Illinois Compiled Statutes
60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.
Article 95 - Legal Proceedings In Favor Of And Against Townships

(60 ILCS 1/Art. 95 heading)

 
(60 ILCS 1/95-5)
Sec. 95-5.
Civil action.
Whenever any controversy or cause of action exists
between any townships of this State or between any township and an individual
or corporation, the proceedings may be had in civil actions for the purpose of
trying and finally settling the controversy. The proceedings may be conducted
in the same manner, and the judgment or order in the proceedings shall have the
same effect, as in other civil actions or proceedings of a similar kind between
individuals and corporations. All process shall be served by leaving a copy of
the process with the township supervisor.

(Source: P.A. 83-346; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/95-10)
Sec. 95-10.
Suit in township name.
In all suits or proceedings, the township
shall sue and be sued by its name, except where township officers are
authorized by law to sue in their name of office for the benefit of the
township.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/95-15)
Sec. 95-15.
Witnesses and jurors.
On the trial of every action in which the
township is a party or interested, the electors and inhabitants of the township
shall be competent witnesses and jurors, except that in suits and proceedings
by one township against another, no inhabitant of either township shall be a
juror.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/95-20)
Sec. 95-20.
Township common property.
Whenever, by any order or decision in
any civil action or proceeding brought to settle any controversy concerning
township commons or other lands or the common property of a township, or for
the partition of township lands, the right of any township is settled and
confirmed, the court in which the proceedings are had may partition the lands
according to the rights of the parties.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/95-25)
Sec. 95-25.
Costs.
In all suits or proceedings prosecuted by or against
township officers in their name of office, costs shall be recovered as in
similar cases between individuals. Judgments recovered against a township or
against township officers in actions prosecuted by or against them in their
name of office shall be a township charge and when collected shall be paid to
the person or persons to whom the judgment was awarded.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/95-30)
Sec. 95-30.
Tort immunity.
Civil actions against a township or township
employee shall be subject to the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees
Tort Immunity Act.

(Source: P.A. 88-62.)

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