2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS › 60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code. › Article 75 - Township Clerk

(60 ILCS 1/Art. 75 heading)
ARTICLE 75.
TOWNSHIP CLERK
(60 ILCS 1/75-5)
Sec. 75-5. 
		Custodian of records.
(a) The township clerk shall have the custody of all records, books,
and papers of the township and shall duly file all certificates or oaths
and other papers required by law to be filed in the clerk's office. This
Section is subject to the Local Records Act.
(b) The clerk may administer oaths and take affidavits in all cases required
by law to be administered or taken by township officers. The clerk may
administer oaths for absent voters as required by the general election law.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/75-10)
Sec. 75-10. 
		Township meeting records. 
		The township clerk shall record in the
book of records of the township the minutes of the proceedings of every
township meeting held in the township and shall enter in the book every order
or direction and all by-laws, rules, and regulations made by the electors at
any township meeting.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/75-15)
Sec. 75-15. 
		Copies of vote entries. 
		The township clerk shall deliver to the
supervisor, before the annual meeting of the county board of the county, in
each year, certified copies of all entries of votes for raising money made
since the last annual meeting of the county board.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/75-20)
Sec. 75-20. 
		Certification of taxes. 
		The township clerk shall annually, at
the time required by Section 18-15 of the Property Tax Code, certify to the
county clerk the amount of taxes required
to be raised for all township purposes.
(Source: P.A. 88-62; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
(60 ILCS 1/75-25)
Sec. 75-25. 
		Failure to make return; petty offense. 
		If a township clerk
wilfully omits to make a return required by this Article, he or she is guilty
of a petty offense and shall be fined, for each offense, not more than $10.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/75-30)
Sec. 75-30. 
		Deputy registration officer. 
		The township clerk, upon
appointment as a deputy registration officer by the county clerk under
the Election Code, shall have the powers and duties provided in the Election
Code.
(Source: P.A. 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/75-35)
Sec. 75-35. 
		Member of board of health. 
		The township clerk shall be
a member of the board of health for a public health district as provided in
the Public Health District Act.
(Source: P.A. 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/75-40)
Sec. 75-40. 
		Road district clerk. 
		In each road district comprised
of a single township, the township clerk shall be ex officio clerk for
the highway commissioner and shall have the powers and duties as provided in
Article 6 of the Illinois Highway Code.
(Source: P.A. 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/75-45)
Sec. 75-45. 
		Deputy clerk.
(a) The township clerk, when authorized by the township board, may appoint
one deputy clerk.
(b) The deputy clerk has the power and duty to do the following:
(1) Execute all documents required by law to be     executed by the township clerk and affix the township clerk's seal to those documents when required by law.  In signing a document, the deputy clerk shall sign the name of the clerk followed with the word "By" and the deputy clerk's own name and the words "Deputy Clerk".
(2) Attend bid openings with respect to the sale,     purchase, or lease of goods or services by the township or the road district comprised of that township.
(3) Attend township meetings and township board     meetings and take minutes of those meetings.
(c) The deputy clerk shall exercise the powers authorized under this Section
only in the absence of the township clerk from the place where the clerk's
office is maintained (in the case of powers described in paragraphs (1) and (2)
of subsection (b)) and only when (i) the clerk has directed the deputy clerk,
in writing, to exercise that power or (ii) the township board has determined by
resolution that the township clerk is temporarily or permanently incapacitated
to perform that function.
(Source: Incorporates P.A. 88-360; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)