93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2410

 

Introduced 2/3/2004, by Terry Link

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/3.1-40-40   from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-40-40

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that where a city council consists of an odd number of aldermen, the vote of the majority of the aldermen shall be sufficient to pass any resolution or motion (i) to create any liability against a city or (ii) for the expenditure or appropriation of its money (now, requires the vote of a majority of the city council, including the mayor).


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning municipalities.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 3.1-40-40 as follows:
 
6     (65 ILCS 5/3.1-40-40)  (from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-40-40)
7     Sec. 3.1-40-40. Vote required. The passage of all
8 ordinances for whatever purpose, and of any resolution or
9 motion (i) to create any liability against a city or (ii) for
10 the expenditure or appropriation of its money shall require the
11 concurrence of a majority of all members then holding office on
12 the city council, including the mayor, unless otherwise
13 expressly provided by this Code or any other Act governing the
14 passage of any ordinance, resolution, or motion. Where the
15 council consists of an odd number of aldermen, however, the
16 vote of the majority of the aldermen shall be sufficient to
17 pass an ordinance and shall be sufficient to pass any
18 resolution or motion (i) to create any liability against a city
19 or (ii) for the expenditure or appropriation of a city's money.
20 The passage of an ordinance, resolution, or motion to sell any
21 school property shall require the concurrence of three-fourths
22 of all aldermen then holding office. The yeas and nays shall be
23 taken upon the question of the passage of the designated
24 ordinances, resolutions, or motions and recorded in the journal
25 of the city council. In addition, the corporate authorities at
26 any meeting may by unanimous consent take a single vote by yeas
27 and nays on the several questions of the passage of any 2 or
28 more of the designated ordinances, orders, resolutions, or
29 motions placed together for voting purposes in a single group.
30 The single vote shall be entered separately in the journal
31 under the designation "omnibus vote", and in that event the
32 clerk may enter the words "omnibus vote" or "consent agenda" in

 

 

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1 the journal in each case instead of entering the names of the
2 members of city council voting "yea" and those voting "nay" on
3 the passage of each of the designated ordinances, orders,
4 resolutions, and motions included in the omnibus group or
5 consent agenda. The taking of a single or omnibus vote and the
6 entries of the words "omnibus vote" or "consent agenda" in the
7 journal shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements
8 of this Section to all intents and purposes and with like
9 effect as if the vote in each case had been taken separately by
10 yeas and nays on the question of the passage of each ordinance,
11 order, resolution, and motion included in the omnibus group and
12 separately recorded in the journal. Likewise, the yeas and nays
13 shall be taken upon the question of the passage of any other
14 resolution or motion at the request of any alderman and shall
15 be recorded in the journal.
16 (Source: P.A. 87-1119.)