093_SB1676

 
                                     LRB093 02934 MKM 02950 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to local government.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Township  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 5    Section 5-55 as follows:

 6        (60 ILCS 1/5-55)
 7        Sec. 5-55.  Duplicate township names. If the Secretary of
 8    State,  on  comparing  the  abstracts of the reports from the
 9    several counties, finds that any  2  or  more  townships  are
10    named  alike,  he  or  she  shall  so inform the clerk of the
11    county that which last adopted the name. The county board  of
12    that  county  shall,  at  its  next  meeting,  adopt  for the
13    township some different name. When the name is  adopted,  the
14    county  clerk shall inform the Secretary of State as provided
15    in Section 5-50.
16    (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)