Bill Text: IL HB0547 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Increases the base amount from $20,000 to $30,000 for public improvement or maintenance of public property at which a municipality must enter into a contract by public bid or four-fifths council approval. If the contract is approved by council, increases the base amount of expenses that must be taken by public bid from $20,000 to $30,000. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-25 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0338 [HB0547 Detail]

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB0547 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Zalewski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/4-5-11 from Ch. 24, par. 4-5-11
65 ILCS 5/8-9-1 from Ch. 24, par. 8-9-1
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Increases the base amount from $20,000 to $30,000 for public improvement or maintenance of public property at which a municipality must enter into a contract by public bid or four-fifths council approval. If the contract is approved by council, increases the base amount of expenses that must be taken by public bid from $20,000 to $30,000. Effective immediately.
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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 Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Sections 4-5-11 and 8-9-1 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/4-5-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 4-5-11)
Sec. 4-5-11. Except as otherwise provided, all contracts,
of whatever character, pertaining to public improvement, or to
the maintenance of the public property of a municipality
involving an outlay of $10,000 or more, shall be based upon
specifications to be approved by the council. Any work or other
public improvement which is not to be paid for in whole or in
part by special assessment or special taxation, when the
expense thereof will exceed $30,000 $20,000, shall be
constructed as follows:
(1) By a contract let to the lowest responsible bidder
after advertising for bids, in the manner prescribed by
ordinance, except that any such contract may be entered
into by the proper officers without advertising for bids,
if authorized by a vote of 4 of the 5 council members
elected; or
(2) In the following manner, if authorized by a vote of
4 of the 5 council members elected: the commissioner of

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public works or other proper officers to be designated by
ordinance, shall superintend and cause to be carried out
the construction of the work or other public improvement
and shall employ exclusively for the performance of all
manual labor thereon, laborers and artisans whom the city
or village shall pay by the day or hour, but all material
of the value of $30,000 $20,000 and upward used in the
construction of the work or other public improvement, shall
be purchased by contract let to the lowest responsible
bidder in the manner to be prescribed by ordinance.
Nothing contained in this Section shall apply to any
contract by a municipality with the United States of America or
any agency thereof.
(Source: P.A. 94-435, eff. 8-2-05.)
(65 ILCS 5/8-9-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-9-1)
Sec. 8-9-1. In municipalities of less than 500,000 except
as otherwise provided in Articles 4 and 5 any work or other
public improvement which is not to be paid for in whole or in
part by special assessment or special taxation, when the
expense thereof will exceed $30,000 $20,000, shall be
constructed either (1) by a contract let to the lowest
responsible bidder after advertising for bids, in the manner
prescribed by ordinance, except that any such contract may be
entered into by the proper officers without advertising for
bids, if authorized by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen

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or trustees then holding office; or (2) in the following
manner, if authorized by a vote of two-thirds of all the
aldermen or trustees then holding office, to-wit: the
commissioner of public works or other proper officers to be
designated by ordinance, shall superintend and cause to be
carried out the construction of the work or other public
improvement and shall employ exclusively for the performance of
all manual labor thereon, laborers and artisans whom the
municipality shall pay by the day or hour; and all material of
the value of $30,000 $20,000 and upward used in the
construction of the work or other public improvement, shall be
purchased by contract let to the lowest responsible bidder in
the manner to be prescribed by ordinance. However, nothing
contained in this section shall apply to any contract by a
city, village or incorporated town with the federal government
or any agency thereof.
In every city which has adopted Division 1 of Article 10,
every such laborer or artisan shall be certified by the civil
service commission to the commissioner of public works or other
proper officers, in accordance with the requirement of that
division.
In municipalities of 500,000 or more population the letting
of contracts for work or other public improvements of the
character described in this section shall be governed by the
provisions of Division 10 of this Article 8.
(Source: P.A. 94-435, eff. 8-2-05.)

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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.