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| AN ACT concerning libraries.
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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 Public Library District Act of 1991 is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 15-5 and 15-15 as follows:
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| (75 ILCS 16/15-5)
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| Sec. 15-5. Annexation of contiguous territory. Territory | 8 |
| outside of any
district but contiguous to the district may be | 9 |
| annexed as provided in Sections
15-10 through 15-45 , and each | 10 |
| of these Sections constitutes an independent authorization for | 11 |
| the annexation of contiguous territory .
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| (Source: P.A. 87-1277.)
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| (75 ILCS 16/15-15)
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| Sec. 15-15. Territory included within municipality or | 15 |
| school district.
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| (a) A district may, by ordinance, annex territory if that | 17 |
| territory is: | 18 |
| (1) located within the boundaries of a municipality or | 19 |
| school district that is included, entirely or partially, | 20 |
| within the district; | 21 |
| (2) contiguous to the district; and | 22 |
| (3) without local, tax-supported public library | 23 |
| service.
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| An ordinance under this subsection must describe the territory | 25 |
| to be annexed.
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| Whenever a municipality or school district included entirely or
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| partially within a district has annexed or otherwise includes | 28 |
| within its
boundaries territory contiguous to the district and | 29 |
| without local tax
supported public library service, the | 30 |
| district may annex that territory by
the passage of an | 31 |
| ordinance to that effect, describing the territory
annexed and |
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| reciting the prior annexation or other inclusion of the
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| territory by the municipality or school district.
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| (b) Within 15 days of the passage of the
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| ordinance, the library district shall send notice of the
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| adoption of the ordinance, a copy of the map showing the | 6 |
| boundaries of the
territory to be annexed, and a copy of the | 7 |
| text of the publication notice
required in this Section to the | 8 |
| president of the board of trustees of each
public library with | 9 |
| territory within one mile of the territory to be
annexed. | 10 |
| Within 15 days after the adoption of the ordinance it shall be
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| published as provided in Section 1-30. The board may vacate an
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| annexation ordinance before its publication.
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| (c) The publication or posting of the ordinance shall | 14 |
| include a notice of
(i) the specific number of voters required | 15 |
| to sign a petition requesting that
the question of the adoption | 16 |
| of the ordinance be submitted to the voters of the
district or | 17 |
| the territory to be annexed or both, (ii) the time in which the
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| petition must be filed, and (iii) the date of the prospective | 19 |
| referendum. The
district secretary shall provide a petition | 20 |
| form to any individual requesting
one.
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| (d) If no petition is filed with the library district | 22 |
| within 30
days after publication or posting of the ordinance, | 23 |
| the annexation shall
take effect. If, however, within the 30 | 24 |
| day period, a petition is filed with
the Board of Trustees of | 25 |
| the library district, signed by voters of the
district or the | 26 |
| territory to be annexed, or both, equal in number
to 10% or | 27 |
| more of the total number of registered voters in the district,
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| the territory to be annexed or both, asking that the question | 29 |
| of the
annexation of the territory be submitted to the voters | 30 |
| of the territory, the
board of trustees may vacate the | 31 |
| annexation ordinance or certify the question
to the proper | 32 |
| election authority, who shall submit the question at the next
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| regular election. Notice of this election shall be given and | 34 |
| the election
shall be conducted in accordance with the Election | 35 |
| Code. The proposition shall
be submitted to the voters in | 36 |
| substantially the following form:
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| Shall (description of territory) be annexed to (name of | 2 |
| public library
district), (location), Illinois?
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| (e) If a majority of votes cast upon the proposition in the
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| district, and also a majority of votes cast upon the | 5 |
| proposition in the
territory to be annexed, are in favor of the | 6 |
| proposition, the Board
of Trustees of the library district may | 7 |
| conclude the annexation of the
territory.
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| (f) If, before the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 9 |
| the 94th General Assembly, a district has annexed territory | 10 |
| under this Section and that annexation complies with the | 11 |
| requirements set forth in this Section, as changed by this | 12 |
| amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, then, for all | 13 |
| purposes, that annexation is hereby validated, ratified, and | 14 |
| declared to be in full force and effect from: (i) 30
days after | 15 |
| publication or posting of the ordinance if no petition was | 16 |
| filed with the library district under subsection (d); or (ii) | 17 |
| if a petition was filed, on the date that the district | 18 |
| concluded the annexation of the territory under subsection (e).
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| (Source: P.A. 87-1277.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 21 |
| becoming law.
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