55 ILCS 5/5-25020
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 5 - Powers And Duties Of County Boards

 (from Ch. 34, par. 5-25020)Sec. 5-25020.     Withdrawal from consolidated health department.     Any  county which has established a county health department  or counties which have established a multiple-county health department  may withdraw from a consolidated health department for the purpose of  maintaining and operating an independent county or multiple-county  health department, as the case may be, or for the purpose of joining  with another adjacent county or other adjacent counties in maintaining  and operating a consolidated health department. Withdrawal for such  purposes may be effected by majority vote of the county board of the  withdrawing county which had established a county health department, or  by a majority vote of each county board of the withdrawing counties  which had established a multiple-county health department, before  joining the consolidated health department. In all withdrawals from  consolidated health departments, the county board of each county  proposing withdrawal shall seek the advice and concurrence of the  Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health before taking  action effecting withdrawal. The effective date of withdrawal shall be  June 30 following completion of the withdrawal agreements. The board of  health of the consolidated health department shall meet and the members  of the withdrawing and the remaining counties shall agree upon removal  of records, supplies, equipment and personnel by the withdrawing county  or counties. Withdrawal of any county or counties from the consolidated  health department does not alter the consolidation if the county or  multiple-county health departments remaining party to the union are two  or more. Discontinuance of any county or multiple-county health  department effected under the provisions of Section 5-25017 constitutes  withdrawal from a consolidated health department.Any county which is a member county of a consolidated health  department may also withdraw from the consolidated health department  upon approval by referendum, the proposition for which shall be placed  on the ballot at any general election by the county clerk on receipt of  a petition signed by not less than 10 per cent of the registered voters  of the county. The proposition shall be certified 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 read substantially as follows:    --------------------------------------------------------------Shall .... county withdraw the county        YEShealth department from the ............     ------------------consolidated health department?                  NO--------------------------------------------------------------If a majority of voters favor withdrawal the county shall arrange its  withdrawal effective June 30 following the referendum and shall settle  its affairs in the consolidated health department and resume operation  in the manner hereinbefore prescribed in this section.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)