Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 220 — Intergovernmental Cooperation Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. (Source: P.A. 78-785.)

Definitions

Definitions. For the purpose of this Act: (1) The term "public agency" shall mean any unit of local government as defined in the Illinois Constitution of 1970, any school district, any public community college district, any public building commission, the State of Illinois, any agency of the State government or of the…

Intergovernmental cooperation

Intergovernmental cooperation. Any power or powers, privileges, functions, or authority exercised or which may be exercised by a public agency of this State may be exercised, combined, transferred, and enjoyed jointly with any other public agency of this State and jointly with any public agency of any other state or of…

Municipal Joint Action Water Agency

Municipal Joint Action Water Agency. (a) Any municipality or municipalities of this State, any county or counties of this State, any township in a county with a population under 700,000 of this State, any public water district or districts of this State, State university, or any combination thereof may, by intergovernm…

(a) Any two or more municipalities, counties or combination thereof may, by intergovernmental agreement, establish a Municipal Joint Action Agency to provide for efficient and environmentally sound collection, transportation, processing, storage and disposal of municipal waste. Any such Agency shall itself be a municip…

Whenever this Act, as amended from time to time, grants a municipal joint action agency the power to organize and exercise powers in connection with the efficient and environmentally sound collection, transportation, processing, storage and disposal of municipal waste ("waste disposal"), a municipality in the State of…

(1) Any municipality or municipalities of this State, any county or counties of this State or any combination thereof upon adoption of an ordinance by the governing body may, by intergovernmental agreement, join with any community college district of this State in forming Local Economic Development Commissions, hereina…

(a) Any 2 or more municipalities or counties, or any combination thereof, may, by intergovernmental agreement, establish a Municipal Joint Sewage Treatment Agency to provide for the treatment, carrying off and disposal of swamp, stagnant or overflow water, sewage, industrial wastes and other drainage of member municipa…

Any expenditure of funds by a public agency organized pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Act and consisting of 5 public agencies or less, except for an intergovernmental risk management association, self-insurance pool or self-administered health and accident cooperativ…

(a) Any special district the boundaries of which are exactly coterminous with, or entirely within, the boundaries of a township may merge into and transfer all of its rights, powers, duties, liabilities and functions to the township as provided in this Section notwithstanding any other provision of the law. (b) "Specia…

(a) Any 2 or more contiguous counties of this State, upon adoption of ordinances by the governing bodies, may, by intergovernmental agreement, form a Regional Juvenile Detention Authority to coordinate the construction of a Regional Juvenile Detention Facility. (b) The governing body of an Authority created under this…

Floodwater management

Floodwater management. In counties having 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, a municipality may enter into intergovernmental agreements with a township for floodwater management in the unincorporated areas of the county. (Source: P.A. 91-424, eff. 1-1-00.)

Flood prevention

Flood prevention. Two or more county flood prevention districts may enter into an intergovernmental agreement to provide any services authorized in the Flood Prevention District Act, to construct, reconstruct, repair, or otherwise provide any facilities described in that Act either within or outside of any district's c…

Appropriations, furnishing of property, personnel and services

Appropriations, furnishing of property, personnel and services. Any public agency entering into an agreement pursuant to this Act may appropriate funds and may sell, lease, give, authorize the receipt of grants, or otherwise supply the administrative joint board or other legal or administrative entity created to operat…

Prohibited agreements and contracts

Prohibited agreements and contracts. No intergovernmental or interagency agreement or contract may be entered into, implemented, or given effect if the agreement's or contract's intent or effect is: (i) to circumvent any limitation established by law on State appropriation or State expenditure authority with respect to…

Intergovernmental contracts

Intergovernmental contracts. Any one or more public agencies may contract with any one or more other public agencies to perform any governmental service, activity or undertaking or to combine, transfer, or exercise any powers, functions, privileges, or authority which any of the public agencies entering into the contra…

All personnel rules applicable to an employee of a public agency shall continue to apply to such employee if the employee is assigned to perform services for another public agency pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement. (Source: P.A. 84-1248.)

Joint self-insurance

Joint self-insurance. An intergovernmental contract may, among other undertakings, authorize public agencies to jointly self-insure and authorize each public agency member of the contract to utilize its funds to pay to a joint insurance pool its costs and reserves to protect, wholly or partially, itself or any public a…

This Act is not a prohibition on the contractual and associational powers granted by Section 10 of Article VII of the Constitution

This Act is not a prohibition on the contractual and associational powers granted by Section 10 of Article VII of the Constitution. (Source: P.A. 78-785.)

Eminent domain

Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

Separability

Separability. If any section, subsection, sentence or clause of this Act shall be adjudged unconstitutional, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of the Act as a whole or of any part not adjudged unconstitutional. (Source: P.A. 78-785.)

County participation

County participation. Any county may participate in an intergovernmental agreement under this Act notwithstanding the absence of specific authority under State law to perform the action involved provided that the unit of local government contracting with the county has authority to perform the action. The authority of…

Authorized investments

Authorized investments. In addition to other investments authorized by law, an intergovernmental risk management entity created under this Act with assets of at least $5,000,000 and adopting an investment policy under Section 16 of this Act may invest in any combination of the following: (1) the common stocks listed on…

Investment policy

Investment policy. (a) Investments made by an intergovernmental risk management entity may be governed by a written investment policy adopted by the corporate authorities of the entity. An intergovernmental risk management entity may have an investment policy for any public funds in excess of the amount needed to meet…