Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 5/13.3

  • 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
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
     An airport authority that has prepared a capital improvement program under Section 13.2 may, in its annual appropriation ordinance, appropriate an amount not to exceed 3% of the equalized assessed value of property subject to taxation by the airport authority for the purpose of making specified capital improvements, acquisitions, repairs, or replacements of the airport authority’s real property or equipment or tangible personal property. The amount appropriated for that purpose shall be deposited into a special fund known as the Capital Program Fund. Expenditures from the Capital Program Fund must be budgeted in the fiscal year in which the capital improvement, acquisition, repair, or replacement will occur. If any surplus moneys remain after the completion or abandonment of any object for which the Capital Program Fund was established, the moneys no longer necessary for capital improvement, acquisition, repair, or replacement shall be transferred into the airport authority’s general corporate funds on the first day of the fiscal year following the abandonment or completion of the project or the discovery of the surplus moneys.