Public Act 099-0273
 
HB2474 EnrolledLRB099 06599 AWJ 26672 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 
6-1001 as follows:
 



    (55 ILCS 5/6-1001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1001)



    Sec. 6-1001. Annual budget. In all counties not required by 
law
to pass an annual appropriation bill within the first 
quarter of the fiscal
year, the county board or board of county 
commissioners, as the case may
be, shall adopt each year an 
annual budget under the terms of this Division
for the 
succeeding fiscal year. Such budget shall be prepared by some

person or persons designated by the county board and such 
budget shall be
made conveniently available to public 
inspection and provided to the public at a public meeting for 
at least fifteen days
prior to final action thereon except that 
nothing in this Act shall restrict a county board or board of 
county commissioners from acting at a public meeting to amend a 
budget after making that budget available to the public and 
prior to final adoption. Notices pertaining to the meeting and 
the proposed budget shall be posted on the county's website, if 
it maintains one. If a county does not maintain a website, then 
the county shall comply with the Open Meetings Act in giving 
notice of such agenda items and make the proposed budget 
available for public inspection. The vote on such budget shall 
be taken by
ayes and nays and entered on the record of the 
meeting. The annual budget
adopted under this Act shall cover 
such a fiscal period of one year to be
determined by the county 
board of each county except as hereinafter
provided and all 
appropriations made therein shall terminate with the close
of 
said fiscal period except as hereinafter provided, provided, 
however,
that any remaining balances shall be available until 
30 days after the
close of the fiscal year in counties with a 
population of less
than
100,000, and until 90 days after the 
close of the fiscal year in
counties
with a population of more 
than 100,000 but less than 3,000,000 inhabitants,
only for the 
authorization of the payment of
obligations incurred prior to 
the close of said fiscal period. Any county
which determines to 
change its fiscal year may adopt a budget to cover such
period 
greater or less than a year as may be necessary to effect such

change and appropriations made therein shall terminate with the 
close
of such period.

(Source: P.A. 90-777, eff. 1-1-99.)