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1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section 7-1-1 as follows:
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6 | (65 ILCS 5/7-1-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-1)
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7 | Sec. 7-1-1. Annexation of contiguous territory. Any | ||||||
8 | territory that is not within the corporate limits of any | ||||||
9 | municipality but
is contiguous to a municipality may be annexed | ||||||
10 | to the municipality as provided
in this Article. For the | ||||||
11 | purposes of this Article any territory to be annexed
to a | ||||||
12 | municipality shall be considered to be contiguous to the | ||||||
13 | municipality
notwithstanding that the territory is separated | ||||||
14 | from the municipality by a
strip parcel, railroad or public | ||||||
15 | utility right-of-way, or former railroad right-of-way that has | ||||||
16 | been converted to a recreational trail, but upon annexation the | ||||||
17 | area included
within that strip parcel, right-of-way, or former | ||||||
18 | right-of-way shall not be considered to be annexed to the
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19 | municipality. For purposes of this Section, "strip parcel" | ||||||
20 | means a separation no wider than 30 feet between the territory | ||||||
21 | to be annexed and the municipal boundary.
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22 | Except in counties with a population of more than
600,000
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23 | but
less than 3,000,000, territory which is not contiguous to a |
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1 | municipality but is
separated therefrom only by a forest | ||||||
2 | preserve district, federal wildlife refuge, or open land or | ||||||
3 | open space that is part of an open space program, as defined in | ||||||
4 | Section 115-5 of the Township Code, or conservation area, may | ||||||
5 | be annexed to the
municipality pursuant to Section 7-1-7 or | ||||||
6 | 7-1-8, but
only if the annexing municipality can show that the | ||||||
7 | forest preserve district, federal wildlife refuge, open land, | ||||||
8 | or open space , or conservation area
creates an artificial | ||||||
9 | barrier preventing the annexation and that the location
of the | ||||||
10 | forest preserve district, federal wildlife refuge, open land, | ||||||
11 | or open space , or conservation area property prevents the | ||||||
12 | orderly natural growth of
the annexing municipality. It shall | ||||||
13 | be conclusively presumed that the forest
preserve district, | ||||||
14 | federal wildlife refuge, open land, or open space , or | ||||||
15 | conservation area
does not create an artificial barrier if the | ||||||
16 | property sought
to be annexed is bounded on at least 3 sides by | ||||||
17 | (i) one or more other
municipalities (other than the | ||||||
18 | municipality seeking annexation through the
existing forest | ||||||
19 | preserve district, federal wildlife refuge, open land, or open | ||||||
20 | space , or conservation area ), (ii) forest preserve district | ||||||
21 | property, federal wildlife refuge, open land, or open space , or | ||||||
22 | conservation area , or
(iii) a combination of other | ||||||
23 | municipalities and forest preserve district
property, federal | ||||||
24 | wildlife refuge property, open land, or open space , or | ||||||
25 | conservation area . It shall also be conclusively presumed that | ||||||
26 | the forest preserve
district, federal wildlife refuge, open |
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1 | land, or open space , or conservation area
does not create an | ||||||
2 | artificial barrier if the municipality seeking
annexation is | ||||||
3 | not the closest municipality within the county to the property | ||||||
4 | to be annexed.
The territory included
within such forest | ||||||
5 | preserve district, federal wildlife refuge,
open land, or open | ||||||
6 | space , or conservation area shall not be annexed to the | ||||||
7 | municipality
nor shall the territory of the forest preserve | ||||||
8 | district, federal wildlife refuge, open land, or open space , or | ||||||
9 | conservation area be subject to
rights-of-way for access or | ||||||
10 | services between the parts of the municipality
separated by the | ||||||
11 | forest preserve district, federal wildlife refuge, open land, | ||||||
12 | or open space , or conservation area without the consent of the | ||||||
13 | governing
body of the forest preserve district or federal | ||||||
14 | wildlife refuge.
The changes made to this Section by Public Act | ||||||
15 | 91-824 this amendatory Act of 91st General
Assembly are
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16 | declaratory of existing law and shall not be construed as a new | ||||||
17 | enactment.
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18 | For the purpose of this Section, "conservation area" means | ||||||
19 | an area dedicated to conservation and owned by a not-for-profit | ||||||
20 | organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code | ||||||
21 | of 1986. | ||||||
22 | In counties that are contiguous to the Mississippi River | ||||||
23 | with populations
of more than 200,000 but less than 255,000, a | ||||||
24 | municipality that is partially
located in territory that is | ||||||
25 | wholly surrounded by the Mississippi River and a
canal, | ||||||
26 | connected at both ends to the Mississippi River and located on |
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1 | property
owned by the United States of America, may annex | ||||||
2 | noncontiguous territory in the
surrounded territory under | ||||||
3 | Sections 7-1-7, 7-1-8, or 7-1-9 if that territory is
separated | ||||||
4 | from the municipality by property owned by the United States of
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5 | America, but that federal property shall not be annexed without | ||||||
6 | the consent of
the federal government.
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7 | For the purposes of this Article, any territory to be | ||||||
8 | annexed to a municipality that is located in a county with more | ||||||
9 | than 500,000 inhabitants shall be considered to be contiguous | ||||||
10 | to the municipality if only a river and a national heritage | ||||||
11 | corridor separate the territory from the municipality. Upon | ||||||
12 | annexation, no river or national heritage corridor shall be | ||||||
13 | considered annexed to the municipality.
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14 | When any land proposed to be annexed is part of any Fire | ||||||
15 | Protection
District or of any Public Library District and the | ||||||
16 | annexing
municipality provides fire protection or a public | ||||||
17 | library, as the case
may be, the Trustees of each District | ||||||
18 | shall be notified in writing by
certified or registered mail | ||||||
19 | before any court hearing or other action is
taken for | ||||||
20 | annexation. The notice shall be served 10 days in advance.
An | ||||||
21 | affidavit that service of notice has been had as provided by | ||||||
22 | this
Section must be filed with the clerk of the court in which | ||||||
23 | the
annexation proceedings are pending or will be instituted | ||||||
24 | or, when no
court proceedings are involved, with the recorder | ||||||
25 | for the
county where the land is situated. No annexation of | ||||||
26 | that land is
effective unless service is had and the affidavit |
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1 | filed as provided in
this Section.
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2 | The new boundary shall extend to the far side of any | ||||||
3 | adjacent highway
and shall include all of every highway within | ||||||
4 | the area annexed. These
highways shall be considered to be | ||||||
5 | annexed even though not included in
the legal description set | ||||||
6 | forth in the petition for annexation. When
any land proposed to | ||||||
7 | be annexed includes any highway under the
jurisdiction of any | ||||||
8 | township, the Township Commissioner of Highways,
the Board of | ||||||
9 | Town Trustees, the Township Supervisor, and the Township Clerk | ||||||
10 | shall be notified in writing by certified or
registered mail | ||||||
11 | before any court hearing or other action is taken for
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12 | annexation. In the event that a municipality fails to notify | ||||||
13 | the Township
Commissioner of Highways, the Board of Town | ||||||
14 | Trustees, the Township Supervisor, and the Township Clerk of | ||||||
15 | the annexation
of an area within the township, the municipality | ||||||
16 | shall reimburse that
township for any loss or liability caused | ||||||
17 | by the failure to give
notice. If any municipality has annexed | ||||||
18 | any area before October 1,
1975, and the legal description in | ||||||
19 | the petition for annexation did not
include the entire adjacent | ||||||
20 | highway, any such annexation shall be valid and any
highway | ||||||
21 | adjacent to the area annexed shall be considered to be annexed
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22 | notwithstanding the failure of the petition to annex to include | ||||||
23 | the
description of the entire adjacent highway.
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24 | Any annexation, disconnection and annexation, or | ||||||
25 | disconnection under
this Article of any territory must be | ||||||
26 | reported by certified or
registered mail by the corporate |
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1 | authority initiating the action to the
election authorities | ||||||
2 | having jurisdiction in the territory and the post
office | ||||||
3 | branches serving the territory within 30 days of the | ||||||
4 | annexation,
disconnection and annexation, or disconnection.
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5 | Failure to give notice to the required election authorities | ||||||
6 | or
post office branches will not invalidate the annexation or
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7 | disconnection. For purposes of this Section "election | ||||||
8 | authorities"
means the county clerk where the clerk acts as the | ||||||
9 | clerk of elections
or the clerk of the election commission | ||||||
10 | having jurisdiction.
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11 | No annexation, disconnection and annexation, or | ||||||
12 | disconnection under
this Article of territory having electors | ||||||
13 | residing therein made (1)
before any primary election to be | ||||||
14 | held within the municipality
affected thereby and after the | ||||||
15 | time for filing petitions as a candidate
for nomination to any | ||||||
16 | office to be chosen at the primary election or (2) within
60 | ||||||
17 | days before any general election to be held within the | ||||||
18 | municipality shall be
effective until the day after the date of | ||||||
19 | the primary or general election, as
the case may be.
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20 | For the purpose of this Section, a toll highway or | ||||||
21 | connection between
parcels via an overpass bridge over a toll | ||||||
22 | highway shall not be
considered a deterrent to the definition | ||||||
23 | of contiguous territory.
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24 | When territory is proposed to be annexed
by court order | ||||||
25 | under this Article, the corporate
authorities or petitioners
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26 | initiating the action shall notify each person who pays real |
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1 | estate taxes on
property within that territory unless the | ||||||
2 | person is a petitioner. The notice
shall be served
by certified
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3 | or registered mail, return receipt requested, at least 20 days | ||||||
4 | before a court
hearing or other court action.
If the person
who | ||||||
5 | pays real estate taxes on the property is not the owner of
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6 | record, then the payor shall notify the owner of record of the | ||||||
7 | proposed
annexation.
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8 | (Source: P.A. 94-361, eff. 1-1-06; 94-1065, eff. 8-1-06; | ||||||
9 | 95-174, eff. 1-1-08; revised 11-3-09.)
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10 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
11 | becoming law.
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