Illinois Statutes Chapter 310. Housing § 20/9a. Failure or refusal to initiate projects; recovery of state funds

§ 9a. In the event that any housing authority or land clearance commission has failed or refused to initiate any project or projects for which it has received grants of State funds under the provisions of this Act or “An Act to promote the improvement of housing,” approved July 26, 1945,  1 and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, upon the basis of an investigation, is convinced that such housing authority or land clearance commission is unable or unwilling to proceed thereon, the Department may direct the housing authority or land clearance commission to transfer to the Department the balance of the State funds then in the possession of such agency, and upon failure to do so within thirty days after such demand, the Department shall institute a civil action for the recovery thereof, which action shall be maintained by the Attorney General of the State of Illinois or the state's attorney of the county in which the housing authority or land clearance commission has its area of operation.

Any officer or member of any such housing authority or land clearance commission who refuses to comply with the demand of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for the transfer of State funds as herein provided shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.