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1     AN ACT concerning special districts.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act is
5 amended by adding Section 5.4 as follows:
 
6     (70 ILCS 920/5.4 new)
7     Sec. 5.4. Dissolution of Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
8 Sanitarium District; disposition of land and real estate;
9 continuation of District levy.
10     (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
11 the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District is
12 dissolved by operation of law one year after the effective date
13 of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly.
14     (b) On or before the day 2 months after the effective date
15 of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Board
16 of Directors shall forward to the Cook County Department of
17 Public Health all transition plans relating to the
18 consolidation of all of the existing programs, personnel, and
19 infrastructure of the District into the Cook County Bureau of
20 Health Services to be administered by the Cook County
21 Department of Public Health. Beginning on the effective date of
22 this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the District
23 shall not make any enhancements to pensions.
24     (c) Upon dissolution of the District: (i) all assets and
25 liabilities of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
26 Sanitarium District dissolved under this amendatory Act of the
27 94th General Assembly shall be transferred to the Cook County
28 Board and the monetary assets shall be deposited into a special
29 purpose fund for the prevention, care, treatment, and control
30 of tuberculosis in suburban Cook County; (ii) the Cook County
31 Department of Public Health shall assume all responsibility for
32 the prevention, care, treatment, and control of tuberculosis

 

 

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1 within the area of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
2 Sanitarium District dissolved under this amendatory Act of the
3 94th General Assembly, including the provision of tuberculosis
4 care and treatment for units of local government with
5 State-certified local public health departments; and (iii)
6 employees of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium
7 District become employees of Cook County.
8     (d) The Cook County Board may transfer to the Cook County
9 Forest Preserve District appropriate unimproved real estate
10 owned by the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium
11 District at the time of its dissolution. After the dissolution
12 of the District, any land owned by the District at the time of
13 its dissolution remains subject to any leases and encumbrances
14 that existed upon the dissolution of the District and, if the
15 land is subject to a lease, the land may not be taken by any
16 unit of government during the term of the lease.
17     (e) Upon the dissolution of the Suburban Cook County
18 Tuberculosis Sanitarium District, any levy imposed by the
19 dissolved District is abolished. In accordance with subsection
20 (b) of Section 12 of the State Revenue Sharing Act, the tax
21 base of the dissolved Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
22 Sanitarium District shall be added to the tax base of Cook
23 County.
 
24     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.