Public Act 100-0947
 
SB3503 EnrolledLRB100 20571 AWJ 35975 b


  
    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended  by changing Section 
5-1106 as follows:
 



    (55 ILCS 5/5-1106)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1106)



    Sec. 5-1106. County offices, equipment and expenditures. 
It
shall be the duty of the county board of each county:

    First--To erect or otherwise provide when necessary, and 
the finances of
the county will justify it, and keep in repair, 
a suitable court house,
jail and other necessary county 
buildings, and to provide proper rooms and
offices for the 
accommodation of the county board, State's attorney, county

clerk, county treasurer, recorder and sheriff, and to provide 
suitable
furniture therefor. But in counties not under township 
organization, no
appropriations shall be made for the erection 
of public buildings, without
first submitting the proposition 
to a vote of the people of the county, and
the vote shall be 
submitted in the same manner and under the same
restrictions as 
provided for in like cases in Section 5-2001; and the
votes 
therefor shall be "For taxation," specifying the object, and 
those
against shall be "Against taxation," specifying the 
object.

    Second--To provide and keep in repair, when the finances of 
the county
permit, suitable fireproof safes or offices for the 
county clerk, State's
attorney, county treasurer, recorder and 
sheriff.

    Third--To provide reasonable and necessary expenses for 
the use of the
county board, county clerk, county treasurer, 
recorder, sheriff, coroner,
State's attorney, superintendent 
of schools, judges and clerks of courts,
and supervisor of 
assessment.

    Fourth--To cause to be published at the close of each 
annual, regular or
special meeting of the board, a brief 
statement of the proceedings thereof
in one or more newspapers 
published in the county, in which shall be set
forth the name 
of every individual who shall have had any account audited
and 
allowed by the board and the amount of such claim as allowed, 
and the
amount claimed, and also their proceedings upon the 
equalization of the
assessment roll: Provided, that no 
publication in a newspaper shall be
required unless the same 
can be done without unreasonable expense.

    Fifth--To make out at its meeting in September, annually, a 
full and
accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of 
the preceding year,
which statement shall contain a full and 
correct description of each item,
from whom and on what account 
received, to whom paid, and on what account
expended, together 
with an accurate statement of the finances of the county
at the 
end of the fiscal year, including all debts and liabilities of 
every
description, and the assets and other means to discharge 
the same; and
within 30 days thereafter to cause the same to be 
posted up at the court
house door, and at 2 other places in the 
county, and published for one week
in some newspaper therein, 
if there is one, and the same can be done
without unreasonable 
expense.

    Sixth--To provide proper rooms and offices, and for the 
repair thereof,
for the accommodation of the circuit court of 
the county and for the clerks
for such court, and to provide 
suitable furnishings for such rooms and
offices, and to furnish 
fire proof safes, and the repair thereof, for the
offices of 
the clerks of the circuit court of the county. On or before 
June 1, 2019, every facility that houses a circuit court room 
shall include at least one lactation room or area for members 
of the public to express breast milk in private that is located 
outside the confines of a restroom and includes, at minimum, a 
chair, a table, and an electrical outlet, as well as a sink 
with running water where possible. The court rooms
and 
furnishings thereof shall meet with reasonable minimum 
standards
prescribed by the Supreme Court of Illinois. Such 
standards shall be
substantially the same as those generally 
accepted in court rooms as to
general furnishings, arrangement 
of bench, tables and chairs, cleanliness,
convenience to 
litigants, decorations, lighting and other such matters

relating to the physical appearance of the court room. The 
lactation rooms and areas shall also meet with reasonable 
minimum standards prescribed by the Supreme Court, which the 
Supreme Court is respectfully requested to create, including 
requirements for posting of notice to the public regarding 
location and access to lactation rooms and areas, as well as 
requirements for the addition of a sink with running water in 
the event of renovation to such facilities. The Supreme Court 
is also respectfully requested to create minimum standards for 
training of courthouse staff and personnel regarding location 
and access to lactation rooms and areas for all people present 
in the courthouse who need to use lactation rooms and areas. 

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)