Bill Text: IL SB1657 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Provides that the Illinois Finance Authority has the power to purchase special service area bonds and to accept assignments or pledges, or both, of special service area bonds or agreements relating to public and private green special service area projects. Amends the Special Service Area Tax Law in the Property Tax Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a county or a municipality may establish a green special service area. Provides that those green special service areas shall include only property for which each owner of record has executed a contract or agreement with the county or municipality consenting to the inclusion of the property within the green special service area. Provides that each owner of record of property within a green special service area may arrange for specific energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy improvements, or water use improvements and may obtain financing for those improvements through the process set forth in the ordinance establishing the green special service area. Provides that counties and municipalities shall levy property taxes on property within green special service areas. Provides that counties and municipalities may issue bonds in connection with green special service areas and may sell, assign, or pledge those bonds to the Illinois Finance Authority. Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code to provide that each county or municipality shall have the power and authority to engage in specified activities that relate to green special service areas. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB1657 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB1657-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB1657 Introduced 2/9/2011, by Sen. Michael W. Frerichs SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Provides that the Illinois Finance Authority has the power to purchase special service area bonds and to accept assignments or pledges, or both, of special service area bonds or agreements relating to public and private green special service area projects. Amends the Special Service Area Tax Law in the Property Tax Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a county or a municipality may establish a green special service area. Provides that those green special service areas shall include only property for which each owner of record has executed a contract or agreement with the county or municipality consenting to the inclusion of the property within the green special service area. Provides that the owner of record of each parcel of property within a green special service area may arrange for specific energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy improvements, or water use improvements and may obtain financing for those improvements through the process set forth in the ordinance establishing the green special service area. Provides that counties and municipalities may levy property taxes in connection with green special service areas. Provides that counties and municipalities may issue bonds in connection with green special service areas and may sell, assign, or pledge those bonds to the Illinois Finance Authority. Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code to provide that each county or municipality shall have the power and authority to engage in specified activities that relate to green special service areas. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Finance Authority Act is amended by
changing Sections 820-10, 820-20, and 820-25 and by adding
Section 820-37 as follows:
(20 ILCS 3501/820-10)
Sec. 820-10. Definitions. The following words or terms,
whenever used or referred to in this Article, shall have the
following meanings ascribed to them, except where the context
clearly requires otherwise:
(a) "Department" means the Illinois Department of Commerce
and Economic Opportunity.
(b) "Unit of local government" means any unit of local
government, as defined in Article VII, Section 1 of the 1970
State Constitution and any local public entity as that term is
defined by the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees
Tort Immunity Act and also includes the State and any
instrumentality, office, officer, department, division,
bureau, commission, college or university thereof.
(c) "Energy conservation project" means any improvement,
repair, alteration or betterment of any building or facility or
any equipment, fixture or furnishing including its energy using

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mechanical devices to be added to or used in any building or
facility that the Director of the Department has certified to
the Authority will be a cost-effective energy-related project
that will lower energy or utility costs in connection with the
operation or maintenance of such building or facility, and will
achieve energy cost savings sufficient to cover bond debt
service and other project costs within 20 10 years from the
date of project installation.
(d) "Green special service area project" means any energy
efficiency improvement, renewable energy improvement, or water
use improvement as such terms are defined in Section 27-5 of
the Special Service Area Tax Law.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)
(20 ILCS 3501/820-20)
Sec. 820-20. Powers and Duties; Illinois Local Government
Financing Assistance Program. The Authority has the power:
(a) To purchase from time to time pursuant to negotiated
sale or to otherwise acquire from time to time any local
government securities issued by one or more units of local
government upon such terms and conditions as the Authority may
prescribe;
(b) To issue bonds in one or more series pursuant to one or
more resolutions of the Authority for any purpose authorized
under this Article, including without limitation purchasing or
acquiring local government securities, providing for the

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payment of any interest deemed necessary on such bonds, paying
for the cost of issuance of such bonds, providing for the
payment of the cost of any guarantees, letters of credit,
insurance contracts or other similar credit support or
liquidity instruments, or providing for the funding of any
reserves deemed necessary in connection with such bonds and
refunding or advance refunding of any such bonds and the
interest and any premium thereon, pursuant to this Act;
(c) To provide for the funding of any reserves or other
funds or accounts deemed necessary by the Authority in
connection with any bonds issued by the Authority or local
government securities purchased or otherwise acquired by the
Authority;
(d) To pledge any local government security, including any
payments thereon, and any other funds of the Authority or funds
made available to the Authority which may be applied to such
purpose, as security for any bonds or any guarantees, letters
of credit, insurance contracts or similar credit support or
liquidity instruments securing the bonds;
(e) To enter into agreements or contracts with third
parties, whether public or private, including without
limitation the United States of America, the State, or any
department or agency thereof to obtain any appropriations,
grants, loans or guarantees which are deemed necessary or
desirable by the Authority. Any such guarantee, agreement or
contract may contain terms and provisions necessary or

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desirable in connection with the program, subject to the
requirements established by this Article;
(f) To charge reasonable fees to defray the cost of
obtaining letters of credit, insurance contracts or other
similar documents, and to charge such other reasonable fees to
defray the cost of trustees, depositories, paying agents, bond
registrars, escrow agents and other administrative expenses.
Any such fees shall be payable by units of local government
whose local government securities are purchased or otherwise
acquired by the Authority pursuant to this Article, in such
amounts and at such times as the Authority shall determine, and
the amount of the fees need not be uniform among the various
units of local government whose local government securities are
purchased or otherwise acquired by the Authority pursuant to
this Article;
(g) To obtain and maintain guarantees, letters of credit,
insurance contracts or similar credit support or liquidity
instruments which are deemed necessary or desirable in
connection with any bonds or other obligations of the Authority
or any local government securities;
(h) To establish application fees and other service fees
and prescribe application, notification, contract, agreement,
security and insurance forms and rules and regulations it deems
necessary or appropriate;
(i) To provide technical assistance, at the request of any
unit of local government, with respect to the financing or

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refinancing for any public purpose. In fulfillment of this
purpose, the Authority may request assistance from the
Department as necessary; any unit of local government that is
experiencing either a financial emergency as defined in the
Local Government Financial Planning and Supervision Act or a
condition of fiscal crisis evidenced by an impaired ability to
obtain financing for its public purpose projects from
traditional financial channels or impaired ability to fully
fund its obligations to fire, police and municipal employee
pension funds, or to bond payments or reserves, may request
technical assistance from the Authority in the form of a
diagnostic evaluation of its financial condition;
(j) To purchase any obligations of the Authority issued
pursuant to this Article;
(k) To sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of local
government securities purchased or otherwise acquired by the
Authority pursuant to this Article, including without
limitation, the sale, transfer or other disposition of
undivided fractionalized interests in the right to receive
payments of principal and premium, if any, or the right to
receive payments of interest or the right to receive payments
of principal of and premium, if any, and interest on pools of
such local government securities;
(l) To acquire, purchase, lease, sell, transfer and
otherwise dispose of real and personal property, or any
interest therein, and to issue its bonds and enter into leases,

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contracts and other agreements with units of local government
in connection with such acquisitions, purchases, leases, sales
and other dispositions of such real and personal property;
(m) To make loans to banks, savings and loans and other
financial institutions for the purpose of purchasing or
otherwise acquiring local government securities, and to issue
its bonds, and enter into agreements and contracts in
connection with such loans;
(n) To enter into agreements or contracts with any person
necessary or appropriate to place the payment obligations of
the Authority under any of its bonds in whole or in part on any
interest rate basis, cash flow basis, or other basis desired by
the Authority, including without limitation agreements or
contracts commonly known as "interest rate swap agreements",
"forward payment conversion agreements", and "futures", or
agreements or contracts to exchange cash flows or a series of
payments, or agreements or contracts, including without
limitation agreements or contracts commonly known as
"options", "puts" or "calls", to hedge payment, rate spread, or
similar exposure; provided, that any such agreement or contract
shall not constitute an obligation for borrowed money, and
shall not be taken into account under Section 845-5 of this Act
or any other debt limit of the Authority or the State of
Illinois;
(o) To make and enter into all other agreements and
contracts and execute all instruments necessary or incidental

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to performance of its duties and the execution of its powers
under this Article;
(p) To contract for and finance the costs of energy audits,
project-specific engineering and design specifications, and
any other related analyses preliminary to an energy
conservation project; and, to contract for and finance the cost
of project monitoring and data collection to verify
post-installation energy consumption and energy-related
operating costs. Any such contract shall be executed only after
it has been jointly negotiated by the Authority and the
Department; and
(p-5) To purchase special service area bonds and to accept
assignments or pledges, or both, of special service area bonds
or agreements relating to public and private green special
service area projects, which authority shall be liberally
construed; and
(q) To exercise such other powers as are necessary or
incidental to the foregoing.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)
(20 ILCS 3501/820-25)
Sec. 820-25. Unit of Local Government Participation. Any
unit of local government is authorized to voluntarily
participate in this program. Any unit of local government which
is authorized to issue, sell and deliver its local government
securities under any provision of the Constitution or laws of

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the State may issue, sell and deliver such local government
securities to the Authority under this Article; provided that
and notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
any such unit of local government may issue and sell any such
local government security at any interest rate or rates, which
rate or rates may be established by an index or formula which
may be implemented by persons appointed or retained for those
purposes therefor, payable at such time or times, and at such
price or prices to which the unit of local government and the
Authority may agree. Any unit of local government may pay any
amount charged by the Authority pursuant to this Article. Any
unit of local government participating in this program may pay
out of the proceeds of its local government securities or out
of any other moneys or funds available to it for such purposes
any costs, fees, interest deemed necessary, premium or reserves
incurred or required for financing or refinancing this program,
including without limitation any fees charged by the Authority
pursuant to this Article and its share, as determined by the
Authority, of any costs, fees, interest deemed necessary,
premium or reserves incurred or required pursuant to Section
820-20 of this Act. All local government securities purchased
or otherwise acquired by the Authority pursuant to this Act
shall upon delivery to the Authority be accompanied by an
approving opinion of bond counsel as to the validity of such
securities. The Authority shall have discretion to purchase or
otherwise acquire those local government securities, as it

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shall deem to be in the best interest of its financing program
for all units of local government taken as a whole. Any unit of
local government with the authority in connection with green
special service area projects to provide special service area
financing under the Special Service Area Tax Law is authorized
to issue special service area bonds and sell or assign the
bonds to the Authority or to assign or pledge special service
area bonds or agreements, or both, to the Authority.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)
(20 ILCS 3501/820-37 new)
Sec. 820-37. Unit of local government participation;
bonds. The Authority may assist units of local government by
establishing and implementing a program to issue its bonds
secured by special service area agreements assigned or pledged
to the Authority by the local governments so as to provide
financing for green special service area projects. The bonds
shall not constitute an indebtedness or obligation of the
State, and it shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond
that it does not constitute an indebtedness or obligation but
is payable solely from the revenues, income, or other assets of
the Authority that are pledged.
Section 10. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
Section 27-5 and by adding Section 27-97 as follows:

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(35 ILCS 200/27-5)
Sec. 27-5. Short title; definitions. This Article may be
cited as the Special Service Area Tax Law.
When used in this Article:
"Energy efficiency improvement" means any installation,
modification, or replacement that reduces energy consumption
in any residential, commercial, or industrial building,
structure, or other facility, including, but not limited to,
all of the following:
(1) insulation in walls, roofs, floors, foundations,
and heating and cooling distribution systems;
(2) storm windows and doors, multiglazed windows and
doors, heat-absorbing or heat-reflective glazed and coated
window and door systems, additional glazing, reductions in
glass area, and other window and door system modifications;
(3) automatic energy control systems;
(4) high efficiency furnaces, lighting fixtures,
ventilating, or air conditioning and distribution systems;
(5) caulking and weather-stripping;
(6) facilities, improvements, or systems to bring
natural daylight into buildings; and
(7) any other installation, modification, replacement,
facility, improvement, rehabilitation, repair, or
remodeling that has the effect of reducing energy
consumption.
"Green special service area" means a special service area

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created pursuant to Section 27-97 of this Act for the purpose
of providing special services that are energy efficiency
improvements, renewable energy improvements, water use
improvements, or a combination of those improvements. The
corporate authorities of the municipality or county may
establish (i) multiple green special service areas pursuant to
a single ordinance or (ii) multiple buildings, structures,
facilities, improvements, or lots or parcels of land within a
single green special service area, which are not required to be
contiguous. Revenues from multiple green special service areas
and revenues from multiple buildings, structures, facilities,
improvements, or lots or parcels of land within a single green
special service area may be aggregated for a pledge as security
for bonds issued pursuant to Section 27-45 of this Act.
"Renewable energy improvement" means any fixture, product,
system, device, or interacting group of those items, for or
serving any residential, commercial, or industrial building,
structure, or other facility that produces energy from
renewable energy resources as defined in Section 1-10 of the
Illinois Power Agency Act.
"Special Service Area" means a contiguous area within a
municipality or county in which, except as provided in this Act
concerning green special service areas, special governmental
services are provided in addition to those services provided
generally throughout the municipality or county, the cost of
the special services to be paid from revenues collected from

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taxes levied or imposed upon property within that area.
Territory shall be considered contiguous for purposes of this
Article even though certain completely surrounded portions of
the territory are excluded from the special service area. A
county may create a special service area within a municipality
or municipalities when the municipality or municipalities
consent to the creation of the special service area. A
municipality may create a special service area within a
municipality and the unincorporated area of a county or within
another municipality when the county or other municipality
consents to the creation of the special service area.
"Special Services" means all forms of services pertaining
to the government and affairs of the municipality or county,
including, but not limited to, weather modification, energy
efficiency improvements, renewable energy improvements, water
use improvements, and improvements permissible under Article 9
of the Illinois Municipal Code, and contracts for the supply of
water as described in Section 11-124-1 of the Illinois
Municipal Code which may be entered into by the municipality or
by the county on behalf of a county service area.
"Water use improvement" means any fixture, product,
system, device, or interacting group of those items, for or
serving any residential, commercial, or industrial building,
structure, or other facility that has the effect of conserving
water resources through improved water management or
efficiency.

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(Source: P.A. 86-1324; 88-445.)
(35 ILCS 200/27-97 new)
Sec. 27-97. Green special service areas.
(a) The corporate authorities of a municipality or county
may establish a green special service area, or multiple green
special service areas under a single ordinance, for the purpose
of arranging and financing energy efficiency improvements,
renewable energy improvements, or water use improvements. Each
green special service area shall include only property for
which each owner of record has executed a contract or agreement
consenting to the inclusion of the property within the green
special service area, and the contract may be executed
subsequent to the adoption of the ordinance of the corporate
authorities establishing the green special service area. The
inclusion, or, as applicable, deletion, of property within the
green special service area subsequent to the adoption of the
ordinance of the corporate authorities establishing the green
special service area may be made either (i) by the adoption of
a supplemental or amending ordinance of the corporate
authorities or (ii) pursuant to authority in the establishing
ordinance designating one or more county or municipal officers,
as applicable, to include, or, as applicable, delete, other
properties. Green special service areas are exempt from the
provisions of Sections 27-20, 27-25, 27-30, 27-35, 27-40,
27-55, 27-60, 27-65, and 27-70 of this Act. A municipality or

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county may create a green special service area by an ordinance
establishing the green special service area. Each owner of
record of property within a green special service area may
arrange for the specific energy efficiency improvements,
renewable energy improvements, or water use improvements and
may obtain financing for those improvements through the process
set forth in the ordinance establishing the green special
service area. A green special service area may consist of a
single building, structure, facility, improvement, or lot or
parcel of land. The corporate authorities of a municipality or
county may establish multiple green special service areas
pursuant to a single ordinance or, within a single green
special service area, identify multiple buildings, structures,
facilities, improvements, or lots or parcels of land, whether
or not contiguous. Revenues from multiple green special service
areas or revenues from multiple buildings, structures,
facilities, improvements, or lots or parcels of land within a
single green special service area may be aggregated for a
pledge as security for bonds issued pursuant to Section 27-45
of this Act.
Municipalities and counties shall have the power to issue
bonds under Section 27-45 for the public purposes set forth in
this Section 27-97, provided that it is not necessary to
conduct a public hearing, as required in Section 27-45, in
connection with the issuance of those bonds.
(b) The corporate authorities of a county or municipality

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that establishes a green special service area shall levy a tax
pursuant to Section 27-75 of this Act on all property in a
green special service area where each owner of record has
entered into a contract or agreement for improvements, provided
that it is not necessary to file a copy of the notice of public
hearing with the County Clerk as otherwise required by Section
27-45. The contract or agreement entered into with the owner of
the property shall be conclusive as to the due authorization
and establishment of the applicable green special service area
as it relates to that property and to the amount of special tax
to be levied and extended against the property for the
improvements. A contract or agreement may specify tax levies
pursuant to Section 27-75 of this Act related to the applicable
energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy improvements,
water use improvements, or a combination thereof, or as
applicable to the principal of and interest on bonds issued,
including as a part of a larger pooled or composite issue, for
financing those improvements. The specified tax levies in a
contract or agreement when recorded as provided in subsection
(c) of this Section and filed with the county clerk shall be
authority for each affected county to extend and collect the
levied taxes for the applicable municipality or county, or
both, with respect to each such contract or agreement.
Municipalities must have consent from the County Clerk before
creating a green special service area.
(c) The contract or agreement in subsection (b) of this

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Section shall be in recordable form and shall be recorded in
the office of the recorder in the county where the property is
located.
(d) Any unit of local government with the authority to
provide special service area financing in connection with green
special service area projects, as provided in the Special
Service Area Tax Law, is authorized to do any of the following:
(i) issue special service area bonds, (ii) sell or assign those
bonds to the Authority, and (iii) assign or pledge those
special service area bonds, agreements relating to public and
private green special service area projects, or both to the
Illinois Finance Authority.
(e) This Section shall be liberally construed to effect the
legislative purpose of enabling taxpayers to make energy
efficiency improvements, renewable energy improvements, or
water use improvements to their properties.
Section 15. The Counties Code is amended by changing
Section 5-1005 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/5-1005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1005)
Sec. 5-1005. Powers. Each county shall have power:
1. To purchase and hold the real and personal estate
necessary for the uses of the county, and to purchase and
hold, for the benefit of the county, real estate sold by
virtue of judicial proceedings in which the county is

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plaintiff.
2. To sell and convey or lease any real or personal
estate owned by the county.
3. To make all contracts and do all other acts in
relation to the property and concerns of the county
necessary to the exercise of its corporate powers.
4. To take all necessary measures and institute
proceedings to enforce all laws for the prevention of
cruelty to animals.
5. To purchase and hold or lease real estate upon which
may be erected and maintained buildings to be utilized for
purposes of agricultural experiments and to purchase, hold
and use personal property for the care and maintenance of
such real estate in connection with such experimental
purposes.
6. To cause to be erected, or otherwise provided,
suitable buildings for, and maintain a county hospital and
necessary branch hospitals and/or a county sheltered care
home or county nursing home for the care of such sick,
chronically ill or infirm persons as may by law be proper
charges upon the county, or upon other governmental units,
and to provide for the management of the same. The county
board may establish rates to be paid by persons seeking
care and treatment in such hospital or home in accordance
with their financial ability to meet such charges, either
personally or through a hospital plan or hospital

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insurance, and the rates to be paid by governmental units,
including the State, for the care of sick, chronically ill
or infirm persons admitted therein upon the request of such
governmental units. Any hospital maintained by a county
under this Section is authorized to provide any service and
enter into any contract or other arrangement not prohibited
for a hospital that is licensed under the Hospital
Licensing Act, incorporated under the General
Not-For-Profit Corporation Act, and exempt from taxation
under paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the
Internal Revenue Code.
7. To contribute such sums of money toward erecting,
building, maintaining, and supporting any non-sectarian
public hospital located within its limits as the county
board of the county shall deem proper.
8. To purchase and hold real estate for the
preservation of forests, prairies and other natural areas
and to maintain and regulate the use thereof.
9. To purchase and hold real estate for the purpose of
preserving historical spots in the county, to restore,
maintain and regulate the use thereof and to donate any
historical spot to the State.
10. To appropriate funds from the county treasury to be
used in any manner to be determined by the board for the
suppression, eradication and control of tuberculosis among
domestic cattle in such county.

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11. To take all necessary measures to prevent forest
fires and encourage the maintenance and planting of trees
and the preservation of forests.
12. To authorize the closing on Saturday mornings of
all offices of all county officers at the county seat of
each county, and to otherwise regulate and fix the days and
the hours of opening and closing of such offices, except
when the days and the hours of opening and closing of the
office of any county officer are otherwise fixed by law;
but the power herein conferred shall not apply to the
office of State's Attorney and the offices of judges and
clerks of courts and, in counties of 500,000 or more
population, the offices of county clerk.
13. To provide for the conservation, preservation and
propagation of insectivorous birds through the expenditure
of funds provided for such purpose.
14. To appropriate funds from the county treasury and
expend the same for care and treatment of tuberculosis
residents.
15. In counties having less than 1,000,000
inhabitants, to take all necessary or proper steps for the
extermination of mosquitoes, flies or other insects within
the county.
16. To install an adequate system of accounts and
financial records in the offices and divisions of the
county, suitable to the needs of the office and in

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accordance with generally accepted principles of
accounting for governmental bodies, which system may
include such reports as the county board may determine.
17. To purchase and hold real estate for the
construction and maintenance of motor vehicle parking
facilities for persons using county buildings, but the
purchase and use of such real estate shall not be for
revenue producing purposes.
18. To acquire and hold title to real property located
within the county, or partly within and partly outside the
county by dedication, purchase, gift, legacy or lease, for
park and recreational purposes and to charge reasonable
fees for the use of or admission to any such park or
recreational area and to provide police protection for such
park or recreational area. Personnel employed to provide
such police protection shall be conservators of the peace
within such park or recreational area and shall have power
to make arrests on view of the offense or upon warrants for
violation of any of the ordinances governing such park or
recreational area or for any breach of the peace in the
same manner as the police in municipalities organized and
existing under the general laws of the State. All such real
property outside the county shall be contiguous to the
county and within the boundaries of the State of Illinois.
19. To appropriate funds from the county treasury to be
used to provide supportive social services designed to

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prevent the unnecessary institutionalization of elderly
residents, or, for operation of, and equipment for, senior
citizen centers providing social services to elderly
residents.
20. To appropriate funds from the county treasury and
loan such funds to a county water commission created under
the "Water Commission Act", approved June 30, 1984, as now
or hereafter amended, in such amounts and upon such terms
as the county may determine or the county and the
commission may agree. The county shall not under any
circumstances be obligated to make such loans. The county
shall not be required to charge interest on any such loans.
21. To appropriate and expend funds from the county
treasury for economic development purposes, including the
making of grants to any other governmental entity or
commercial enterprise deemed necessary or desirable for
the promotion of economic development in the county.
22. To lease space on a telecommunications tower to a
public or private entity.
23. In counties having a population of 100,000 or less
and a public building commission organized by the county
seat of the county, to cause to be erected or otherwise
provided, and to maintain or cause to be maintained,
suitable facilities to house students pursuing a
post-secondary education at an academic institution
located within the county. The county may provide for the

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management of the facilities.
24. To engage in and undertake activities related to
and in connection with governmental and private energy
efficiency improvements, renewable energy improvements,
and water use improvements as defined in the Special
Service Area Tax Law, including, but not limited to,
special service areas related to green special service area
financing for energy efficiency improvements, renewable
energy improvements, and water use improvements whether on
public or private property, under the Special Service Area
Tax Law. This item shall be liberally construed to effect
the legislative purpose of enabling taxpayers to make
energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy
improvements, and water use improvements to or serving the
designated properties.
All contracts for the purchase of coal under this Section
shall be subject to the provisions of "An Act concerning the
use of Illinois mined coal in certain plants and institutions",
filed July 13, 1937, as amended.
(Source: P.A. 95-197, eff. 8-16-07; 95-813, eff. 1-1-09;
96-622, eff. 8-24-09.)
Section 20. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
adding Division 15.4 to Article 11 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 15.4 heading new)

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DIVISION 15.4. GREEN SPECIAL SERVICE AREAS
(65 ILCS 5/11-15.4-1 new)
Sec. 11-15.4-1. Green special service areas. Each
municipality shall have the power and authority to engage in
and undertake activities related to and in connection with
governmental and private energy efficiency improvements,
renewable energy improvements, and water use improvements as
defined in the Special Service Area Tax Law, including, but not
limited to, special service area financing related to green
special service areas for energy efficiency improvements,
renewable energy improvements, and water use improvements
whether on public or private property, under the Special
Service Area Tax Law. This Section shall be liberally construed
to effect the legislative purpose of enabling taxpayers to make
energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy improvements,
or water use improvements to or serving the designated
properties.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
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