HB3707eng 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB3707 Engrossed LRB098 14106 OMW 48681 b

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 80-10 as follows:

(60 ILCS 1/80-10)

Sec. 80-10. Board meetings; township and road district accounts.

(a) The township board shall meet at the township clerk's office for the purpose of examining and auditing the township and road district accounts before any bills (other than general assistance, obligations for Social Security taxes as required by the Social Security Enabling Act, and wages that are subject to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, or other expenses determined by the township board by resolution) are paid, provided that payments made pursuant to a board resolution shall be reviewed and verified at the next meeting. The board may meet at other times as they determine. The township board may consider and approve bills individually or in a summary statement of any number of bills.

(b) Upon the request of the supervisor or of any 2 board members, the township clerk shall call a meeting at the time requested and shall furnish to the board members at least 48 hours' notice of the meeting.

(c) The township board may declare a vacancy in the office of township supervisor or trustee if the supervisor or a trustee has 5 or more consecutive unexcused absences from regularly scheduled township board meetings.

(d) The township board may adopt rules not inconsistent with this Code to govern its meetings. The rules may provide for excused absences of the supervisor or trustees from township board meetings.

(e) All meetings of the township board shall be open to the public as provided in the Open Meetings Act.

(Source: P.A. 88-62; incorporates 88-360; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

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