95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0961


 
Introduced 2/8/2007, by Rep. Michael Tryon - Mark H. Beaubien, Jr. - Jack D. Franks
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		















60 ILCS 1/85-13





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    Amends the Township Code.  Provides that a township may administer a recycling program in unincorporated areas of the township.  Amends the Highway Code.  Provides that a road district may organize, administer, or participate in one or more recycling programs. Effective immediately.
















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    AN ACT concerning local government.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Township Code is amended  by changing Section 
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85-13 as follows:
 



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    (60 ILCS 1/85-13)



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    Sec. 85-13. Township services, generally. 

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    (a) The township board may either expend funds directly or 
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may enter into
any cooperative agreement or contract with any 
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other governmental entity,
not-for-profit corporation, 
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non-profit community service association, or any
for-profit 
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business entity as provided in subsection (b) with respect to 
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the
expenditure of township funds, or funds made available to 
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the township under
the federal State and Local Fiscal 
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Assistance Act of 1972, to provide any of
the following 
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services to the residents of the township:


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        (1) Ordinary and necessary maintenance and operating 
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    expenses for the
following:


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            (A) Public safety (including law enforcement, fire 
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        protection, and
building code enforcement).


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            (B) Environmental protection (including sewage 
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        disposal, sanitation,
and pollution abatement).


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            (C) Public transportation (including transit 
 


 






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        systems, paratransit
systems, and streets and roads).


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            (D) Health.


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            (E) Recreation.


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            (F) Libraries.


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            (G) Social services for the poor and aged.


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        (2) Ordinary and necessary capital expenditures 
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    authorized by law.


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        (3) Development and retention of business, industrial, 
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    manufacturing,
and tourist facilities within the township.

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    (b) To be eligible to receive funds from the township under 
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this Section, a
private not-for-profit corporation or 
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community service association shall have
been in existence at 
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least one year before receiving the funds. The township
board 
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may, however, for the purpose of providing day care services, 
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contract
with day care facilities licensed under the Child Care 
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Act of 1969, regardless
of whether the facilities are organized 
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on a for-profit or not-for-profit
basis.

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    (c) Township governments that directly expend or contract 
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for day care
shall use the standard of need established by the 
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Department of Children and
Family Services in determining 
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recipients of subsidized day care and shall use
the rate 
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schedule used by the Department of Children and Family Services 
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for
the purchase of subsidized day care.

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    (d) Township governments that directly expend or contract 
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for senior
citizen services may contract with for-profit (or 
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not-for-profit) and
non-sectarian organizations as provided in 
 


 






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Sections 220-15 and 220-35.

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    (e) Those township supervisors or other elected township 
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officials who are
also members of a county board shall not vote 
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on questions before the township
board or the county board that 
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relate to agreements or contracts between the
township and the 
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county under this Section or agreements or contracts between

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the township and the county that are otherwise authorized by 
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law.

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    (f) The township board may enter into direct agreements 
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with for-profit
corporations or other business entities to 
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carry out recycling programs in
unincorporated areas of the 
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township.

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    The township board may by ordinance administer a recycling 
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program or adopt rules and regulations relating to
recycling 
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programs in unincorporated areas of the township that it from 
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time to
time deems necessary and may provide penalties for 
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violations of those rules
and regulations.

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    (g) For purposes of alleviating high unemployment, 
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economically depressed
conditions, and lack of moderately 
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priced housing, the trustees of a
township that includes all or 
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a portion of a city that is a "financially
distressed city" 
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under the Financially Distressed City Law may contract with
one 
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or more not-for-profit or for-profit organizations to 
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construct and operate
within the boundaries of the township a 
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factory designed to manufacture housing
or housing components. 
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The contract may provide for the private organization or

 


 






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organizations to manage some or all operations of the factory 
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and may provide
for (i) payment of employee compensation and 
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taxes; (ii) discharge of other
legal responsibilities; (iii) 
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sale of products; (iv) disposition of the
factory, equipment, 
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and other property; and (v) any other matters the township

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trustees consider reasonable.

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(Source: P.A. 86-475; 86-580; 86-1028; 86-1194; 87-708; 
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87-810; 87-895;
87-999; 88-62.)

 
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    Section 10. The Illinois Highway Code is amended  by adding 
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Section 6-132 as follows:
 
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    (605 ILCS 5/6-132 new)

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    Sec. 6-132. Recycling.  A road district may organize, 
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administer, or participate in one or more recycling programs.

 

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