Division 9 - Miscellaneous Provisions


      (65 ILCS 5/Art. 4 Div. 9 heading)
DIVISION 9. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

    (65 ILCS 5/4‑9‑1) (from Ch. 24, par. 4‑9‑1)
    Sec. 4‑9‑1. Appeals shall lie as in other civil cases to review the final judgments in any proceeding under the provisions of Section 4‑10‑1.
(Source: P.A. 79‑1361.)

    (65 ILCS 5/4‑9‑2) (from Ch. 24, par. 4‑9‑2)
    Sec. 4‑9‑2. Appeals may be taken as in other civil cases.
(Source: P.A. 79‑1361.)

    (65 ILCS 5/4‑9‑3) (from Ch. 24, par. 4‑9‑3)
    Sec. 4‑9‑3. Every public utility shall provide equal and uniform service to all residents of any municipality adopting, or which is treated as having adopted, this article. It shall be unlawful and a sufficient ground for the forfeiture of any franchise for a public utility to grant free service, or to furnish better service, or to furnish service at a lower price or rate, quantity and quality considered, to any person, or otherwise to discriminate in the matter of rates or service between residents of any such municipality. Whenever the council receives proof that this section is being violated, they shall summon witnesses and investigate at once, and if they so find, they shall immediately institute a suit to have the franchise forfeited. However, the council shall have power by ordinance to grant a public utility the right to grant reduced rates to persons specified in the ordinance. Also, the council, by ordinance, may authorize any street railway, interurban railway, bus company or other public transportation system to transport free any member, while in uniform, of the police or fire department of the city within the corporate limits thereof, and may authorize the giving of such free transportation in other cases where there is no conflict with Section 4‑8‑6, or with the general law of the State, or with any act of Congress.
    Any person or public utility violating this section, and any person accepting any preference specified in this section, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. Any person receiving any special favor or privilege specified in this section, shall be immune from punishment in case he testifies to any matter referred to in this section in pursuance of subpoena from the council.
(Source: P. A. 77‑2500.)

    (65 ILCS 5/4‑9‑4) (from Ch. 24, par. 4‑9‑4)
    Sec. 4‑9‑4. In any municipality which has adopted, or which may hereafter adopt, the commission form of municipal government, any public library for that municipality shall be established, maintained, and conducted in all respects in accordance with "An Act in relation to free public libraries for cities, villages, incorporated towns and townships and to repeal Acts and parts of Act therein named", approved July 12, 1965, as heretofore or hereafter amended.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 75.)

    (65 ILCS 5/4‑9‑5) (from Ch. 24, par. 4‑9‑5)
    Sec. 4‑9‑5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this article are inoperative in municipalities under the commission form of municipal government. However, nothing contained in this article shall in any way repeal, amend, or affect (1) the law pertaining to the making of local improvements under Article 9, or (2) any public school law in operation in any municipality which adopts this article, anything contained in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, or (3) any general law relating to parks.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)