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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Local Government Debt Reform Act is amended
5 by changing Section 15 as follows:
 
6     (30 ILCS 350/15)  (from Ch. 17, par. 6915)
7     Sec. 15. Double-barrelled bonds. Whenever revenue bonds
8 have been authorized to be issued pursuant to applicable law or
9 whenever there exists for a governmental unit a revenue source,
10 the procedures set forth in this Section may be used by a
11 governing body. General obligation bonds may be issued in lieu
12 of such revenue bonds as authorized, and general obligation
13 bonds may be issued payable from any revenue source. Such
14 general obligation bonds may be referred to as "alternate
15 bonds". Alternate bonds may be issued without any referendum or
16 backdoor referendum except as provided in this Section, upon
17 the terms provided in Section 10 of this Act without reference
18 to other provisions of law, but only upon the conditions
19 provided in this Section. Alternate bonds shall not be regarded
20 as or included in any computation of indebtedness for the
21 purpose of any statutory provision or limitation except as
22 expressly provided in this Section.
23     Such conditions are:

 

 

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1     (a) Alternate bonds shall be issued for a lawful corporate
2 purpose. If issued in lieu of revenue bonds, alternate bonds
3 shall be issued for the purposes for which such revenue bonds
4 shall have been authorized. If issued payable from a revenue
5 source in the manner hereinafter provided, which revenue source
6 is limited in its purposes or applications, then the alternate
7 bonds shall be issued only for such limited purposes or
8 applications. Alternate bonds may be issued payable from either
9 enterprise revenues or revenue sources, or both.
10     (b) Alternate bonds shall be subject to backdoor
11 referendum. The provisions of Section 5 of this Act shall apply
12 to such backdoor referendum, together with the provisions
13 hereof. The authorizing ordinance shall be published in a
14 newspaper of general circulation in the governmental unit.
15 Along with or as part of the authorizing ordinance, there shall
16 be published a notice of (1) the specific number of voters
17 required to sign a petition requesting that the issuance of the
18 alternate bonds be submitted to referendum, (2) the time when
19 such petition must be filed, (3) the date of the prospective
20 referendum, and (4), with respect to authorizing ordinances
21 adopted on or after January 1, 1991, a statement that
22 identifies any revenue source that will be used to pay debt
23 service on the alternate bonds. The clerk or secretary of the
24 governmental unit shall make a petition form available to
25 anyone requesting one. If no petition is filed with the clerk
26 or secretary within 30 days of publication of the authorizing

 

 

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1 ordinance and notice, the alternate bonds shall be authorized
2 to be issued. But if within this 30 days period, a petition is
3 filed with such clerk or secretary signed by electors numbering
4 the greater of (i) 7.5% of the registered voters in the
5 governmental unit or (ii) 200 of those registered voters or 15%
6 of those registered voters, whichever is less, asking that the
7 issuance of such alternate bonds be submitted to referendum,
8 the clerk or secretary shall certify such question for
9 submission at an election held in accordance with the general
10 election law. The question on the ballot shall include a
11 statement of any revenue source that will be used to pay debt
12 service on the alternate bonds. The alternate bonds shall be
13 authorized to be issued if a majority of the votes cast on the
14 question at such election are in favor thereof provided that
15 notice of the bond referendum, if held before July 1, 1999, has
16 been given in accordance with the provisions of Section 12-5 of
17 the Election Code in effect at the time of the bond referendum,
18 at least 10 and not more than 45 days before the date of the
19 election, notwithstanding the time for publication otherwise
20 imposed by Section 12-5. Notices required in connection with
21 the submission of public questions on or after July 1, 1999
22 shall be as set forth in Section 12-5 of the Election Code.
23 Backdoor referendum proceedings for bonds and alternate bonds
24 to be issued in lieu of such bonds may be conducted at the same
25 time.
26     (c) To the extent payable from enterprise revenues, such

 

 

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1 revenues shall have been determined by the governing body to be
2 sufficient to provide for or pay in each year to final maturity
3 of such alternate bonds all of the following: (1) costs of
4 operation and maintenance of the utility or enterprise, but not
5 including depreciation, (2) debt service on all outstanding
6 revenue bonds payable from such enterprise revenues, (3) all
7 amounts required to meet any fund or account requirements with
8 respect to such outstanding revenue bonds, (4) other
9 contractual or tort liability obligations, if any, payable from
10 such enterprise revenues, and (5) in each year, an amount not
11 less than 1.25 times debt service of all (i) alternate bonds
12 payable from such enterprise revenues previously issued and
13 outstanding and (ii) alternate bonds proposed to be issued. To
14 the extent payable from one or more revenue sources, such
15 sources shall have been determined by the governing body to
16 provide in each year, an amount not less than 1.25 times debt
17 service of all alternate bonds payable from such revenue
18 sources previously issued and outstanding and alternate bonds
19 proposed to be issued. The 1.25 figure in the preceding
20 sentence shall be reduced to 1.10 if the revenue source is a
21 governmental revenue source. The conditions enumerated in this
22 subsection (c) need not be met for that amount of debt service
23 provided for by the setting aside of proceeds of bonds or other
24 moneys at the time of the delivery of such bonds.
25 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, a backdoor
26 referendum is not required if the proceeds backing the debt are

 

 

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1 realized from revenues obtained from the County School Facility
2 Occupation Tax Law under Section 5-1006.7 of the Counties Code.
3     (c-1) In the case of alternate bonds issued as variable
4 rate bonds (including refunding bonds), debt service shall be
5 projected based on the rate for the most recent date shown in
6 the 20 G.O. Bond Index of average municipal bond yields as
7 published in the most recent edition of The Bond Buyer
8 published in New York, New York (or any successor publication
9 or index, or if such publication or index is no longer
10 published, then any index of long-term municipal tax-exempt
11 bond yields selected by the governmental unit), as of the date
12 of determination referred to in subsection (c) of this Section.
13 Any interest or fees that may be payable to the provider of a
14 letter of credit, line of credit, surety bond, bond insurance,
15 or other credit enhancement relating to such alternate bonds
16 and any fees that may be payable to any remarketing agent need
17 not be taken into account for purposes of such projection. If
18 the governmental unit enters into an agreement in connection
19 with such alternate bonds at the time of issuance thereof
20 pursuant to which the governmental unit agrees for a specified
21 period of time to pay an amount calculated at an agreed-upon
22 rate or index based on a notional amount and the other party
23 agrees to pay the governmental unit an amount calculated at an
24 agreed-upon rate or index based on such notional amount,
25 interest shall be projected for such specified period of time
26 on the basis of the agreed-upon rate payable by the

 

 

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1 governmental unit.
2     (d) The determination of the sufficiency of enterprise
3 revenues or a revenue source, as applicable, shall be supported
4 by reference to the most recent audit of the governmental unit,
5 which shall be for a fiscal year ending not earlier than 18
6 months previous to the time of issuance of the alternate bonds.
7 If such audit does not adequately show such enterprise revenues
8 or revenue source, as applicable, or if such enterprise
9 revenues or revenue source, as applicable, are shown to be
10 insufficient, then the determination of sufficiency shall be
11 supported by the report of an independent accountant or
12 feasibility analyst, the latter having a national reputation
13 for expertise in such matters, demonstrating the sufficiency of
14 such revenues and explaining, if appropriate, by what means the
15 revenues will be greater than as shown in the audit. Whenever
16 such sufficiency is demonstrated by reference to a schedule of
17 higher rates or charges for enterprise revenues or a higher tax
18 imposition for a revenue source, such higher rates, charges or
19 taxes shall have been properly imposed by an ordinance adopted
20 prior to the time of delivery of alternate bonds. The reference
21 to and acceptance of an audit or report, as the case may be,
22 and the determination of the governing body as to sufficiency
23 of enterprise revenues or a revenue source shall be conclusive
24 evidence that the conditions of this Section have been met and
25 that the alternate bonds are valid.
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1 applicable, shall be in fact pledged to the payment of the
2 alternate bonds; and the governing body shall covenant, to the
3 extent it is empowered to do so, to provide for, collect and
4 apply such enterprise revenues or revenue source, as
5 applicable, to the payment of the alternate bonds and the
6 provision of not less than an additional .25 (or .10 for
7 governmental revenue sources) times debt service. The pledge
8 and establishment of rates or charges for enterprise revenues,
9 or the imposition of taxes in a given rate or amount, as
10 provided in this Section for alternate bonds, shall constitute
11 a continuing obligation of the governmental unit with respect
12 to such establishment or imposition and a continuing
13 appropriation of the amounts received. All covenants relating
14 to alternate bonds and the conditions and obligations imposed
15 by this Section are enforceable by any bondholder of alternate
16 bonds affected, any taxpayer of the governmental unit, and the
17 People of the State of Illinois acting through the Attorney
18 General or any designee, and in the event that any such action
19 results in an order finding that the governmental unit has not
20 properly set rates or charges or imposed taxes to the extent it
21 is empowered to do so or collected and applied enterprise
22 revenues or any revenue source, as applicable, as required by
23 this Act, the plaintiff in any such action shall be awarded
24 reasonable attorney's fees. The intent is that such enterprise
25 revenues or revenue source, as applicable, shall be sufficient
26 and shall be applied to the payment of debt service on such

 

 

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1 alternate bonds so that taxes need not be levied, or if levied
2 need not be extended, for such payment. Nothing in this Section
3 shall inhibit or restrict the authority of a governing body to
4 determine the lien priority of any bonds, including alternate
5 bonds, which may be issued with respect to any enterprise
6 revenues or revenue source.
7     In the event that alternate bonds shall have been issued
8 and taxes, other than a designated revenue source, shall have
9 been extended pursuant to the general obligation, full faith
10 and credit promise supporting such alternate bonds, then the
11 amount of such alternate bonds then outstanding shall be
12 included in the computation of indebtedness of the governmental
13 unit for purposes of all statutory provisions or limitations
14 until such time as an audit of the governmental unit shall show
15 that the alternate bonds have been paid from the enterprise
16 revenues or revenue source, as applicable, pledged thereto for
17 a complete fiscal year.
18     Alternate bonds may be issued to refund or advance refund
19 alternate bonds without meeting any of the conditions set forth
20 in this Section, except that the term of the refunding bonds
21 shall not be longer than the term of the refunded bonds and
22 that the debt service payable in any year on the refunding
23 bonds shall not exceed the debt service payable in such year on
24 the refunded bonds.
25     Once issued, alternate bonds shall be and forever remain
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1 governmental unit, for the payment of which its full faith and
2 credit are pledged, and shall be payable from the levy of taxes
3 as is provided in this Act for general obligation bonds.
4     The changes made by this amendatory Act of 1990 do not
5 affect the validity of bonds authorized before September 1,
6 1990.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-57, eff. 6-30-99; 91-493, eff. 8-13-99;
8 91-868, eff. 6-22-00; 92-879, eff. 1-13-03.)
 
9     Section 10. The Counties Code is amended by adding Section
10 5-1006.7 as follows:
 
11     (55 ILCS 5/5-1006.7 new)
12     Sec. 5-1006.7. School facility occupation taxes.
13     (a) The county board of any county may impose a tax upon
14 all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible
15 personal property, other than personal property titled or
16 registered with an agency of this State's government, at retail
17 in the county on the gross receipts from the sales made in the
18 course of business to provide revenue to be used exclusively
19 for school facility purposes if a proposition for the tax has
20 been submitted to the electors of that county and approved by a
21 majority of those voting on the question as provided in
22 subsection (c). The tax under this Section may be imposed only
23 in one-quarter percent increments and may not exceed 1%.
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1 for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises
2 where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft drinks,
3 and food that has been prepared for immediate consumption) and
4 prescription and non-prescription medicines, drugs, medical
5 appliances and insulin, urine testing materials, syringes and
6 needles used by diabetics. The Department of Revenue has full
7 power to administer and enforce this subsection, to collect all
8 taxes and penalties due under this subsection, to dispose of
9 taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this
10 subsection, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda
11 arising on account of the erroneous payment of a tax or penalty
12 under this subsection. The Department shall deposit all taxes
13 and penalties collected under this subsection into a special
14 fund created for that purpose.
15     In the administration of and compliance with this
16 subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this
17 subsection (i) have the same rights, remedies, privileges,
18 immunities, powers, and duties, (ii) are subject to the same
19 conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and
20 definitions of terms, and (iii) shall employ the same modes of
21 procedure as are set forth in Sections 1 through 1o, 2 through
22 2-70 (in respect to all provisions contained in those Sections
23 other than the State rate of tax), 2a through 2h, 3 (except as
24 to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5a,
25 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8,
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1 and all provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as
2 if those provisions were set forth in this subsection.
3     The certificate of registration that is issued by the
4 Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax
5 Act permits the retailer to engage in a business that is
6 taxable without registering separately with the Department
7 under an ordinance or resolution under this subsection.
8     Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority
9 granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their
10 seller's tax liability by separately stating that tax as an
11 additional charge, which may be stated in combination, in a
12 single amount, with State tax that sellers are required to
13 collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to any bracketed
14 schedules set forth by the Department.
15     (b) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (a), then a
16 service occupation tax must also be imposed at the same rate
17 upon all persons engaged, in the county, in the business of
18 making sales of service, who, as an incident to making those
19 sales of service, transfer tangible personal property within
20 the county as an incident to a sale of service.
21     This tax may not be imposed on sales of food for human
22 consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is
23 sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and food
24 prepared for immediate consumption) and prescription and
25 non-prescription medicines, drugs, medical appliances and
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1 diabetics.
2     The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil
3 penalties that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be
4 collected and enforced by the Department and deposited into a
5 special fund created for that purpose. The Department has full
6 power to administer and enforce this subsection, to collect all
7 taxes and penalties due under this subsection, to dispose of
8 taxes and penalties so collected in the manner provided in this
9 subsection, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda
10 arising on account of the erroneous payment of a tax or penalty
11 under this subsection.
12     In the administration of and compliance with this
13 subsection, the Department and persons who are subject to this
14 subsection shall (i) have the same rights, remedies,
15 privileges, immunities, powers and duties, (ii) be subject to
16 the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and
17 definition of terms, and (iii) employ the same modes of
18 procedure as are set forth in Sections 2 (except that that
19 reference to State in the definition of supplier maintaining a
20 place of business in this State means the county), 2a through
21 2d, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions contained in
22 those Sections other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except
23 that the reference to the State shall be to the county), 5, 7,
24 8 (except that the jurisdiction to which the tax is a debt to
25 the extent indicated in that Section 8 is the county), 9
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1 collected), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section
2 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any
3 reference to the State means the county), Section 15, 16, 17,
4 18, 19, and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and all
5 provisions of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as
6 if those provisions were set forth herein.
7     Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority
8 granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their
9 serviceman's tax liability by separately stating the tax as an
10 additional charge, which may be stated in combination, in a
11 single amount, with State tax that servicemen are authorized to
12 collect under the Service Use Tax Act, pursuant to any
13 bracketed schedules set forth by the Department.
14     (c) The tax under this Section may not be imposed until, by
15 ordinance or resolution of the county board, the question of
16 imposing the tax has been submitted to the electors of the
17 county at a regular election and approved by a majority of the
18 electors voting on the question. Upon a resolution by the
19 county board or a resolution by school district boards that
20 represent at least 51% of the student enrollment within the
21 county, the county board must certify the question to the
22 proper election authority in accordance with the Election Code.
23     The election authority must submit the question in
24 substantially the following form:
25         Shall (name of county) be authorized to impose a
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1     (commonly referred to as a "sales tax") at a rate of
2     (insert rate) to be used exclusively for school facility
3     purposes?
4 The election authority must record the votes as "Yes" or "No".
5     If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote
6 in the affirmative, then the county may, thereafter, impose the
7 tax.
8     For the purposes of this subsection (c), "enrollment" means
9 the head count of the students residing in the county on the
10 last school day of September of each year, which must be
11 reported on the Illinois State Board of Education Public School
12 Fall Enrollment/Housing Report.
13     (d) The Department shall immediately pay over to the State
14 Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties
15 collected under this Section to be deposited into the School
16 Facility Occupation Tax Fund, which shall be an unappropriated
17 trust fund held outside the State treasury.
18     On or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the
19 Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the
20 disbursement of stated sums of money to the regional
21 superintendents of schools in counties from which retailers or
22 servicemen have paid taxes or penalties to the Department
23 during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be
24 paid to each regional superintendent of schools and disbursed
25 to him or her in accordance with 3-14.31 of the School Code, is
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1 from the county under this Section during the second preceding
2 calendar month by the Department, (i) less 2% of that amount,
3 which shall be deposited into the Tax Compliance and
4 Administration Fund and shall be used by the Department,
5 subject to appropriation, to cover the costs of the Department
6 in administering and enforcing the provisions of this Section,
7 on behalf of the county, (ii) plus an amount that the
8 Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that
9 were erroneously paid to a different taxing body; (iii) less an
10 amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second
11 preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf of the
12 county; and (iv) less any amount that the Department determines
13 is necessary to offset any amounts that were payable to a
14 different taxing body but were erroneously paid to the county.
15 When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a
16 regional superintendent of schools under this Section, the
17 Department shall increase or decrease the amounts by an amount
18 necessary to offset any miscalculation of previous
19 disbursements within the previous 6 months from the time a
20 miscalculation is discovered.
21     Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller from the
22 Department of the disbursement certification to the regional
23 superintendents of the schools provided for in this Section,
24 the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the
25 respective amounts in accordance with directions contained in
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1     If the Department determines that a refund should be made
2 under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit
3 memorandum, then the Department shall notify the Comptroller,
4 who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified
5 and to the person named in the notification from the
6 Department. The refund shall be paid by the Treasurer out of
7 the School Facility Occupation Tax Fund.
8     (e) For the purposes of determining the local governmental
9 unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a producer of
10 coal or another mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail
11 at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois
12 is extracted from the earth. This subsection does not apply to
13 coal or another mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the
14 seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the
15 sale is exempt under the United States Constitution as a sale
16 in interstate or foreign commerce.
17     (f) Nothing in this Section may be construed to authorize a
18 county board to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in
19 any business that under the Constitution of the United States
20 may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.
21     (g) If a county board imposes a tax under this Section,
22 then the board may, by ordinance, discontinue or reduce the
23 rate of the tax. If, however, a school board issues bonds that
24 are backed by the proceeds of the tax under this Section, then
25 the county board may not reduce the tax rate or discontinue the
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1 school board's ability to pay the principal and interest on
2 those bonds as they become due. If the county board reduces the
3 tax rate or discontinues the tax, then a referendum must be
4 held in accordance with subsection (c) of this Section in order
5 to increase the rate of the tax or to reimpose the discontinued
6 tax.
7     The results of any election that authorizes a proposition
8 to impose a tax under this Section or to change the rate of the
9 tax along with an ordinance imposing the tax, or any ordinance
10 that lowers the rate or discontinues the tax, must be certified
11 by the county clerk and filed with the Illinois Department of
12 Revenue either (i) on or before the first day of April,
13 whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and
14 enforce the tax or change in the rate as of the first day of
15 July next following the filing; or (ii) on or before the first
16 day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to
17 administer and enforce the tax or change in the rate as of the
18 first day of January next following the filing.
19     (h) For purposes of this Section, "school facility
20 purposes" means the acquisition, development, construction,
21 reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, financing,
22 architectural planning, and installation of capital facilities
23 consisting of buildings, structures, and durable equipment and
24 for the acquisition and improvement of real property and
25 interest in real property required, or expected to be required,
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1 purposes" also includes fire prevention, safety, energy
2 conservation, disabled accessibility, school security, and
3 specified repair purposes set forth under Section 17-2.11 of
4 the School Code.
5     (i) This Section does not apply to Cook County.
6     (j) This Section may be cited as the County School Facility
7 Occupation Tax Law.
 
8     Section 15. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
9 10-22.36 and 17-2.11 and by adding Sections 3-14.31 and
10 10-20.40 as follows:
 
11     (105 ILCS 5/3-14.31 new)
12     Sec. 3-14.31. School facility occupation tax proceeds.
13     (a) Within 30 days after receiving any proceeds of a school
14 facility occupation tax under Section 5-1006.7 of the Counties
15 Code, each regional superintendent must disburse those
16 proceeds to each school district that is located in the county
17 in which the tax was collected.
18     (b) The proceeds must be disbursed on an enrollment basis
19 and allocated based upon the number of each school district's
20 resident pupils that reside within the county collecting the
21 tax divided by the total number of students for all school
22 districts within the county.
 
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1     Sec. 10-20.40. School facility occupation tax fund. All
2 proceeds received by a school district from a distribution
3 under 3-14.31 must be maintained in a special fund known as the
4 school facility occupation tax fund. The district may use
5 moneys in that fund only for school facility purposes, as that
6 term is defined under Section 5-1006.7 of the Counties Code.
 
7     (105 ILCS 5/10-22.36)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.36)
8     Sec. 10-22.36. Buildings for school purposes. To build or
9 purchase a building for school classroom or instructional
10 purposes upon the approval of a majority of the voters upon the
11 proposition at a referendum held for such purpose or in
12 accordance with Section 17-2.11. The board may initiate such
13 referendum by resolution. The board shall certify the
14 resolution and proposition to the proper election authority for
15 submission in accordance with the general election law.
16     The questions of building one or more new buildings for
17 school purposes or office facilities, and issuing bonds for the
18 purpose of borrowing money to purchase one or more buildings or
19 sites for such buildings or office sites, to build one or more
20 new buildings for school purposes or office facilities or to
21 make additions and improvements to existing school buildings,
22 may be combined into one or more propositions on the ballot.
23     Before erecting, or purchasing or remodeling such a
24 building the board shall submit the plans and specifications
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1 supply, toilets and safety against fire to the regional
2 superintendent of schools having supervision and control over
3 the district, for approval in accordance with Section 2-3.12.
4     Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, no referendum shall
5 be required if the purchase, construction, or building of any
6 such building is completed (1) while the building is being
7 leased by the school district or (2) with the expenditure of
8 (A) funds derived from the sale or disposition of other
9 buildings, land, or structures of the school district or (B)
10 funds received (i) as a grant under the School Construction
11 Law, or (ii) as gifts or donations, provided that no funds to
12 complete such building, other than lease payments, are derived
13 from the district's bonded indebtedness or the tax levy of the
14 district, or (iii) from the County School Facility Occupation
15 Tax Law under Section 5-1006.7 of the Counties Code.
16 (Source: P.A. 92-127, eff. 1-1-02.)
 
17     (105 ILCS 5/17-2.11)  (from Ch. 122, par. 17-2.11)
18     Sec. 17-2.11. School board power to levy a tax or to borrow
19 money and issue bonds for fire prevention, safety, energy
20 conservation, disabled accessibility, school security, and
21 specified repair purposes. Whenever, as a result of any lawful
22 order of any agency, other than a school board, having
23 authority to enforce any school building code applicable to any
24 facility that houses students, or any law or regulation for the
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1 Environmental Protection Act, any school district having a
2 population of less than 500,000 inhabitants is required to
3 alter or reconstruct any school building or permanent, fixed
4 equipment; or whenever any such district determines that it is
5 necessary for energy conservation purposes that any school
6 building or permanent, fixed equipment should be altered or
7 reconstructed and that such alterations or reconstruction will
8 be made with funds not necessary for the completion of approved
9 and recommended projects contained in any safety survey report
10 or amendments thereto authorized by Section 2-3.12 of this Act;
11 or whenever any such district determines that it is necessary
12 for disabled accessibility purposes and to comply with the
13 school building code that any school building or equipment
14 should be altered or reconstructed and that such alterations or
15 reconstruction will be made with funds not necessary for the
16 completion of approved and recommended projects contained in
17 any safety survey report or amendments thereto authorized under
18 Section 2-3.12 of this Act; or whenever any such district
19 determines that it is necessary for school security purposes
20 and the related protection and safety of pupils and school
21 personnel that any school building or property should be
22 altered or reconstructed or that security systems and equipment
23 (including but not limited to intercom, early detection and
24 warning, access control and television monitoring systems)
25 should be purchased and installed, and that such alterations,
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1 be made with funds not necessary for the completion of approved
2 and recommended projects contained in any safety survey report
3 or amendment thereto authorized by Section 2-3.12 of this Act
4 and will deter and prevent unauthorized entry or activities
5 upon school property by unknown or dangerous persons, assure
6 early detection and advance warning of any such actual or
7 attempted unauthorized entry or activities and help assure the
8 continued safety of pupils and school staff if any such
9 unauthorized entry or activity is attempted or occurs; or if a
10 school district does not need funds for other fire prevention
11 and safety projects, including the completion of approved and
12 recommended projects contained in any safety survey report or
13 amendments thereto authorized by Section 2-3.12 of this Act,
14 and it is determined after a public hearing (which is preceded
15 by at least one published notice (i) occurring at least 7 days
16 prior to the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation
17 within the school district and (ii) setting forth the time,
18 date, place, and general subject matter of the hearing) that
19 there is a substantial, immediate, and otherwise unavoidable
20 threat to the health, safety, or welfare of pupils due to
21 disrepair of school sidewalks, playgrounds, parking lots, or
22 school bus turnarounds and repairs must be made: then in any
23 such event, such district may, by proper resolution, levy a tax
24 for the purpose of making such alteration or reconstruction,
25 based on a survey report by an architect or engineer licensed
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1 district at the value as assessed by the Department of Revenue
2 at a rate not to exceed .05% per year for a period sufficient
3 to finance such alterations, repairs, or reconstruction, upon
4 the following conditions:
5         (a) When there are not sufficient funds available in
6     either the operations and maintenance fund of the district,
7     the school facility occupation tax fund of the district, or
8     the fire prevention and safety fund of the district as
9     determined by the district on the basis of regulations
10     adopted by the State Board of Education to make such
11     alterations, repairs, or reconstruction, or to purchase
12     and install such permanent fixed equipment so ordered or
13     determined as necessary. Appropriate school district
14     records shall be made available to the State Superintendent
15     of Education upon request to confirm such insufficiency.
16         (b) When a certified estimate of an architect or
17     engineer licensed in the State of Illinois stating the
18     estimated amount necessary to make the alterations or
19     repairs, or to purchase and install such equipment so
20     ordered has been secured by the district, and the estimate
21     has been approved by the regional superintendent of
22     schools, having jurisdiction of the district, and the State
23     Superintendent of Education. Approval shall not be granted
24     for any work that has already started without the prior
25     express authorization of the State Superintendent of
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1     approval by the regional superintendent of schools within 3
2     months after the date on which it is submitted to him or
3     her, the school board of the district may submit such
4     estimate directly to the State Superintendent of Education
5     for approval or denial.
6     For purposes of this Section a school district may replace
7 a school building or build additions to replace portions of a
8 building when it is determined that the effectuation of the
9 recommendations for the existing building will cost more than
10 the replacement costs. Such determination shall be based on a
11 comparison of estimated costs made by an architect or engineer
12 licensed in the State of Illinois. The new building or addition
13 shall be equivalent in area (square feet) and comparable in
14 purpose and grades served and may be on the same site or
15 another site. Such replacement may only be done upon order of
16 the regional superintendent of schools and the approval of the
17 State Superintendent of Education.
18     The filing of a certified copy of the resolution levying
19 the tax when accompanied by the certificates of the regional
20 superintendent of schools and State Superintendent of
21 Education shall be the authority of the county clerk to extend
22 such tax.
23     The county clerk of the county in which any school district
24 levying a tax under the authority of this Section is located,
25 in reducing raised levies, shall not consider any such tax as a
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1 include the same in the limitation of any other tax rate which
2 may be extended.
3     Such tax shall be levied and collected in like manner as
4 all other taxes of school districts, subject to the provisions
5 contained in this Section.
6     The tax rate limit specified in this Section may be
7 increased to .10% upon the approval of a proposition to effect
8 such increase by a majority of the electors voting on that
9 proposition at a regular scheduled election. Such proposition
10 may be initiated by resolution of the school board and shall be
11 certified by the secretary to the proper election authorities
12 for submission in accordance with the general election law.
13     When taxes are levied by any school district for fire
14 prevention, safety, energy conservation, and school security
15 purposes as specified in this Section, and the purposes for
16 which the taxes have been levied are accomplished and paid in
17 full, and there remain funds on hand in the Fire Prevention and
18 Safety Fund from the proceeds of the taxes levied, including
19 interest earnings thereon, the school board by resolution shall
20 use such excess and other board restricted funds excluding bond
21 proceeds and earnings from such proceeds (1) for other
22 authorized fire prevention, safety, energy conservation, and
23 school security purposes or (2) for transfer to the Operations
24 and Maintenance Fund for the purpose of abating an equal amount
25 of operations and maintenance purposes taxes. If any transfer
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1 the school board shall within 30 days notify the county clerk
2 of the amount of that transfer and direct the clerk to abate
3 the taxes to be extended for the purposes of operations and
4 maintenance authorized under Section 17-2 of this Act by an
5 amount equal to such transfer.
6     If the proceeds from the tax levy authorized by this
7 Section are insufficient to complete the work approved under
8 this Section, the school board is authorized to sell bonds
9 without referendum under the provisions of this Section in an
10 amount that, when added to the proceeds of the tax levy
11 authorized by this Section, will allow completion of the
12 approved work.
13     Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the
14 maximum rate authorized by law at the time of the making of the
15 contract, shall mature within 20 years from date, and shall be
16 signed by the president of the school board and the treasurer
17 of the school district.
18     In order to authorize and issue such bonds, the school
19 board shall adopt a resolution fixing the amount of bonds, the
20 date thereof, the maturities thereof, rates of interest
21 thereof, place of payment and denomination, which shall be in
22 denominations of not less than $100 and not more than $5,000,
23 and provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax
24 upon all the taxable property in the school district sufficient
25 to pay the principal and interest on such bonds to maturity.
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1 in which the school district is located of a certified copy of
2 the resolution, it is the duty of the county clerk to extend
3 the tax therefor in addition to and in excess of all other
4 taxes heretofore or hereafter authorized to be levied by such
5 school district.
6     After the time such bonds are issued as provided for by
7 this Section, if additional alterations or reconstructions are
8 required to be made because of surveys conducted by an
9 architect or engineer licensed in the State of Illinois, the
10 district may levy a tax at a rate not to exceed .05% per year
11 upon all the taxable property of the district or issue
12 additional bonds, whichever action shall be the most feasible.
13     This Section is cumulative and constitutes complete
14 authority for the issuance of bonds as provided in this Section
15 notwithstanding any other statute or law to the contrary.
16     With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued
17 under this Section either before, on, or after the effective
18 date of Public Act 86-004 (June 6, 1989), it is, and always has
19 been, the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the
20 Omnibus Bond Acts are, and always have been, supplementary
21 grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the
22 Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that
23 may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those
24 Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a
25 limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the
26 Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this

 

 

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1 Section within the supplementary authority granted by the
2 Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of
3 this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive
4 than those Acts.
5     When the purposes for which the bonds are issued have been
6 accomplished and paid for in full and there remain funds on
7 hand from the proceeds of the bond sale and interest earnings
8 therefrom, the board shall, by resolution, use such excess
9 funds in accordance with the provisions of Section 10-22.14 of
10 this Act.
11     Whenever any tax is levied or bonds issued for fire
12 prevention, safety, energy conservation, and school security
13 purposes, such proceeds shall be deposited and accounted for
14 separately within the Fire Prevention and Safety Fund.
15 (Source: P.A. 88-251; 88-508; 88-628, eff. 9-9-94; 88-670, eff.
16 12-2-94; 89-235, eff. 8-4-95; 89-397, eff. 8-20-95.)
 
17     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18 becoming law.