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Public Act 098-0199
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| HB0438 Enrolled | LRB098 03256 OMW 33271 b |
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AN ACT concerning local government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section |
5-1028 as follows:
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(55 ILCS 5/5-1028) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1028)
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Sec. 5-1028. Tax for emergency ambulance service; |
referendum. In any county which is not a home rule county, a |
county board may levy and
collect, annually, a tax of not to |
exceed .25% of the value, as equalized
or assessed by the |
Department of Revenue, of all the taxable property in
the |
county not included within the territory of a fire protection
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district which levies a tax for ambulance service, for the |
payment of expenses
not paid for from general funds which are |
incurred in providing emergency
ambulance service under the |
provisions of Section 5-1053. Such tax shall
not be included |
within any statutory limitation
of rate or amount for other |
county purposes, but shall be excluded
therefrom and be in |
addition thereto and in excess thereof.
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This tax shall not be levied in any county until the |
question of its adoption
is submitted to the electors of the |
county not residing within the territory
of a fire protection |
district which levies a tax for ambulance service and
approved |
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by a majority of those voting on the question. Upon the |
adoption
of a resolution by the county board providing for the |
submission of the
question of the adoption to the electors of |
the county the board shall
certify the resolution and the |
proposition to the proper election officials
who shall submit |
the proposition at an election in accordance with the
general |
election law. If a majority of the votes cast on the question |
is in
favor of the levy of such tax, it may thereafter be |
levied in such county
for each succeeding year.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the |
county board of a county that has more than 8,400 but less than |
9,000 inhabitants, according to the 2010 federal decennial |
census, may also use funds collected under this Section to |
provide 9-1-1 service, but only if the question of using those |
funds for that purpose has been submitted to the electors of |
the county not residing within the territory
of the fire |
protection district that levies the tax for ambulance service |
and
if that question is approved by a majority of those |
electors voting on the question. Upon the adoption
of a |
resolution by the county board providing for the submission of |
that
question to those electors, the board shall
certify the |
resolution and the proposition to the proper election |
officials,
who shall submit the proposition at an election in |
accordance with the
Election Code. The election authority must |
submit the question in substantially the following form: |
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May moneys collected by the county
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to provide emergency ambulance service YES
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also be used for the purpose of -----------------------------
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providing 9-1-1 service? NO
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The election authority must record the votes as "Yes" or |
"No". |
If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote |
in the affirmative, the county may thereafter use funds that it |
collects under this Section to provide 9-1-1 service or |
emergency ambulance service. |
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January |
1, 2014.
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