Division 24. Improvement of Certain Hospitals in Cities of Less Than 100,000  

    (65 ILCS 5/11-24-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-24-1)
    Sec. 11-24-1. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this Division 24, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, mean the following:
    (1) "Public hospital" means any hospital established and supported by any city of this state having a population of less than 100,000 inhabitants.
    (2) "Bonds" means bonds, interim certificates or other obligations of a municipality issued by its governing body pursuant to this Division 24.
    (3) "Public works project" means any reconstruction, improvement or betterment of a public hospital.
    (4) "To construct" means to reconstruct, to replace, to extend, to repair, to better, to equip, to develop, to embellish or to improve a public hospital.
    (5) "Construction" means building, repairing, construction, reconstruction, replacement, extension, betterment, equipment, development, embellishment and improvement of a public hospital.
    (6) "Federal agency" includes the United States of America, the President of the United States of America, the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or any agency, instrumentality or corporations owned or controlled by the United States of America, which has heretofore been or may hereafter be designated, created or authorized by or pursuant to any act or acts of the Congress of the United States of America, to make loans or grants.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11-24-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-24-2)
    Sec. 11-24-2. Every city of less than 100,000 inhabitants which has established and is supporting a public hospital may:
    (a) construct any public works project within or without the city or partially within and partially without the city.
    (b) operate and maintain any public works project.
    (c) contract debts for the construction of any public works project, may borrow money and may issue its bonds to finance all or part of such construction. Any such city incurring any indebtedness as aforesaid, shall, before or at the time of doing so, provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within 20 years from the time of contracting the same.
    (d) acquire by purchase, gift or grant, and may hold and dispose of any property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, or any right or interest in any such property in connection with any public works project.
    (e) perform any acts authorized under this Division 24 through or by means of its own officers, agents and employees or by contracts with corporations, firms or individuals.
    (f) do all acts and things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers expressly given in this Division 24.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11-24-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-24-3)
    Sec. 11-24-3. Except in pursuance of any contract or agreement theretofore entered into by and between any municipality and any Federal Agency, no city specified in Section 11-24-2 shall borrow any money or deliver any bonds pursuant to the provisions of this Division 24 after June 30, 1937.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)