093_SB0539
LRB093 04064 MKM 04103 b
1 AN ACT in relation to counties.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
5 Section 1-2001 as follows:
6 (55 ILCS 5/1-2001) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2001)
7 Sec. 1-2001. Petition for transfer of territory. When a
8 majority of the legal voters, residing upon any territory,
9 not less than half of one congressional township, petitions
10 shall petition the county board of their own county, and also
11 of the county to which they desire such territory to be
12 transferred, for leave to have such territory transferred to
13 such county, it shall be the duty of the several county
14 boards so petitioned to certify the proposition to the proper
15 election officials, who shall submit the question at a
16 referendum in their respective counties in accordance with
17 the general election law.
18 (Source: P.A. 86-962.)