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1 AN ACT concerning park districts.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by adding
5 Section 5-2e as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 1205/5-2e new)
7 Sec. 5-2e. Park district property within municipality
8 with recreation board; disconnection. Whenever any property
9 within a park district created under this Code also lies
10 within the boundaries of a municipality that has established
11 a recreation board under Section 11-95-3 of the Illinois
12 Municipal Code and the property is being taxed by both the
13 park district and the municipality for recreation services,
14 10% or more of the legal voters residing within the territory
15 may propose to be disconnected and may file a petition with
16 the circuit court for the county that contains the largest
17 portion of the territory to cause the question to be
18 submitted to the legal voters of the territory proposed to be
19 disconnected.
20 The court shall order the question of disconnection
21 submitted to the electors residing in the territory. The
22 Clerk of the Circuit Court shall certify the question to the
23 proper election authorities at an election in accordance with
24 the general election law for submission.
25 The question cast at this election shall be in
26 substantially the following form:
27 Shall the (describe territory) be disconnected from
28 (name of park district)?
29 The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
30 If a majority of the electors voting upon the
31 disconnection question vote for disconnection; the
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1 disconnection shall be effective.
2 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3 becoming law.