93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4253


 
Introduced 1/29/2004, by Terry R. Parke
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














65 ILCS 5/7-1-13
  from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13







    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning annexation of unincorporated territory.



















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    AN ACT concerning municipalities.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended  by 
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changing Section 7-1-13 as follows:
 



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    (65 ILCS 5/7-1-13)  (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13)



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    Sec. 7-1-13. Whenever any unincorporated territory 
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containing sixty
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acres or less, is wholly bounded by (a) one 
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or more municipalities, (b)
one or more municipalities and a 
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creek in a county with a population of
400,000 or more, or one 
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or more municipalities and a river or lake in any
county, (c) 
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one or more municipalities and the Illinois State
boundary, (d) 
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one or more municipalities and property owned by the
State of 
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Illinois, except highway right-of-way owned in fee by the 
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State,
(e) one or more municipalities and a forest preserve 
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district, or
(f) if the territory is a triangular parcel of 
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less than 10 acres, one or
more municipalities and an 
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interstate highway owned in fee by the State and
bounded by a 
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frontage road, that territory may be annexed
by any 
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municipality by which it is bounded in whole or in part,
by the 
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passage of an ordinance to that effect after notice is given as

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provided in this Section. The corporate authorities shall cause 
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notice,
stating that annexation of the territory described in 
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the notice is
contemplated under this Section, to be published 
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once, in a newspaper of
general circulation within the 
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territory to be annexed, not less than 10
days before the 
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passage of the annexation ordinance.  When the
territory to be 
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annexed lies wholly or partially within a township other
than 
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that township where the municipality is situated, the annexing

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municipality shall give at least 10 days prior written notice 
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of the time
and place of the passage of the annexation 
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ordinance to the township
supervisor of the township where the 
 


 









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territory to be annexed lies. The
ordinance shall describe the 
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territory annexed and a copy thereof together
with an accurate 
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map of the annexed territory shall be recorded in the
office of 
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the recorder of the county wherein the annexed territory is

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situated and a document of annexation shall be filed with the 
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county clerk
and County Election Authority. Nothing in this 
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Section shall be construed
as permitting a municipality to 
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annex territory of a forest preserve
district in a county with 
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a population of 3,000,000 or more without
obtaining the consent 
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of the  district pursuant to Section 8.3 of the
Cook County 
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Forest Preserve District Act.

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(Source: P.A. 86-769; 87-895.)