Sec. 1-1-12. Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator; posting and publication.

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(a)Within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, each municipality that maintains a website must post on the municipality's website the following information:

(1)the name, office address, and telephone number of the Americans with Disabilities

Act coordinator, if any, employed by the municipality; and

(2)the grievance procedures, if any, adopted by the municipality to resolve complaints

alleging a violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

(b)If a municipality does not maintain a website, then the municipality must, within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, and at least once every other year thereafter, publish in either a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality or a newsletter published by the municipality and mailed to residents of the municipality the information required in item

(1)of subsection

(a)and either the information required in item

(2)of subsection

(a)or instructions for obtaining such information from the municipality.

(c)No home rule municipality may adopt posting or publication requirements that are less restrictive than this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection

(i)of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.