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90_HB3698
750 ILCS 50/4 from Ch. 40, par. 1505
Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in
provisions regarding jurisdiction and venue.
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LRB9010725LDdv
1 AN ACT to amend the Adoption Act by changing Section 4.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Adoption Act is amended by changing
5 Section 4 as follows:
6 (750 ILCS 50/4) (from Ch. 40, par. 1505)
7 Sec. 4. Jurisdiction and venue.
8 An adoption proceeding may be commenced in the circuit
9 court of the county in which petitioners reside, or the
10 county in which the person to be adopted resides, or was
11 born, or the county in which the parents of the such person
12 reside, provided, however, if an agency has acquired the
13 custody and control of a child and the such agency is
14 authorized to consent to the adoption of the such child, the
15 proceeding may be commenced in any county, and provided
16 further that if a guardian of the person of the such child
17 has been appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, the
18 proceeding may be commenced in any county.
19 (Source: Laws 1965, p. 3308.)