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HB5542 - 104th General Assembly
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government. | ||||||
| 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 changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 3-6 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (70 ILCS 1205/3-6) (from Ch. 105, par. 3-6) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 3-6. Petition to disconnect park district territory; | ||||||
| 8 | waiver of assessment payment. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) Any park district territory that , within any park | ||||||
| 10 | district, which (1) is located upon the border of the park | ||||||
| 11 | district, and that, (2) if disconnected from the park | ||||||
| 12 | district, would not separate any part of the park district | ||||||
| 13 | from any other part, may be disconnected from the park | ||||||
| 14 | district, in the discretion of its corporate authorities as | ||||||
| 15 | follows: | ||||||
| 16 | A written petition, signed by the majority of the owners | ||||||
| 17 | of record of land and the owners of record of more than | ||||||
| 18 | one-half of the area of land in the territory described in the | ||||||
| 19 | petition, shall be filed with the secretary of the governing | ||||||
| 20 | board of the park district, requesting that the specified | ||||||
| 21 | territory be disconnected from the park district. The petition | ||||||
| 22 | shall be filed at least 30 days before it is considered by the | ||||||
| 23 | corporate authorities. Except as provided in subsection (b), | ||||||
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| 1 | the The petition shall be accompanied with the certificate of | ||||||
| 2 | the proper county clerk, or county clerks as the case may be, | ||||||
| 3 | showing that all park district assessments due up to the time | ||||||
| 4 | of presenting the petition are fully paid. The corporate | ||||||
| 5 | authorities may, in their discretion, disconnect the territory | ||||||
| 6 | from the park district by an ordinance passed by a majority of | ||||||
| 7 | the members of the governing board. | ||||||
| 8 | (b) Prior to the submission of the petition specified in | ||||||
| 9 | subsection (a), the governing board of the park district may, | ||||||
| 10 | at its discretion, adopt, by ordinance, a determination to | ||||||
| 11 | waive the full payment of any unpaid park district assessments | ||||||
| 12 | outstanding at the time the petition is submitted. If a waiver | ||||||
| 13 | is adopted by park district ordinance under this subsection | ||||||
| 14 | (b), the county clerk or county clerks shall certify the | ||||||
| 15 | petition for the disconnection of the property identified in | ||||||
| 16 | the petition for the purpose of allowing the park district to | ||||||
| 17 | approve disconnection of all the property in the petition | ||||||
| 18 | without requiring the payment of any assessments that have | ||||||
| 19 | been waived. | ||||||
| 20 | (Source: Laws 1957, p. 2271.) | ||||||