093_SB0715

 
                                     LRB093 02924 MKM 02940 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to county government.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Counties  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 5    Section 1-6001 as follows:

 6        (55 ILCS 5/1-6001) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-6001)
 7        Sec.  1-6001.  Venue  of  suits by or against county. All
 8    actions, local or transitory,  against  any  county,  may  be
 9    commenced  and  prosecuted  to  final judgment in the circuit
10    court in the county against which the action is brought.  Any
11    action,  local  or transitory, in which a any county is shall
12    be plaintiff,  may  be  commenced  and  prosecuted  to  final
13    judgment  in the county in which the defendant in such action
14    resides.
15    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)