§ 1 Because the state has a financial responsibility in promoting public …
§ 1.1 This Act may be cited as the Illinois Library System Act
§ 2 Definitions
§ 3 The State Librarian and his staff shall administer the provisions of …
§ 4 (a) A library system shall be established in the following manner: …
§ 5 Each library system created as provided in Section 4 of this Act …
§ 6 The board and officers of the public library served by the library …
§ 7 Each board of library directors of a system shall carry out the …
§ 7.5 Regional library service planning panels
§ 8 State grants
§ 8.1 The State Librarian shall make grants annually under this Section to …
§ 8.2 (a) After the General Assembly has appropriated funds to the State …
§ 8.3 The State Librarian shall make grants annually to all cooperative …
§ 8.4 School library grants
§ 8.5 Annual library technology grants
§ 8.6 Illinois Veterans Home Libraries
§ 9 The board of directors of any tax-supported public library, or the …
§ 10 Each library system receiving state aid shall furnish an annual …
§ 13 In the event that the board of directors of a library system …
§ 14 In the event that the board of library directors or trustees of any …
§ 14.5 Adjustment of the geographic boundaries of library systems
§ 15 Any person wishing to make donations of money, personal property or …
§ 16 When the board has determined to sell or otherwise dispose of real or …

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 75 ILCS 10 - Illinois Library System Act

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Asset forfeiture: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.