Bill Text: IL HB1721 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning powers of counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1721 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB1721-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB1721 Introduced , by Rep. William Davis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/5-1005 from Ch. 34, par. 5-1005
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning powers of counties.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5-1005 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/5-1005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1005)
Sec. 5-1005. Powers. Each county shall have power:
1. To purchase and and hold the real and personal
estate necessary for the uses of the county, and to
purchase and hold, for the benefit of the county, real
estate sold by virtue of judicial proceedings in which the
county is plaintiff.
2. To sell and convey or lease any real or personal
estate owned by the county.
3. To make all contracts and do all other acts in
relation to the property and concerns of the county
necessary to the exercise of its corporate powers.
4. To take all necessary measures and institute
proceedings to enforce all laws for the prevention of
cruelty to animals.
5. To purchase and hold or lease real estate upon which
may be erected and maintained buildings to be utilized for
purposes of agricultural experiments and to purchase, hold

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and use personal property for the care and maintenance of
such real estate in connection with such experimental
purposes.
6. To cause to be erected, or otherwise provided,
suitable buildings for, and maintain a county hospital and
necessary branch hospitals and/or a county sheltered care
home or county nursing home for the care of such sick,
chronically ill or infirm persons as may by law be proper
charges upon the county, or upon other governmental units,
and to provide for the management of the same. The county
board may establish rates to be paid by persons seeking
care and treatment in such hospital or home in accordance
with their financial ability to meet such charges, either
personally or through a hospital plan or hospital
insurance, and the rates to be paid by governmental units,
including the State, for the care of sick, chronically ill
or infirm persons admitted therein upon the request of such
governmental units. Any hospital maintained by a county
under this Section is authorized to provide any service and
enter into any contract or other arrangement not prohibited
for a hospital that is licensed under the Hospital
Licensing Act, incorporated under the General
Not-For-Profit Corporation Act, and exempt from taxation
under paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the
Internal Revenue Code.
7. To contribute such sums of money toward erecting,

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building, maintaining, and supporting any non-sectarian
public hospital located within its limits as the county
board of the county shall deem proper.
8. To purchase and hold real estate for the
preservation of forests, prairies and other natural areas
and to maintain and regulate the use thereof.
9. To purchase and hold real estate for the purpose of
preserving historical spots in the county, to restore,
maintain and regulate the use thereof and to donate any
historical spot to the State.
10. To appropriate funds from the county treasury to be
used in any manner to be determined by the board for the
suppression, eradication and control of tuberculosis among
domestic cattle in such county.
11. To take all necessary measures to prevent forest
fires and encourage the maintenance and planting of trees
and the preservation of forests.
12. To authorize the closing on Saturday mornings of
all offices of all county officers at the county seat of
each county, and to otherwise regulate and fix the days and
the hours of opening and closing of such offices, except
when the days and the hours of opening and closing of the
office of any county officer are otherwise fixed by law;
but the power herein conferred shall not apply to the
office of State's Attorney and the offices of judges and
clerks of courts and, in counties of 500,000 or more

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population, the offices of county clerk.
13. To provide for the conservation, preservation and
propagation of insectivorous birds through the expenditure
of funds provided for such purpose.
14. To appropriate funds from the county treasury and
expend the same for care and treatment of tuberculosis
residents.
15. In counties having less than 1,000,000
inhabitants, to take all necessary or proper steps for the
extermination of mosquitoes, flies or other insects within
the county.
16. To install an adequate system of accounts and
financial records in the offices and divisions of the
county, suitable to the needs of the office and in
accordance with generally accepted principles of
accounting for governmental bodies, which system may
include such reports as the county board may determine.
17. To purchase and hold real estate for the
construction and maintenance of motor vehicle parking
facilities for persons using county buildings, but the
purchase and use of such real estate shall not be for
revenue producing purposes.
18. To acquire and hold title to real property located
within the county, or partly within and partly outside the
county by dedication, purchase, gift, legacy or lease, for
park and recreational purposes and to charge reasonable

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fees for the use of or admission to any such park or
recreational area and to provide police protection for such
park or recreational area. Personnel employed to provide
such police protection shall be conservators of the peace
within such park or recreational area and shall have power
to make arrests on view of the offense or upon warrants for
violation of any of the ordinances governing such park or
recreational area or for any breach of the peace in the
same manner as the police in municipalities organized and
existing under the general laws of the State. All such real
property outside the county shall be contiguous to the
county and within the boundaries of the State of Illinois.
19. To appropriate funds from the county treasury to be
used to provide supportive social services designed to
prevent the unnecessary institutionalization of elderly
residents, or, for operation of, and equipment for, senior
citizen centers providing social services to elderly
residents.
20. To appropriate funds from the county treasury and
loan such funds to a county water commission created under
the "Water Commission Act", approved June 30, 1984, as now
or hereafter amended, in such amounts and upon such terms
as the county may determine or the county and the
commission may agree. The county shall not under any
circumstances be obligated to make such loans. The county
shall not be required to charge interest on any such loans.

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21. To appropriate and expend funds from the county
treasury for economic development purposes, including the
making of grants to any other governmental entity or
commercial enterprise deemed necessary or desirable for
the promotion of economic development in the county.
22. To lease space on a telecommunications tower to a
public or private entity.
23. In counties having a population of 100,000 or less
and a public building commission organized by the county
seat of the county, to cause to be erected or otherwise
provided, and to maintain or cause to be maintained,
suitable facilities to house students pursuing a
post-secondary education at an academic institution
located within the county. The county may provide for the
management of the facilities.
All contracts for the purchase of coal under this Section
shall be subject to the provisions of "An Act concerning the
use of Illinois mined coal in certain plants and institutions",
filed July 13, 1937, as amended.
(Source: P.A. 95-197, eff. 8-16-07; 95-813, eff. 1-1-09;
96-622, eff. 8-24-09.)