Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/6-32005

  • 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
     The county board may, by a majority vote of all of its members, establish an Emergency Disaster Fund (“the Fund”) for the county. Moneys may be appropriated from the county’s general revenues to the Fund in the county’s annual budget or annual appropriation bill. Interest earned from the investment of moneys in the Fund may be transferred to the county’s general fund. Moneys held in the Fund shall at no time exceed 0.2% of the total equalized assessed valuation of all property in the county subject to taxation by the county.