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65 ILCS 5/11-15.4-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

Sec. 11-15.4-5. Definitions. As used in this Division:"Agricultural product" means an agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, aquacultural, or vegetable product, either in its natural or processed state, that has been produced, processed, or otherwise had value added to it in this State. "Agricultural product" includes, but is not limited to, growing of grapes that will be processed into wine; bees; honey; fish or other aquacultural product; planting seed; livestock or livestock product; forestry product; and poultry or poultry product."Aquaculture" means the controlled propagation, growth and harvest of aquatic organisms, including but not limited to fish, shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, algae and other aquatic plants, by an aquaculturist."Aquatic products" means any aquatic plants and animals or their by-products that are produced, grown, managed, harvested and marketed on an annual, semi-annual, biennial or short-term basis, in permitted aquaculture facilities."Department" means the Department of Agriculture."Livestock" means cattle; calves; sheep; swine; ratite birds, including, but not limited to, ostrich and emu; aquatic products obtained through aquaculture; llamas; alpaca; buffalo; elk documented as obtained from a legal source and not from the wild; goats; horses and other equines; or rabbits raised in confinement for human consumption."Locally grown" means a product that was grown or raised in the same county or adjoining county in which the urban agricultural area is located."Partner  organization" means a nonprofit organization that meets standards set forth by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and whose mission includes supporting small, beginning, limited resource, or socially-disadvantaged farmers within municipalities."Poultry" means any domesticated bird intended for human consumption."Qualifying farmer" means an individual or entity that meets at least one of the following:(1) is a small or medium sized farmer;(2) is a beginning farmer;(3) is a limited resource farmer; or(4) is a socially-disadvantaged farmer."Small or medium sized farmer", "beginning farmer", "limited resource farmer", and "socially-disadvantaged farmer" have the meanings given to those terms in rules adopted by the Department as provided in Section 205-65 of the Department of Agriculture Law."Urban agricultural area" means an area defined by a municipality and entirely within that municipality's boundaries within which one or more qualifying farmers are processing, growing, raising, or otherwise producing locally-grown agricultural products.  (Source: P.A. 102-555, eff. 1-1-22.)
65 ILCS 5/11-15.4-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

Sec. 11-15.4-10. Urban agricultural area committee.(a) The corporate authorities of a municipality that seek to establish an urban agricultural area shall first establish an urban agricultural area committee after it receives an application to establish an urban agricultural area under Section 11-15.4-15. There shall be 5 members on the committee. One member of the committee shall be a member of the municipality's board and shall be appointed by the board.     The remaining 4 members shall be appointed by the president or mayor of the municipality. The 4 members chosen by the president or mayor shall all be residents of the municipality in which the urban agricultural area is to be located, and at least one of the 4 members shall have experience in or represent an organization associated with sustainable agriculture, urban farming, community gardening, or any of the activities or products authorized by this Division for urban agricultural areas.(b) The members of the committee annually shall elect a chair from among the members. The members shall serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.(c) A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum of the committee for the purpose of conducting business and exercising the powers of the committee and for all other purposes. Action may be taken by the committee upon a vote of a majority of the members present.(d) The role of the committee shall be to conduct the activities necessary to advise the corporate authorities of the municipality on the designation, modification, and termination of an urban agricultural area and any other advisory duties as determined by the corporate authorities of the municipality. The role of the committee after the designation of an urban agricultural area shall be review and assessment of an urban agricultural area's activities.  (Source: P.A. 100-1133, eff. 1-1-19.)
65 ILCS 5/11-15.4-15
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

Sec. 11-15.4-15. Application for an urban agricultural area; review; dissolution.(a) A qualified farmer or partner organization  may submit to the municipal clerk an application to establish an urban agricultural area. The application shall demonstrate or identify:(1) that the applicant is a qualified farmer;(2) the number of jobs to be created, maintained, or     supported within the proposed urban agricultural area;(3) the types of products to be produced; and(4) the geographic description of the area that will     be included in the urban agricultural area.(b) An urban agricultural area committee shall review and modify the application as necessary before the municipality either approves or denies the request to establish an urban agricultural area.(c) Approval of the urban agricultural area by a municipality shall be reviewed every 5 years after the development of the urban agricultural area. After 25 years, the urban agricultural area shall dissolve. If the municipality finds during its review that the urban agricultural area is not meeting the requirements set out in this Division, the municipality may dissolve the urban agricultural area by ordinance or resolution.  (Source: P.A. 100-1133, eff. 1-1-19.)
65 ILCS 5/11-15.4-20
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

Sec. 11-15.4-20. Notice and public hearing; urban agricultural area ordinance. Prior to the adoption of an ordinance designating an urban agricultural area, the urban agricultural area committee shall fix a time and place for a public hearing and notify each taxing unit of local government located wholly or partially within the boundaries of the proposed urban agricultural area. The committee shall publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the area to be affected by the designation at least 20 days prior to the hearing but not more than 30 days prior to the hearing. The notice shall state the time, location, date, and purpose of the hearing. At the public hearing, any interested person or affected taxing unit of local government may file with the committee written objections or comments and may be heard orally in respect to, any issues embodied in the notice. The committee shall hear and consider all objections, comments, and other evidence presented at the hearing. The hearing may be continued to another date without further notice other than a motion to be entered upon the minutes fixing the time and place of the subsequent hearing.Following the conclusion of the public hearing required under this Section, the corporate authorities of the municipality may adopt an ordinance establishing and designating an urban agricultural area.  (Source: P.A. 100-1133, eff. 1-1-19.)
65 ILCS 5/11-15.4-25
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

Sec. 11-15.4-25. Taxation of property; water rates and charges.(a) If authorized by the ordinance that establishes an urban agricultural area under Section 11-15.4-20, a municipality may provide for the abatement of taxes it levies upon real property located within an urban agricultural area that is used by a qualifying farmer for processing, growing, raising, or otherwise producing agricultural products under item (11) of subsection (a) of Section 18-165 of the Property Tax Code. Parcels of property assessed under Section 10-110 of the Property Tax Code are not eligible for the abatements provided in this subsection; except that if real property assessed under Section 10-110 is reassessed and is subsequently no longer assessed under Section 10-110, that property becomes eligible for the abatements provided for in this Section. Real property located in a redevelopment area created under the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act and an urban agricultural area created under this Division may be eligible for an abatement under this Section, but only with respect to the initial equalized assessed value of the real property.(b) A municipality may authorize an entity providing water, electricity, or other utilities to an urban agricultural area to allow qualified farmers and partner organizations in the urban agricultural area to: (1) pay wholesale or otherwise reduced rates for service to property within the urban agricultural area that is used for processing, growing, raising, or otherwise producing agricultural products; or (2) pay reduced or waived connection charges for service to property within the urban agricultural area that is used for processing, growing, raising, or otherwise producing agricultural products.  (Source: P.A. 100-1133, eff. 1-1-19.)
65 ILCS 5/11-15.4-30
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

Sec. 11-15.4-30. Unreasonable restrictions and regulations; special assessments and levies.(a) A municipality may not exercise any of its powers to enact ordinances within an urban agricultural area in a manner that would unreasonably restrict or regulate farming practices in contravention of the purposes of this Act unless the restrictions or regulations bear a direct relationship to public health or safety.(b) A unit of local government providing public services, such as sewer, water, lights, or non-farm drainage, may not impose benefit assessments or special ad valorem levies on land within an urban agricultural area on the basis of frontage, acreage, or value unless the benefit assessments or special ad valorem levies were imposed prior to the formation of the urban agricultural area or unless the service is provided to the landowner on the same basis as others having the service.  (Source: P.A. 100-1133, eff. 1-1-19.)
65 ILCS 5/Art 11 prec Div 16 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 HEALTH REGULATIONS
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 16 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 16.      HEALTH BOARDS - GENERAL
65 ILCS 5/11-16-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-16-1)Sec. 11-16-1.         The corporate authorities of each municipality may provide  for and maintain a board of health, consisting of more than one person, and  to prescribe its powers and duties, except where a municipality has adopted  the provisions of Division 17.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 17 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 17.      HEALTH BOARDS IN MUNICIPALITIES OF FROM 100,000 TO 200,000
65 ILCS 5/11-17-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-1)Sec. 11-17-1.         When authorized in the manner provided by Section 11-17-2 the  corporate authorities of each municipality with a population of more  than 100,000 and less than 200,000 shall establish and maintain a public  health board for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the  municipality and shall levy annually a tax of not to exceed .075% of the  value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, on all taxable  property in the municipality. In those  municipalities in which a public health board has been established under  this Division 17 before July 24, 1967, the corporate authorities shall  levy annually a tax not exceeding .075% of the value, as equalized or  assessed by the Department of Revenue, on all taxable  property in the municipality. The tax levied under this Section shall be  levied and collected in like manner as are the general taxes of the  collecting municipality, and the money so collected shall be known as  the public health board fund. The tax shall be in addition to all other  taxes which the municipality is now, or may be hereafter, authorized to  levy upon the property within the municipality, and shall be in addition  to the amount authorized to be levied for general purposes as provided  in Section 8-3-1.If the municipality is situated within any county or multiple-county  health department for whose benefit a tax is levied under "An Act in  relation to the establishment and maintenance of county and  multiple-county public health departments", approved July 9, 1943, as  now or hereafter amended, the county clerk shall reduce and abate from  the tax levied by the authority of this Division 17 a rate which would  produce an amount equal to the amount of the tax accruing to the  municipality under the above-named Act.    (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
65 ILCS 5/11-17-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-2)Sec. 11-17-2.         When 100 electors of any municipality specified in  Section 11-17-1 present a petition to the clerk of the  municipality asking that an annual tax be levied for the establishment  and maintenance of a public health board in the municipality, the  municipal clerk shall certify the proposition for submission to the voters  of the municipality at an election in accordance with the general election  law. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:    --------------------------------------------------------------Shall the municipality of....            YESestablish and maintain a public health  ----------------------board and levy an annual tax therefor?       NO--------------------------------------------------------------If a majority of the electors voting upon the question are in favor  of the proposition, the corporate authorities of the municipality shall  proceed as provided in Section 11-17-1. Thereafter, the corporate  authorities shall include in the annual appropriation ordinance an  appropriation from the public health board fund of such amount as may be  necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of the public  health board.    (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
65 ILCS 5/11-17-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-3)Sec. 11-17-3.         When it has been decided to establish and maintain a public  health board under this Division 17, the mayor or president, with the  approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint a board of 5  directors, 2 of whom are duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery in  the State of Illinois and have been in the actual practice of their  profession, and the other 3 of whom are citizens of the municipality. The  directors shall be chosen with reference to their special fitness for that  office.One of the directors shall be appointed to hold office for one year, one  for 2 years, one for 3 years, one for 4 years, and one for 5 years from the  first day of July following their appointments. At the expiration of the  term of any director, the mayor or president, with the approval of the  corporate authorities, shall appoint a successor, or reappoint that  director, who shall hold office for 5 years and until his successor is  appointed and has qualified. A majority of the directors, with the consent  of the mayor or president and the corporate authorities, may remove any  director for misconduct or neglect of duty.Vacancies in the board of directors, however occasioned, shall be filled  in like manner as original appointments. No director shall receive  compensation for serving as a director. No director shall be interested in  a private capacity, either directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale  of any supplies for the public health board.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-17-4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-4)Sec. 11-17-4.         Immediately after their appointment, the directors shall meet  and organize by electing one of their number as president and one as  secretary and by electing such other officers as they may deem necessary.  They shall adopt such by-laws, rules, and regulations for their own  guidance and for the government of the public health board as may be  expedient and not inconsistent with this Division 17 or with the ordinances  of the municipality. They have the exclusive control of the expenditure of  all money collected to the credit of the public health board fund. All  money received for the public health board shall be deposited in the  municipal treasury to the credit of the public health board fund and shall  not be used for any other purpose. The money shall be drawn upon by the  proper municipal officer upon the properly authenticated vouchers of the  board of directors.The board has the power to appoint suitable assistants and other  employees and fix their compensation, and to remove such appointees. The  board, in general, shall carry out the spirit and intent of this Division  17 in establishing and maintaining a public health board. In a city which  has adopted or hereafter adopts Division 1 of Article 10, all  appointments and all removals of assistants or other employees shall be  made pursuant to the provisions of that Division 1 of Article 10 and not  otherwise, except that persons may be employed temporarily until persons  ranked upon the register under Division 1 of Article 10 for positions or  offices which are held under Division 1 of Article 10 are available for  service. Persons so appointed for temporary service shall hold their  positions as temporary appointees under Division 1 of Article 10.Each officer and employee of the public health board is an officer or  employee, as the case may be, of the municipality in which the public  health board is established.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-17-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-5)Sec. 11-17-5.         The public health board may initiate and maintain activities  for the promotion of maternal child health, industrial hygiene, mental  health, sanitary housing, public health education, and shall have the right  to inspect and regulate all food and milk products kept or offered for sale  within the jurisdiction of the board; may prevent and suppress contagious  diseases, and may initiate and maintain programs or activities which from  time to time may become necessary or proper for the promotion of public  health within the jurisdiction of the board.    (Source: P.A. 76-649.)
65 ILCS 5/11-17-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-6)Sec. 11-17-6.         The public health board may accept gifts or gratuities of any  kind, and may use such gifts or gratuities for any of the purposes  authorized by this Division 17.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-17-7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-7)Sec. 11-17-7.         The board of directors may lease or acquire and take title in  the name of public health board to such real estate as may be reasonably  necessary for the housing and the proper functioning of any and all  divisions of such health department and may make exchanges of real estate  and may maintain, repair, remodel, or improve the same when in the judgment  of the board of directors such exchanges, repairs, remodeling or  improvements are reasonably necessary. Such leasing, acquisition,  exchanges, maintenance, repairs, remodeling and improvements may be made  with monies of the public health board fund.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-17-8
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-8)Sec. 11-17-8.         Rules and regulations adopted or enacted into an ordinance in  conformity with Section 11-17-5 shall be enforced in the same manner as  municipal ordinances. Any person who violates any of these rules and  regulations is guilty of a petty offense and on conviction thereof shall be  punished by a fine of not less than $10, nor more than $100, for each  offense. Each day a violation continues is a separate offense.    (Source: P.A. 77-2500.)
65 ILCS 5/11-17-9
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-9)Sec. 11-17-9.         When the board of directors of any public health board  established and maintained under this Division 17 makes a written  recommendation to the corporate authorities for the discontinuance of  the public health board, stating in their recommendation the reasons  therefor, or when at least 20% of the electors of the municipality, as  shown by the last general municipal election, present a petition to the  corporate authorities asking for the discontinuance of the public health  board, the corporate authorities may pass an ordinance providing for the  discontinuance of the board.This ordinance shall be certified by the local clerk and submitted  to the electors of the municipality at an  election in accordance with the general election law. The ordinance  shall be effective only  if approved by a majority of those voting upon the question.The methods of discontinuance provided by this section and Section  11-17-10 are exclusive.    (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
65 ILCS 5/11-17-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-17-10)Sec. 11-17-10.     The question shall be substantially in the following form:     --------------------------------------------------------------Shall the public health board ofthe  city  (or  village  or                YESincorporated town, as the case may be)  ---------------------of.... as provided in  ordinance           NONo..... be discontinued?--------------------------------------------------------------    (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)