(A) The passage of all ordinances for whatever purpose shall require the concurrence of a majority of the corporate authorities then holding office, unless otherwise expressly provided by the Illinois Municipal Code, by any other statute governing the passage of any ordinance, or by any other provision of this code of ordinances.
(B) The passage of all resolutions and motions which create any liability against the city or which provide for the expenditure or appropriation of the city’s money shall require the concurrence of a majority of the corporate authorities then holding office, unless otherwise expressly provided by the Illinois Municipal Code, by any other statute governing the passage of any resolution or motion, or by any other provision of this code of ordinances.
(C) Other resolutions and motions (that is, those which do not create any liability against the city and which do not provide for the expenditure or appropriation of the city’s money) may be passed by a majority of a quorum of the City Council, unless their purpose is one which is described in the table set forth in division (D) below.
(D) Ordinances, resolutions and motions which require, for their passage, a vote different from a majority of the corporate authorities then holding office include those that are set forth in the following table for the assistance of the City Council, to guide it in its deliberations. In that table, the term “Aldermen” refers to the Aldermen only and does not include the Mayor; the terms “corporate authorities” and “City Council” include all the Aldermen and the Mayor. The table does not address the question of when an ordinance, as opposed to a resolution or motion, is required to accomplish a particular purpose.
Statutory Reference ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5 | Purpose | Vote Required |
Statutory Reference ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5 | Purpose | Vote Required |
§ 1-2-4 | To make ordinance imposing fine, penalty or forfeiture effective immediately rather than 10 days after publication | 2/3 corporate authorities |
§ 3.1-20-40 | To provide for the election, rather than the appointment, of City Collector, Marshal, Director of Public Works, Corporation Counsel or Comptroller | 2/3 Aldermen |
§ 3.1-30-5 | To provide for the appointment, rather than the election, of City Collector, Marshal, Director of Public Works, Corporation Counsel or Comptroller | 2/3 Aldermen |
§ 3.1-40-40 | To sell school property | 3/4 Aldermen |
§ 3.1-40-50 | To pass, over the Mayor’s veto, any ordinance, resolution or motion which requires the Mayor’s approval in order to become effective | 2/3 Aldermen |
§ 8-1-6 | To make appropriations in addition to the annual appropriation ordinance for the purpose of making improvements or restorations, the necessity for which is caused by any casualty or accident happening after the annual appropriation ordinance is passed, or to make additional appropriations necessary to meet any “emergency” (which concerns only immediate dangers to public health or safety) happening after and unforeseen at the time of passing the annual appropriation ordinance | 2/3 corporate authorities |
§ 8-1-7 | To employ or retain professional services necessary for planning and financing a needed public work, even though the annual appropriation ordinance did not contain an appropriation to pay for the services | 2/3 corporate authorities |
§ 8-2-9 | To make transfers, during the second half of a fiscal year, within or between municipal departments, of sums of money appropriated for one object or purpose to another object or purpose | 2/3 corporate authorities |
§ 8-9-1 | To authorize letting of contracts for any work or other public improvement, the expense of which will exceed $4,000, without bids | 2/3 Aldermen |
§ 8-9-1 | To authorize City Administrator to construct any work or other public improvement with laborers employed by the city, with all material of the value of $4,000 and upward used in the construction of the work or other public improvement to be purchased by contract let to the lowest responsible bidder in the manner prescribed by ordinance | 2/3 Aldermen |
§ 11-13-14 | To amend zoning regulations or districts over written protest of 20% of designated landowners | 2/3 Aldermen |
§ 11-14-3 | To amend setback requirements in zoning ordinance | 2/3 City Council |
§ 11-15.1-3 | To approve annexation agreement | 2/3 corporate authorities |
§ 11-74-6 | To authorize issuance of industrial project revenue bonds | 3/5 corporate authorities |
§ 11-76-1 | To sell or lease out real estate owned by the city | 3/4 corporate authorities |
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§ 11-76-4 | To authorize sale, trade in or change into other useful form of personal property owned by the city | 3/4 corporate authorities |
§ 11-76.1-1 | To purchase or acquire by lease real or personal property pursuant to installment contracts not exceeding 20 years in duration | 2/3 corporate authorities |
§ 11-76.1-1 | To purchase or acquire by lease real or personal property pursuant to contracts containing lease-purchase provisions | 2/3 corporate authorities |
§ 11-91-1 | To vacate any public street or alley | 3/4 Aldermen |
(1986 Code, § 2-83.1) (Ord. 1991-02, passed 2-4-1991; Ord. 2012-10, passed 8-6-2012)