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| | 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB2196 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 70 ILCS 2205/1 | from Ch. 42, par. 247 |
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Amends the Sanitary District Act of 1907. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning a petition to incorporate as a sanitary district.
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | HB2196 | | LRB101 08728 AWJ 53815 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Sanitary District Act of 1907 is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (70 ILCS 2205/1) (from Ch. 42, par. 247)
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| 7 | | Sec. 1.
Whenever any area of contiguous territory within |
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the limits
of two counties, having within its limits two or |
| 9 | | more
incorporated cities or villages, and an aggregate |
| 10 | | population of not less
than 3,500 inhabitants, shall be so |
| 11 | | situate as to be subject to overflow
from any river or |
| 12 | | tributary thereof, and the maintenance of one or more
levees |
| 13 | | for the protection of the same against such overflow, and of a
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| 14 | | new or improved outlet for the drainage thereof, will conduce |
| 15 | | to the
preservation of the public health and safety, the same |
| 16 | | may be
incorporated as a sanitary district, in the manner |
| 17 | | following: Any three
hundred legal voters resident within the |
| 18 | | limits of such proposed
district, may petition the circuit |
| 19 | | court for the county in which the
majority of such petitioners |
| 20 | | reside, to cause the question to be
submitted to the legal |
| 21 | | voters of said proposed district, whether they
will organize as |
| 22 | | a sanitary district under this act. Such petition shall
contain |
| 23 | | the name of such proposed sanitary district, and a definite
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