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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2585
Introduced 2/4/2004, by Donne E. Trotter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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55 ILCS 5/1-2001 |
from Ch. 34, par. 1-2001 |
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Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a petition for transfer of territory.
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A BILL FOR
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SB2585 |
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LRB093 16153 MKM 41786 b |
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| AN ACT concerning counties.
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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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 1-2001 as follows:
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| (55 ILCS 5/1-2001) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2001)
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| Sec. 1-2001. Petition for transfer of territory. When a |
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| majority
of the legal voters, residing upon any territory, not |
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| less than half of one
congressional township, shall petition |
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| the county board of their own
county, and also of the county to |
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| which they desire such territory to be
transferred, for leave |
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| to have such territory transferred to such county,
it shall be |
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| the duty of the several county boards so petitioned to certify
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| the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall |
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| submit the
question at a referendum in their respective |
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| counties in accordance with
the general election law.
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| (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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