Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 1842/115 – Investigations; administrative decisions
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(a) A participating municipality may investigate conditions of the Port District within the municipality’s corporate limits and investigate the enforcement of the municipality’s ordinances relating to the Port District within the municipality’s corporate limits. When conducting an investigation, the municipality may hold public hearings on its own motion.
A circuit court, upon application of a participating municipality, may compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers, and giving of testimony before the municipality’s city council by attachment for contempt or otherwise in the same manner as the production of evidence may be compelled before the court.
When conducting an investigation authorized by this Section, the participating municipality shall, at its expense, provide a stenographer to take down all testimony and shall preserve a record of the proceedings. The notice of hearing, complaint, and all other documents in the nature of pleadings and written motions filed in the proceedings, the transcript of testimony, and the orders or decision of the city council constitutes the record of the proceedings.
(b) The city council of the participating municipality is not required to certify any record or file any answer or otherwise appear in any proceeding for judicial review of an administrative decision unless the party asking for review deposits with the clerk of the court the sum of $1 per page of the record representing the costs of the certification. Failure to make this deposit is ground for dismissal of the action.
A final administrative decision of a participating municipality is subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law and the rules adopted pursuant to that Law.
A circuit court, upon application of a participating municipality, may compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers, and giving of testimony before the municipality’s city council by attachment for contempt or otherwise in the same manner as the production of evidence may be compelled before the court.
Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 1842/115
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
When conducting an investigation authorized by this Section, the participating municipality shall, at its expense, provide a stenographer to take down all testimony and shall preserve a record of the proceedings. The notice of hearing, complaint, and all other documents in the nature of pleadings and written motions filed in the proceedings, the transcript of testimony, and the orders or decision of the city council constitutes the record of the proceedings.
(b) The city council of the participating municipality is not required to certify any record or file any answer or otherwise appear in any proceeding for judicial review of an administrative decision unless the party asking for review deposits with the clerk of the court the sum of $1 per page of the record representing the costs of the certification. Failure to make this deposit is ground for dismissal of the action.
A final administrative decision of a participating municipality is subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law and the rules adopted pursuant to that Law.