65 ILCS 5/11-94-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-94-2)Sec. 11-94-2.         Whenever the corporate authorities of a specified  municipality determine to construct or acquire and purchase or improve  natatoriums or swimming pools, indoor or outdoor tennis courts,  handball, racquetball or squash courts, artificial ice skating rinks or  golf courses, or any combination of said facilities and to issue bonds  under this Division 94 to pay the cost or purchase price thereof, the  corporate authorities shall adopt an ordinance describing in a general  way the contemplated project and refer to plans and specifications  therefor when the project is to be constructed.  These plans and  specifications shall be filed in the office of the municipal clerk and  shall be open for inspection by the public.This ordinance shall set out the estimated cost of the project,  determine the period of usefulness thereof, fix the amount of revenue  bonds to be issued, the maturities thereof, the interest rate, which  shall not exceed the greater of (i) the maximum rate authorized by the Bond  Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, or  (ii) 8% annually, payable annually or semi-annually and all  the details in connection with the bonds.  However, from the effective  date of this amendatory Act of 1976 through and including June 30, 1977,  such interest rate shall not exceed 9%.  The bonds shall mature within  the period of usefulness of the project as determined by the corporate  authorities.  The ordinance may also contain such covenants and  restrictions upon the issuance of additional revenue bonds thereafter as  may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of the payment of  the bonds thereby authorized.  The ordinance shall also pledge the  revenue derived from the operation of the natatoriums or swimming pools,  indoor or outdoor tennis courts, handball, racquetball or squash courts,  artificial ice skating rinks or the golf courses, or any other  recreational facility or any combination of facilities as the case may  be, for the purpose of paying maintenance and operation costs, providing  an adequate depreciation fund, and paying the principal and the interest  of the bonds issued under this Division 94.  The ordinance may also  pledge the revenue derived from the operation of existing natatoriums or  swimming pools, indoor or outdoor tennis courts, handball, racquetball  or squash courts, artificial ice skating rinks or golf courses, or any  combination of facilities.Within 30 days after this ordinance has been passed it shall be  published at least once 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 publication or posting of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a  notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition  requesting the question of constructing or acquiring and purchasing or  improving and operating such recreation facility and the issuance of bonds  to be submitted to the electors; (2) the time in which such petition must  be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum.  The municipal  clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.If no petition is filed with the municipal clerk within 30 days after  the publication, or posting of the ordinance, the ordinance shall be in  effect.  But if within this 30 day period a petition is so filed, signed  by electors of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of  registered voters in the municipality asking that the question of  constructing or acquiring and purchasing or improving and operating such  natatoriums or swimming pools, indoor or outdoor tennis courts, handball,  racquetball or squash courts, artificial ice skating rinks or golf courses,  or any other recreational facility or any combination of facilities, and  the issuance of such bonds be submitted to the electors of the  municipality, the municipal clerk shall certify that question for  submission at an election in accordance with the general election law.If a majority of the electors voting upon that question  vote in favor of constructing or acquiring and purchasing or improving  and operating the natatoriums or swimming pools, indoor or outdoor  tennis courts, handball, racquetball or squash courts, artificial ice  skating rinks or golf courses, or any other recreational facility or any  combination of facilities, and the issuance of the bonds, the ordinances  shall be in effect.  But if a majority of the votes cast are against  constructing or acquiring and purchasing or improving and operating the  natatoriums or swimming pools, indoor or outdoor tennis courts,  handball, racquetball or squash courts, artificial ice skating rinks or  golf courses, or any other recreational facility or any combination of  facilities, and the issuance of the bonds, the ordinance shall not go  into effect.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.This amendatory Act of 1975 is not a limit upon any municipality  which is a home rule unit.    (Source: P.A. 86-4; 87-767.)