Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-1014.5

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • County board: means the board of county commissioners in counties not under township organization, and the board of supervisors in counties under township organization, and the board of commissioners of Cook County. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.07
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
     In counties with a population between 700,000 and 3,000,000, (i) each county appropriation ordinance that is passed that includes appropriations for the county or multiple-county health department and (ii) each appropriation ordinance that is passed by a Metropolitan Airport Authority located within the county shall be presented immediately to the county board chairman. If the county board chairman approves the ordinance, he or she shall sign it and it shall become law. The county board chairman may reduce or veto any item of appropriations for the county or multiple-county health department or for a Metropolitan Airport Authority in the ordinance and shall return the item vetoed or reduced with his or her objections to the county board. A copy of the veto shall also be delivered to the body for which the appropriation is intended. Portions of an ordinance not reduced or vetoed shall become law. Any ordinance not so returned by the county board chairman within 30 calendar days after it is presented to him or her shall become law. If, within 30 calendar days after the veto has been delivered to the county board and the body for which the appropriation is intended, the county board restores an item that has been reduced or overrides the veto of an item by a record vote of three-fifths of the members elected, the item shall become law. If a reduced item is not so restored, it shall become law in the reduced amount.