(55 ILCS 5/1-4001) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4001)
Sec. 1-4001.
Petition to unite counties.
Whenever any number of legal
voters, not less than two hundred, one-half of such number being owners or
life tenants of real estate, residing in any county in this State, shall
petition the county board of their own county, for leave to have their own
county united and annexed to any adjoining county, and shall also petition
the county board of the adjoining county, to which they desire their county
to be united and annexed, for leave to have their own county united and
annexed to such adjoining county, it shall be the duty of the several
county boards so petitioned, to order that the propositions provided for in
this Division shall be submitted to the legal voters of their respective
counties. The several county boards shall certify the propositions to the
proper election officials who shall submit the question at a general
election in accordance with the general election law. In addition to the
requirements of the general election law, the notices of said election
shall include the name of each of the two counties, and shall state that
the proposition to be voted upon will be whether the county of (naming the
county whose legal voters have petitioned for union and annexation) shall
be united and annexed to the county of (naming the adjoining county to
which the legal voters have petitioned to be united and annexed): Provided,
that such proposition shall not be submitted or voted upon more often than
once in 5 years.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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