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90_HB0353

      65 ILCS 5/2-3-5           from Ch. 24, par. 2-3-5
          Amends  the  Illinois  Municipal  Code.   Provides   that
      contiguous territory not exceeding 2 square miles in a county
      with a population of 150,000 or more may be incorporated as a
      village  if  any part of the territory is within 2 miles of a
      county with a population of less than 150,000 and a  petition
      is  filed  with  the  circuit  court within 2 years after the
      effective date of this amendatory Act. Makes inapplicable  to
      this  territory  a  provision that allows the county board to
      determine  that  incorporation   is   compatible   with   the
      development  plan  of  the  county  and  that  the  territory
      constitutes  a sufficient tax base for the village to provide
      municipal services. Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT amending the Illinois Municipal Code  by  changing
 2    Section 2-3-5.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Illinois Municipal  Code  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 2-3-5 as follows:
 7        (65 ILCS 5/2-3-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 2-3-5)
 8        Sec.  2-3-5.  Whenever in any county of less than 150,000
 9    population  as  determined  by  the  last  preceding  federal
10    census, any area of contiguous  territory,  not  exceeding  2
11    square  miles,  not  already  included  within  the corporate
12    limits of any municipality, has residing thereon at least 200
13    inhabitants living in dwellings other than those designed  to
14    be  mobile,  and is owned by at least 30 different owners, it
15    may be incorporated as a village as follows:
16        35 electors residing within the area may  file  with  the
17    circuit  clerk of the county in which such area is situated a
18    petition addressed to the circuit court for that county.
19        The petition shall set forth (1) a  definite  description
20    of the lands intended to be embraced in the proposed village,
21    (2)  the number of inhabitants residing therein, (3) the name
22    of the proposed village, and (4) a prayer that a question  be
23    submitted  to  the electors residing within the limits of the
24    proposed village whether they will incorporate as  a  village
25    under this Code.
26        If  the area contains fewer than 7,500 residents and lies
27    within 1 1/2 miles of  the  boundary  line  of  any  existing
28    municipality,  the  consent of the existing municipality must
29    be obtained before the area may be incorporated. No area in a
30    county  with  a  population  of  150,000  or  more  that   is
31    incorporating under the provisions of this Section shall need
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 1    to obtain the consent of any existing municipality before the
 2    area may be incorporated.
 3        In  addition,  any  contiguous  territory  in a county of
 4    150,000  or  more  population  which  otherwise   meets   the
 5    requirements of this Section may be incorporated as a village
 6    pursuant to the provisions of this Section if (1) any part of
 7    such territory is situated within 10 miles of a county with a
 8    population less than 150,000 and a petition is filed pursuant
 9    to this Section before January 1, 1991 or (2) any part of the
10    territory  is  situated within 25 miles of the Illinois state
11    line in a county having a population, according to  the  1990
12    federal  decennial  census, of at least 150,000 but less than
13    185,000 and a petition is  filed  pursuant  to  this  Section
14    before January 1, 1998.
15        In  addition, contiguous territory not exceeding 2 square
16    miles in a county with a population of 150,000 or  more  that
17    otherwise  meets  the  requirements  of  this  Section may be
18    incorporated as a village pursuant to the provisions of  this
19    Section if (1) any part of the territory is situated within 2
20    miles  of a county with a population of less than 150,000 and
21    (2) a petition is  filed  in  the  manner  provided  in  this
22    Section  within  2  years  after  the  effective date of this
23    amendatory Act of 1997.  The requirements of  Section  2-3-18
24    shall  not apply to any territory seeking incorporation under
25    this paragraph.
26    (Source: P.A. 88-544; 89-414, eff. 11-17-95.)
27        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
28    becoming law.

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