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65 ILCS 5/8-2-1 (2026)

Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 8-2-1 through 8-2-8, the corporate authorities in municipalities with a population of 500,000 or more, shall pass an ordinance within the last 60 days of each fiscal year, to be termed the annual appropriation ordinance

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(65 ILCS 5/8-2-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-2-1)
    Sec. 8-2-1. Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 8-2-1 through 8-2-8, the corporate authorities in municipalities with a population of 500,000 or more, shall pass an ordinance within the last 60 days of each fiscal year, to be termed the annual appropriation ordinance. In this ordinance the corporate authorities, subject to the limitations contained in Sections 8-2-1 through 8-2-8, may appropriate such sums of money as are deemed necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of the municipality to be paid or incurred during the next fiscal year.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 2015–2019 · leading case: City of Countryside v. City of Countryside Police Pension Bd. of Trs., 2018 IL App (1st) 171029 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018).
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City of Countryside v. City of Countryside Police Pension Bd. of Trs., 2018 IL App (1st) 171029 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “1 (West 2016) ; 65 ILCS 5/8-2-1 (West 2016). ¶ 50 Along the same lines, section 3-125.”
WKS Crystal Lake, LLC v. LeFew, 2015 IL App (2d) 150544 (Ill. App. Ct. 2015). “Indeed, the Municipal Code itself treats the two differently, regulating ordinances relating to annual appropriations (see 65 ILCS 5/8-2-1 et seq. (West 2014)) separately from ordinances relating to the levying and collecting of taxes (see 65 ILCS 5/8-3-1 et seq.”
City of Countryside v. City of Countryside Police Pension Bd. of Trs., 2018 IL App (1st) 171029 (Ill. App. Ct. 2019). “1 (West 2016); 65 ILCS 5/8-2-1 (West 2016). ¶ 50 Along the same lines, section 3-125.”
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