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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 11-15.1-2.1 as follows:
 
6     (65 ILCS 5/11-15.1-2.1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-15.1-2.1)
7     Sec. 11-15.1-2.1. Annexation agreement; municipal
8 jurisdiction.
9     (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), property
10 that is the subject of an annexation agreement adopted under
11 this Division is subject to the ordinances, control, and
12 jurisdiction of the annexing municipality in all respects the
13 same as property that lies within the annexing municipality's
14 corporate limits.
15     (b) This Section shall not apply in (i) a county with a
16 population of more than 3,000,000, (ii) a county that borders a
17 county with a population of more than 3,000,000 or (iii) a
18 county with a population of more than 246,000 according to the
19 1990 federal census and bordered by the Mississippi River,
20 unless the parties to the annexation agreement have, at the
21 time the agreement is signed, ownership or control of all
22 property that would make the property that is the subject of
23 the agreement contiguous to the annexing municipality, in which

 

 

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1 case the property that is the subject of the annexation
2 agreement is subject to the ordinances, control, and
3 jurisdiction of the municipality in all respects the same as
4 property owned by the municipality that lies within its
5 corporate limits.
6     (c) In the case of property that is located in Boone,
7 Champaign, DeKalb, Grundy, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle, Ogle,
8 or Winnebago County, if the property that is the subject of an
9 annexation agreement is located within 1.5 miles of the
10 corporate boundaries of the municipality, that property is
11 subject to the ordinances, control, and jurisdiction of the
12 annexing municipality. If the property is located more than 1.5
13 miles from the corporate boundaries of the annexing
14 municipality, that property is subject to the ordinances,
15 control, and jurisdiction of the annexing municipality unless
16 the county board retains jurisdiction by the affirmative vote
17 of two-thirds of its members.
18     (d) If the county board retains jurisdiction under
19 subsection (c) of this Section, the annexing municipality may
20 file a request for jurisdiction with the county board on a case
21 by case basis. If the county board agrees by the affirmative
22 vote of a majority of its members, then the property covered by
23 the annexation agreement shall be subject to the ordinances,
24 control, and jurisdiction of the annexing municipality.
25 (Source: P.A. 95-175, eff. 1-1-08.)