96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1601


 
Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Patrick J Verschoore
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













55 ILCS 5/1-2004
  from Ch. 34, par. 1-2004







    Amends the Counties Code.  Makes a technical change in a Section concerning
setting
restrictions on the reduction of the size of a county.
















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A BILL FOR









 











HB1601

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    AN ACT concerning local government.

 
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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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1-2004 as follows:
 



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    (55 ILCS 5/1-2004)  (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2004)



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    Sec. 1-2004. Restriction. No county shall be reduced, under 
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the
the
provisions of this Division, to less contents than 400 
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square miles; nor
shall any county line be made to pass within 
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less than ten miles of the
county seat of the county from which 
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territory is so transferred.
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(Source: P.A. 86-962.)