Before any county shall be authorized to levy a tax or borrow money by the issuance of General Bonds or Revenue Bonds:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Airports Shall an annual tax of (here YES insert rate) mill(s) on the dollar of all the taxable -------------------------------------- property of (Name of County) be levied for airport purposes as specified in "County Airport NO Commission Request"? ------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Airports Shall County Bonds for airport YES purposes as specified in "County Airport Commission, Request...." ------------------------------------ be issued to the amount of $.... and an additional tax levied for the payment of interest and NO principal of such bonds? ------------------------------------------------------------------------
In submitting such request the Commission shall designate such requests as "County Airport Commission Request 'A', etc." and they may be so referred to in any proceedings growing out of this Act. The Commission may submit, if so marked, alternate ways and means of accomplishing the financing of the undertaking submitted, in which case such requests shall be designated "County Airport Commission Alternate A-1" etc.
With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
620 ILCS 50/55