(20 ILCS 3954/10)
    Sec. 10. Green Governments Coordinating Council established.

 

The Green Governments Coordinating Council is established. The purpose of the Council is to integrate more fully into the ongoing management systems, long‑range planning, and daily operations of State agencies a number of cost‑effective environmental sustainability measures that enhance health and safety, reduce the consumption of energy and fuels, conserve water, minimize emissions and reduce solid and hazardous wastes.

 

The Council will also serve as a resource for units of local government and educational institutions, which includes all public and private school districts, regional offices of education, universities, and colleges.

(55 ILCS 5/3‑5018) (from Ch. 34, par. 3‑5018)
    Sec. 3‑5018. Fees. The recorder elected as provided for in...

    The county board of any county may provide for an additional charge of $3 for filing every instrument, paper, or notice for record, (1) in order to defray the cost of converting the county recorder's document storage system to computers or micrographics and (2) in order to defray the cost of providing access to records through the global information system known as the Internet.

    A special fund shall be set up by the treasurer of the county and such funds collected pursuant to Public Act 83‑1321 shall be used (1) for a document storage system to provide the equipment, materials and necessary expenses incurred to help defray the costs of implementing and maintaining such a document records system and (2) for a system to provide electronic access to those records.

    The county board of any county that provides and maintains a countywide map through a Geographic Information System (GIS) may provide for an additional charge of $3 for filing every instrument, paper, or notice for record (1) in order to defray the cost of implementing or maintaining the county's Geographic Information System and (2) in order to defray the cost of providing electronic access to the county's Geographic Information System records. Of that amount, $2 must be deposited into a special fund set up by the treasurer of the county, and any moneys collected pursuant to this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly and deposited into that fund must be used solely for the equipment, materials, and necessary expenses incurred in implementing and maintaining a Geographic Information System and in order to defray the cost of providing electronic access to the county's Geographic Information System records. The remaining $1 must be deposited into the recorder's special funds created under Section 3‑5005.4. The recorder may, in his or her discretion, use moneys in the funds created under Section 3‑5005.4 to defray the cost of implementing or maintaining the county's Geographic Information System and to defray the cost of providing electronic access to the county's Geographic Information System records. 
   

Sec. 5. Purpose.

 

The General Assembly declares and determines that a streamlined, consolidated regional planning agency is necessary in order to plan for the most effective public and private investments in the northeastern Illinois region and to better integrate plans for land use and transportation. The purpose of this Act is to define and describe the powers and responsibilities of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, a unit of government whose purpose it is to effectively address the development and transportation challenges in the northeastern Illinois region.
(Source: P.A. 94‑510, eff. 8‑9‑05; 95‑677, eff. 10‑11‑07.)

Sec. 2. Findings and purpose.

 

    (a) It is the purpose of this Act to encourage municipalities and counties to protect the land, air, water, natural resources and environment of the State and to encourage the use of such resources in a manner which is socially and economically desirable through the adoption of joint or compatible Local Land Resource Management Plans. The powers granted in this Act are intended to supplement other lawful authority and not to repeal or limit such authority.

    (b) When a municipality or a county has acted according to this Act, they are furthering the policy of the State in land resource management. It is the intent of this Act for such units of local government to be immune from liability under federal antitrust laws.

 

Sec. 6. Intergovernmental Agreements. 

 

A municipality or county may enter into and enforce intergovernmental agreements for joint or compatible planning, local land resource management administration and zoning ordinance enforcement with counties, municipalities and other units of State and local government notwithstanding general statutory limitations concerning county and municipal zoning.
(Source: P.A. 84‑865.)