(55 ILCS 5/Div. 6-1 heading)
Division 6-1.
Budget - Counties Not Required to
Pass an Annual Appropriation Bill
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(55 ILCS 5/6-1001) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1001)
Sec. 6-1001.
Annual budget.
In all counties not required by law
to pass an annual appropriation bill within the first quarter of the fiscal
year, the county board or board of county commissioners, as the case may
be, shall adopt each year an annual budget under the terms of this Division
for the succeeding fiscal year. Such budget shall be prepared by some
person or persons designated by the county board and such budget shall be
made conveniently available to public inspection for at least fifteen days
prior to final action thereon. The vote on such budget shall be taken by
ayes and nays and entered on the record of the meeting. The annual budget
adopted under this Act shall cover such a fiscal period of one year to be
determined by the county board of each county except as hereinafter
provided and all appropriations made therein shall terminate with the close
of said fiscal period except as hereinafter provided, provided, however,
that any remaining balances shall be available until 30 days after the
close of the fiscal year in counties with a population of less
than
100,000, and until 90 days after the close of the fiscal year in
counties
with a population of more than 100,000 but less than 3,000,000 inhabitants,
only for the authorization of the payment of
obligations incurred prior to the close of said fiscal period. Any county
which determines to change its fiscal year may adopt a budget to cover such
period greater or less than a year as may be necessary to effect such
change and appropriations made therein shall terminate with the close
of such period.
(Source: P.A. 90-777, eff. 1-1-99.)
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(55 ILCS 5/6-1002) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1002)
Sec. 6-1002. Contents of annual budget. The annual budget shall
contain:
(a) A statement of the receipts and payments and a
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(b) A statement of all moneys in the county treasury
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(c) Estimates of all probable income for the current
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(d) A detailed statement showing estimates of
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(e) A schedule of proposed appropriations itemized as
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(f) A detailed statement showing any bonuses or
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to the first budget prepared under the provisions of this Division.
The schedules of proposed appropriations for debt financing shall
indicate all funded or unfunded or floating indebtedness, the steps taken,
if any, to incur additional indebtedness, and the means and amounts
employed or to be employed for the reduction or payment of existing or
proposed indebtedness or for interest thereon.
The budget shall classify all estimated receipts and proposed
expenditures, and all amounts in the treasury of the county, under the
several county funds now provided by law.
At any point following the adoption of the annual budget, if the county
board determines by a 2/3 vote of all members constituting such board, that
revenue received, or to be received, by the county during the then present
fiscal year totals an amount substantially less than that projected at the
time of adoption of the annual budget for that fiscal year, such board,
by like vote, may adopt an amended budget for the remainder of the then
present fiscal year. The authority of the county board to amend the annual
appropriation ordinance at any point during the fiscal year shall be the
same as its authority to determine and adopt the original annual budget;
such amended budget shall be prepared as otherwise provided in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 98-419, eff. 8-16-13.)
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(55 ILCS 5/6-1002.5)
Sec. 6-1002.5. Capital Improvement, Repair, or Replacement Fund.
(a) In its annual budget, a county may appropriate an amount not to exceed
5% of the amount appropriated to the county's general corporate or operating
fund,
for the purpose of making specified capital improvements, repairs,
or replacements with respect to real property or equipment or other tangible
personal property of the county. Any amount so appropriated shall be deposited
into a special fund to be known as the County Capital Improvement, Repair, or
Replacement Fund ("the Fund"). Expenditures from the Fund shall be budgeted in
the fiscal year in which the capital improvement, repair, or replacement
will occur.
(b) Moneys shall be transferred from the Fund into the county's general
corporate or operating fund as follows:
(1) When a capital improvement, repair, or
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(2) When the county board determines that surplus
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Moneys transferred to the county's general corporate or operating fund under
this
subsection shall be transferred on the first day of the fiscal year following
the fiscal year in
which the unspent or surplus moneys were determined to
exist.
(Source: P.A. 94-644, eff. 8-22-05.)
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(55 ILCS 5/6-1003) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1003)
Sec. 6-1003.
Further appropriations barred; transfers.
After
the adoption of the county budget, no further appropriations shall be made
at any other time during such fiscal year, except as provided in this
Division. Transfers from one appropriation of any one fund to another of
the same fund, not affecting the total amount appropriated, may be made at
any meeting of the board by a two-thirds vote of all the members
constituting such board, the vote to be taken by ayes and nays and entered
on the record of the meeting. By a like vote the board may make
appropriations in excess of those authorized by the budget in order to meet
an immediate emergency.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/6-1004) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1004)
Sec. 6-1004.
Supplemental budget.
Any county board which has adopted
its annual budget may, by a like vote as is required for the adoption of
the annual budget, adopt a supplemental budget to provide for payment of
the expenses of the county in connection with elections of members of the
Constitutional Convention or elections called for submission to the
electors of any revision, alteration or amendments of the Constitution
adopted by the Constitutional Convention.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/6-1005) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1005)
Sec. 6-1005.
Contract or obligation in excess of appropriation.
Except as herein provided, neither the county board nor any one on
its behalf shall have power, either directly or indirectly, to make any
contract or do any act which adds to the county expenditures or liabilities
in any year anything above the amount provided for in the annual budget for
that fiscal year. Provided, however, that the County Board may lease from
any Public Building Commission created pursuant to the provisions of the
Public Building Commission Act, approved July 5, 1955, as heretofore or
hereafter amended, any real or personal property for county purposes for
any period of time not exceeding twenty years, and such lease may be made
and the obligation and expense thereunder incurred without making a
previous appropriation therefor, except as otherwise provided in Section
5-1108. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to deprive the board of
the power to provide for and cause to be paid from the county funds any
charge upon said county imposed by law independently of any action of such
board. Except as herein provided, no contract shall be entered into and no
obligation or expense shall be incurred by or on behalf of a county unless
an appropriation therefor has been previously made.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/6-1006) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1006)
Sec. 6-1006. Accounts for each fund. The county treasurer shall keep
a separate account with each fund to show at all times the cash balance
thereof, the amount received for the credit of such fund, and the amount of
the payments made therefrom. Except as otherwise provided, the county auditor in each county under
township organization containing over 75,000 inhabitants and the county
clerk in each other county shall keep a similar account with each fund, and
in addition shall maintain an account with each appropriation of each fund
to show: (a) the amount appropriated, (b) the date and amount of each
transfer from or to such appropriation and the appropriations to which or
from which transfers were made, (c) the amount paid out under the
appropriation, (d) the amount of outstanding obligations incurred under the
appropriation, (e) the amount of the encumbered balance of the
appropriations, and (f) the amount of the free balance of the appropriation. With respect to a County Bridge Fund, a Matching Tax Fund, and a Motor Fuel Tax Fund, the county auditor in a county under township organization containing over 75,000 inhabitants and the county clerk in each other county may, but is not required to, keep an account with each appropriation of each fund as referenced above.
(Source: P.A. 95-277, eff. 8-17-07.)
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(55 ILCS 5/6-1007) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1007)
Sec. 6-1007.
Non-compliance not to affect tax levy.
Failure
by any county board to adopt an annual budget or to comply in any respect
with the provisions of this Division shall not affect the validity of any
tax levy otherwise in conformity with law.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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(55 ILCS 5/6-1008) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1008)
Sec. 6-1008.
Violations.
Any person who violates, or who neglects or
fails to comply with, the terms of this Division commits a Class B
misdemeanor. In cases of violation of this Division by action of the county
board, each member of the board participating in such action shall be
subject to the aforesaid sentences.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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