Sen. Steve Stadelman

Filed: 4/1/2016

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2905

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2905 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5changing Section 7-1-2 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/7-1-2)  (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-2)
7    Sec. 7-1-2. (a) A written petition signed by a majority of
8the owners of record of land in the territory and also by a
9majority of the electors, if any, residing in the territory
10shall be filed with the circuit court clerk of the county in
11which the territory is located, or the corporate authorities of
12a municipality may initiate the proceedings by enacting an
13ordinance expressing their desire to annex the described
14territory. A person owning land underlying a highway shall not
15be considered an owner of record for purposes of this petition
16unless that person owns some land not underlying a highway

 

 

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1proposed to be annexed in the petition for annexation. No tract
2of land in excess of 10 acres in area may be included in the
3ordinances of a municipality initiating the proceedings,
4however, without the express consent of the owner of the tract
5unless the tract (i) is subdivided into lots or blocks or (ii)
6is bounded on at least 3 sides by lands subdivided into lots or
7blocks. A tract of land shall be deemed so bounded if it is
8actually separated from the subdivision only by the
9right-of-way of a railroad or other public utility or at a
10public highway. The petition or ordinance, as the case may be,
11shall request the annexation of the territory to a specified
12municipality and also shall request that the circuit court of
13the specified county submit the question of the annexation to
14the corporate authorities of the annexing municipality or to
15the electors of the unincorporated territory, as the case may
16be. The circuit court shall enter an order fixing the time for
17the hearing upon the petition, and the day for the hearing
18shall be not less than 20 nor more than 30 days after the
19filing of the petition or ordinance, as the case may be.
20    (b) The petitioners or corporate authorities, as the case
21may be, shall give notice of the annexation petition or
22ordinance, as the case may be, not more than 30 nor less than
2315 days before the date fixed for the hearing. This notice
24shall state that a petition for annexation or ordinance, as the
25case may be, has been filed and shall give the substance of the
26petition, including a description of the territory to be

 

 

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1annexed, the name of the annexing municipality, and the date
2fixed for the hearing. If annexing unincorporated residential
3property, the corporate authorities shall also provide in the
4notice information on municipal property tax rates and any
5known rates and fees for municipal gas, electric, water, sewer,
6and garbage that may be incurred by residents of the
7unincorporated property because of the annexation to which they
8would otherwise not be subject. This notice shall be given by
9publishing a notice at least once in one or more newspapers
10published in the annexing municipality or, if no newspaper is
11published in the annexing municipality, in one or more
12newspapers with a general circulation within the annexing
13municipality and territory. A copy of this notice shall be
14filed with the clerk of the annexing municipality and the
15municipal clerk shall send, by registered mail, an additional
16copy to the highway commissioner of each road district within
17which the territory proposed to be annexed is situated. If a
18municipal clerk fails to send the notice to a highway
19commissioner as required by this subsection, the municipality
20shall reimburse the road district served by that highway
21commissioner for any loss or liability caused by that failure.
22Any notice required by this Section need not include a metes
23and bounds legal description of the territory to be annexed,
24provided that the notice includes: (i) the common street
25address or addresses and (ii) the property index number ("PIN")
26or numbers of all the parcels of real property contained in the

 

 

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1territory to be annexed.
2    (c) The petitioners or corporate authorities, as the case
3may be, shall pay to the clerk of the circuit court $10 as a
4filing and service fee, and no petition or ordinance, as the
5case may be, shall be filed until this fee is paid.
6    (d) No petitioner may withdraw from this petition except by
7consent of the majority of the other petitioners, or where it
8is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the signature of
9the petitioner was obtained by fraud or misrepresentation.
10    (e) If a State charitable institution is situated upon a
11tract or tracts of land that lie partly within and partly
12without the corporate limits of any municipality, the corporate
13authorities of the municipality may by resolution without any
14petition or proceedings required by this Article but with the
15written consent of the Director of the State Department having
16jurisdiction of the institution, annex any part or all of the
17tracts lying without the corporate limits.
18    (f) If real estate owned by the State of Illinois or any
19board, agency, or commission of the State is situated in
20unincorporated territory adjacent to a municipality, the
21corporate authorities of the municipality may annex any part or
22all of the real estate only with the written consent of the
23Governor or the governing authority of the board, agency, or
24commission, without any petition or proceedings required by
25this Article by resolution of the corporate authorities. This
26requirement does not apply, however, to State highways located

 

 

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1within territory to be annexed under this Article.
2(Source: P.A. 97-336, eff. 8-12-11.)".