(70 ILCS 2305/26) (from Ch. 42, par. 296.6)
Sec. 26.
Additional contiguous territory may be added to any sanitary
district organized under this Act in the manner following:
Ten per cent or more of the legal voters resident within the limits
of such proposed addition to such sanitary district may petition the
circuit court for the county in which such sanitary district is located
to cause the question to be submitted to the legal voters of such
proposed additional territory whether such proposed additional territory
shall become a part of any contiguous sanitary district organized under
this Act and whether such additional territory and the taxpayers thereof
shall assume a proportionate share of the bonded indebtedness, if any,
of such sanitary district. Such petition shall be addressed to the court
and shall contain a definite description of the boundaries of the
territory sought to be added. Provided that no territory disqualified in
Section 1 of this Act shall be included.
Upon filing such petition in the office of the circuit clerk of the
county in which such sanitary district is located it shall be the duty
of the court to consider the boundaries of such proposed additional
territory, whether the same shall be those stated in the petition or
otherwise. The decision of the court shall be a final order and
appealable as in other civil cases.
Notice shall be given by the court of the time and place when and
where all persons interested will be heard substantially as provided in
and by Section 1 of this Act.
The court shall certify its order and the proposition to the proper election
officials who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance
with the general election law.
The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For joining sanitary district andassuming a proportionate shareof bonded indebtedness, if any.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Against joining sanitary districtand assuming a proportionateshare of bonded indebtedness,if any.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of
becoming a part of such sanitary district and if the trustees of such
sanitary district accept the proposed additional territory by ordinance
annexing the same, the court shall enter an appropriate order of record
in the court, and such additional territory shall thenceforth be
deemed an integral part of such sanitary district. Any such additional
contiguous territory may be annexed to such sanitary district upon
petition addressed to such court, signed by a majority of the owners of
lands constituting such territory who, in the case of natural persons,
shall have arrived at lawful age and who represent a majority in area of
such territory, which said petition shall contain a definite description
of the boundaries of such territory and shall set forth the willingness
of the petitioners that such territory and the taxpayers thereof assume
a proportionate share of the bonded indebtedness, if any, of such
sanitary district. Upon the filing of such petition and notice of and
hearing and decision upon the same by the aforesaid commissioners, all
as hereinbefore provided, such commissioners or a majority of them,
shall enter an order containing their findings and decision as to the
boundaries of the territory to be annexed; and thereupon, if the
trustees of such sanitary district shall pass an ordinance annexing the
territory described in such order to said sanitary district, the court
shall enter an appropriate order as hereinabove provided, and such
additional territory shall thenceforth be deemed an integral part of
such sanitary district.
(Source: P.A. 83-343.)
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