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60 ILCS 1/153-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 153 - Township Library

Sec. 153-5.     Establishment and maintenance of library.     A township  may establish and maintain a public library as provided in the Illinois  Local Library Act.    (Source: P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/153-50
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 153 - Township Library

(60 ILCS 1/153-50)Sec. 153-50.     Township committee on literacy.(a) The township board of trustees may appoint a township committee on  literacy of at least 5 members, and shall initially establish the length of the  members' terms for one, 2, and 3 years, staggering the terms so that after the  initial appointments, the term of each member shall be for 3 years, and that  the smallest possible portion of the terms on the committee will expire in any  single calendar year.(b) The township committee on literacy may provide programs to combat  and prevent illiteracy and alliteracy and meet the basic skill needs of local  residents.(c) The township committee on literacy shall cooperate with existing  alliteracy and literacy programs, libraries, other governmental entities, and  with any other organization, association, agency, or person in the fostering,  development, and provision of local programs designed to combat and prevent  illiteracy and alliteracy and to meet the basic skill needs of local residents.(d) The township committee on literacy, with the approval of the  township board of trustees, may contract with other governmental entities  and with any other organization, association, agency, or person in order to  provide programs to combat and prevent illiteracy and alliteracy and to meet  the basic skill needs of local residents.(e) Members of the township committee on literacy shall select one of  its members to serve as chairperson and may elect any other officers as  necessary.    (Source: Incorporates P.A. 88-356; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
60 ILCS 1/Art. 155 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 155 - Township Public Comfort Stations

 ARTICLE 155.      TOWNSHIP PUBLIC COMFORT STATIONS
60 ILCS 1/155-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 155 - Township Public Comfort Stations

Sec. 155-5.     Public comfort stations.     Subject to Section 155-25, a township  board may provide for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of public  comfort stations.    (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/155-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 155 - Township Public Comfort Stations

Sec. 155-10.     Definition.     A public comfort station, within the meaning of  this Article, is an institution where waiting rooms, rest rooms, toilet rooms  for men and women, lavatories, check rooms, drinking water, and similar  facilities are freely available for the convenience of the public. In addition,  it may contain living quarters for attendants.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 488; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/155-15
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 155 - Township Public Comfort Stations

Sec. 155-15.     Acquisition of buildings and equipment.     In establishing,  equipping, and maintaining public comfort stations, the township may construct,  purchase, lease, or accept donations of ground sites, buildings, rooms, and the  necessary equipment, and may employ necessary attendants.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 488; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/155-20
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 155 - Township Public Comfort Stations

Sec. 155-20.     Tax.     A tax of not more than 0.03% or the rate limit in effect  on July 1, 1967, whichever is greater, of the value, as equalized or assessed  by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property within each township that  has established a public comfort station shall be assessed, levied, and  collected by the township in the manner provided for the assessment, levy, and  collection of other taxes for corporate purposes. The proceeds of this tax  shall be kept in a separate fund and shall be used for the establishment,  equipment, and maintenance of public comfort stations and for no other purpose.  The foregoing limitations upon tax rates may, however, be increased under  the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois.    (Source: P.A. 81-1509; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/155-25
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 155 - Township Public Comfort Stations

(60 ILCS 1/155-25)Sec. 155-25.     Referendum.     None of the powers conferred by this Article shall  be exercised unless the question of establishing public comfort stations has  been submitted to the electors of the township and approved by a majority of  the voters voting upon the proposition.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 488; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/Art. 160 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 160 - Township Monuments

 ARTICLE 160.      TOWNSHIP MONUMENTS
60 ILCS 1/160-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 160 - Township Monuments

(60 ILCS 1/160-5)Sec. 160-5. Township monuments; petition and referendum.(a) Upon the petition of 100 or more legal voters of a township being filed  with the township clerk praying that the proposition of erecting or completing  a monument or memorial in honor of its soldiers and sailors or other notable  persons buried in the township be submitted to the voters of the township at an  election, the township clerk shall certify the proposition to the proper  election officials, who shall submit the proposition to the voters of the  township at an election in accordance with the general election law.(b) The form of the proposition shall be substantially as follows:Shall a monument or memorial be erected in honor of     (the soldiers and sailors of the township or other notable person)?  The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".(c) If a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition are in favor of  it, the township supervisor, township clerk, and township treasurer, within one  year after the election, shall purchase or procure a site and erect the  monument or memorial.(d) Provisions for the payment and maintenance for the monument or memorial shall be made by  the proper taxing and financial officers in the same manner as for other  township expenditures.  (Source: P.A. 98-312, eff. 8-12-13.)
60 ILCS 1/Art. 170 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

 ARTICLE 170.      TOWNSHIP HOSPITALS
60 ILCS 1/170-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

Sec. 170-5.     Public hospital.     Any township having a population of less than  500,000 may establish, acquire by purchase or otherwise, construct, improve,  extend, repair, equip, maintain, and operate a public hospital under this  Article. If a township utilizes its authority to levy a tax under this Article  to establish, acquire by purchase or otherwise, construct, improve, extend,  repair, equip, maintain, and operate a public hospital, the township is  prohibited from carrying out these acts for the support of a public hospital  located outside of the township unless authorized by referendum.    (Source: P.A. 86-739; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/170-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

Sec. 170-10.     Petition and referendum.(a) On the petition of not less than 5% of the registered voters (according  to the voting registration records at the time the petition is filed) of any  township having a population of less than 500,000 (according to the last  preceding federal census) directed to the township clerk, requesting the clerk  to order an election for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the  township the question of whether the township shall establish, acquire,  purchase, construct, improve, extend, equip, maintain, and operate a public  hospital, with power to issue bonds and levy a tax for those purposes under  this Article, the township clerk shall certify the question to the proper  election officials, who shall submit the question at an election in accordance  with the general election law.(b) The vote shall be by ballot, and the proposition shall be in  substantially the following form:Shall (name of township) establish, acquire by     purchase or otherwise, construct, improve, extend, repair, equip, and thereafter maintain and operate a public hospital, and shall a board of directors for the management and operation of the public hospital be appointed with power to levy taxes and issue bonds for hospital purposes, under Article 170 of the Township Code?    The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".(c) The election shall be held and conducted in accordance with the general  election law. If a majority of the voters voting on the question vote in favor  of the question, the township may establish, acquire by purchase or otherwise,  construct, improve, extend, repair, equip, maintain, and operate a  public hospital as provided in this Article.    (Source: P.A. 86-739; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/170-25
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

Sec. 170-25.         Transfer of hospital; public hearing; recognition of  labor organization.(a) The board of directors by resolution may enter into contracts for the  transfer, sale, or lease of the public hospital and its facilities to a  responsible corporation, hospital, health care facility, unit of local  government, or institution of higher education, provided the transfer, sale, or  lease does not adversely affect access to the hospital by inhabitants of the  township.  At least 10 days before the adoption of a resolution under this  Section, the board of directors shall make the proposed resolution conveniently  available for public inspection and shall hold at least one public hearing on  the proposed resolution.  Notice of the hearing shall be published in one or  more newspapers having general circulation in the township 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 resolution will  be accessible for examination.(b) If, before the sale or lease of the hospital under this Section, a labor  organization has been recognized by the hospital as the exclusive  representative of the majority of employees in a bargaining unit for purposes  of collective bargaining, and if a purchaser or lessor subject to the National  Labor Relations Act retains or hires a majority of the employees in the  bargaining unit, the purchaser or lessor shall recognize the labor organization  as the exclusive representative of the majority of employees in that bargaining  unit for purposes of collective bargaining, provided the labor organization  makes a timely written assertion of its representational capacity to the  purchaser or lessor.    (Source: P.A. 84-738; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/170-30
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

Sec. 170-30.     Tax; annual appropriation ordinance.(a) The board of directors may levy a tax on all the taxable property within  the township for the purpose of maintaining and operating the public hospital  and for the purpose of repairing, improving, extending, and equipping the  public hospital. The aggregate amount of the tax for any one year, exclusive of  the amount necessary to be levied for the purpose of paying any bonded  indebtedness as authorized in this Article, shall not exceed the rate of3 mills  on each dollar of assessed value of taxable property in the township as  assessed and equalized for State and county taxes.(b) The board of directors shall establish by resolution the beginning and  ending of its fiscal year and annually within the first quarter of the fiscal  year shall adopt an appropriation ordinance appropriating the sums of money  deemed necessary to pay the cost of operating and maintaining the public  hospital and other expenses for the hospital, specifying the objects and  purposes for which the appropriations are made.(c) After adopting the appropriation ordinance, and on or before the second  Tuesday in September of each year, the board of directors shall ascertain the  total amount of appropriations legally made that are to be provided from the  tax levy for that year. Then, by an ordinance specifying the purposes for which  the appropriations are made, the board of directors shall levy not more than  the total amount ascertained upon all the property subject to taxation within  the township as the property is assessed and equalized for State and county  purposes. The Illinois Municipal Budget Law does not apply to the making of  appropriations by the board of directors.    (Source: Laws 1945, p. 1735; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/170-40
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

Sec. 170-40.     Rules and regulations for operation of hospital.(a) Every public hospital established under this Article shall be maintained  for the benefit of the inhabitants of the township by which it is established  who are sick, injured, or maimed, but every inhabitant of the township who is  not a pauper shall pay to the board of directors or to a designated employee of  the board reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine, or  attendance, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by the board. The  public hospital shall always be subject to reasonable rules and regulations  adopted by the board of directors to render the use of the hospital of the  greatest benefit to the greatest number. The board of directors may exclude  from the use of the hospital all inhabitants and persons who wilfully violate  any of the reasonable rules and regulations established by the board. The board  of directors may extend the privileges and use of the public hospital to  persons residing outside of the township upon terms and conditions prescribed  by the board of directors in its rules and regulations.(b) When a public hospital is established and in operation, the physicians,  nurses, attendants, patients, and all persons approaching or coming within the  limits of the public hospital, and all furniture and other articles used or  brought there, shall be subject to rules and regulations prescribed by the  board of directors.    (Source: Laws 1945, p. 1735; P.A. 86-739; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/170-45
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

Sec. 170-45.     Donated property.     Any person desiring to donate property for  the benefit of a public hospital may vest title to the property donated in the  board of directors. The board of directors shall hold and control the property  according to the terms of the deed, gift, or legacy and shall be a trustee of  the property. The board of directors shall take title to all property it may  acquire in the name of the township and shall control that property for the  purposes provided in this Article.    (Source: P.A. 83-388; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/170-50
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

Sec. 170-50.     Revenue bonds.(a) The board of directors may issue and sell revenue bonds payable from the  revenue derived from the operation of the hospital for the purpose of (i)  constructing, reconstructing, repairing, remodeling, extending, equipping,  improving, and acquiring a site or sites for a hospital building or buildings  or (ii) refunding any revenue bonds previously issued from time to time  in relation to the operation of the hospital when deemed necessary or  advantageous in the public interest.  These bonds shall be authorized by a  resolution without submission of the resolution to the electors of the  township, shall mature at a time not to exceed 40 years from the date of issue  and bear a rate of interest not to exceed the greater of (i) the maximum rate  authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making  of the contract, or (ii) 9% per annum, payable annually or semi-annually as the  board of directors may determine, and may be sold by the board of directors in  the manner they deem best in the public interest. The bonds shall, however, be  sold at a price so that the interest cost of the proceeds from the sale will  not exceed the greater of (i) the maximum rate authorized by the Bond  Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, or  (ii) 9% per annum based on the average maturity of the bonds and computed  according to standard tables of bond values.(b) With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this  Section either before, on, or after June 6, 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 Article 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 Article that may appear to be or  to have been more restrictive than those Acts.    (Source: P.A. 86-4; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/170-55
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

Sec. 170-55.     Resolution describing building and site.(a) The board of directors of any hospital availing itself of the provisions  of Section 170-50 shall adopt a resolution describing in a general way the  building or buildings (or addition or extension to the building or buildings)  to be constructed, reconstructed, repaired, remodeled, extended, equipped, or  improved and the site or sites to be acquired.  The resolution shall set out  the estimated cost of the construction, reconstruction, repair, remodeling,  extension, equipment, improvement, or acquisition and fix the amount of revenue  bonds proposed to be issued and the maturity, interest rate, and all details  concerning the bonds.  The resolution may contain provisions and covenants that  shall be part of the contract between the board of directors and the holders of  the bonds deemed necessary and advisable as to the operation, maintenance, and  management of the hospital, including (i) the establishment and maintenance of  sinking funds, reserve funds, and other special funds, including construction  funds; (ii) the fixing and collecting of rents, fees, and charges for the use  of the facilities of the hospital sufficient to produce revenue adequate to  maintain the funds and to pay the bonds at maturity and accruing interest on  the bonds; (iii) the issuance thereafter of additional bonds payable from the  revenues derived from the hospital; (iv) the kind and amount of insurance,  including use and occupancy insurance, to be carried, the cost of which shall  be payable only from the revenues derived from the hospital; and (v) other  covenants deemed necessary or desirable to assure the successful operation and  maintenance of the hospital and the prompt payment of the principal and  interest upon the bonds authorized.(b) Revenue bonds issued under this Article shall be signed by the chairman  of the board of directors and the secretary of the board of directors and shall  be payable from revenue derived from the operation of the hospital.  These  bonds shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of the hospital or the  township within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision or  limitation. It shall be plainly written or printed on the face of each bond (i)  that the bond has been issued under the provisions of this Article, (ii) that  the bond, including the interest on the bond, is payable from the revenue  pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on the bond, and (iii)  that it does not constitute an indebtedness or obligation of the hospital or  township within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision or  limitation.  No holder of any revenue bond issued under this Article has the  right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the hospital or township to  pay the bond or interest on the bond.    (Source: P.A. 82-230; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/170-60
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 170 - Township Hospitals

Sec. 170-60.     Redemption of bonds.     Revenue bonds issued under Section 170-50  may be redeemed by the hospital issuing them on terms, at a time, upon notice  and with or without a premium as provided in the resolution authorizing them.    (Source: P.A. 82-230; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/Art. 175 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 175 - Township Public Non-Sectarian Hospitals

 ARTICLE 175.      TOWNSHIP PUBLIC NON-SECTARIAN HOSPITALS