104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB2354 Introduced , by Rep. Maura Hirschauer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the lease of real estate is permitted when a vacant property, structure, or facility owned by the county can be used in the interest of the public or for the benefit and enjoyment of residents of the county. LRB104 09944 RTM 20014 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB2354 Introduced , by Rep. Maura Hirschauer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the lease of real estate is permitted when a vacant property, structure, or facility owned by the county can be used in the interest of the public or for the benefit and enjoyment of residents of the county. LRB104 09944 RTM 20014 b LRB104 09944 RTM 20014 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB2354 Introduced , by Rep. Maura Hirschauer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2
55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the lease of real estate is permitted when a vacant property, structure, or facility owned by the county can be used in the interest of the public or for the benefit and enjoyment of residents of the county.
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1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
5 Section 5-1049.2 as follows:
6 (55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2)
7 Sec. 5-1049.2. Lease of county property.
8 (a) The county board may lease real estate acquired or
9 held by the county for any term not exceeding 99 years and may
10 lease the real estate when, in the opinion of the county board,
11 the real estate is no longer necessary, appropriate, required
12 for the use of, profitable to, or for the best interests of the
13 county. The authority to lease shall be exercised by an
14 ordinance passed by three-fourths of the full county board
15 then holding office, at any regular meeting or at any special
16 meeting called for that purpose.
17 (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), upon three-fourths
18 vote, by the full county board, the county board may lease
19 farmland acquired or held by the county for any term not
20 exceeding 5 years. Farmland may be leased to either public or
21 private entities via a cash lease, crop-sharing arrangement,
22 or custom farming arrangement. The bid process for a lease
23 entered into under this subsection must be publicly advertised
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB2354 Introduced , by Rep. Maura Hirschauer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2
55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the lease of real estate is permitted when a vacant property, structure, or facility owned by the county can be used in the interest of the public or for the benefit and enjoyment of residents of the county.
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