Bill Text: IL HB3182 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Township Code. Provides that tentative budgets for specified road districts shall be subject to a public hearing and public inspection prior to adopting. Provides that the township board may adopt all or part of the tentative budget and appropriation ordinance for road purposes and levy the amount determined by the board (rather than the township board shall adopt all the tentative budget and appropriation ordinance and levy the amount determined by the highway commissioner). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-17 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3182 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3182-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3182 Introduced , by Rep. Tom Weber SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
60 ILCS 1/235-25
Amends the Township Code. Provides that tentative budgets for specified road districts shall be subject to a public hearing and public inspection prior to adopting. Provides that the township board may adopt all or part of the tentative budget and appropriation ordinance for road purposes and levy the amount determined by the board (rather than the township board shall adopt all the tentative budget and appropriation ordinance and levy the amount determined by the highway commissioner). 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 Township Code is amended by changing
Section 235-25 as follows:
(60 ILCS 1/235-25)
Sec. 235-25. Tentative budget and appropriation ordinance
and tax for road purposes. In each road district comprised of
a single township:
(1) The township board must hold a public hearing
before adopting a budget and appropriation ordinance for
road purposes.
(2) The township board must, at least 30 days before a
public hearing, prepare or cause to be prepared a
tentative budget and appropriation ordinance for road
purposes and file the ordinance with the township clerk.
The township clerk must make the tentative budget and
appropriation ordinance for road purposes available for
public inspection for at least 30 days before final action
on the ordinance. The required public hearing must be held
on or before the last day of the first quarter of the
fiscal year before the township board. Notice of the
hearing must be given by publication in a newspaper

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published in the township at least 30 days before the time
of the hearing. If there is no newspaper published in the
township, notice of the public hearing may be given by
posting notices in 5 of the most public places in the
township. It is the duty of the township clerk to arrange
for the public hearing.
(3) The , the township board may shall adopt all or
part of a tentative budget and appropriation ordinance for
road purposes, as the township board deems necessary, and
shall levy the amount determined by the board highway
commissioner and certify to the county clerk the amount
necessary to be raised by taxation for road purposes as
provided in Section 6-501 of the Illinois Highway Code.
(Source: P.A. 88-62.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.