2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS › 60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code. › Article 90 - Corporate Powers Exercised By County Board

(60 ILCS 1/Art. 90 heading)
ARTICLE 90.  
		CORPORATE POWERS
EXERCISED BY COUNTY BOARD
(60 ILCS 1/90-5)
Sec. 90-5. 
		Township wholly within city. 
		In every township lying wholly
within any city of more than 50,000 population, all the powers vested in the
township shall be exercised by the county board of the county in which the
township is located, including all the powers vested in the electors at
township meetings and the township board. Where there is only one township
lying wholly within the city, however, the powers of the township board of that
township shall be retained by that township board.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/90-10)
Sec. 90-10. 
		County clerk and treasurer as township officers.
(a) The county clerk of the county in which a township described in Section
90-5 lies shall be ex officio township clerk and township assessor of each such
township, and the treasurer of the county shall be ex officio collector and
supervisor of each such township.  Those officers shall not be required to give
any additional bond on account of holding those township offices, but they
shall be liable on their official bonds for their acts as township officers in
the same manner and to the same extent as if the bonds had been given the
township officers.
(b) County clerks and county treasurers who become ex officio township
officers under this Article shall not maintain any other or
different public office as township officers than those provided and
maintained for them as county clerk and county treasurer.
(Source: Laws 1905, p. 397; Laws 1917, p. 794; P.A. 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/90-15)
Sec. 90-15. 
		Highway commissioner abolished. 
		The office of highway
commissioner is abolished in townships described in Section 90-5.
(Source: Laws 1901, p. 314; P.A. 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/90-20)
Sec. 90-20. 
		Application to new township. 
		Whenever, by the annexation of new
territory or otherwise, any new or additional township comes to lie wholly
within the boundaries of any city to which this Article applies, all the
provisions of this Article shall at once apply to that township.
(Source: Laws 1901, p. 314; P.A. 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/90-25)
Sec. 90-25. 
		Election to adopt Article.
(a) The electors of a township described in Section 90-5 may adopt and
become entitled to the benefits of this Article as provided in this Section.
(b) Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters of the township who voted at the
preceding election petition the circuit court for the county in which the
township is located to submit to a vote of the electors of the township the
proposition whether the township and the electors of it shall adopt and become
entitled to the benefits of this Article, the court shall consider the petition
and enter appropriate orders in accordance with the general election law. If
the petition is found sufficient and the court orders the referendum, the clerk
of the circuit court shall certify the proposition and the court order to the
proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition at an election in
accordance with the general election law.
(c) An election under this Article shall be conducted
in accordance with the general election law. If a majority of the votes cast
upon the proposition are for the proposition, this Article shall thereby be
adopted by the township, and the mayor of the city shall promptly issue a
proclamation declaring this Article in force in the township.
(d) If the proposition is not adopted at the election, it shall, upon a
similar petition, be submitted to a vote of the electors of the township by the
court at any subsequent general State, county, city, or township election.  An
order shall be entered of record in the court submitting the proposition as
provided in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489; 84-1308; 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/90-30)
Sec. 90-30. 
		Application. 
		Notwithstanding any provisions of this Article to
the contrary, this Article has no application to the office of township
assessor in townships described in this Article that are situated in counties
of 500,000 or more.
(Source: Laws 1947, p. 1733; P.A. 88-62.)