70 ILCS 1835/11
If the Board desires to issue general obligation bonds it shall adopt an ordinance specifying the amount of bonds to be issued, the purpose for which they will be issued, the maximum rate of interest they will bear which shall not be more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, and the date of maturity which shall not be more than 20 years after the date of issuance. This ordinance shall not take effect until it has been submitted to referendum and approved by a majority of the legal voters of the District. The Board shall certify its ordinance and the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition to the voters at an election in accordance with the general election law. If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition is in favor of the issuance of such general obligation bonds the District shall thereafter be authorized to issue and, in accordance with the provisions of Section 14 of this Act, to sell the bonds specified in such ordinance and to adopt an ordinance levying an annual tax against all of the taxable property within the District sufficient to pay the maturing principal and interest of such bonds and to file a certified copy of both such ordinances in the office of the county clerk of Wabash County. Thereafter the county clerk shall annually extend taxes against all the taxable property within the District at the rate specified in the ordinance levying the taxes. The aggregate amount of principal of general obligation bonds issued under the provisions of this section of this Act shall not exceed 2.5% of the assessed valuation of all taxable property in the District.
The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shall general obligation bonds in the amount of $.... be issued by the Mt. Carmel YES Regional Port District for the purpose of...., maturing in --------------------------------- not more than....years, bearing not more than....% interest, and NO a tax levied to pay the principal and interest thereof? ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
70 ILCS 1835/11