Full Text of SB2356 095th General Assembly
SB2356eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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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 Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 7-1-13 as follows:
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| (65 ILCS 5/7-1-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13)
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| 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 park district, or
(f) if the territory is a | 17 |
| triangular parcel of less than 10 acres, one or
more | 18 |
| municipalities and an interstate highway owned in fee by the | 19 |
| State and
bounded by a frontage road, or (g) one or more | 20 |
| municipalities in a county with a population of more than | 21 |
| 800,000 inhabitants and less than 2,000,000 inhabitants and | 22 |
| either a railroad or operating property, as defined in the | 23 |
| Property Tax Code (35 ILCS 200/11-70), being immediately |
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| adjacent to, but exclusive of that railroad property, that | 2 |
| territory may be annexed
by any municipality by which it is | 3 |
| bounded in whole or in part,
by the passage of an ordinance to | 4 |
| that effect after notice is given as
provided in this Section. | 5 |
| Land or property that is used for agricultural purposes or to | 6 |
| produce agricultural goods shall not be annexed pursuant to | 7 |
| item (g). Nothing in this Section shall subject any railroad | 8 |
| property to the zoning or jurisdiction of any municipality | 9 |
| annexing the property under this Section. The corporate | 10 |
| authorities shall cause notice,
stating that annexation of the | 11 |
| territory described in the notice is
contemplated under this | 12 |
| Section, to be published once, in a newspaper of
general | 13 |
| circulation within the territory to be annexed, not less than | 14 |
| 10
days before the passage of the annexation ordinance , and for | 15 |
| land annexed pursuant to item (g), notice shall be given to the | 16 |
| impacted land owners . When the
territory to be annexed lies | 17 |
| wholly or partially within a township other
than that township | 18 |
| where the municipality is situated, the annexing
municipality | 19 |
| shall give at least 10 days prior written notice of the time
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| and place of the passage of the annexation ordinance to the | 21 |
| township
supervisor of the township where the territory to be | 22 |
| annexed lies. The
ordinance shall describe the territory | 23 |
| annexed and a copy thereof together
with an accurate map of the | 24 |
| annexed territory shall be recorded in the
office of the | 25 |
| recorder of the county wherein the annexed territory is
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| situated and a document of annexation shall be filed with the |
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| county clerk
and County Election Authority. Nothing in this | 2 |
| Section shall be construed
as permitting a municipality to | 3 |
| annex territory of a forest preserve
district in a county with | 4 |
| a population of 3,000,000 or more without
obtaining the consent | 5 |
| of the district pursuant to Section 8.3 of the
Cook County | 6 |
| Forest Preserve District Act nor shall anything in this Section | 7 |
| be construed as permitting a municipality to annex territory | 8 |
| owned by a park district without obtaining the consent of the | 9 |
| district pursuant to Section 8-1.1 of the Park District Code.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-396, eff. 8-1-05.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 12 |
| becoming law.
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