.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.6) Sec. 8-11-1.6. Non-home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax; municipalities between 20,000 and 25,000. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality with a population of more than 20,000 but less than 25,000 that has, prior to January 1, 1987, established a Redevelopment Project Area that has been certified as a State Sales Tax Boundary and has issued bonds or otherwise incurred indebtedness to pay for costs in excess of $5,000,000, which is secured in part by a tax increment allocation fund, in accordance with the provisions of Division 11-74.4 of this Code may, by passage of an ordinance, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property, other than on an item of tangible personal property that is titled and registered by an agency of this State's Government, at retail in the municipality. This tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 8-11-22. For purposes of this Act, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. If imposed, the tax shall only be imposed in .25% increments of the gross receipts from such sales made in the course of business. Any tax imposed by a municipality under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. An ordinance imposing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under this Section without registering separately with the Department under the ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section, to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda, arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are deposited into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein. A tax may not be imposed by a municipality under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.7 of this Act. Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant, instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund, which is hereby created. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Act for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of the municipality, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification. For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a producer of coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the federal Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered. As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village, or incorporated town, including an incorporated town that has superseded a civil township. (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.7) Sec. 8-11-1.7. Non-home rule municipal service occupation tax; municipalities between 20,000 and 25,000. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality with a population of more than 20,000 but less than 25,000 as determined by the last preceding decennial census that has, prior to January 1, 1987, established a Redevelopment Project Area that has been certified as a State Sales Tax Boundary and has issued bonds or otherwise incurred indebtedness to pay for costs in excess of $5,000,000, which is secured in part by a tax increment allocation fund, in accordance with the provisions of Division 11-74.4 of this Code may, by passage of an ordinance, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the municipality in the business of making sales of service. If imposed, the tax shall only be imposed in .25% increments of the selling price of all tangible personal property transferred by such servicemen either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale of service. This tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act. Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 8-11-22. For purposes of this Act, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. The tax imposed by a municipality under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. An ordinance imposing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing. The certificate of registration that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit the registrant to engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted under this Section without registering separately with the Department under the ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section, to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in a manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2, 2a, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the taxing municipality), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the taxing municipality), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this municipal tax may not be taken against any State tax, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are deposited into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund), 10, 11, 12, (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the taxing municipality), the first paragraph of Sections 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein. A tax may not be imposed by a municipality under this Section unless the municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.6 of this Act. Person subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their servicemen's tax liability hereunder by separately stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax that servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, under such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Act for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the Municipality. As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which suppliers and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities, the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund, and the General Revenue Fund, provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification. When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.8) Sec. 8-11-1.8. Non-home rule municipal tax rescission. Whenever the corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality with a population of more than 20,000 but less than 25,000 have imposed a municipal retailers occupation tax under Sec. 8-11-1.6 and a municipal service occupation tax under Section 8-11-1.7, the question of discontinuing the tax imposed under those Sections shall be submitted to the voters of the municipality at the next regularly scheduled election in accordance with the general election law upon a petition signed by not fewer than 10% of the registered voters in the municipality. The petition shall be filed with the clerk, of the municipality within one year of the passage of the ordinance imposing the tax; provided, the petition shall be filed not less than 60 days prior to the election at which the question is to be submitted to the voters of the municipality, and its validity shall be determined as provided by the general election law. The municipal clerk shall certify the question to the proper election officials, who shall submit the question to the voters. Notice shall be given in the manner provided for in the general election law. Referenda initiated under this Section shall be subject to the provisions and limitations of the general election law. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: Shall the additional Municipal Service Occupation Tax

and Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax imposed within the municipal limits of (name of municipality) by Ordinance No. (state number) adopted on (date of adoption) be discontinued?

The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No". If a majority of all ballots cast on the proposition shall be in favor of discontinuing the tax, within one month after approval of the referendum discontinuing the tax the corporate authorities shall certify the results of the referenda to the Department of Revenue and shall also file with the Department a certified copy of an ordinance discontinuing the tax. Thereupon, the Department shall discontinue collection of tax as of the first day of January next following the referendum. Except as herein otherwise provided, the referenda authorized by the terms of this Section shall be conducted in all respects in the manner provided by the general election law. This Section shall apply only to taxes that have been previously imposed under the provisions of Sections 8-11-1.6 and 8-11-1.7. (Source: P.A. 100-201, eff. 8-18-17.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-2) Sec. 8-11-2. The corporate authorities of any municipality may tax any or all of the following occupations or privileges: 1. (Blank). 2. Persons engaged in the business of distributing,

supplying, furnishing, or selling gas for use or consumption within the corporate limits of a municipality of 500,000 or fewer population, and not for resale, at a rate not to exceed 5% of the gross receipts therefrom.

2a. Persons engaged in the business of distributing,

supplying, furnishing, or selling gas for use or consumption within the corporate limits of a municipality of over 500,000 population, and not for resale, at a rate not to exceed 8% of the gross receipts therefrom. If imposed, this tax shall be paid in monthly payments.

3. The privilege of using or consuming electricity

acquired in a purchase at retail and used or consumed within the corporate limits of the municipality at rates not to exceed the following maximum rates, calculated on a monthly basis for each purchaser:

(i) For the first 2,000 kilowatt-hours used or

consumed in a month; 0.61 cents per kilowatt-hour;

(ii) For the next 48,000 kilowatt-hours used or

consumed in a month; 0.40 cents per kilowatt-hour;

(iii) For the next 50,000 kilowatt-hours used or

consumed in a month; 0.36 cents per kilowatt-hour;

(iv) For the next 400,000 kilowatt-hours used or

consumed in a month; 0.35 cents per kilowatt-hour;

(v) For the next 500,000 kilowatt-hours used or

consumed in a month; 0.34 cents per kilowatt-hour;

(vi) For the next 2,000,000 kilowatt-hours used

or consumed in a month; 0.32 cents per kilowatt-hour;

(vii) For the next 2,000,000 kilowatt-hours used

or consumed in a month; 0.315 cents per kilowatt-hour;

(viii) For the next 5,000,000 kilowatt-hours used

or consumed in a month; 0.31 cents per kilowatt-hour;

(ix) For the next 10,000,000 kilowatt-hours used

or consumed in a month; 0.305 cents per kilowatt-hour; and

(x) For all electricity used or consumed in

excess of 20,000,000 kilowatt-hours in a month, 0.30 cents per kilowatt-hour.

If a municipality imposes a tax at rates lower than

either the maximum rates specified in this Section or the alternative maximum rates promulgated by the Illinois Commerce Commission, as provided below, the tax rates shall be imposed upon the kilowatt hour categories set forth above with the same proportional relationship as that which exists among such maximum rates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, until December 31, 2008, no municipality shall establish rates that are in excess of rates reasonably calculated to produce revenues that equal the maximum total revenues such municipality could have received under the tax authorized by this subparagraph in the last full calendar year prior to August 1, 1998 (the effective date of Section 65 of Public Act 90-561); provided that this shall not be a limitation on the amount of tax revenues actually collected by such municipality.

Upon the request of the corporate authorities of a

municipality, the Illinois Commerce Commission shall, within 90 days after receipt of such request, promulgate alternative rates for each of these kilowatt-hour categories that will reflect, as closely as reasonably practical for that municipality, the distribution of the tax among classes of purchasers as if the tax were based on a uniform percentage of the purchase price of electricity. A municipality that has adopted an ordinance imposing a tax pursuant to subparagraph 3 as it existed prior to August 1, 1998 (the effective date of Section 65 of Public Act 90-561) may, rather than imposing the tax permitted by Public Act 90-561, continue to impose the tax pursuant to that ordinance with respect to gross receipts received from residential customers through July 31, 1999, and with respect to gross receipts from any non-residential customer until the first bill issued to such customer for delivery services in accordance with Section 16-104 of the Public Utilities Act but in no case later than the last bill issued to such customer before December 31, 2000. No ordinance imposing the tax permitted by Public Act 90-561 shall be applicable to any non-residential customer until the first bill issued to such customer for delivery services in accordance with Section 16-104 of the Public Utilities Act but in no case later than the last bill issued to such non-residential customer before December 31, 2000.

4. Persons engaged in the business of distributing,

supplying, furnishing, or selling water for use or consumption within the corporate limits of the municipality, and not for resale, at a rate not to exceed 5% of the gross receipts therefrom.

None of the taxes authorized by this Section may be imposed with respect to any transaction in interstate commerce or otherwise to the extent to which the business or privilege may not, under the constitution and statutes of the United States, be made the subject of taxation by this State or any political sub-division thereof; nor shall any persons engaged in the business of distributing, supplying, furnishing, selling or transmitting gas, water, or electricity, or using or consuming electricity acquired in a purchase at retail, be subject to taxation under the provisions of this Section for those transactions that are or may become subject to taxation under the provisions of the Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act authorized by Section 8-11-1; nor shall any tax authorized by this Section be imposed upon any person engaged in a business or on any privilege unless the tax is imposed in like manner and at the same rate upon all persons engaged in businesses of the same class in the municipality, whether privately or municipally owned or operated, or exercising the same privilege within the municipality. Any of the taxes enumerated in this Section may be in addition to the payment of money, or value of products or services furnished to the municipality by the taxpayer as compensation for the use of its streets, alleys, or other public places, or installation and maintenance therein, thereon or thereunder of poles, wires, pipes, or other equipment used in the operation of the taxpayer's business. (a) If the corporate authorities of any home rule municipality have adopted an ordinance that imposed a tax on public utility customers, between July 1, 1971, and October 1, 1981, on the good faith belief that they were exercising authority pursuant to Section 6 of Article VII of the 1970 Illinois Constitution, that action of the corporate authorities shall be declared legal and valid, notwithstanding a later decision of a judicial tribunal declaring the ordinance invalid. No municipality shall be required to rebate, refund, or issue credits for any taxes described in this paragraph, and those taxes shall be deemed to have been levied and collected in accordance with the Constitution and laws of this State. (b) In any case in which (i) prior to October 19, 1979, the corporate authorities of any municipality have adopted an ordinance imposing a tax authorized by this Section (or by the predecessor provision of the Revised Cities and Villages Act) and have explicitly or in practice interpreted gross receipts to include either charges added to customers' bills pursuant to the provision of paragraph (a) of Section 36 of the Public Utilities Act or charges added to customers' bills by taxpayers who are not subject to rate regulation by the Illinois Commerce Commission for the purpose of recovering any of the tax liabilities or other amounts specified in such paragraph (a) of Section 36 of that Act, and (ii) on or after October 19, 1979, a judicial tribunal has construed gross receipts to exclude all or part of those charges, then neither that municipality nor any taxpayer who paid the tax shall be required to rebate, refund, or issue credits for any tax imposed or charge collected from customers pursuant to the municipality's interpretation prior to October 19, 1979. This paragraph reflects a legislative finding that it would be contrary to the public interest to require a municipality or its taxpayers to refund taxes or charges attributable to the municipality's more inclusive interpretation of gross receipts prior to October 19, 1979, and is not intended to prescribe or limit judicial construction of this Section. The legislative finding set forth in this subsection does not apply to taxes imposed after January 1, 1996 (the effective date of Public Act 89-325). (c) The tax authorized by subparagraph 3 shall be collected from the purchaser by the person maintaining a place of business in this State who delivers the electricity to the purchaser. This tax shall constitute a debt of the purchaser to the person who delivers the electricity to the purchaser and if unpaid, is recoverable in the same manner as the original charge for delivering the electricity. Any tax required to be collected pursuant to an ordinance authorized by subparagraph 3 and any such tax collected by a person delivering electricity shall constitute a debt owed to the municipality by such person delivering the electricity, provided, that the person delivering electricity shall be allowed credit for such tax related to deliveries of electricity the charges for which are written off as uncollectible, and provided further, that if such charges are thereafter collected, the delivering supplier shall be obligated to remit such tax. For purposes of this subsection (c), any partial payment not specifically identified by the purchaser shall be deemed to be for the delivery of electricity. Persons delivering electricity shall collect the tax from the purchaser by adding such tax to the gross charge for delivering the electricity, in the manner prescribed by the municipality. Persons delivering electricity shall also be authorized to add to such gross charge an amount equal to 3% of the tax to reimburse the person delivering electricity for the expenses incurred in keeping records, billing customers, preparing and filing returns, remitting the tax and supplying data to the municipality upon request. If the person delivering electricity fails to collect the tax from the purchaser, then the purchaser shall be required to pay the tax directly to the municipality in the manner prescribed by the municipality. Persons delivering electricity who file returns pursuant to this paragraph (c) shall, at the time of filing such return, pay the municipality the amount of the tax collected pursuant to subparagraph 3. (d) For the purpose of the taxes enumerated in this Section: "Gross receipts" means the consideration received for distributing, supplying, furnishing or selling gas for use or consumption and not for resale, and the consideration received for distributing, supplying, furnishing or selling water for use or consumption and not for resale, and for all services rendered in connection therewith valued in money, whether received in money or otherwise, including cash, credit, services and property of every kind and material and for all services rendered therewith, and shall be determined without any deduction on account of the cost of the service, product or commodity supplied, the cost of materials used, labor or service cost, or any other expenses whatsoever. "Gross receipts" shall not include that portion of the consideration received for distributing, supplying, furnishing, or selling gas or water to business enterprises described in paragraph (e) of this Section to the extent and during the period in which the exemption authorized by paragraph (e) is in effect or for school districts or units of local government described in paragraph (f) during the period in which the exemption authorized in paragraph (f) is in effect. For utility bills issued on or after May 1, 1996, but before May 1, 1997, and for receipts from those utility bills, "gross receipts" does not include one-third of (i) amounts added to customers' bills under Section 9-222 of the Public Utilities Act, or (ii) amounts added to customers' bills by taxpayers who are not subject to rate regulation by the Illinois Commerce Commission for the purpose of recovering any of the tax liabilities described in Section 9-222 of the Public Utilities Act. For utility bills issued on or after May 1, 1997, but before May 1, 1998, and for receipts from those utility bills, "gross receipts" does not include two-thirds of (i) amounts added to customers' bills under Section 9-222 of the Public Utilities Act, or (ii) amount added to customers' bills by taxpayers who are not subject to rate regulation by the Illinois Commerce Commission for the purpose of recovering any of the tax liabilities described in Section 9-222 of the Public Utilities Act. For utility bills issued on or after May 1, 1998, and for receipts from those utility bills, "gross receipts" does not include (i) amounts added to customers' bills under Section 9-222 of the Public Utilities Act, or (ii) amounts added to customers' bills by taxpayers who are not subject to rate regulation by the Illinois Commerce Commission for the purpose of recovering any of the tax liabilities described in Section 9-222 of the Public Utilities Act. For purposes of this Section "gross receipts" shall not include amounts added to customers' bills under Section 9-221 of the Public Utilities Act. This paragraph is not intended to nor does it make any change in the meaning of "gross receipts" for the purposes of this Section, but is intended to remove possible ambiguities, thereby confirming the existing meaning of "gross receipts" prior to January 1, 1996 (the effective date of Public Act 89-325). "Person" as used in this Section means any natural individual, firm, trust, estate, partnership, association, joint stock company, joint adventure, corporation, limited liability company, municipal corporation, the State or any of its political subdivisions, any State university created by statute, or a receiver, trustee, guardian or other representative appointed by order of any court. "Person maintaining a place of business in this State" shall mean any person having or maintaining within this State, directly or by a subsidiary or other affiliate, an office, generation facility, distribution facility, transmission facility, sales office or other place of business, or any employee, agent, or other representative operating within this State under the authority of the person or its subsidiary or other affiliate, irrespective of whether such place of business or agent or other representative is located in this State permanently or temporarily, or whether such person, subsidiary or other affiliate is licensed or qualified to do business in this State. "Public utility" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3-105 of the Public Utilities Act and shall include alternative retail electric suppliers as defined in Section 16-102 of that Act. "Purchase at retail" shall mean any acquisition of electricity by a purchaser for purposes of use or consumption, and not for resale, but shall not include the use of electricity by a public utility directly in the generation, production, transmission, delivery or sale of electricity. "Purchaser" shall mean any person who uses or consumes, within the corporate limits of the municipality, electricity acquired in a purchase at retail. (e) Any municipality that imposes taxes upon public utilities or upon the privilege of using or consuming electricity pursuant to this Section whose territory includes any part of an enterprise zone or federally designated Foreign Trade Zone or Sub-Zone may, by a majority vote of its corporate authorities, exempt from those taxes for a period not exceeding 20 years any specified percentage of gross receipts of public utilities received from, or electricity used or consumed by, business enterprises that: (1) either (i) make investments that cause the

creation of a minimum of 200 full-time equivalent jobs in Illinois, (ii) make investments of at least $175,000,000 that cause the creation of a minimum of 150 full-time equivalent jobs in Illinois, or (iii) make investments that cause the retention of a minimum of 1,000 full-time jobs in Illinois; and

(2) are either (i) located in an Enterprise Zone

established pursuant to the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act or (ii) Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity designated High Impact Businesses located in a federally designated Foreign Trade Zone or Sub-Zone; and

(3) are certified by the Department of Commerce and

Economic Opportunity as complying with the requirements specified in clauses (1) and (2) of this paragraph (e).

Upon adoption of the ordinance authorizing the exemption, the municipal clerk shall transmit a copy of that ordinance to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall determine whether the business enterprises located in the municipality meet the criteria prescribed in this paragraph. If the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity determines that the business enterprises meet the criteria, it shall grant certification. The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall act upon certification requests within 30 days after receipt of the ordinance. Upon certification of the business enterprise by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall notify the Department of Revenue of the certification. The Department of Revenue shall notify the public utilities of the exemption status of the gross receipts received from, and the electricity used or consumed by, the certified business enterprises. Such exemption status shall be effective within 3 months after certification. (f) A municipality that imposes taxes upon public utilities or upon the privilege of using or consuming electricity under this Section and whose territory includes part of another unit of local government or a school district may by ordinance exempt the other unit of local government or school district from those taxes. (g) The amendment of this Section by Public Act 84-127 shall take precedence over any other amendment of this Section by any other amendatory Act passed by the 84th General Assembly before August 1, 1985 (the effective date of Public Act 84-127). (h) In any case in which, before July 1, 1992, a person engaged in the business of transmitting messages through the use of mobile equipment, such as cellular phones and paging systems, has determined the municipality within which the gross receipts from the business originated by reference to the location of its transmitting or switching equipment, then (i) neither the municipality to which tax was paid on that basis nor the taxpayer that paid tax on that basis shall be required to rebate, refund, or issue credits for any such tax or charge collected from customers to reimburse the taxpayer for the tax and (ii) no municipality to which tax would have been paid with respect to those gross receipts if the provisions of Public Act 87-773 had been in effect before July 1, 1992, shall have any claim against the taxpayer for any amount of the tax. (Source: P.A. 100-201, eff. 8-18-17.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-2.3) Sec. 8-11-2.3. Motor fuel tax. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other tax that may be imposed, a municipality in a county with a population of over 3,000,000 inhabitants may also impose, by ordinance, a tax on motor fuel at a rate not to exceed $0.03 per gallon.A license that is issued to a distributor or a receiver under the Motor Fuel Tax Law shall permit that distributor or receiver to act as a distributor or receiver, as applicable, under this Section. The provisions of Sections 2b, 2d, 6, 6a, 12, 12a, 13, 13a.2, 13a.7, 13a.8, 15.1, and 21 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law that are not inconsistent with this Section shall apply as far as practicable to the subject matter of this Section to the same extent as if those provisions were included in this Section.The Department shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected under this Section. Those taxes and penalties shall be deposited into the Municipal Motor Fuel Tax Fund, a trust fund created in the State treasury. Moneys in the Municipal Motor Fuel Tax Fund shall be used to make payments to municipalities and for the payment of refunds under this Section. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected by the Department from the tax imposed by that municipality under this Section during the second preceding calendar month, plus an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset amounts that were erroneously paid to a different municipality, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of the municipality, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different municipality but were erroneously paid to the municipality, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification. (Source: P.A. 101-32, eff. 6-28-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-2.5) Sec. 8-11-2.5. Municipal tax review; requests for information.(a) If a municipality has imposed a tax under Section 8-11-2, then the municipality may conduct an audit of tax receipts collected from the public utility that is subject to the tax or that collects the tax from purchasers on behalf of the municipality to determine whether the amount of tax that was paid by the public utility was accurate. (b) Not more than once every 2 years, a municipality that has imposed a tax under this Act may, subject to the limitations and protections stated in Section 16-122 of the Public Utilities Act and in the Local Government Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act, request any information from a utility in the format maintained by the public utility in the ordinary course of its business that the municipality reasonably requires in order to perform an audit under subsection (a). The information that may be requested by the municipality includes, without limitation:(1) in an electronic format used by the public

utility in the ordinary course of its business, the database used by the public utility to determine the amount of tax due to the municipality; provided, however, that, if the municipality has requested customer-specific billing, usage, and load shape data from a public utility that is an electric utility and has not provided the electric utility with the verifiable authorization required by Section 16-122 of the Public Utilities Act, then the electric utility shall remove from the database all customer-specific billing, usage, and load shape data before providing it to the municipality; and

(2) in a format used by the public utility in the

ordinary course of its business, summary data, as needed by the municipality, to determine the unit consumption of utility services by providing the gross therms, kilowatts, minutes, or other units of measurement being taxed within the municipal jurisdiction and the gross revenues collected and the associated taxes assessed.

(c) Each public utility must provide the information requested under subsection (b) within:(1) 60 days after the date of the request if the

population of the requesting municipality is 500,000 or less; or

(2) 90 days after the date of the request if the

population of the requesting municipality exceeds 500,000.

The time in which a public utility must provide the information requested under subsection (b) may be extended by an agreement between the municipality and the public utility. If a public utility receives, during a single month, information requests from more than 2 municipalities, or the aggregate population of the requesting municipalities is 100,000 customers or more, the public utility is entitled to an additional 30 days to respond to those requests.(d) If an audit by the municipality or its agents finds an error by the public utility in the amount of taxes paid by the public utility, then the municipality must notify the public utility of the error. Any such notice must be issued pursuant to Section 30 of the Local Government Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act or a lesser period of time from the date the tax was due that may be specified in the municipal ordinance imposing the tax. Upon such a notice, any audit shall be conducted pursuant to Section 35 of the Local Government Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act subject to the timelines set forth in this subsection (d). The public utility must submit a written response within 60 days after the date the notice was postmarked stating that it has corrected the error or stating the reason that the error is inapplicable or inaccurate. The municipality then has 60 days after the receipt of the public utility's response to review and contest the conclusion of the public utility. If the parties are unable to agree on the disposition of the audit findings within 120 days after the notification of the error to the public utility, then either party may submit the matter for appeal as outlined in Section 40 of the Local Government Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act. If the appeals process does not produce a satisfactory result, then either party may pursue the alleged error in a court of competent jurisdiction.(e) No public utility is liable for any error in past collections and payments that was unknown by it prior to the audit process unless (i) the error was due to negligence by the public utility in the collection or processing of required data and (ii) the municipality had not failed to respond in writing on an accurate and timely basis to any written request of the public utility to review and correct information used by the public utility to collect the municipality's tax if a diligent review of such information by the municipality reasonably could have been expected to discover such error. If, however, an error in past collections or payments resulted in a customer, who should not have owed a tax to any municipality, having paid a tax to a municipality, then the customer may, to the extent allowed by Section 9-252 of the Public Utilities Act, recover the tax from the public utility, and any amount so paid by the public utility may be deducted by that public utility from any taxes then or thereafter owed by the public utility to that municipality.(f) All account specific information provided by a public utility under this Section may be used only for the purpose of an audit of taxes conducted under this Section and the enforcement of any related tax claim. All such information must be held in strict confidence by the municipality and its agents and may not be disclosed to the public under the Freedom of Information Act or under any other similar statutes allowing for or requiring public disclosure.(g) The provisions of this Section shall not be construed as diminishing or replacing any civil remedy available to a municipality, taxpayer, or tax collector.(h) This Section does not apply to any municipality having a population greater than 1,000,000. (Source: P.A. 96-1422, eff. 8-3-10.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-3) Sec. 8-11-3. The corporate authorities of any municipality may tax persons engaged in the business of selling cigarettes at retail, at a rate of not exceeding one cent per package of 20 cigarettes and may provide for the administration and enforcement of such tax, and for the collection thereof from the persons subject to the tax, or their suppliers, or from taxpayers and suppliers, as the corporate authorities determine to be necessary or practicable for the effective administration of the tax. The tax herein authorized may not be levied during any period in which there is in force a municipal retailers' occupation tax levied under authority of Section 8-11-1. The adoption of a municipal retailers' occupation tax shall not, however, affect liabilities, obligations and penalties incurred by any persons pursuant to an ordinance or resolution imposing a cigarette tax under this Section 8-11-3 and providing for its administration and enforcement, in respect to any period during which the cigarette tax has been in effect. Nor shall any suit, action or remedy instituted or authorized under the cigarette tax ordinance or resolution be abated or otherwise affected by the adoption of a municipal retailers' occupation tax ordinance or resolution. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-4) Sec. 8-11-4. Each owner of a motor vehicle or motor bicycle may be required by any such city, village, or town within which he resides to pay a regular tax or license fee for the use of such motor vehicle or motor bicycle. In place of the regular license fee, any city, village or incorporated town may provide for a motor vehicle tax or license fee at a reduced rate for residents age 65 or over. Any city, village or incorporated town of 40,000 or more inhabitants may appropriate monies annually from such funds, for the construction, maintenance and operation of testing stations for the inspection of equipment of motor vehicles as authorized by Section 11-40-2. The balance of such funds in cities, villages and incorporated towns of 40,000 or more inhabitants, and the total of such funds in other cities, incorporated towns and villages shall be used for the purpose of improving, paving, repairing or maintaining the streets and other public roadways within such city, incorporated town or village, provided, that the actual cost of the collection of such fees and the disbursement thereof may be deducted from the total amount collected and in cities and villages of more than 3,000 inhabitants, not to exceed 35% of such fees may be used also for payment of salaries and wages of policemen engaged in the duty of regulating traffic. This amendatory Act of 1973 is not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit. (Source: P.A. 83-65.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-5) Sec. 8-11-5. Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged, in such municipality, in the business of making sales of service at the same rate of tax imposed pursuant to Section 8-11-1, of the selling price of all tangible personal property transferred by such servicemen either in the form of tangible personal property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale of service. If imposed, such tax shall only be imposed in 1/4% increments. On and after September 1, 1991, this additional tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax may not be imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel shall be excluded from tax. Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 8-11-22. For purposes of this Act, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. This exception for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the State. The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly are a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. The tax imposed by a home rule municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit such registrant to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2, 2a, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the State shall be to the taxing municipality), 5, 7, 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the taxing municipality), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise credit for this municipal tax may not be taken against any State tax), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference to the State shall mean the taxing municipality), the first paragraph of Section 15, 16, 17 (except that credit memoranda issued hereunder may not be used to discharge any State tax liability), 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein. No tax may be imposed by a home rule municipality pursuant to this Section unless such municipality also imposes a tax at the same rate pursuant to Section 8-11-1 of this Act. Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the State Aviation Program Fund under this Act for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which suppliers and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification. In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding paragraph and in order to mitigate delays caused by distribution procedures, an allocation shall, if requested, be made within 10 days after January 14, 1991, and in November of 1991 and each year thereafter, to each municipality that received more than $500,000 during the preceding fiscal year, (July 1 through June 30) whether collected by the municipality or disbursed by the Department as required by this Section. Within 10 days after January 14, 1991, participating municipalities shall notify the Department in writing of their intent to participate. In addition, for the initial distribution, participating municipalities shall certify to the Department the amounts collected by the municipality for each month under its home rule occupation and service occupation tax during the period July 1, 1989 through June 30, 1990. The allocation within 10 days after January 14, 1991, shall be in an amount equal to the monthly average of these amounts, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. Monthly average for the period of July 1, 1990 through June 30, 1991 will be determined as follows: the amounts collected by the municipality under its home rule occupation and service occupation tax during the period of July 1, 1990 through September 30, 1990, plus amounts collected by the Department and paid to such municipality through June 30, 1991, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The monthly average for each subsequent period of July 1 through June 30 shall be an amount equal to the monthly distribution made to each such municipality under the preceding paragraph during this period, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The distribution made in November 1991 and each year thereafter under this paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the amount allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the preceding period of July 1 through June 30. The Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller for disbursement the allocations made in accordance with this paragraph. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of June, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of September next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of July, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of October next following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1993, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following such adoption and filing. However, a municipality located in a county with a population in excess of 3,000,000 that elected to become a home rule unit at the general primary election in 1994 may adopt an ordinance or resolution imposing the tax under this Section and file a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution with the Department on or before July 1, 1994. The Department shall then proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of October 1, 1994. Beginning April 1, 1998, an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of January next following the adoption and filing. Any unobligated balance remaining in the Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund on December 31, 1989, which fund was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of municipal tax as a result of audits of liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund, for distribution as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135. All receipts of municipal tax as a result of an assessment not arising from an audit, for liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for distribution before July 1, 1990, as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135, and on and after July 1, 1990, all such receipts shall be distributed as provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act. As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act. (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-6) Sec. 8-11-6. Home Rule Municipal Use Tax Act. (a) The corporate authorities of a home rule municipality may impose a tax upon the privilege of using, in such municipality, any item of tangible personal property which is purchased at retail from a retailer, and which is titled or registered at a location within the corporate limits of such home rule municipality with an agency of this State's government, at a rate which is an increment of 1/4% and based on the selling price of such tangible personal property, as "selling price" is defined in the Use Tax Act. In home rule municipalities with less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the tax shall be collected by the municipality imposing the tax from persons whose Illinois address for titling or registration purposes is given as being in such municipality. (b) In home rule municipalities with 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the corporate authorities of the municipality may additionally impose a tax beginning July 1, 1991 upon the privilege of using in the municipality, any item of tangible personal property, other than tangible personal property titled or registered with an agency of the State's government, that is purchased at retail from a retailer located outside the corporate limits of the municipality, at a rate that is an increment of 1/4% not to exceed 1% and based on the selling price of the tangible personal property, as "selling price" is defined in the Use Tax Act. Such tax shall be collected from the purchaser either by the municipality imposing such tax or by the Department of Revenue pursuant to an agreement between the Department and the municipality. To prevent multiple home rule taxation, the use in a home rule municipality of tangible personal property that is acquired outside the municipality and caused to be brought into the municipality by a person who has already paid a home rule municipal tax in another municipality in respect to the sale, purchase, or use of that property, shall be exempt to the extent of the amount of the tax properly due and paid in the other home rule municipality. (c) If a municipality having 2,000,000 or more inhabitants imposes the tax authorized by subsection (a), then the tax shall be collected by the Illinois Department of Revenue when the property is purchased at retail from a retailer in the county in which the home rule municipality imposing the tax is located, and in all contiguous counties. The tax shall be remitted to the State, or an exemption determination must be obtained from the Department before the title or certificate of registration for the property may be issued. The tax or proof of exemption may be transmitted to the Department by way of the State agency with which, or State officer with whom, the tangible personal property must be titled or registered if the Department and that agency or State officer determine that this procedure will expedite the processing of applications for title or registration. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section to collect all taxes, penalties and interest due hereunder, to dispose of taxes, penalties and interest so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and determine all rights to credit memoranda or refunds arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax, penalty or interest hereunder. In the administration of and compliance with this Section the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure as are prescribed in Sections 2 (except the definition of "retailer maintaining a place of business in this State"), 3 (except provisions pertaining to the State rate of tax, and except provisions concerning collection or refunding of the tax by retailers), 4, 11, 12, 12a, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21 and 22 of the Use Tax Act, which are not inconsistent with this Section, as fully as if provisions contained in those Sections of the Use Tax Act were set forth herein. Whenever the Department determines that a refund shall be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund. The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes, penalties and interest collected hereunder. On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipality in each instance to be that municipality from which the Department during the second preceding calendar month, collected municipal use tax from any person whose Illinois address for titling or registration purposes is given as being in such municipality. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, less 2% of the balance, which sum shall be retained by the State Treasurer to cover the costs incurred by the Department in administering and enforcing the provisions of this Section. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the amount so retained by the State Treasurer, which shall be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. Within 10 days after receipt by the State Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities provided for in this Section to be given to the State Comptroller by the Department, the State Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in that certification. Any ordinance imposing or discontinuing any tax to be collected and enforced by the Department under this Section shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before October 1, whereupon the Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section on behalf of the municipalities as of January 1 next following such adoption and filing. Beginning April 1, 1998, any ordinance imposing or discontinuing any tax to be collected and enforced by the Department under this Section shall either (i) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before April 1, whereupon the Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section on behalf of the municipalities as of July 1 next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before October 1, whereupon the Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section on behalf of the municipalities as of January 1 next following the adoption and filing. Nothing in this subsection (c) shall prevent a home rule municipality from collecting the tax pursuant to subsection (a) in any situation where such tax is not collected by the Department of Revenue under this subsection (c). (d) Any unobligated balance remaining in the Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund on December 31, 1989, which fund was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of municipal tax as a result of audits of liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund, for distribution as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135. All receipts of municipal tax as a result of an assessment not arising from an audit, for liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax Fund for distribution before July 1, 1990, as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of Public Act 85-1135, and on and after July 1, 1990, all such receipts shall be distributed as provided in Section 6z-18 of the State Finance Act. (e) As used in this Section, "Municipal" and "Municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township. (f) This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home Rule Municipal Use Tax Act. (Source: P.A. 98-1049, eff. 8-25-14.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-6a) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-6a) (Text of Section from P.A. 101-10) Sec. 8-11-6a. Home rule municipalities; preemption of certain taxes. Except as provided in Sections 8-11-1, 8-11-5, 8-11-6, 8-11-6b, 8-11-6c, and 11-74.3-6 on and after September 1, 1990, no home rule municipality has the authority to impose, pursuant to its home rule authority, a retailer's occupation tax, service occupation tax, use tax, sales tax or other tax on the use, sale or purchase of tangible personal property based on the gross receipts from such sales or the selling or purchase price of said tangible personal property. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section does not preempt any home rule imposed tax such as the following: (1) a tax on alcoholic beverages, whether based on gross receipts, volume sold or any other measurement; (2) a tax based on the number of units of cigarettes or tobacco products (provided, however, that a home rule municipality that has not imposed a tax based on the number of units of cigarettes or tobacco products before July 1, 1993, shall not impose such a tax after that date); (3) a tax, however measured, based on the use of a hotel or motel room or similar facility; (4) a tax, however measured, on the sale or transfer of real property; (5) a tax, however measured, on lease receipts; (6) a tax on food prepared for immediate consumption and on alcoholic beverages sold by a business which provides for on premise consumption of said food or alcoholic beverages; or (7) other taxes not based on the selling or purchase price or gross receipts from the use, sale or purchase of tangible personal property. This Section does not preempt a home rule municipality with a population of more than 2,000,000 from imposing a tax, however measured, on the use, for consideration, of a parking lot, garage, or other parking facility. This Section is not intended to affect any existing tax on food and beverages prepared for immediate consumption on the premises where the sale occurs, or any existing tax on alcoholic beverages, or any existing tax imposed on the charge for renting a hotel or motel room, which was in effect January 15, 1988, or any extension of the effective date of such an existing tax by ordinance of the municipality imposing the tax, which extension is hereby authorized, in any non-home rule municipality in which the imposition of such a tax has been upheld by judicial determination, nor is this Section intended to preempt the authority granted by Public Act 85-1006. On and after December 1, 2019, no home rule municipality has the authority to impose, pursuant to its home rule authority, a tax, however measured, on sales of aviation fuel, as defined in Section 3 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, unless the tax is not subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47017(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133, or unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act. Aviation fuel shall be excluded from tax only if, and for so long as, the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47017(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality. This Section is a limitation, pursuant to subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, on the power of home rule units to tax. The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly are a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. (Source: P.A. 101-10, eff. 6-5-19.) (Text of Section from P.A. 101-27) Sec. 8-11-6a. Home rule municipalities; preemption of certain taxes. Except as provided in Sections 8-11-1, 8-11-5, 8-11-6, 8-11-6b, 8-11-6c, 8-11-22, and 11-74.3-6 on and after September 1, 1990, no home rule municipality has the authority to impose, pursuant to its home rule authority, a retailer's occupation tax, service occupation tax, use tax, sales tax or other tax on the use, sale or purchase of tangible personal property based on the gross receipts from such sales or the selling or purchase price of said tangible personal property. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section does not preempt any home rule imposed tax such as the following: (1) a tax on alcoholic beverages, whether based on gross receipts, volume sold or any other measurement; (2) a tax based on the number of units of cigarettes or tobacco products (provided, however, that a home rule municipality that has not imposed a tax based on the number of units of cigarettes or tobacco products before July 1, 1993, shall not impose such a tax after that date); (3) a tax, however measured, based on the use of a hotel or motel room or similar facility; (4) a tax, however measured, on the sale or transfer of real property; (5) a tax, however measured, on lease receipts; (6) a tax on food prepared for immediate consumption and on alcoholic beverages sold by a business which provides for on premise consumption of said food or alcoholic beverages; or (7) other taxes not based on the selling or purchase price or gross receipts from the use, sale or purchase of tangible personal property. This Section does not preempt a home rule municipality with a population of more than 2,000,000 from imposing a tax, however measured, on the use, for consideration, of a parking lot, garage, or other parking facility. This Section is not intended to affect any existing tax on food and beverages prepared for immediate consumption on the premises where the sale occurs, or any existing tax on alcoholic beverages, or any existing tax imposed on the charge for renting a hotel or motel room, which was in effect January 15, 1988, or any extension of the effective date of such an existing tax by ordinance of the municipality imposing the tax, which extension is hereby authorized, in any non-home rule municipality in which the imposition of such a tax has been upheld by judicial determination, nor is this Section intended to preempt the authority granted by Public Act 85-1006. This Section is a limitation, pursuant to subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, on the power of home rule units to tax. (Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-6b) Sec. 8-11-6b. Home rule soft drink taxes. (a) Except as provided in Sections 8-11-1, 8-11-5 and 8-11-6, or as provided in this Section, no home rule municipality has the authority to impose, pursuant to its home rule authority, a tax on the sale, purchase, or use of soft drinks regardless of whether the measure of the tax is selling price, purchase price, gross receipts, unit of volumetric measure, or any other measure. For purposes of this subsection, the term "soft drink" has the meaning set forth in Section 2-10 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, as may be amended from time to time, except that the term shall not be limited to drinks contained in a closed or sealed bottle, can, carton, or container. This Section is a denial and limitation, under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, on the power of home rule units to tax. (b) The corporate authorities of a home rule municipality with a population in excess of 1,000,000 may impose a tax, which shall not take effect prior to April 1, 1994, upon all persons engaged in the business of selling soft drinks (other than fountain soft drinks) at retail in the municipality based on the gross receipts from those sales made in the course of such business. If imposed, the tax shall only be in 1/4% increments and shall not exceed 3%. For purposes of this subsection, the term "soft drink" has the meaning set forth in Section 2-10 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, as may be amended from time to time, except that the term shall not be limited to drinks contained in a closed or sealed bottle, can, carton or container; the term "fountain soft drinks" means soft drinks which are prepared by the retail seller of the soft drinks by mixing syrup or concentrate with water, by hand or through a soft drink dispensing machine, at or near the point and time of sale to the retail purchaser; and the term "soft drink dispensing machine" means a device which mixes soft drink syrup or concentrate with water and dispenses the mixture into an open container as a ready to drink soft drink. The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident to that tax shall be collected and enforced by the Illinois Department of Revenue. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this subsection, to collect all taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this subsection, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this subsection. In the administration of and compliance with this subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this subsection shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, shall be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions, and definitions of terms, and shall employ the same modes of procedure applicable to the Retailers' Occupation Tax as are prescribed in Sections 1, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions of those Sections other than the State rate of taxes), 2c, 2h, 2i, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5i, 5j, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and, until January 1, 1994, 13.5 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, and on and after January 1, 1994, all applicable provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act that are not inconsistent with this subsection, as fully as if provisions contained in those Sections of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act were set forth in this subsection. Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted by this subsection may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability under this subsection by separately stating that tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State taxes that sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act pursuant to bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. The retailer filing the return shall, at the time of filing the return, pay to the Department the amount of tax imposed under this subsection, less the discount of 1.75%, which is allowed to reimburse the retailer for the expenses incurred in keeping records, preparing the filing returns, remitting the tax, and supplying data to the Department on request. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this subsection to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memoranda, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause a warrant to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the Home Rule Municipal Soft Drink Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder. On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the amount to be paid to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, less any amounts determined by the Department to be necessary for the payment of refunds, and less 4% for the first year the tax is in effect and 2% thereafter of such balance, which sum shall be deposited by the State Treasurer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund in the State treasury from which it shall be appropriated to the Department to cover the costs of the Department in administering and enforcing the provisions of this subsection. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the certification, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amount in accordance with the directions contained in such certification. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by the State. A certificate of registration issued by the Illinois Department of Revenue to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit the registrant to engage in a business that is taxed under the tax imposed under this subsection and no additional registration shall be required under the ordinance imposing a tax or under this subsection. A certified copy of any ordinance imposing or discontinuing any tax under this subsection or effecting a change in the rate of that tax shall be filed with the Department, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this subsection on behalf of such municipality as of the first day of February following the date of filing. This tax shall be known and cited as the Home Rule Municipal Soft Drink Retailers' Occupation Tax. (c) The corporate authorities of a home rule municipality with a population in excess of 1,000,000 may impose a tax, which shall not take effect prior to April 1, 1994, on persons engaged in the business of selling fountain soft drinks at retail at a rate not to exceed 9% of the cost price of the fountain soft drinks at retail in such municipality. For purposes of this subsection, the term "soft drink" has the meaning set forth in Section 2-10 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, as may be amended from time to time, except that the term shall not be limited to drinks contained in a closed or sealed bottle, can, carton, or container; the term "fountain soft drinks" means soft drinks which are prepared by the retail seller of the soft drinks by mixing soft drink syrup or concentrate with water, by hand or through a soft drink dispensing machine at or near the point and time of sale to the retail purchaser; the term "soft drink dispensing machine" means a device which mixes soft drink syrup or concentrate with water and dispenses such mixture into an open container as a ready to drink soft drink; the term "sold at retail" shall mean any transfer of the ownership or title to tangible personal property to a purchaser, for the purpose of use or consumption, and not for the purpose of resale, for valuable consideration; the term "cost price of the fountain soft drinks" means the consideration paid by the retail seller of the fountain soft drink, valued in money, whether paid in money or otherwise, including cash, credits and services, and shall be determined without any deduction on account of the supplier's cost of the property sold or on account or any other expenses incurred by the supplier, for the purchase of soft drink syrup or concentrate which is designed to be further mixed with water before it is consumed as a soft drink; and the term "supplier" means any person who makes sales of soft drink syrup or concentrate to a retail seller of fountain soft drinks for purposes of resale as fountain soft drinks. The tax authorized by this subsection shall be collected, enforced, and administered by the municipality imposing the tax. Persons subject to the tax may reimburse themselves for their tax liability hereunder by separately stating an amount equal to the tax as an additional charge to their retail purchasers or may include such amount as part of the selling price of the soft drink. The municipality imposing the tax shall provide for its collection from the person subject to the tax by requiring that the supplier to the person subject to the tax collect and remit the tax to the municipality. If the supplier fails to collect the tax or if the person subject to the tax fails to pay the tax to its supplier, the person subject to the tax shall make the tax payment directly to the municipality. Payment of the tax by the retailer to the supplier shall relieve the retailer of any further liability for the tax. (d) If either tax imposed or authorized by this Section 8-11-6b is repealed by the General Assembly or has its maximum rate reduced by the General Assembly, or is declared unlawful or unconstitutional on its face by any court of competent jurisdiction after all appeals have been exhausted or the time to appeal has expired, then this Section 8-11-6b is automatically repealed and no longer effective without further action by the General Assembly. (e) Notwithstanding the preemption of taxes on the sale, purchase or use of soft drinks, taxes on the sale, purchase, or use of soft drinks which had been imposed by a municipality prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993 are specifically authorized under this Section for sales made on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993 through March 31, 1994. (Source: P.A. 88-507.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-6c) Sec. 8-11-6c. Home Rule food and beverage tax to support parking facilities. (a) In addition to any other tax that it is authorized to impose, a home rule municipality that has not imposed a tax under Section 8-11-1 or 8-11-5 may impose a tax, as limited by this Section, on the gross receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption.(b) If imposed, the tax may be imposed only for a defined and limited period of time and must be limited to a defined geographic area within the municipality. The defined geographic area must be a contiguous area of no more than one square mile. The tax may be imposed only in 0.25% increments, and the rate of tax may not exceed 2%. At the time that the ordinance imposing the tax is adopted, the municipality must have obtained the certified written consent of at least three-fourths of the operators of the businesses upon which the tax will be imposed. This tax may not be imposed for longer than 25 years after the municipality first levies the tax.(c) The municipality must maintain the proceeds of the tax in a separate account and may use those moneys only for the costs associated with land acquisition, design, construction, and maintenance of parking facilities within the defined geographic area.(d) The tax shall be administered by the municipality imposing it. (Source: P.A. 95-544, eff. 8-28-07.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-7) Sec. 8-11-7. The corporate authorities of a municipality may impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of renting automobiles in the municipality at the rate of not to exceed 1% of the gross receipts from such business. The tax imposed by a municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax Act shall permit such person to engage in a business which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to this Section without registering separately with the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda, arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 2 and 3 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax; and with relation to the provisions of the "Retailers' Occupation Tax" referred to therein, except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected, and except for the provision allowing retailers a deduction from the tax to cover certain costs, and except that credit memoranda issued hereunder may not be used to discharge any State tax liability) of the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein. Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their tax liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax Act pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the municipal automobile renting tax fund. The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex-officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder. On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from which rentors have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, less 1.6% of such balance, which sum shall be retained by the State Treasurer to cover the costs incurred by the Department in administering and enforcing this Section as provided herein. The Department at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the amount, so retained by the State Treasurer, to be paid into the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury. Within 10 days after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the General Revenue Fund, provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. An ordinance or resolution imposing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be effective on the first day of the calendar month next following publication as provided in Section 1-2-4. The corporate authorities of any municipality which levies a tax authorized by this Section shall transmit to the Department of Revenue on or not later than 5 days after publication a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution imposing such tax whereupon the Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section on behalf of such municipality as of the effective date of the ordinance or resolution. Upon a change in rate of a tax levied hereunder, or upon the discontinuance of the tax, the corporate authorities of the municipality shall on or not later than 5 days after publication of the ordinance or resolution discontinuing the tax or effecting a change in rate transmit to the Department of Revenue a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution effecting such change or discontinuance. The Department of Revenue must upon the request of the municipal clerk, city council or village board of trustees submit to a city, village or incorporated town a list of those persons who are registered with the Department to pay automobile renting occupation tax within that governmental unit. This list shall contain only the names of persons who have paid the tax and not the amount of tax paid by such person. As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Municipal Automobile Renting Occupation Tax Act". (Source: P.A. 86-1475.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-8) Sec. 8-11-8. The corporate authorities of a municipality may impose a tax upon the privilege of using, in such municipality, an automobile which is rented from a rentor outside Illinois, and which is titled or registered with an agency of this State's government, at a rate not to exceed 1% of the rental price of such automobile. Such tax shall be collected from persons whose Illinois address for titling or registration purposes is given as being in such municipality. Such tax shall be collected by the Department of Revenue for any municipality imposing such tax. Such tax must be paid to the State, or an exemption determination must be obtained from the Department of Revenue, before the title or certificate of registration for the property may be issued. The tax or proof of exemption may be transmitted to the Department by way of the State agency with which, or State officer with whom, the tangible personal property must be titled or registered if the Department and such agency or State officer determine that this procedure will expedite the processing of applications for title or registration. The Department shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes, penalties and interest due hereunder; to dispose of taxes, penalties and interest so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda or refunds arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax, penalty or interest hereunder. In the administration of, and compliance with, this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure as are prescribed in Sections 2 and 4 (except provisions pertaining to the State rate of tax; and with relation to the provisions of the "Use Tax Act" referred to therein, except provisions concerning collection or refunding of the tax by retailers, and except the provisions of Section 19 pertaining to claims by retailers and except the last paragraph concerning refunds, and except that credit memoranda issued hereunder may not be used to discharge any State tax liability) of the "Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax Act", enacted by the Eighty-second General Assembly, as the same are now or may hereafter be amended, which are not inconsistent with this Section, as fully as if provisions contained in those Sections of said Act were set forth herein. Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named, in such notification from the Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the municipal automobile renting tax fund. The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex-officio, as trustee, all taxes, penalties and interest collected hereunder. On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities, the municipality in each instance to be that municipality from which the Department, during the second preceding calendar month, collected taxes hereunder from persons whose Illinois address for titling or registration purposes is given as being in such municipality. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, less 1.6% of such balance, which sum shall be retained by the State Treasurer to cover the costs incurred by the Department in administering and enforcing this Section as provided herein. The Department at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount, so retained by the State Treasurer, to be paid into the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury. Within 10 days after receipt, by the State Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the General Revenue Fund, provided or in this Section to be given to the State Comptroller by the Department, the State Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such certification. An ordinance or resolution imposing a tax hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be effective on the first day of the second calendar month next following publication as provided in Section 1-2-4. The corporate authorities of any municipality which levies a tax authorized by this Section shall transmit to the Department of Revenue not later than 5 days after publication a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution imposing such tax whereupon the Department of Revenue shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section on behalf of such municipality as of the effective date of the ordinance or resolution. Upon a change in rate of a tax levied hereunder, or upon the discontinuance of the tax, the corporate authorities of the municipality shall, on or not later than 5 days after publication of the ordinance or resolution discontinuing the tax or effecting a change in rate, transmit to the Department of Revenue a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution effecting such change or discontinuance. As used in this Section, "Municipal" and "Municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Municipal Automobile Renting Use Tax Act". (Source: P.A. 84-149.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-9) Sec. 8-11-9. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 84-149. Repealed by P.A. 98-584, eff. 8-27-13.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-9.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-9.1) Sec. 8-11-9.1. Except as hereinafter provided, the Department of Revenue shall publish and make available to each municipality a quarterly report in which the Department of Revenue shall list any municipal retailers' occupation taxes collected pursuant to Section 8-11-1 of this Code, service occupation taxes collected pursuant to Section 8-11-5 of this Code and use taxes collected pursuant to Section 8-11-6 of this Code, during the previous quarter and such list shall be itemized according to the following merchandise subject areas: 1. general merchandise; 2. food; 3. drinking and eating places; 4. apparel; 5. furniture and home furnishings and all other household appliances including but not limited to desks, china, glassware, drapery, upholstery, radios, televisions and any repair for any such items; 6. lumber, hardware, building and highway construction and all other kinds of construction including but not limited to roofing, masonry, wrecking, demolition, excavating, plumbing and water well drilling; 7. automobiles, both new and used, and automobile accessories, parking lots, repairs, gasoline and service stations; 8. drugs, chemicals, paper, jewelry, alcoholic beverages, antiques, sporting goods, books and stationery; 9. all manufacturers; and 10. farm crops and livestock, timber, printing, crude petroleum, oil, natural gas, gas liquids and any and all items that are not listed in paragraphs 1 through 9 of this Section that are necessary in order to give municipalities a complete picture of the taxes to be expected. Such report shall be distributed to all municipal governments no later than 90 days after the last due date for tax returns for the final month of the quarter for which the report was prepared. The Department of Revenue may combine the reports for all of the municipalities into a single report. This Section shall not be so construed as to require such listing to disclose the information in any individual return in violation of Section 11 of the "Retailers' Occupation Tax Act". (Source: P.A. 85-293.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-11) Sec. 8-11-11. In addition to any other taxes authorized by law, the corporate authorities of a municipality may impose a tax upon the privilege of leasing motor vehicles within the municipality to a lessee on a daily or weekly basis in an amount not to exceed $2.75 per vehicle per rental period specified in the lease agreement. The tax may be stated separately in such lease agreement, invoice or bill. The ordinance or resolution imposing any such tax shall provide for the means of its administration, collection and enforcement by the municipality. As used in this Section, "municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township, and "motor vehicle" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1-146 of The Illinois Vehicle Code. (Source: P.A. 84-1479.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-15) Sec. 8-11-15. (a) The corporate authorities of a municipality of over 100,000 inhabitants may, upon approval of the electors of the municipality pursuant to subsection (b), impose a tax of one cent per gallon on motor fuel sold at retail within such municipality. A tax imposed pursuant to this Section shall be paid in addition to any other taxes on such motor fuel. (b) The corporate authorities of the municipality may by resolution call for the submission to the electors of the municipality of the question of whether the municipality shall impose such tax. Such question shall be certified by the municipal clerk to the election authority in accordance with Section 28-5 of The Election Code. The question shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the city (village or incorporated town) of ....... YES impose a tax of one cent per ------------------------------ gallon on motor fuel sold at NO retail within its boundaries?-------------------------------------------------------------- If a majority of the electors in the municipality voting upon the question vote in the affirmative, such tax shall be imposed. (c) The purchaser of the motor fuel shall be liable for payment of a tax imposed pursuant to this Section. This Section shall not be construed to impose a tax on the occupation of persons engaged in the sale of motor fuel. If a municipality imposes a tax on motor fuel pursuant to this Section, it shall be the duty of any person engaged in the retail sale of motor fuel within such municipality to collect such tax from the purchaser at the same time he collects the purchase price of the motor fuel and to pay over such tax to the municipality as prescribed by the ordinance of the municipality imposing such tax. (d) For purposes of this Section, "motor fuel" shall have the same meaning as provided in the "Motor Fuel Tax Law". (Source: P.A. 84-1099.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-16) Sec. 8-11-16. The Department of Revenue shall submit to each municipality each year a list of those persons within that municipality who are registered with the Department under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The list shall indicate the street address of each retail outlet operated in the municipality by the persons so registered and the name under which the retailer conducts business, if different from the corporate name. The municipal clerk shall forward any changes or corrections to the list to the Department within 6 months. The Department shall update and correct its records to reflect such changes, or notify the municipality in writing that the suggested changes are erroneous, within 90 days. The Department shall also provide monthly updates to each municipality showing additions or deletions to the list of retail outlets within the municipality. The Department shall provide a copy of the annual listing herein provided for contiguous jurisdictions when a municipality so requests. The list required by this Section shall contain only the names and street addresses of persons who are registered with the Department and shall not include the amount of tax paid by such persons. The list required by this Section shall be provided to each municipality no later than September 1 annually. When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality under Section 8-11-1, 8-11-5, 8-11-6 of this Act or Section 6z-18 of "An Act in relation to State finance", the Department shall increase or decrease such amount by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered. The Department of Revenue must upon the request of any municipality received pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph furnish to such municipality data setting forth the aggregate amount of retailers' occupation tax collected on behalf of such municipality from any shopping center identified in such request and located within such municipality for each month beginning with the first month following the month within which such a request is received by the Department, provided that such data may be provided only with respect to shopping centers (1) which consist of 50 or more persons registered with the Department to pay Retailers' Occupation Tax, and (2) where the developers or owners thereof or their predecessors in interest have entered into written agreements with the municipality to transfer property to or perform services for or on behalf of such municipality in exchange for payments based solely or in part on the amount of retailers' occupation tax collected on behalf of the municipality from persons within such shopping centers. Data given pursuant to this paragraph shall not identify by amounts the individual sources of such taxes. A request for data pursuant to this paragraph shall first be submitted to the Department of Revenue by the Municipal Clerk, City Council or Village Board of Trustees. The Department of Revenue shall review each such request to determine whether the requirements of item (2) of the first sentence of this paragraph have been met and, within 30 days following its receipt of such a request, shall either certify that the request meets such requirements, or notify the person submitting the request that the request does not meet such requirements. As used in this Section, "Municipal" or "Municipality" means or refers to a city, village or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has superseded a civil township, and "shopping center" means a group of retail stores and other business and service establishments in an integrated building arrangement operated under common ownership or diverse ownership under unified control involving common parking areas and mutual easements. (Source: P.A. 91-51, eff. 6-30-99.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-17) Sec. 8-11-17. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 92-526, eff. 7-1-02. Repealed internally, eff. 1-1-03.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-18) Sec. 8-11-18. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 88-597, eff. 8-28-94. Repealed internally, eff. 9-6-97.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-20) Sec. 8-11-20. Economic incentive agreements. The corporate authorities of a municipality may enter into an economic incentive agreement relating to the development or redevelopment of land within the corporate limits of the municipality. Under this agreement, the municipality may agree to share or rebate a portion of any retailers' occupation taxes received by the municipality that were generated by the development or redevelopment over a finite period of time. Before entering into the agreement authorized by this Section, the corporate authorities shall make the following findings: (1) If the property subject to the agreement is vacant: (A) that the property has remained vacant for at

least one year, or

(B) that any building located on the property was

demolished within the last year and that the building would have qualified under finding (2) of this Section;

(2) If the property subject to the agreement is currently developed: (A) that the buildings on the property no longer

comply with current building codes, or

(B) that the buildings on the property have remained

less than significantly unoccupied or underutilized for a period of at least one year;

(3) That the project is expected to create or retain job opportunities within the municipality; (4) That the project will serve to further the development of adjacent areas; (5) That without the agreement, the project would not be possible; (6) That the developer meets high standards of creditworthiness and financial strength as demonstrated by one or more of the following: (A) corporate debenture ratings of BBB or higher by

Standard & Poor's Corporation or Baa or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc.;

(B) a letter from a financial institution with assets

of $10,000,000 or more attesting to the financial strength of the developer; or

(C) specific evidence of equity financing for not

less than 10% of the total project costs;

(7) That the project will strengthen the commercial sector of the municipality; (8) That the project will enhance the tax base of the municipality; and (9) That the agreement is made in the best interest of the municipality. (Source: P.A. 92-263, eff. 8-7-01.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-21) Sec. 8-11-21. Agreements to share or rebate occupation taxes. (a) On and after June 1, 2004, the corporate authorities of a municipality shall not enter into any agreement to share or rebate any portion of retailers' occupation taxes generated by retail sales of tangible personal property if: (1) the tax on those retail sales, absent the agreement, would have been paid to another unit of local government; and (2) the retailer maintains, within that other unit of local government, a retail location from which the tangible personal property is delivered to purchasers, or a warehouse from which the tangible personal property is delivered to purchasers. Any unit of local government denied retailers' occupation tax revenue because of an agreement that violates this Section may file an action in circuit court against only the municipality. Any agreement entered into prior to June 1, 2004 is not affected by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly. Any unit of local government that prevails in the circuit court action is entitled to damages in the amount of the tax revenue it was denied as a result of the agreement, statutory interest, costs, reasonable attorney's fees, and an amount equal to 50% of the tax. (b) On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, a home rule unit shall not enter into any agreement prohibited by this Section. This Section is a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. (c) Any municipality that enters into an agreement to share or rebate any portion of retailers' occupation taxes generated by retail sales of tangible personal property must complete and submit a report by electronic filing to the Department of Revenue within 30 days after the execution of the agreement. Any municipality that has entered into such an agreement before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly that has not been terminated or expired as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly shall submit a report with respect to the agreements within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. Any agreement entered into on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly is not valid until the municipality entering into the agreement complies with the requirements set forth in this subsection. Any municipality that fails to comply with the requirements set forth in this subsection within the 30 days after the execution of the agreement shall be responsible for paying to the Department of Revenue a delinquency penalty of $20 per day for each day the municipality fails to submit a report by electronic filing to the Department of Revenue. A municipality that has previously failed to report an agreement in effect on the effective date of this subsection will begin to accrue a delinquency penalty for each day the agreement remains unreported beginning on the effective date of this subsection. The Department of Revenue may adopt rules to implement and administer these penalties. (d) The report described in this Section shall be made on a form to be supplied by the Department of Revenue and shall contain the following: (1) the names of the municipality and the business

entering into the agreement;

(2) the location or locations of the business within

the municipality;

(3) a statement, to be answered in the affirmative or

negative, as to whether or not the company maintains additional places of business in the State other than those described pursuant to paragraph (2);

(4) the terms of the agreement, including (i) the

manner in which the amount of any retailers' occupation tax to be shared, rebated, or refunded is to be determined each year for the duration of the agreement, (ii) the duration of the agreement, and (iii) the name of any business who is not a party to the agreement but who directly or indirectly receives a share, refund, or rebate of the retailers' occupation tax; and

(5) a copy of the agreement to share or rebate any

portion of retailers' occupation taxes generated by retail sales of tangible personal property.

An updated report must be filed by the municipality within 30 days after the execution of any amendment made to an agreement. Reports filed with the Department pursuant to this Section shall not constitute tax returns. (e) The Department and the municipality shall redact the sales figures, the amount of sales tax collected, and the amount of sales tax rebated prior to disclosure of information contained in a report required by this Section or the Freedom of Information Act. The information redacted shall be exempt from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. (f) All reports, except the copy of the agreement, required to be filed with the Department of Revenue pursuant to this Section shall be posted on the Department's website within 6 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. The website shall be updated on a monthly basis to include newly received reports. (Source: P.A. 97-976, eff. 1-1-13; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13; 98-1098, eff. 8-26-14.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-11-22) (Text of Section from P.A. 101-10)Sec. 8-11-22. Certification for airport-related purposes. On or before September 1, 2019, and on or before each April 1 and October 1 thereafter, each municipality (and District in the case of business district operating within a municipality) must certify to the Department of Transportation, in the form and manner required by the Department, whether the municipality has an airport-related purpose, which would allow any Retailers' Occupation Tax and Service Occupation Tax imposed by the municipality to include tax on aviation fuel. On or before October 1, 2019, and on or before each May 1 and November 1 thereafter, the Department of Transportation shall provide to the Department of Revenue, a list of units of local government which have certified to the Department of Transportation that they have airport-related purposes, which would allow any Retailers' Occupation Tax and Service Occupation Tax imposed by the unit of local government to include tax on aviation fuel. All disputes regarding whether or not a unit of local government has an airport-related purpose shall be resolved by the Department of Transportation. (Source: P.A. 101-10, eff. 6-5-19.) (Text of Section from P.A. 101-27)Sec. 8-11-22. Municipal Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Law.(a) This Section may be referred to as the Municipal Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Law. On and after January 1, 2020, the corporate authorities of any municipality may, by ordinance, impose a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling cannabis, other than cannabis purchased under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act, at retail in the municipality on the gross receipts from these sales made in the course of that business. If imposed, the tax may not exceed 3% of the gross receipts from these sales and shall only be imposed in 1/4% increments. The tax imposed under this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax shall be collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The Department of Revenue shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty under this Section. In the administration of and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.(b) Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax liability hereunder by separately stating that tax as an additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount, with any State tax that sellers are required to collect.(c) Whenever the Department of Revenue determines that a refund should be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the Department of Revenue shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified and to the person named in the notification from the Department of Revenue.(d) The Department of Revenue shall immediately pay over to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Cannabis Regulation Fund.(e) On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department of Revenue shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the amount of money to be disbursed from the Local Cannabis Consumer Excise Tax Trust Fund to municipalities from which retailers have paid taxes or penalties under this Section during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) collected under this Section from sales made in the municipality during the second preceding calendar month, plus an amount the Department of Revenue determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not including any amount that the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the municipality, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in the certification.(f) An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax under this Section or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before the first day of June, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of September next following the adoption and filing. (Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 12 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-1) Sec. 8-12-1. This Division 12 may be cited as the Financially Distressed City Law. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-2) Sec. 8-12-2. (a) Pursuant to the authority of the General Assembly to provide for the public health, safety and welfare, the General Assembly hereby finds and declares that it is the public policy and a public purpose of the State to offer assistance to a financially distressed city so that it may provide for the health, safety and welfare of its citizens, pay when due principal and interest on its debt obligations, meet financial obligations to its employees, vendors and suppliers, and provide for proper financial accounting procedures, budgeting and taxing practices, as well as strengthen the human and economic development of the city. (b) It is the purpose of this Division to provide a secure financial basis for the continued operation of a financially distressed city. The intention of the General Assembly, in enacting this legislation is to establish sound, efficient and generally accepted accounting, budgeting and taxing procedures and practices within a financially distressed city, to provide powers to a financial advisory authority established for a financially distressed city, and to impose restrictions upon a financially distressed city in order to assist that city in assuring its financial integrity while leaving municipal services policies to the city, consistent with the requirements for satisfying the public policy and purposes herein set forth. (c) It also is the purpose of this Division to authorize a city which has been certified and designated as a financially distressed city under the procedure set forth in Section 8-12-4, and which has by ordinance requested that a financial advisory authority be appointed for the city and that the city receive assistance as provided in this Division, and which has filed certified copies of that ordinance in the manner provided by Section 8-12-4, to enter into such agreements as are necessary to receive assistance as provided in this Division and in applicable provisions of the Illinois Finance Authority Act. (Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-3) Sec. 8-12-3. As used in this Division: (1) "Authority" means the "(Name of Financially Distressed City) Financial Advisory Authority". (2) "Financially distressed city" means any municipality which is a home rule unit and which (i) is certified by the Department of Revenue as being in the highest 5% of all home rule municipalities in terms of the aggregate of the rate per cent of all taxes levied pursuant to statute or ordinance upon all taxable property of the municipality and as being in the lowest 5% of all home rule municipalities in terms of per capita tax yield, and (ii) is designated by joint resolution of the General Assembly as a financially distressed city. (3) "Home rule municipality" means a municipality which is a home rule unit as provided in Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. (4) "Budget" means an annual appropriation ordinance or annual budget as described in Division 2 of Article 8, as from time to time in effect in the financially distressed city. (5) "Chairperson" means the chairperson of the Authority appointed pursuant to Section 8-12-7. (6) "Financial Plan" means the financially distressed city's financial plan as developed pursuant to Section 8-12-15, as from time to time in effect. (7) "Fiscal year" means the fiscal year of the financially distressed city. (8) "Obligations" means bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness issued by the Illinois Finance Authority in connection with the provision of financial aid to a financially distressed city pursuant to this Division and applicable provisions of the Illinois Finance Authority Act. (Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-4) Sec. 8-12-4. In order to receive assistance as provided in this Division, a home rule municipality shall first, by ordinance passed by its corporate authorities, request (i) that the Department of Revenue certify that it is in the highest 5% of all home rule municipalities in terms of the aggregate of the rate per cent of all taxes levied pursuant to statute or ordinance upon all taxable property of the municipality and in the lowest 5% of all home rule municipalities in terms of per capita tax yield, and (ii) that the General Assembly by joint resolution designate it as a financially distressed city. A home rule municipality which is so certified and designated as a financially distressed city and which desires to receive assistance as provided in this Division shall, by ordinance passed by its corporate authorities, request that a financial advisory authority be appointed for the city and that the city receive assistance as provided in this Division, and shall file a certified copy of that ordinance with the Governor, with the Clerk of the House of Representatives and with the Secretary of the Senate. Upon the filing of the certified copies of that ordinance as required by this Section this Division and all of its provisions shall then and thereafter be applicable to the financially distressed city, shall govern and control its financial accounting, budgeting and taxing procedures and practices, and, subject to the limitations of subsection (a) of Section 8-12-22, shall remain in full force and effect with respect thereto until such time as the financial advisory authority established under Section 8-12-5 is abolished as provided in subsection (c) of Section 8-12-22. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-5) Sec. 8-12-5. For each financially distressed city to which this Division is applicable as provided in Section 8-12-4, there is established a body both corporate and politic to be known as the "(Name of Financially Distressed City) Financial Advisory Authority" which, in such name, shall exercise all authority vested in such Authority by this Division. The Authority shall constitute an agency of State government, and as such may receive and expend amounts appropriated by the General Assembly to the Authority to enable it to exercise and perform its powers and responsibilities under this Division. The financially distressed city shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by the Authority in the conduct of its powers and responsibilities under this Division. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-6) Sec. 8-12-6. Purposes and powers. (a) The purposes of the Authority shall be to provide a secure financial basis for and to furnish assistance to a financially distressed city to which this Division is applicable as provided in Section 8-12-4, and to request the Illinois Finance Authority to issue its Obligations on behalf of and thereby provide financial aid to the city in accordance with applicable provisions of the Illinois Finance Authority Act, so that the city can provide basic municipal services within its jurisdictional limits, while permitting the distressed city to meet its obligations to its creditors and the holders of its notes and bonds. (b) Except as expressly limited by this Division, the Authority shall have all powers necessary to meet its responsibilities and to carry out its purposes and the purposes of this Division, including, but not limited to, the following powers: (1) To provide for its organization and internal

management, and to make rules and regulations governing the use of its property and facilities.

(2) To make and execute contracts, leases, subleases

and all other instruments or agreements necessary or convenient for the exercise of the powers and functions granted by this Division.

(3) To approve all loans, grants, or other financial

aid from any State agency.

(4) To appoint officers, agents, and employees of the

Authority, define their duties and qualifications and fix their compensation and employee benefits.

(5) To engage the services of consultants for

rendering professional and technical assistance and advice on matters within the Authority's power.

(6) To pay the expenses of its operations. (7) To determine, in its discretion but consistent

with the requirements of this Division, the terms and conditions of any loans it may make to the financially distressed city.

(c) Any loan repayments received by the Authority from the distressed city may be deposited by the Authority into a revolving fund under the control of the Authority. Money in the revolving fund may be used by the Authority to support activities leading to a restructuring of the distressed city's debt and may be pledged by the Authority as security for any new debt incurred by the distressed city with the approval of the Authority. (d) From any funds appropriated to the Authority for the purpose of making a loan to a distressed city, the Authority may expend not more than $250,000 for the expenses of its operations in the fiscal year in which the appropriation is made. (Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-7) Sec. 8-12-7. The governing body of the Authority shall be a board consisting of 5 Directors. Directors shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. At least 2 Directors must be residents of the financially distressed city. The Governor shall select one of the Directors to serve as Chairperson during the term of his or her appointment. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-8) Sec. 8-12-8. The initial Directors shall be appointed, as provided in Section 8-12-7, within 30 days after this Division first becomes applicable to the financially distressed city as provided in Section 8-12-4. Of the initial Directors so appointed, 3 shall be appointed to serve for terms expiring 3 years from the date of their appointment, and 2 shall be appointed to serve for terms expiring 2 years from the date of their appointment. Thereafter each Director shall be appointed to hold office for a term of 3 years and until his or her successor has been appointed as provided in Section 8-12-7. Directors shall be eligible for reappointment. Any vacancy which shall arise shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the unexpired term and until his or her successor has been appointed as provided in Section 8-12-7. A vacancy shall occur upon resignation, death, conviction of a felony or removal from office of a Director. A Director may be removed for incompetency, malfeasance or neglect of duty at the instance of the Governor. If the Senate is not in session or is in recess when appointments subject to its confirmation are made, the Governor shall make temporary appointments which shall be subject to subsequent Senate approval. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-9) Sec. 8-12-9. The Chairperson shall preside at meetings of the Directors. The Directors may establish such offices and appoint such officers for the Authority as they may deem appropriate. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-10) Sec. 8-12-10. Any State agency or unit of local government, within its respective function, may render such services to the Authority as the Authority may request. Upon the Authority's request any such agency or unit of local government may transfer to the Authority such officers and employees as the Authority and any such agency or unit of local government deem necessary to carry out the Authority's functions and duties. Officers and employees so transferred shall not lose or forfeit their employment status or rights. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-11) Sec. 8-12-11. The Directors shall serve without compensation, but each Director shall be entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties as a Director. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-12) Sec. 8-12-12. (a) The Governor shall call the first meeting of the Authority. Thereafter, the Directors shall prescribe the times and places for their meetings and the manner in which regular and special meetings may be called. The Directors shall comply in all respects with the Open Meetings Act. The Authority shall be a public body to which The Freedom of Information Act applies. (b) A majority of the Directors holding office shall constitute a quorum for the conduct of business. The affirmative votes of at least 3 Directors shall be necessary for adopting any rule or regulation, and for any other action required by this Division to be taken by resolution, directive or ordinance. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-13) Sec. 8-12-13. In carrying out the purposes of this Division, and pursuant to Sections 8-12-14 through 8-12-24, as hereinafter provided, the Authority shall have the power to approve or to reject the Financial Plans, Budgets and contracts which are inconsistent with the Financial Plan and Budget of the financially distressed city; provided, however, that the Authority shall have no authority to impair any existing contract or obligation of the city; and provided further, that with respect to any multi-year employment contract or collective bargaining agreement authorized or entered into by the city in accordance with applicable statutes and ordinances, the Authority's power to approve or reject the same shall be limited to the first year of such contract or agreement as provided in Section 8-12-17. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-14) Sec. 8-12-14. The Budget of the financially distressed city for its first fiscal year commencing after this Division first becomes applicable to the financially distressed city as provided in Section 8-12-4, and for each subsequent fiscal year shall be balanced in accordance with such accounting system and procedures as may be prescribed by the Authority and the requirements of State law, with substantial progress toward balancing the Budget to be achieved during the remaining portion of what is the financially distressed city's current fiscal year at the time this Division first becomes applicable to the city as provided in Section 8-12-4. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-15) Sec. 8-12-15. The financially distressed city shall develop, adopt and submit to the Authority, within 45 days after this Division first becomes applicable to the city as provided in Section 8-12-4, for approval by the Authority, an initial Financial Plan with respect to the remaining portion of what is the city's current fiscal year at the time this Division first becomes applicable to the city as provided in Section 8-12-4 and for the 2 succeeding fiscal years. The city shall develop and adopt subsequent Financial Plans annually and during interim periods as directed by the Authority. Interim updates shall be directed only when the Authority in its discretion determines that a change in circumstances warrants such an update. The Authority shall require that each Financial Plan cover a period of at least 3 fiscal years. After adoption by the city, the city shall submit each plan to the Authority for its approval not later than 60 days prior to the commencement of the first fiscal year to which the Financial Plan relates. The Authority shall approve or reject the Financial Plan not later than 30 days prior to the commencement of the fiscal year. No Financial Plan shall have force or effect without approval of the Authority. Each Financial Plan shall be developed, submitted, approved and monitored in accordance with the following procedures: (1) The financially distressed city shall determine and submit to the Authority, at a time and in a manner prescribed by the Authority, estimates of revenues available to the city during the period for which the Financial Plan is to be in effect. The Authority shall approve, reject or amend the revenue estimates. In the event the city fails, for any reason, to submit to the Authority estimates of revenue as required by this paragraph, the Authority may prepare such estimates. The Financial Plan submitted by the city shall be based upon revenue estimates approved or prepared by the Authority. As soon as practicable following the establishment of the Authority, the corporate authorities of the city shall, at the request of the Chairperson of the Authority, make available to such Chairperson copies of the audited financial statements and of the books and records of account of the city for the preceding 3 fiscal years of the city. (2) Each Financial Plan for each fiscal year or part thereof to which it relates, shall contain: (i) a description of revenues and expenditures, provision for debt service, cash resources and uses, and capital improvements, each in such manner and detail as the Authority shall prescribe; (ii) a description of the means by which the Budget will be brought into balance in accordance with Section 8-12-14; and (iii) such other financial matters that the Authority, in its discretion, requires. The Authority may prescribe any reasonable time, standards, procedures or forms for preparation and submission of the Financial Plan. (3) The Authority shall approve the initial and each subsequent Financial Plan if, in its judgement, the plan is complete, is reasonably capable of being achieved, and meets the requirement set forth in Section 8-12-14. Otherwise, the Authority shall reject the Financial Plan. The Authority's review of the Financial Plan shall be in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and standards. No Financial Plan submitted by the financially distressed city shall be arbitrarily or capriciously rejected by the Authority. Any rejection by the Authority of any Financial Plan submitted by the city shall be in writing and shall state the reasons for the rejection. In the event of rejection, the Authority may prescribe a procedure and standards for revision of the Financial Plan by the financially distressed city. (4) The financially distressed city shall report to the Authority, at such times and in such manner as the Authority may direct, concerning the city's compliance with each Financial Plan. The Authority may review the city's operation, obtain budgetary data and financial statements, require the city to produce reports, and have access to any other information in the possession of the city that it deems relevant to the Financial Plan and the city's compliance with that Plan. The Authority may issue recommendations or directives within its powers to the city to assure compliance with the Financial Plan. The city shall produce such budgetary data, financial statements, reports and other information and comply with such directives. (5) After approval of each Financial Plan, the financially distressed city shall regularly reexamine the revenue and expenditure estimates on which it was based and revise them as necessary. The city shall promptly notify the Authority of any material change in the revenue or expenditure estimates in the Financial Plan. The city may submit to the Authority, or the Authority may require the city to submit, modified Financial Plans based upon revised revenue or expenditure estimates or for any other good reason. The Authority shall approve or reject each modified Financial Plan pursuant to paragraph (3) of this Section. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-16) Sec. 8-12-16. The financially distressed city shall develop, adopt and submit to the Authority, within 30 days after this Division first becomes applicable to the city as provided in Section 8-12-4, a revised Budget for the remaining portion of what is the city's current fiscal year at the time this Division first becomes applicable to the city as provided in Section 8-12-4 and, thereafter, an annual Budget for each subsequent fiscal year. After adoption by the city, the city shall submit each Budget to the Authority for its approval not later than 60 days prior to the commencement of the fiscal year to which the Budget relates. The Authority shall approve or reject the Budget not later than 30 days prior to the commencement of the fiscal year. No Budget shall have force or effect without approval of the Authority. Each Budget shall be developed, submitted, approved and monitored in accordance with the following procedures: (1) Each Budget submitted by the financially distressed city shall be based upon revenue estimates approved or prepared by the Authority, as provided in paragraph (1) of Section 8-12-15. (2) Each Budget shall contain such information and detail as may be prescribed by the Authority. Any deficit for a fiscal year or any portion of a fiscal year to which any Budget relates shall be included as a current expense item for the succeeding fiscal year. (3) The Authority shall approve each Budget if, in its judgment, the Budget is complete with respect to providing a detailed accounting of revenues and expenditures, is reasonably capable of being achieved, will meet the requirement set forth in Section 8-12-14, and will be consistent with the Financial Plan in effect. Otherwise, the Authority shall reject the Budget. The Authority's review of the Budget shall be in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and standards. No Budget submitted by the financially distressed city shall be arbitrarily or capriciously rejected by the Authority. Any rejection by the Authority of any Budget submitted by the city shall be in writing and shall state the reasons for the rejection. In the event of rejection, the Authority may prescribe a procedure and standards for revision of the Budget by the city. (4) The financially distressed city shall report to the Authority at such times and such manner as the Authority may direct, concerning the city's compliance with each Budget. The Authority may review the city's operations, obtain budgetary data and financial statements, require the city to produce reports, and have access to any other information in the possession of the city that the Authority deems relevant. The Authority may issue recommendations or directives within its powers to the city to assure compliance with the Budget. The city shall produce such budgetary data, financial statements, reports and other information and comply with such directives. (5) After approval of each Budget, the financially distressed city shall promptly notify the Authority of any material change in the revenue or expenditure estimates in the Budget. The city may submit to the Authority, or the Authority may require the city to submit, a supplemental Budget based upon revised revenue or expenditure estimates or for any other good reason. The Authority shall approve or reject each supplemental Budget pursuant to paragraph (3) of this Section. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-17) Sec. 8-12-17. (a) No contract or other obligation shall be entered into by the financially distressed city unless it is consistent with the Financial Plan and Budget in effect. No multi-year employment contract or collective bargaining agreement authorized or entered into by the city in accordance with applicable statutes and ordinances shall, with respect to any terms and provisions thereof which are operative after expiration of the first year of any such contract or agreement, be deemed inconsistent with a Financial Plan and Budget at any time in effect; provided, however, that any terms and provisions of a contract or agreement which would increase expenditures for salaries, benefits or other forms of compensation after the expiration of the first year of such contract or agreement shall be contingent upon the attainment of sufficient available revenues, considering all necessary expenditures, to support such increases. (b) The Authority may adopt, and from time to time amend, regulations identifying categories and types of contracts and other obligations that shall be subject to approval by the Authority and the procedure for submitting contracts for approval. Each contract or other obligation that is entered into by the financially distressed city and that requires approval by the Authority shall contain a provision stating (i) that it shall not become legally binding on the city unless and until it has received the approval of the Authority, and (ii) that the Authority shall approve the contract if, in the Authority's judgment, the information required to be submitted is complete with respect to the contract or other obligation being an authorized expenditure within the Financial Plan and Budget and the contract or other obligation is consistent with the Financial Plan and Budget in effect. No contract or other obligation that requires the approval of the Authority shall be legally binding on the city unless and until it has received the approval of the Authority. Subject to the foregoing, the prior approval of the Authority is not required in order for the city to enter into a contract. (c) The Authority shall approve the contract or obligation if, in its judgement, the information required to be submitted is complete and the contract or other obligation is consistent with the Budget and Financial Plan in effect. Otherwise, the Authority shall reject the contract or other obligation; provided, however, that any multi-year employment contract or collective bargaining agreement authorized or entered into by the city in accordance with applicable statutes and ordinances shall be approved by the Authority if, in its judgement, the terms and provisions operative during the first year of such contract or agreement are consistent with the Budget and Financial Plan in effect for that period, subject to the limitation that any terms and provisions of any such contract or agreement which would increase expenditures for salaries, benefits or other forms of compensation after the expiration of the first year of the contract or agreement shall be contingent upon the attainment of sufficient available revenues, considering all necessary expenditures, to support such increases. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-18) Sec. 8-12-18. The financially distressed city shall meet its debt service obligations as they become due. No other expenditure shall be made by the city unless it is consistent with the Financial Plan and Budget in effect. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-19) Sec. 8-12-19. The Authority shall appoint and shall have the authority to remove a financial management officer. The financial management officer shall have the responsibility for advising on the preparation of the Budget and Financial Plan of the financially distressed city and for monitoring expenditures of the city. The financial management officer shall be the authorized signatory for all expenditures made from the proceeds of any State loans provided for the benefit of the city pursuant to this Division or any other law of this State, and for all expenditures made from financial aid provided for the benefit of the city from Obligations issued by the Illinois Finance Authority for such purposes in accordance with applicable provisions of the Illinois Finance Authority Act. The financial management officer shall be an employee of and shall report to the Authority, may be granted authority by the Authority to hire a specific number of employees to assist in meeting responsibilities, and shall have access to all financial data and records of the city which he or she deems necessary for the proper and efficient exercise of such responsibilities. Neither the Authority or the financial management officer shall have any authority to hire, fire or appoint city employees or to manage the day-to-day operations of the city. (Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-20) Sec. 8-12-20. Upon direction of the Authority, the financially distressed city shall reorganize its financial accounts and its management and budgetary systems in whatever manner the Authority deems appropriate to achieve greater financial responsibility and control. The Authority shall not have the power to affect the taxing authority or to consolidate or reduce the restricted debt service funds of the city. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-21) Sec. 8-12-21. The Authority in its sole discretion may intercept any payments that the city from time to time is entitled to receive from any funds then or thereafter held by the State Treasurer to the credit of the city or otherwise in the custody of the State Treasurer to the credit of the city, whether in or outside of the State Treasury, upon the occurrence of any of the following: (1) The financially distressed city's initial

Financial Plan and revised Budget required to be submitted to the Authority with respect to the remaining portion of what is the city's current fiscal year at the time this Division first becomes applicable to the city as provided in Section 8-12-4 are not approved by the Authority within 60 days of their submission, and the Authority has theretofore given written warning notice to the corporate authorities of the city, on the 45th day after such initial Financial Plan and revised Budget were submitted, that the same have not yet been approved by the Authority; or

(2) Any Financial Plan or Budget for any subsequent

fiscal year is not approved by the Authority by the commencement of the fiscal year to which such Financial Plan or Budget relates, and the Authority has theretofore given written warning notice to the corporate authorities of the city, on the 15th day prior to the commencement of that fiscal year, that the Financial Plan or Budget for such fiscal year has not yet been approved by the Authority; or

(3) The financially distressed city materially

violates the provisions of this Division, and the Authority -- at least 15 days prior to initiating any action to intercept any payments pursuant to this Section -- has given the corporate authorities of the city written notice of the material violation and of the Authority's intention to intercept payments pursuant to this Section upon the expiration of that 15 day notice period unless the city satisfies the Authority within that 15 day period that the material violation cited by the Authority has been corrected; provided that the Authority shall not be required to give any notice to the city or its corporate authorities prior to initiating action to intercept payments pursuant to this Section if such payments are to be intercepted because of the city's failure to pay when due all amounts then due and owing and required to be paid by the city on Obligations issued by the Illinois Finance Authority in connection with the provision of financial aid to the city pursuant to this Division and applicable provisions of the Illinois Finance Authority Act.

The intercept shall be made pursuant to written notice given by the Authority to the State Comptroller and State Treasurer, setting forth the amount of the intercept, which may be an aggregate amount not exceeding the sum of the full amount of any outstanding State loans provided for the benefit of the city pursuant to this Division or any other law of this State, plus the full amount of all outstanding Obligations issued by the Illinois Finance Authority on the financially distressed city's behalf in accordance with applicable provisions of the Illinois Finance Authority Act. The State Comptroller and State Treasurer shall pay to the Authority, from such funds as from time to time are legally available therefor, the aggregate amount of the intercept, unless the Authority sooner notifies the State Comptroller and State Treasurer in writing that no further payments that the city is entitled to receive shall be intercepted under the provisions of this Section. (Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-22) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-22) Sec. 8-12-22. (a) After the Authority has certified to the Governor that the financially distressed city has completed 10 successive years of balanced budgets: (1) The powers and responsibilities granted or

imposed upon the Authority and the financially distressed city under Section 8-12-13 and Sections 8-12-15 through 8-12-21 shall not be exercised, except as otherwise provided under subsection (b) of this Section.

(2) The provisions of Section 8-12-14 shall continue

in full force and effect. The financially distressed city shall file with the Authority and with the Illinois Finance Authority, not later than 15 days prior to the commencement of the first fiscal year with respect to which the powers and responsibilities granted or imposed under Section 8-12-13 and Sections 8-12-15 through 8-12-21 are not to be exercised, and not later than 15 days prior to the commencement of each fiscal year thereafter, a balanced Budget as adopted by the financially distressed city for such fiscal year. In addition, for each fiscal year with respect to which the powers and responsibilities granted or imposed under Section 8-12-13 and Sections 8-12-15 through 8-12-21 are not to be exercised, the financially distressed city shall file with the Authority and with the Illinois Finance Authority a certified copy of the same audit report and supplemental report which are required to be made and filed for such fiscal year by the city under the Illinois Municipal Auditing Law, the filing with the Authority and the Illinois Finance Authority to be made within the time provided for the filing of such audit report and supplemental report with the State Comptroller under Section 8-8-4.

(b) The Authority and the Illinois Finance Authority shall review each Budget, audit report and supplemental report filed with them as provided in paragraph (2) of subsection (a). In the event the financially distressed city fails to file any Budget or certified copy of an audit report or supplemental report as provided in paragraph (2) of subsection (a), or in the event the Illinois Finance Authority, after consultation with the Authority, determines that the Budget adopted by the financially distressed city and filed as provided in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) is not balanced as required under Section 8-12-14, the Illinois Finance Authority shall certify such failure to file, or failure to adopt a Budget which is balanced as required, to the Governor; and concurrent with that certification, the Authority established under Section 8-12-5 and the financially distressed city shall resume the exercise and performance of their respective powers and responsibilities pursuant to each Section of this Division. (c) When the Illinois Finance Authority determines that all of its Obligations have been fully paid and discharged or otherwise provided for, it shall certify that fact to the Governor; and the Authority established under Section 8-12-5 shall be abolished 30 days after the date of that certification. Upon abolition of the Authority as provided in this subsection, this Division shall have no further force or effect upon the financially distressed city. (Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-23) Sec. 8-12-23. A financially distressed city to which this Division applies shall remain subject to all other applicable provisions of this Act, except as limited by this Division; provided, however, that in case of a conflict between the provisions of this Division and any other provision of this Act, the provisions of this Division shall control. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-12-24) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-12-24) Sec. 8-12-24. A home rule unit which is a financially distressed city to which this Division is applicable as provided in Section 8-12-4 may not employ financial or fiscal accounting or budgetary procedures or systems, nor place into effect any Financial Plan or Budget, nor enter into any contract or make any expenditure, nor otherwise conduct its financial and fiscal affairs or take other action in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this Division, until such time as the powers and responsibilities of the Authority are terminated as provided in Section 8-12-22. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units which are financially distressed cities to which this Division is applicable as provided in Section 8-12-4 of powers and functions exercised by the State. (Source: P.A. 86-1211.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 8 Div. 13 heading)

(65 ILCS 5/8-13-5) Sec. 8-13-5. Definitions. As used in this Article:"Assignment agreement" means an agreement between a transferring unit and an issuing entity for the conveyance of all or part of any revenues or taxes received by the transferring unit from a State entity."Conveyance" means an assignment, sale, transfer, or other conveyance."Deposit account" means a designated escrow account established by an issuing entity at a trust company or bank having trust powers for the deposit of transferred receipts under an assignment agreement."Issuing entity" means (i) a corporation, trust or other entity that has been established for the limited purpose of issuing obligations for the benefit of a transferring unit, or (ii) a bank or trust company in its capacity as trustee for obligations issued by such bank or trust company for the benefit of a transferring unit."State entity" means the State Comptroller, the State Treasurer, or the Illinois Department of Revenue."Transferred receipts" means all or part of any revenues or taxes received from a State entity that have been conveyed by a transferring unit under an assignment agreement."Transferring unit" means a home rule municipality located in the State. (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-13-10) Sec. 8-13-10. Assignment of receipts.(a) Any transferring unit which receives revenues or taxes from a State entity may (to the extent not prohibited by any applicable statute, regulation, rule, or agreement governing the use of such revenues or taxes) authorize, by ordinance, the conveyance of all or any portion of such revenues or taxes to an issuing entity. Any conveyance of transferred receipts shall: (i) be made pursuant to an assignment agreement in exchange for the net proceeds of obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit and shall, for all purposes, constitute an absolute conveyance of all right, title, and interest therein; (ii) not be deemed a pledge or other security interest for any borrowing by the transferring unit; (iii) be valid, binding, and enforceable in accordance with the terms thereof and of any related instrument, agreement, or other arrangement, including any pledge, grant of security interest, or other encumbrance made by the issuing entity to secure any obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit; and (iv) not be subject to disavowal, disaffirmance, cancellation, or avoidance by reason of insolvency of any party, lack of consideration, or any other fact, occurrence, or State law or rule. On and after the effective date of the conveyance of the transferred receipts, the transferring unit shall have no right, title or interest in or to the transferred receipts conveyed and the transferred receipts so conveyed shall be the property of the issuing entity to the extent necessary to pay the obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit, and shall be received, held, and disbursed by the issuing entity in a trust fund outside the treasury of the transferring unit. An assignment agreement may provide for the periodic reconveyance to the transferring unit of amounts of transferred receipts remaining after the payment of the obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit.(b) In connection with any conveyance of transferred receipts, the transferring unit is authorized to direct the applicable State entity to deposit or cause to be deposited any amount of such transferred receipts into a deposit account in order to secure the obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit. Where the transferring unit states that such direction is irrevocable, the direction shall be treated by the applicable State entity as irrevocable with respect to the transferred receipts described in such direction. Each State entity shall comply with the terms of any such direction received from a transferring unit and shall execute and deliver such acknowledgments and agreements, including escrow and similar agreements, as the transferring unit may require to effectuate the deposit of transferred receipts in accordance with the direction of the transferring unit.(c) Not later than the date of issuance by an issuing entity of any obligations secured by collections of transferred receipts, a certified copy of the ordinance authorizing the conveyance of the right to receive the transferred receipts, together with executed copies of the applicable assignment agreement and the agreement providing for the establishment of the deposit account, shall be filed with the State entity having custody of the transferred receipts. (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-13-11) Sec. 8-13-11. Liens for obligations.(a) As used in this Section, "statutory lien" has the meaning given to that term under 11 U.S.C. 101(53) of the federal Bankruptcy Code.(b) Obligations issued by an issuing entity shall be secured by a statutory lien on the transferred receipts received, or entitled to be received, by the issuing entity that are designated as pledged for such obligations. The statutory lien shall automatically attach from the time the obligations are issued without further action or authorization by the issuing entity or any other entity, person, governmental authority, or officer. The statutory lien shall be valid and binding from the time the obligations are executed and delivered without any physical delivery thereof or further act required, and shall be a first priority lien unless the obligations, or documents authorizing the obligations or providing a source of payment or security for those obligations, shall otherwise provide.The transferred receipts received or entitled to be received shall be immediately subject to the statutory lien from the time the obligations are issued, and the statutory lien shall automatically attach to the transferred receipts (whether received or entitled to be received by the issuing entity) and be effective, binding, and enforceable against the issuing entity, the transferring unit, the State entity, the State of Illinois, and their agents, successors, and transferees, and creditors, and all others asserting rights therein or having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise, irrespective of whether those parties have notice of the lien and without the need for any physical delivery, recordation, filing, or further act.The statutory lien imposed by this Section is automatically released and discharged with respect to amounts of transferred receipts reconveyed to the transferring unit pursuant to Section 8-13-10 of this Code, effective upon such reconveyance. (c) The statutory lien provided in this Section is separate from and shall not affect any special revenues lien or other protection afforded to special revenue obligations under the federal Bankruptcy Code. (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-13-15) Sec. 8-13-15. Pledges and agreements of the State. The State of Illinois pledges to and agrees with each transferring unit and issuing entity that the State will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in the State entities by this Article with respect to the disposition of transferred receipts so as to impair the terms of any contract, including any assignment agreement, made by the transferring unit with the issuing entity or any contract executed by the issuing entity in connection with the issuance of obligations by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit until all requirements with respect to the deposit by such State entity of transferred receipts for the benefit of such issuing entity have been fully met and discharged. In addition, the State pledges to and agrees with each transferring unit and each issuing entity that the State will not limit or alter the basis on which the transferring unit's share or percentage of transferred receipts is derived, or the use of such funds, so as to impair the terms of any such contract. Each transferring unit and issuing entity is authorized to include these pledges and agreements of the State in any contract executed and delivered as described in this Article. In no way shall the pledge and agreements of the State be interpreted to construe the State as a guarantor of any debt or obligation subject to an assignment agreement under this Division. (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-13-20) Sec. 8-13-20. Home rule. A home rule unit may not enter into assignment agreements in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this Article. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State. (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)