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Sen. M. Maggie Crotty
Filed: 4/9/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2677
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2677 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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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. Annexation. |
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| (a) Whenever any unincorporated territory containing 60
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| acres or less, is wholly bounded by (a) one or more |
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| municipalities, (b)
one or more municipalities and a creek in a |
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| county with a population of
400,000 or more, or one or more |
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| municipalities and a river or lake in any
county, (c) one or |
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| more municipalities and the Illinois State
boundary, (d) one or |
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| 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 park district, or
(f) if the territory is a |
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| triangular parcel of less than 10 acres, one or
more |
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| municipalities and an interstate highway owned in fee by the |
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| State and
bounded by a frontage road, that territory may be |
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| annexed
by any municipality by which it is bounded in whole or |
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| in part,
by the passage of an ordinance to that effect after |
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| notice is given as
provided in subsection (b) of this Section. |
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| The corporate authorities shall cause notice,
stating that |
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| annexation of the territory described in the notice is
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| contemplated under this Section, to be published once, in a |
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| newspaper of
general circulation within the territory to be |
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| annexed, not less than 10
days before the passage of the |
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| annexation ordinance. When the
territory to be annexed lies |
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| wholly or partially within a township other
than that township |
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| where the municipality is situated, the annexing
municipality |
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| shall give at least 10 days prior written notice of the time
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| and place of the passage of the annexation ordinance to the |
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| township
supervisor of the township where the territory to be |
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| annexed lies. The
ordinance shall describe the territory |
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| annexed and a copy thereof together
with an accurate map of the |
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| annexed territory shall be recorded in the
office of the |
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| 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 nor shall anything in this Section |
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| be construed as permitting a municipality to annex territory |
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| owned by a park district without obtaining the consent of the |
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| district pursuant to Section 8-1.1 of the Park District Code.
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| (b) The corporate authorities shall cause notice, stating |
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| that annexation of the territory described in the notice is |
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| contemplated under this Section, to be published once, in a |
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| newspaper of general circulation within the territory to be |
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| annexed, not less than 10 days before the passage of the |
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| annexation ordinance. The corporate authorities shall also, |
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| not less than 15 days before the passage of the annexation |
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| ordinance, serve written notice, either in person or, at a |
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| minimum, by certified mail, on the taxpayer of record of the |
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| proposed annexed territory as appears from the authentic tax |
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| records of the county. When the territory to be annexed lies |
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| wholly or partially within a township other than the township |
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| where the municipality is situated, the annexing municipality |
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| shall give at least 10 days prior written notice of the time
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| and place of the passage of the annexation ordinance to the |
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| township
supervisor of the township where the territory to be |
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| annexed lies. |
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| (c) When notice is given as described in subsection (b) of |
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| this Section, no other municipality may annex the proposed |
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| territory for a period of 60 days from the date the notice is |
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| mailed or delivered to the taxpayer of record unless that other |
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| municipality has initiated annexation proceedings or a valid |
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| petition as described in Section 7-1-2, 7-1-8, 7-1-11 or 7-1-12 |
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| of this Code has been received by the municipality prior to the |
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| publication and mailing of the notices required in subsection |
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| (b). |
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| (Source: P.A. 94-396, eff. 8-1-05.)".
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