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91_HB0895
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1 AN ACT to amend the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act by
2 changing Sections 3, 5, and 9.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Intergovernmental Cooperation Act is
6 amended by changing Sections 3, 5, and 9 as follows:
7 (5 ILCS 220/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 743)
8 Sec. 3. Intergovernmental cooperation agreements. Any
9 power or powers, privileges, functions, or authority
10 exercised or which may be exercised by a public agency of
11 this State may be exercised, combined, transferred, and
12 enjoyed jointly with any other public agency of this State
13 and jointly with any public agency of any other state or of
14 the United States to the extent that laws of such other state
15 or of the United States do not prohibit joint exercise or
16 enjoyment and except where specifically and expressly
17 prohibited by law. This includes, but is not limited to, (i)
18 arrangements between the Illinois Student Assistance
19 Commission and agencies in other states which issue
20 professional licenses and (ii) agreements between the
21 Illinois Department of Public Aid and public agencies for the
22 establishment and enforcement of child support orders and for
23 the exchange of information that may be necessary for the
24 enforcement of those child support orders.
25 (Source: P.A. 89-6, eff. 3-6-95; 90-18, eff. 7-1-97.)
26 (5 ILCS 220/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 745)
27 Sec. 5. Intergovernmental contracts. Any one or more
28 public agencies may contract with any one or more other
29 public agencies to perform any governmental service, activity
30 or undertaking or to combine, transfer, or exercise any
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1 powers, functions, privileges, or authority which any of the
2 public agencies entering into the contract is authorized by
3 law to perform, provided that such contract shall be approved
4 authorized by the governing bodies body of each party to the
5 contract and except where specifically and expressly
6 prohibited by law. Such contract shall set forth fully the
7 purposes, powers, rights, objectives and responsibilities of
8 the contracting parties.
9 (Source: P.A. 78-785.)
10 (5 ILCS 220/9) (from Ch. 127, par. 749)
11 Sec. 9. County participation. Any county may participate
12 in an intergovernmental agreement under this Act
13 notwithstanding the absence of specific authority under State
14 law to perform the action service involved provided that the
15 unit of local government contracting with the county has
16 authority to perform the action service. The authority of the
17 county shall be limited to the territorial limits of the
18 local governmental unit with which the county contracts. In
19 the case of an intergovernmental agreement between a county
20 and a municipality, however, the agreement may provide that
21 the county may perform an action within the territorial
22 limits of the municipality, within the contiguous territory
23 not more than one and one-half miles beyond the corporate
24 limits and not included in any municipality, or within both.
25 (Source: P.A. 81-1121.)
26 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
27 becoming law.