State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Illinois > Chapter55 > 750 > 005500050HDiv_5_7 (55 ILCS 5/5‑7001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5‑7001) Sec. 5‑7001. Tax for maintaining public nonsectarian hospitals. Each county board, subject to the provisions of Section 5‑7002, has power to levy a tax of not to exceed .25%, or the rate limit in effect on July 1, 1967, whichever is greater, of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, annually on all taxable property of the county, for the purpose of maintaining public nonsectarian hospitals located in the county. Such tax shall be levied and collected in like manner as the general taxes of the county, and shall, when collected, be paid into the "Hospital Fund", which fund is hereby created. Such tax shall be in addition to all other taxes which the county is now, or hereafter may be, authorized to levy on the aggregate valuation of the property within the county and shall not be included in any tax limitation of rate upon which taxes are required to be extended but shall be excluded therefrom and in addition thereto. The foregoing limitations upon tax rates, insofar as they are applicable to counties of less than 1,000,000 population, may be increased or decreased under the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois. For the purposes of this Division the words, "public nonsectarian hospital", shall be construed to include community hospitals operated on a non‑profit basis, which are required by the terms of any contract to receive and care for acutely ill patients up to 25 per cent of the service rendered by such hospital expressed in terms of patient‑days, regardless of whether the hospital receives compensation from such patients for the services rendered. (Source: P.A. 86‑962.) |
(55 ILCS 5/5‑7002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5‑7002) Sec. 5‑7002. Election for tax levy. When a county board passes a resolution asking that an annual tax may be levied for the purpose of maintaining public nonsectarian hospitals in the county, and so instructs the county clerk, the county board shall certify the resolution and the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: Shall.... County levy anannual tax of not to exceed YES.25 per cent for the purpose of maintaining public NOnonsectarian hospitals? If a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition are for the levy of such tax, the county board may thereafter annually levy such tax, and thereafter the county board shall, in the annual appropriation bill, appropriate from such fund such sum or sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray necessary expenses and liabilities of such hospitals. (Source: P.A. 86‑962.) |
(55 ILCS 5/5‑7003) (from Ch. 34, par. 5‑7003) Sec. 5‑7003. Discontinuance of tax. When 100 legal voters of any county which has adopted the provisions of this Division presents a petition to the county clerk, requesting that the levying of a tax annually in such county for the purpose of maintaining public nonsectarian hospitals be discontinued, the county clerk shall certify the proposition to any board of election commissioners in the county and he and they shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law. The proposition shall be substantially in the following form: Shall .... County discontinue the levying of an annual YES tax for the purpose of maintaining public NO nonsectarian hospitals? If a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition are for the discontinuance of the levying of such tax, the county board shall not thereafter levy such tax unless a proposition authorizing such levy again receives a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition as prescribed by Section 5‑7002. (Source: P.A. 86‑962.) |
