(55 ILCS 5/5-38008) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38008)
Sec. 5-38008.
Annual tax levy.
An annual tax of
not to exceed .04%, or the rate limit in
effect on July 1, 1967, whichever is greater, of the value, as equalized
or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all
taxable property within each county which has established a public
county library service may be assessed, levied and collected by that
county in the manner provided for the assessment, levy and collection of
other taxes for county purposes.
Such tax rate may be increased in excess of .04% but not in excess of
.08% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue
under the following terms and conditions. Prior to
the levy and collection of such a tax, the county board shall adopt a
resolution authorizing the levy and collection of the tax at a rate not
in excess of .08% of the value of all taxable property within the county
as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue,
and, within fifteen days after the adoption of such a resolution, it
shall be published once in a newspaper published or having a general
circulation in the county. The publication of the resolution shall include
a notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition
requesting that the question of the adoption of the resolution be submitted
to the electors of the county; (2) the time in which the petition must be
filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The county clerk
shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.
If no petition is filed in the office of the county clerk, as
hereinafter provided in this Section, within 30 days after the
publication of the resolution, or if all such petitions so filed are determined
to be invalid or insufficient, the resolution shall be in effect. But,
if within that 30 day period a petition is filed in the office of the
county clerk, signed by electors numbering not less than 5% of the
number of electors residing within the county, asking that the question
of levying and collecting such tax be submitted to the electors of the
county, the board shall certify that question to the proper election officials,
who shall submit the question at an election in accordance with the general
election law. If a majority of electors voting upon the question voted in
favor of the levy and collection of the tax provided for, such county
shall be authorized and empowered to levy and collect such tax annually,
but if a majority of the electors voting upon the question are not in
favor thereof, the resolution shall not take effect.
Such tax rate may be increased to not to exceed .20% of the value, as
equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, if
the voters in such county shall so determine by a majority of those
voting upon the proposition at any regular election. The proposition shall be
in substantially the following form:
-------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the annual tax rate forcounty library purposes in...... YESCounty be increased from not toexceed (insert present maximum --------------------------rate) to not to exceed .20% ofthe assessed value of all taxable NOproperty within the county?--------------------------------------------------------------
Any such tax authorized by the voters shall not be included within
any constitutional or statutory limitation for county purposes, but
shall be excluded therefrom and be in addition thereto and in excess
thereof. The foregoing limitations upon tax rates may be increased or
decreased under the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of
Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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