(60 ILCS 1/170-50)
Sec. 170-50.
Revenue bonds.
(a) The board of directors may issue and sell revenue bonds payable from the
revenue derived from the operation of the hospital for the purpose of (i)
constructing, reconstructing, repairing, remodeling, extending, equipping,
improving, and acquiring a site or sites for a hospital building or buildings
or (ii) refunding any revenue bonds previously issued from time to time
in relation to the operation of the hospital when deemed necessary or
advantageous in the public interest. These bonds shall be authorized by a
resolution without submission of the resolution to the electors of the
township, shall mature at a time not to exceed 40 years from the date of issue
and bear a rate of interest not to exceed the greater of (i) the maximum rate
authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making
of the contract, or (ii) 9% per annum, payable annually or semi-annually as the
board of directors may determine, and may be sold by the board of directors in
the manner they deem best in the public interest. The bonds shall, however, be
sold at a price so that the interest cost of the proceeds from the sale will
not exceed the greater of (i) the maximum rate authorized by the Bond
Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, or
(ii) 9% per annum based on the average maturity of the bonds and computed
according to standard tables of bond values.
(b) With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this
Section either before, on, or after June 6, 1989, it is and always has been the
intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always
have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with
the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Article that may
appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the
provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority
granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this
Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are
not invalid because of any provision of this Article that may appear to be or
to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 86-4; 88-62.)
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(60 ILCS 1/170-55)
Sec. 170-55.
Resolution describing building and site.
(a) The board of directors of any hospital availing itself of the provisions
of Section 170-50 shall adopt a resolution describing in a general way the
building or buildings (or addition or extension to the building or buildings)
to be constructed, reconstructed, repaired, remodeled, extended, equipped, or
improved and the site or sites to be acquired. The resolution shall set out
the estimated cost of the construction, reconstruction, repair, remodeling,
extension, equipment, improvement, or acquisition and fix the amount of revenue
bonds proposed to be issued and the maturity, interest rate, and all details
concerning the bonds. The resolution may contain provisions and covenants that
shall be part of the contract between the board of directors and the holders of
the bonds deemed necessary and advisable as to the operation, maintenance, and
management of the hospital, including (i) the establishment and maintenance of
sinking funds, reserve funds, and other special funds, including construction
funds; (ii) the fixing and collecting of rents, fees, and charges for the use
of the facilities of the hospital sufficient to produce revenue adequate to
maintain the funds and to pay the bonds at maturity and accruing interest on
the bonds; (iii) the issuance thereafter of additional bonds payable from the
revenues derived from the hospital; (iv) the kind and amount of insurance,
including use and occupancy insurance, to be carried, the cost of which shall
be payable only from the revenues derived from the hospital; and (v) other
covenants deemed necessary or desirable to assure the successful operation and
maintenance of the hospital and the prompt payment of the principal and
interest upon the bonds authorized.
(b) Revenue bonds issued under this Article shall be signed by the chairman
of the board of directors and the secretary of the board of directors and shall
be payable from revenue derived from the operation of the hospital. These
bonds shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of the hospital or the
township within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision or
limitation. It shall be plainly written or printed on the face of each bond (i)
that the bond has been issued under the provisions of this Article, (ii) that
the bond, including the interest on the bond, is payable from the revenue
pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on the bond, and (iii)
that it does not constitute an indebtedness or obligation of the hospital or
township within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision or
limitation. No holder of any revenue bond issued under this Article has the
right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the hospital or township to
pay the bond or interest on the bond.
(Source: P.A. 82-230; 88-62.)
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(60 ILCS 1/170-65) Sec. 170-65. Dissolution of the Wood River Township Hospital. (a) Dissolution. (1) The Wood River Township Hospital is dissolved 180 |
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(2) In the 180-day period prior to dissolution, the
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| hospital board shall be vested with the powers to wrap up the affairs of the closed hospital under subsection (b) of this Section, and to transfer any remaining hospital funds under subsection (c) of this Section.
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(b) Wrapping up the affairs of the Wood River Township Hospital.
(1) Within the first 10 business days of the 180-day
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| period provided in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this Section, the chairman of the hospital board shall cause an audit of all claims against the Wood River Township Hospital, all receipts of the Wood River Township Hospital, the inventory of all real and personal property owned by the Wood River Township Hospital or under its control or management, and any debts owed by the Wood River Township Hospital. The chairman may, at his or her discretion, undertake any other audit of the Wood River Township Hospital. The person or entity conducting such audit shall report the findings of the audit to the hospital board within 30 days.
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(2) Following the return of the audit provided in
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(i) Pay the debts, obligations, and liabilities
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(ii) Enter into an agreement with a hospital
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| within Madison County to ensure all patient records are properly transferred. If no hospital in Madison County is able or willing to accept the records, the records may be transferred to a hospital within a neighboring county contiguous to Madison County. The Wood River Township Hospital will be responsible for paying a reasonable service fee to the hospital that accepts and retains records pursuant to this subsection. Following successful transfer of the patient records, the receiving hospital shall retain and destroy the transferred patient records in accordance with the receiving hospital's record retention schedule and policies.
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(iii) Sell the property of the Wood River
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(c) Transfer of surplus funds. If any funds are available, the hospital board shall transfer, no later than 10 business days prior to the conclusion of the 180-day period provided in subsection (a) of this Section, all surplus funds, if any, to the Madison County Treasurer to be maintained in the Wood River Township Hospital Fund and be disposed of pursuant to subsection (d) of this Section.
If any liabilities remain, the funds available shall be set apart by the Madison County Treasurer and held for the purpose of retiring such liabilities.
(d) Payment of remaining liabilities and disposal of surplus funds. The Madison County Clerk shall pay any remaining liabilities of the Wood River Township Hospital from the Wood River Township Hospital Fund. After all the liabilities of the Wood River Township Hospital are paid, the Madison County Clerk shall distribute any funds remaining in the Wood River Township Hospital Fund to the property owners in Wood River Township as of the date of dissolution of Wood River Township Hospital. The distribution shall be proportional to the assessed value of the property in the 2005 levy year.
(e) Outstanding indebtedness.
(1) In the event that the Wood River Township
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(2) In the event that the Wood River Township
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| Hospital has unsecured debts outstanding at the time of dissolution, any funds in the Wood River Township Hospital Fund or otherwise available and not committed shall, to the extent necessary, be applied to the payment of such debts.
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(3) Madison County may levy a tax, on behalf of the
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| Wood River Township Hospital, upon all taxable real property located in Wood River Township for the purpose of paying the outstanding debts and obligations of the Wood River Township Hospital.
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(f) Tax collection and enforcement. The dissolution of the Wood River Township Hospital shall not adversely affect proceedings for the collection or enforcement of any tax. Those proceedings shall continue to finality as though no dissolution had taken place. The proceeds thereof shall be paid over to the Madison County Treasurer to be transferred pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section. Proceedings to collect and enforce such taxes may be instituted and carried on in the name of the Wood River Township Hospital.
(g) Litigation. All suits pending in any court on behalf of or against the Wood River Township Hospital may be prosecuted or defended in the name of Madison County by the State's attorney. All judgments obtained for the Wood River Township Hospital shall be collected and enforced by Madison County and transferred and disposed of pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of this Section respectively.
(Source: P.A. 98-590, eff. 11-13-13.)
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(60 ILCS 1/175-5)
Sec. 175-5.
Petition and referendum to establish hospital.
(a) Whenever not less than 5% of the registered voters (according to
the voting registration records at the time the petition is filed) of a
township file a petition with the township clerk requesting that an annual
tax, not to exceed one and two-thirds mills on the dollar, be levied each
year on all the taxable property of the township for the maintenance and
operation of a public nonsectarian hospital described in the petition and
located within or without the township, the township clerk shall give notice
that at the next annual township election, or at an election in accordance with
the general election law if one is requested, a referendum will be held on the
question. If a referendum is ordered to be held at the township meeting, notice
shall be given by posting notices in at least 10 of the most public places in
the township at least 10 days before the day of the meeting. If an election is
requested, the township clerk shall certify that proposition to the proper
election officials, who shall submit the proposition in accordance with the
general election law.
(b) The proposition at a referendum authorized by this Section shall be
substantially as follows:
Shall (name of township) levy an annual tax of not |
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(Description of hospital.)
The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
(c) If a majority of all votes cast on the proposition is in favor of the
proposition, the township shall annually levy a tax of not more than one
and two-thirds mills on the dollar on all the taxable property of the
township for the maintenance and operation of the hospital. The proceeds
of the tax shall be paid into a fund known as the Hospital Fund. The
county collector or the supervisor of the township shall pay all money
in the Hospital Fund to the treasurer of the public nonsectarian
hospital within 30 days after receiving the money.
(d) For purposes of this Article, "public nonsectarian hospital" means any
nonsectarian hospital operated by a nonprofit corporation or any nonsectarian
hospital operated by any political subdivision of the State or by any
municipal corporation in the State to which patients are admitted regardless of
race, color, creed, sex, or national origin.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489; 88-62.)
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(60 ILCS 1/175-10)
Sec. 175-10.
Discontinuance of hospital.
(a) Whenever at least 10% of the voters of a township that has adopted the
provisions of this Article presents a petition to the township clerk requesting
that the maintenance and operation of the public nonsectarian hospital be
discontinued, the township clerk shall give notice, in the manner provided in
Section 175-5, that at the next annual township election, or at a referendum in
accordance with the general election law, an election will be held on the
question. If the referendum is ordered to be held at an election, the clerk
shall certify that proposition to the proper election officials, who shall
submit the proposition in accordance with the general election law.
(b) The proposition at the referendum shall be substantially as follows:
Shall (name of township) discontinue the maintenance |
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(Description of hospital.)
The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
(c) If a majority of the votes upon the proposition is in favor of the
discontinuance of the maintenance and operation of the public nonsectarian
hospital, the township shall not thereafter levy a tax for the maintenance and
operation of the hospital unless the proposition is again submitted to and
approved by the voters as provided in Section 175-5.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489; 88-62.)
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(60 ILCS 1/182-5)
Sec. 182-5.
Primary health care special district; tax.
(a) In any township in a county with a population of 25,000 or less
containing a federally designated health manpower shortage area, the township
board may provide for primary health care under an intergovernmental
cooperation agreement with another unit of local government or under contract
with physicians, a physician group, a professional service corporation, a
medical corporation, a health maintenance organization, a voluntary health
service plan, a limited health service plan, a hospital for out-patient
services, or a federally qualified health center.
(b) For purposes described in subsection (a), the township board may levy an
annual tax of not more than 0.095% of the value of all the taxable property in
the township, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, upon that
property. Before a tax may be levied under this Section, the township board
shall certify that question to the proper election officials in accordance with
General Election Law, who shall submit the proposition by referendum to all the
voters in the area to be served. The referendum shall be in substantially the
following form:
Shall (name of township) be authorized to levy an annual tax of not more than
0.095% of the value of all the taxable property in the township to provide
primary health care to its citizens?
The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
If the majority of the voters voting on the proposition vote in favor of it,
the tax levy is authorized. If a majority of the vote is against the
proposition, the tax levy is not authorized. No tax may be levied under this
Section, however, with respect to any property that is subject to any other tax
levied for the sole purpose of providing primary health care.
(c) Any territory of a special primary health care district that is annexed
to a municipality that provides primary health care within its corporate limits
shall be automatically disconnected from the township primary health care
district.
(Source: P.A. 90-439, eff. 8-16-97; 90-517, eff. 8-22-97.)
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