(55 ILCS 5/5-34002) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-34002)

Sec. 5-34002. Bonds. Any county in this State having a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants, by one or more resolutions of its Board of Commissioners adopted from time to time, may incur indebtedness and issue bonds for the purpose of constructing Expressways, which bonds are hereinafter referred to as Expressway bonds, in an amount or amounts not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred and forty-five million dollars without submitting the question to the voters of such county for approval. The Expressway bonds may be made registerable as to principal and may bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable at such time and place as may be provided in the bond resolution or resolutions. The Expressway bonds shall remain valid even though one or more of the officers executing the bonds ceases to hold his or their offices before the bonds are delivered.

The bonds shall be sold to the highest and best bidder for not less than their par value, upon sealed bids. The Board of Commissioners shall, from time to time, as bonds are to be sold, advertise in a daily newspaper of general circulation in such county for proposals to purchase the bonds. Each of such advertisements for proposals shall be published at least 10 days prior to the date of the opening of the bids. The Board of Commissioners may reserve the right to reject any and all bids.

With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section or its predecessor either before, on, or after the effective date of Public Act 86-4, 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 Act or "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties", approved March 31, 1874, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section or its predecessor are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section or its predecessor within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act or "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties", approved March 31, 1874, that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.

(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)