Public Act 095-0664
 
SB0285 Enrolled LRB095 04721 HLH 24780 b

    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Mosquito Abatement District Act is amended
by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
    (70 ILCS 1005/10)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 83)
    Sec. 10. Any territory lying adjacent and contiguous to a
mosquito abatement district, and not part of another mosquito
abatement district, may be annexed to such district in the
following manner:
    (a) Upon petition in writing, describing the territory
proposed to be annexed and signed by a majority of the legal
voters in such territory and by the owners of more than half of
the taxable property in such territory as shown by the last
ascertained equalized value of the taxable property in such
territory, being filed with the trustees of such mosquito
abatement district, such trustees may annex such territory by a
resolution which shall be published at least once in a
newspaper having a general circulation in the territory and
shall include a notice of (1) the specific number of voters
required to sign a petition requesting that the question of the
adoption of the resolution be submitted to the electors of the
territory; (2) the time in which the petition must be filed;
and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The county
clerk of the county in which the territory is situated shall
provide a petition form to any individual requesting one. The
resolution shall be effective 30 days from the date of
publication and is subject to a referendum, if such referendum
is requested, prior to the effective date of the resolution, by
the voters in the district equal to 10% or more of the
registered voters in the district. Such trustees may also order
the question of the annexation of such territory to be
submitted to the legal voters of such district at a regular
election therein by certifying the question to the proper
election officials. Notice of such election shall be given and
the election conducted in the manner provided by the general
election law. The proposition shall be stated, "Shall the
territory (describing it) be annexed to The.... Mosquito
Abatement District?" If the majority of all the votes cast on
the question is in favor of such annexation, the board of
trustees shall so certify to the county clerk, and within ten
days of such election the trustees by an order duly entered
upon their records shall annex such territory to the district
and shall file a map of the annexed territory in the office of
the county clerk of the county where the annexed territory is
situated. Thereupon such territory shall be deemed annexed to
and shall be a part of such mosquito abatement district.
    (b) Whenever a mosquito abatement district contains over
90% of territory of a specific city or village, the mosquito
abatement district may annex additional adjacent and
contiguous territory within that city or village, but not
incorporated within a mosquito abatement district, by the
passage of an ordinance to that effect.
    The ordinance authorizing the annexation shall be
published within 10 days after the ordinance has been adopted,
in one or more newspapers having a general circulation within
the territory. The publication of the ordinance shall be
accompanied by a notice of (1) the specific number of voters
required to sign a petition requesting the question of
annexation; (2) the time within which the petition must be
filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The
county clerk of the county in which the territory is situated
shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.
    The ordinance shall take effect 30 days after the date of
publication unless a referendum is requested prior to the
effective date of the ordinance by 10% or more of the
registered voters in the territory. The question of the
annexation of the territory may be submitted to the legal
voters of the territory at a regular election by certifying the
question to the proper election officials. Notice of the
election shall be given and the election conducted in the
manner provided by the general election law. The proposition
shall be stated, "Shall the territory (describing it) be
annexed to The.... Mosquito Abatement District?" If the
majority of all the votes cast on the question is in favor of
the annexation, the territory shall be deemed annexed to and
shall be a part of the mosquito abatement district.
    No territory may be annexed under this subsection (i) more
than one year after it has first been included in that city or
village unless the territory so annexed is 50 acres or less or
(ii) if the annexation would expand the mosquito abatement
district's boundaries outside of a county unless the district
already contains territory in that county.
(Source: P.A. 87-767.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.