Illinois Statutes Chapter 55. Counties § 5/5-23040. Additional taxes

§ 5-23040. Additional taxes. Whenever 100 legal voters of any county shall present a petition to the county board of such county asking that there be levied, in excess of the statutory limit, an additional annual tax of not to exceed .075 per cent of the value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property of the county, for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, such county board shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:

If a majority of all votes cast upon the proposition is in favor thereof, the county board of such county shall thereafter levy annually, in excess of the statutory limit, a tax of not to exceed .075 per cent of the value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, which tax shall be collected in like manner with the other general taxes in the county and shall be known as the “Tuberculosis Care and Treatment Fund”, and thereafter the county board of such county shall in the annual appropriation bill, appropriate from such fund such sum or sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray the necessary cost and expense of providing care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis. Such tax, when so voted, shall be an additional annual tax in excess of the statutory limit without any further authority or vote of any kind.