Public Act 097-0404
 
HB1526 EnrolledLRB097 09483 KMW 49620 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 Illinois Municipal Code is amended  by 
changing Section 11-15.1-2.1 as follows:
 



    (65 ILCS 5/11-15.1-2.1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-15.1-2.1)


    Sec. 11-15.1-2.1. Annexation agreement; municipal 
jurisdiction. 

    (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), property 
that is the subject of an annexation agreement adopted
under 
this Division is subject to the ordinances, control, and 
jurisdiction
of the annexing municipality in all respects the 
same as property that lies
within the annexing municipality's 
corporate limits.

    (b) This Section shall not apply in (i) a county with a 
population of more
than 3,000,000, (ii) a county that borders a 
county with a population of
more than 3,000,000
or (iii) a 
county with a population of more than
246,000 according to the 
1990 federal census and bordered by the Mississippi
River,

unless the parties to the annexation agreement have, at the

time the agreement is signed, ownership or control of all 
property
that would make the property that is the subject of 
the agreement contiguous
to the annexing municipality, in which 
case the property that is the subject of
the annexation 
agreement is subject to the ordinances, control, and

jurisdiction of the municipality in all respects the same as 
property owned by
the municipality that lies within its 
corporate limits.

    (b-5) The limitations of item (iii) of subsection (b) do 
not apply to  property that is the subject of an annexation 
agreement adopted under this Division within one year after the 
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General 
Assembly with a coterminous home rule municipality, as of June 
1, 2009, that borders the Mississippi River, in  a county with a 
population in excess of 258,000, according to the 2000 federal 
census, if all such agreements entered into by the municipality 
pertain to parcels that comprise a contiguous area of not more 
than 120 acres in the aggregate.

    (c) Except for property located in a county referenced in 
subsection (b) of this Section, if any property or any portion 
of a if property that is the subject of an annexation agreement 
is  located more than 1.5 miles from a municipality's corporate 
limits in a county where the county board has voted to maintain 
the ordinances, control, and jurisdiction of the property by a 
two-thirds affirmative vote the corporate boundaries of the 
annexing municipality, that property is subject to the 
ordinances, control, and jurisdiction of the county annexing 
municipality unless the county board retains jurisdiction by 
the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members.

    (d) If the county board retains jurisdiction under 
subsection (c) of this Section, the annexing municipality may 
file a request for jurisdiction with the county board on a  case 
by case basis.  If the county board agrees by the affirmative 
vote of a majority of its members, then the property covered by 
the annexation agreement shall be subject to the ordinances, 
control, and jurisdiction of the annexing municipality.

(Source: P.A. 95-175, eff. 1-1-08; 95-922, eff. 8-26-08; 
96-163, eff. 1-1-10; 96-188, eff. 8-10-09; 96-1000, eff. 
7-2-10.)

 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.