93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB7347

 

Introduced 11/08/04, by Rep. John J. Millner

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/7-1-13   from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Authorizes a municipality to annex certain unincorporated territory by which the municipality is bounded if the territory is within a county with a population between 800,000 and 2,000,000 and is wholly bounded by one or more municipalities and (i) a utility easement or right-of-way of at least 100 feet in width or (ii) a railroad right-of-way.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning municipalities.
 
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 7-1-13 as follows:
 
6     (65 ILCS 5/7-1-13)  (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13)
7     Sec. 7-1-13. Whenever any unincorporated territory
8 containing 60 acres or less, is wholly bounded by (a) one or
9 more municipalities, (b) one or more municipalities and a creek
10 in a county with a population of 400,000 or more, or one or
11 more municipalities and a river or lake in any county, (c) one
12 or more municipalities and the Illinois State boundary, (d) one
13 or more municipalities and property owned by the State of
14 Illinois, except highway right-of-way owned in fee by the
15 State, (e) one or more municipalities and a forest preserve
16 district, or (f) if the territory is a triangular parcel of
17 less than 10 acres, one or more municipalities and an
18 interstate highway owned in fee by the State and bounded by a
19 frontage road, or (g) if the territory is within a county with
20 a population between 800,000 and 2,000,000, one or more
21 municipalities and either (i) a utility right-of-way of at
22 least 100 feet in width or (ii) a railroad right-of-way, that
23 territory may be annexed by any municipality by which it is
24 bounded in whole or in part, by the passage of an ordinance to
25 that effect after notice is given as provided in this Section.
26 The corporate authorities shall cause notice, stating that
27 annexation of the territory described in the notice is
28 contemplated under this Section, to be published once, in a
29 newspaper of general circulation within the territory to be
30 annexed, not less than 10 days before the passage of the
31 annexation ordinance. When the territory to be annexed lies
32 wholly or partially within a township other than that township

 

 

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1 where the municipality is situated, the annexing municipality
2 shall give at least 10 days prior written notice of the time
3 and place of the passage of the annexation ordinance to the
4 township supervisor of the township where the territory to be
5 annexed lies. The ordinance shall describe the territory
6 annexed and a copy thereof together with an accurate map of the
7 annexed territory shall be recorded in the office of the
8 recorder of the county wherein the annexed territory is
9 situated and a document of annexation shall be filed with the
10 county clerk and County Election Authority. Nothing in this
11 Section shall be construed as permitting a municipality to
12 annex territory of a forest preserve district in a county with
13 a population of 3,000,000 or more without obtaining the consent
14 of the district pursuant to Section 8.3 of the Cook County
15 Forest Preserve District Act.
16 (Source: P.A. 86-769; 87-895.)