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60 ILCS 1/135-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-10.     Joint agreement; referendum; board of managers.(a) The supervisors of any townships or the highway commissioners of any  road districts desiring to unite to establish and maintain cemeteries under  this Article may provide by agreement for the joint establishment and  maintaining of cemeteries. The agreement shall specify the site of the proposed  cemeteries and the proportionate share of the cost of acquiring and maintaining  the cemeteries that shall be borne by each of the townships or road districts.(b) The proposition for the joint acquisition and maintenance shall state  the proposed site of the cemeteries and the proportionate share of the cost of  acquisition and maintenance to be borne by the respective townships or road  districts.  The township board shall certify the proposition to the proper  election officials, who shall submit the question to the voters at an election  in accordance with the general election law.(c) If the proposition is approved by a majority of the voters in each of  the townships or road districts voting upon the proposition, the supervisor of  each township or the commissioners of highways of each road district shall  appoint 3 persons as managers of the cemeteries.  Those persons shall be known  as the board of managers.  They shall be residents of the respective townships  or road districts from which they are appointed and shall hold their office for  a term of 4 years and until their successors are appointed.    (Source: P.A. 81-1489; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-15
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-15.     Vacancies in board of managers.     Vacancies in the board of  managers occasioned by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise shall be  reported by the board to the township supervisors or highway commissioners and  shall be filled, in the same manner as original appointments, by the supervisor  of the township or highway commissioner of the road district in which the  deceased, resigned, removed, or retiring member resided.    (Source: Laws 1945, p. 388; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-20
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-20. Powers of board of managers. The board of managers shall  control and manage the cemeteries jointly acquired by the townships or road  districts. The board of managers may receive in trust from the proprietors or  owners of any lot in the cemeteries, or any person, corporation, association,  or society interested in the maintenance of those cemeteries, any gift or  legacy of money or real, personal, or mixed property that is donated or  bequeathed to the board of managers for the use and maintenance of the lot or  cemeteries. The board of managers may convert the property into money, may  invest the money in securities in which trust funds may be invested under the Illinois Trust Code, and may apply the income perpetually for the care of  the lot or the care and maintenance of the cemeteries as specified in the gift  or legacy or as provided by the board of managers if the gift or legacy does  not specify the manner in which the income is to be expended.  (Source: P.A. 101-48, eff. 1-1-20.)
60 ILCS 1/135-25
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-25.     Vesting of gift or legacy.     Every gift or legacy for any of the  purposes set forth in Section 135-20 made to a cemetery by its name, if the  cemetery has a board of managers appointed under this Article, shall vest in  that board and take effect for all purposes as if made to that board and shall  not fail merely because the cemetery is not incorporated.    (Source: P.A. 83-388; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-30
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-30.     Organization of board; treasurer and bond.(a) The board of managers, as soon as may be convenient after appointment,  shall meet and organize by selecting one of its members to be president and  another of its members to be clerk.(b) The board shall also select a treasurer, who need not be a member of the  board. The treasurer, before entering upon his duties, shall execute a bond to  the People of the State of Illinois for the use of the board of managers, in a  penal sum not less than double the value of the money and property coming into  his or her hands as treasurer, conditioned for the faithful performance of the  treasurer's duties and for the faithful accounting for all money and property  that, by virtue of the office, comes into the treasurer's hands.  The bond  shall be in a form and with sureties approved by the township supervisors or  the highway commissioners and shall be filed with the township clerk of one of  the townships as determined by the supervisors or with the district clerk of  one of the road districts as determined by the highway commissioners.    (Source: Laws 1945, p. 388; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-35
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-35.     Treasurer as custodian; annual report.(a) The treasurer shall have custody of all money and property received  in trust by the board of managers and shall pay out the money and property only  upon the written order of the board, signed by at least 4 of its members.  The  treasurer shall keep permanent books of record of all trust funds, all receipts  and disbursements of trust funds, and for what purposes trust funds were  received and disbursed.(b) The treasurer shall, on or before the first day of July of each year,  make a report in writing to the board of managers, under oath, showing  balances, receipts, and disbursements, including a statement showing the amount  and principal of trust funds on hand and how invested.  The report shall be  audited by the board and, if found correct, shall be transmitted to the  township supervisors or highway commissioners. If the report is approved by the  supervisors or highway commissioners, it shall be filed by them with the same  township or district clerk with whom the treasurer's bond is filed under  Section 135-30.    (Source: Laws 1945, p. 388; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-40
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-40.     Clerk's records; annual report.(a) The clerk of the board of managers, in a book provided for that purpose,  shall keep a permanent record of the proceedings of the board, signed by the  president and attested by the clerk, and shall also keep a permanent record of  the several trust funds, from what sources the trust funds were received, the  amounts of the trust funds, and for what uses and purposes the trust funds were  received.(b) The clerk shall annually, on or before the first day of July, make a  report in writing, under oath, to the township supervisors or highway  commissioners as to the same matters required to be reported by the treasurer  of the board of managers under subsection (b) of Section 135-35.  The report,  if found to be correct by the supervisors or highway commissioners, shall be  approved by them and preserved by the board of managers.    (Source: Laws 1945, p. 388; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-45
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-45.     Removal of officers; accounting.     The township supervisors or  highway commissioners may remove from office any or all of the members of the  board of managers or the treasurer of the board for nonperformance of duties or  for misappropriation or wrongful use of funds or property held by them as  trustees for the cemeteries.  The supervisors or highway commissioners may  require a just and proper accounting for the use of those funds or property.    (Source: Laws 1945, p. 388; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-50
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-50.     Tax; petition and referendum.(a) When 50 legal voters of each township or road district present a  petition to the board of managers asking that an annual tax be levied for the  control and maintenance of cemeteries under this Article, the board  shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall  submit the proposition to the voters at an election in accordance with the  general election law. The proposition shall be in substantially the following  form: "For the levy of a tax to control and maintain cemeteries" or "Against  the levy of a tax to control and maintain cemeteries".(b) If a majority of all the votes cast in each township or road district  upon the proposition is for a levy of the tax, the board of managers shall  thereafter annually levy a tax, upon all property taxable by the townships or  road districts, of not more than 0.10% of value, as equalized or assessed by  the Department of Revenue, in each township or road district.(c) The tax shall be collected in the same manner as other general  taxes in the townships and road districts and, when collected, shall be  deposited into a separate fund known as the Cemetery Fund.(d) The tax shall be in addition to all other taxes that the townships or  road districts are authorized to levy and collect.(e) The limitations upon tax rates in subsection (b) are subject to the  provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois.    (Source: P.A. 81-1489; 81-1509; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-55
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-55.     Ordinances; violation; jurors.(a) The board of managers may pass ordinances for the government of the  cemeteries, including ordinances relating to the operating and speed of motor  vehicles and the use of lots, walks, ponds, water courses, vaults, buildings,  and other places within the cemeteries, and for the maintenance of good order  and quiet in the cemeteries.  A person found guilty of violating any ordinance  is guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than  $100.(b) No person shall be disqualified from acting as a juror in a cause under  subsection (a) because of any interest or ownership he or she may have in the  lots of the cemeteries.    (Source: P.A. 77-2341; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-60
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

Sec. 135-60.     Policemen.     The board of managers may appoint policemen  to protect the cemeteries and preserve order in the cemeteries.  The policemen  have the same power with respect to any offenses  committed in the cemeteries,  or any violation of Section 135-55, that city marshals or policemen in cities  have with respect to maintaining order in those cities or arresting persons for  offenses committed in those cities.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 1, p. 284; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/135-65
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 135 - Joint Township Cemeteries

(60 ILCS 1/135-65)Sec. 135-65.     Transfer of funds.     When a multi-township  cemetery  district takes over a cemetery or cemetery authority, the care fund of the  cemetery or cemetery authority shall be transferred into the cemetery district  fund of the multi-township cemetery district.    (Source: P.A. 91-181, eff. 1-1-00.)
60 ILCS 1/Art. 140 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 140 - Township Halls

 ARTICLE 140.      TOWNSHIP HALLS
60 ILCS 1/140-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 140 - Township Halls

Sec. 140-5. Petition and referendum for township hall.(a) Whenever it is desired to build, purchase, or lease, for a longer period  than 10 years, a township hall, a multi-purpose senior center, or a  combined  township hall and multi-purpose senior center in any township, at least 25  electors of the township may, before the time of giving notice of the annual  township meeting, file with the township clerk a petition in writing that the  proposition of building, purchasing, or leasing a township hall, a  multi-purpose senior center, or a combination township hall and multi-purpose  senior center and issuing bonds for the building, purchase, or lease be  submitted to the voters of the township at the next ensuing general election.  The proposition shall be clearly stated in the petition substantially as  follows: "Shall (name of township) borrow $(amount) to (build, purchase, or  lease) a (township hall, multi-purpose senior center, or combination  multi-purpose township hall and senior center) and issue bonds for the  (building, purchase, or lease)?" The petition shall be filed in the office of  the township clerk.(b) The township clerk shall certify the proposition to the proper election  officials, who shall submit the proposition to the legal voters of the township  at an election in accordance with the general election law. The form of the  proposition shall be substantially as follows:Shall (name of township) borrow $(amount) to (build,     purchase, or lease) a (township hall, multi-purpose senior center, or combination township hall and multi-purpose senior center) and issue bonds for the (building, purchase, or lease)?   The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".(c) Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, any township may, by ordinance or resolution, build, purchase, or lease a township hall, a multi-purpose senior center, or a combined township hall and multi-purpose senior center within the township without referendum approval, if the building, purchasing, or leasing of the township hall, multi-purpose senior center, or combined township hall and multi-purpose senior center is paid or provided for with funds that are not the proceeds of bonds authorized under this Article. (Source: P.A. 96-1397, eff. 7-29-10.)
60 ILCS 1/140-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 140 - Township Halls

Sec. 140-10.     Issuance of bonds; terms.(a) If a majority of the votes on the question under Section 140-5 are in  favor of the question, the township may issue the bonds. To effectuate the  issuance of the bonds, the township board shall adopt a resolution authorizing  the issuance of the bonds, prescribing all the details of the issuance and  stating when the principal and interest shall become payable and the place of  payment.  These bonds shall be sold in a manner, at a price, and in  denominations determined by the township board.  The amount of the bonds issued  shall not exceed 2.3% of the value of the taxable property of the township as  ascertained by the assessment for the State and county taxes for the preceding  year or, until January 1, 1983, if greater, the sum that is produced by  multiplying the township's 1978 equalized assessed valuation by the debt  limitation percentage in effect on January 1, 1979, nor shall the amount of the  bonds issued exceed, including the then existing indebtedness of the township,  5.75% of the value of the taxable property of the township as ascertained by  the assessment for the State and county taxes for the preceding year.(b) If a majority of the legal voters voting on the proposition at an  election held under this Article vote in favor of issuing the bonds, the  township board may thereafter issue bonds in an amount not to exceed that  approved by the voters at the election. The bonds shall be signed and executed  in the name of the township by the members of the township board or by a  majority of those members, shall mature not later than 20 years from the date  of  issuance, and 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 bonds shall be sold at not less than par.(c) 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; 87-1254; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/140-15
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 140 - Township Halls

(60 ILCS 1/140-15)Sec. 140-15.     Tax.     The township board shall, in the resolution authorizing  the bonds, provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay  the interest and principal of the bonds as each falls due. A certified copy of  the resolution authorizing the bonds and levying the tax shall be filed in the  office of the county clerk of the county in which the township is located, and  the county clerk shall extend annually against the property in the township a  tax sufficient to raise in each year the amount provided in the resolution for  the payment of principal and interest in that year.    (Source: P.A. 86-4; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/Art. 145 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 145 - Township Hall, Township Coextensive With City

 ARTICLE 145.      TOWNSHIP HALL, TOWNSHIP COEXTENSIVE WITH CITY
60 ILCS 1/145-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 145 - Township Hall, Township Coextensive With City

Sec. 145-5. Petition and referendum to build or purchase township hall.(a) Whenever it is desired to build or purchase a township hall in any  township whose boundaries are coextensive with the limits of an incorporated  city, 25 electors of the township may, before the time of giving notice of the  annual township meeting, file with the township clerk a petition in writing  that the proposition of building or purchasing a township hall, as the case may  be, and the issuing of bonds for the building or purchase be submitted to the  voters of the township at an election.  The proposition shall be clearly stated  in the petition substantially as follows: "Shall (name of township) borrow  $(amount) to build or purchase a township hall and issue bonds for the building  or purchase?" The petition shall be filed in the office of the township clerk.(b) The township clerk shall certify the proposition to the proper election  officials, who shall submit the proposition to the legal voters of the township  at an election held in accordance with the general election law. The form of  the proposition shall be substantially as follows:Shall (name of township) borrow $(amount) to build or     purchase a township hall and issue bonds for the building or purchase?  The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".(c) Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, any township whose boundaries are coextensive with the limits of an incorporated city may, by ordinance or resolution, build or purchase a township hall without referendum approval, if the building or purchasing of the township hall is paid or provided for with funds that are not the proceeds of bonds authorized under this Article. (Source: P.A. 96-1397, eff. 7-29-10.)
60 ILCS 1/145-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 145 - Township Hall, Township Coextensive With City

Sec. 145-10.     Issuance of bonds; terms.(a) If a majority of the votes cast on the question under Section 145-5 are  in favor of the question, the township may issue bonds in denominations of not  less than $100 nor more than $1,000 each, payable respectively in not less than  one nor more than 20 years, with interest payable annually of not more than 6%  per annum. The amount of the bonds issued shall not exceed 2.3% of the value of  taxable property of the township as ascertained by the assessment for the State  and county tax for the preceding year or, until January 1, 1983, if greater,  the sum that is produced by multiplying the township's 1978 equalized assessed  valuation by the debt limitation percentage in effect on January 1, 1979, nor  shall the amount of the bonds exceed, including the then existing indebtedness  of the township, 5.75% of the value of the taxable property of the township as  ascertained by the assessment for the State and county tax for the preceding  year.(b) If a majority of the legal voters voting on the proposition are in favor  of the proposition, the supervisor and township clerk shall issue a sufficient  amount, in the aggregate, of the bonds of the township for the purpose of  building or purchasing, as the case may be, a township hall, not to exceed the  amount voted upon under Section 145-5. The bonds shall not be sold or disposed  of for less than their par value.     (Source: Laws 1907, p. 572; P.A. 81-1550; 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/145-15
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 145 - Township Hall, Township Coextensive With City

Sec. 145-15.     City tax.     The city council of the city whose territory is  coextensive with the township 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 within 20 years from the time of contracting  the debt.  The amount of the tax shall be certified to the county clerk by the  township clerk annually at the time required by law, shall be extended by the  county clerk against the taxable property of the township as other taxes, and  shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are  collected. The tax, when collected, shall be held by the township collector as  a fund out of which shall be paid the bonds and the interest on the bonds  according to the tenor and effect of the bonds, upon the order of the  supervisor and township clerk.    (Source: Laws 1907, p. 572; P.A. 88-62.)
60 ILCS 1/145-20
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 145 - Township Hall, Township Coextensive With City

(60 ILCS 1/145-20)Sec. 145-20.         "Building" or "purchasing" a township hall, as used in this  Article, means the purchasing of real estate upon which to build the township  hall or upon which the township hall is situated, as well as to build  or  purchase the township hall.    (Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)
60 ILCS 1/Art. 150 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 150 - Township Community Buildings

 ARTICLE 150.      TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY BUILDINGS
60 ILCS 1/150-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS|60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.|Article 150 - Township Community Buildings

Sec. 150-5.     Bonds for community buildings.     Subject to the provisions of this  Article, any township having a population of not more than 25,000 may issue  bonds for the purpose of purchasing, erecting, equipping, remodeling, or  renovating community buildings.    (Source: P.A. 88-62; incorporates 88-360; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)