Bill Text: IL SB1538 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality's police department may be discontinued after referendum of the electors of the municipality. Requires a petition of the electors requesting the referendum or an ordinance requesting the referendum by the city council of the municipality. Provides that if the referendum passes, the sheriff's department acquires primary jurisdiction over police protection of the municipality and the county acquires the authority to levy any taxes the municipality could have levied to support the policing of the municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1538 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB1538-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB1538 Introduced 2/15/2019, by Sen. Terry Link SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/11-1-14 new
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality's police department may be discontinued after referendum of the electors of the municipality. Requires a petition of the electors requesting the referendum or an ordinance requesting the referendum by the city council of the municipality. Provides that if the referendum passes, the sheriff's department acquires primary jurisdiction over police protection of the municipality and the county acquires the authority to levy any taxes the municipality could have levied to support the policing of the municipality.
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding
Section 11-1-14 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-1-14 new)
Sec. 11-1-14. Discontinuance of police department by
referendum.
(a) A municipality's police department may be discontinued
after referendum of the electors of the municipality after: (1)
the city council passes an ordinance for a referendum to
discontinue the police department; or (2) after a petition for
a referendum signed by not less than 5% of the total number of
registered voters of municipality is filed with the city
council. The ordinance or petition shall include the date of
discontinuance of the police department, which shall not be
earlier than 60 days following the date of the referendum.
(b) Upon the adoption of an ordinance or the filing of a
petition under subsection (a), a referendum, subject to the
requirements of 16-7 of the Election Code, shall be placed on
the ballot for all electors residing in the municipality at the
next general election in substantially the following form:
Shall the ........ police department be discontinued

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with the sheriff's department acquiring primary
jurisdiction over police protection in the municipality
and the county acquiring the ability to levy any applicable
municipal taxes to provide police protection in the
municipality?
The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
(c) If a majority of the electors in the municipality vote
in favor of the referendum, then the police department shall be
discontinued on the date indicated in the ordinance or petition
and, on that date, the sheriff's department acquires primary
jurisdiction over police protection of the municipality and the
county acquires the authority to levy any tax the municipality
levied or could have levied to support the policing of the
municipality. The county may levy a tax under this subsection
regardless of whether it uses the money directly for the
support of policing of the municipality.