This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Public Building Commission Act
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Public Building Commission Act. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 905.)
Illinois · statute · 50 ILCS 20 · 34 active provisions
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Public Building Commission Act. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 905.)
It is hereby found and declared that there exist in many county seats and in many municipalities within this State inadequate and outmoded public improvements, buildings and facilities for the furnishing of essential governmental services and for use in the conduct of local government by the various branches, departmen…
The following terms, wherever used, or referred to in this Act, mean unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (a) "Commission" means a Public Building Commission created pursuant to this Act. (b) "Commissioner" or "Commissioners" means a Commissioner or Commissioners of a Public Building Commission. (c)…
The governing body of any municipality with 3,000 or more inhabitants or any county seat or the county board of any county may, by resolution adopted by a majority of its members, determine that there is need and that it is in the best interest of the public that a Public Building Commission be organized to exercise th…
A Public Building Commission may be created for the limited purpose of constructing, acquiring, enlarging, improving, repairing or replacing a specific public improvement, building or facility or a special type or class of public improvements, buildings or facilities. The provisions of Section 4 of this Act shall apply…
Within 60 days after the filing in the office of the recorder of the resolution or resolutions organizing the Public Building Commission, the presiding officer of the municipality, county seat or county board adopting the original resolution and the presiding officers of the municipal corporations, if any, joining in t…
Each person appointed as a member of the Board of Commissioners shall qualify by taking and subscribing to an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Illinois and to well and faithfully discharge his duties, which oath shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commission. Commissioners s…
No Commissioner shall receive any compensation, whether in form of salary, per diem allowance or otherwise, for or in connection with his services as such Commissioner. Each Commissioner, however, shall be entitled to reimbursement for any necessary expenditures in connection with the performance of his duties. (Source…
The Commissioners appointed in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Act shall constitute the Board of Commissioners of the Public Building Commission. The government, control and management of the affairs of the Public Building Commission shall be vested in the Board of Commissioners and such Board shall posse…
A majority of the Board of Commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business thereof. The concurring vote of a majority of all the Commissioners shall be required for the exercise of any of the powers granted by this Act. All records of the Commission shall be open to public inspection at all…
A Public Building Commission shall provide for the proper safekeeping of its records, subject to the provisions of "The Local Records Act", enacted by the Seventy-second General Assembly, and shall keep a minute book for the recording of the corporate action of the Board of Commissioners. A complete record of the meeti…
The Treasurer of a Public Building Commission shall be the legal custodian of all funds derived from the issuance of bonds provided for under this Act and of all revenues derived from the operation of any project under this Act and of all other revenues from whatever source received. The Treasurer shall keep all funds…
The Board of Commissioners may employ such technical, professional, and clerical assistants as are necessary and expedient for the proper performance of its duties and for the accomplishment of the objects and purposes of the Commission. The salaries, fees, or other compensation of any such employee shall be fixed and…
Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly. (Source: P.A. 84-731.)
This Act being designed to effect a public use and purpose, the corporate authorities of the municipal corporation or corporations creating the Public Building Commission and the corporate authorities of any other municipal corporations which may be desirous of renting space in any building or buildings to be acquired…
A Public Building Commission is a municipal corporation and constitutes a body both corporate and politic separate and apart from any other municipal corporation or any other public or governmental agency. It may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and have a seal and alter such at pleasure, have perpetual success…
In addition to the permanent financing authorized by Sections 14 and 15 of this Act, the board of commissioners of any public building commission may borrow money and issue interim notes in evidence thereof, in the manner following: (a) Whenever it is deemed advisable and in the interests of the Commission to borrow fu…
Relocation assistance payment. In addition to all other powers authorized under this Act, a public building commission shall have the power to make the following relocation assistance payments where such relocation assistance payments are not available from Federal funds or otherwise: (a) A public building commission i…
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.)
Whenever and as often as the Board of Commissioners determines to issue bonds as provided in this Act, it shall adopt a resolution describing the area to be acquired, the nature of the improvements thereon, the disposition to be made of such improvements and a description of any new buildings or other facilities to be…
Any trust agreement or agreements entered into with or for the benefit of the bondholders may prescribe by whom or on whose behalf action may be taken by the bondholders, and in the absence of any such provision in the trust agreement or agreements, any holder of a bond or bonds, or of any of the coupons of any bond or…
The total amount of outstanding bonds issued by any Public Building Commission of any municipality or county with a population of less than 1,000,000 inhabitants shall not exceed 5% of the total assessed value of taxable property in the municipality or the county as the case may be, except as authorized by a referendum…
The State and all counties, cities, villages, incorporated towns and other municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, and public officers of any thereof, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment…
Whenever, and as often as, a municipal corporation having taxing power enters into a lease with a Public Building Commission, the governing body of such municipal corporation shall provide by ordinance or resolution, as the case may be, for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the annual ren…
Any contract let for the construction, repair, alteration, or improvement of any building or buildings, the demolition thereof, or removal of debris resulting therefrom, or any other contract let for any other type of construction or repair work, shall contain provisions requiring the contractor or other person, firm o…