(60 ILCS 1/10-5)
Sec. 10-5.
County board powers.
The county board of each county, except as
provided in Article 15, may (i) alter the boundaries of townships, (ii) change
township lines, (iii) divide, enlarge, consolidate, and create new townships in
its county, (iv) make alterations of the township boundaries, and (v) create a
new township whenever, in any territory of not less than 36 square miles or
possessing an equalized assessed valuation for taxation purposes of not less
than $6,000,000 for the preceding 2 years, three-fourths or more of the voters
residing in the territory petition for a new township. The new territory
proposed to be organized into a new township shall, however, contain at least
200 legal voters, and the respective remaining portions of each of the
townships from which the new township is taken shall also contain at least 200
legal voters and shall either contain not less than 36 square miles or possess
an equalized assessed valuation for taxation purposes of not less than
$6,000,000 for the preceding 2 years. The county board, however, before taking
any final action in any of the matters relating to any of these townships,
shall hold a public hearing on those matters after notice of the hearing has
been published at least 3 times in a newspaper having a general circulation in
the townships affected. The first of the notices shall be published at least 60
days before the date of the hearing. No incorporated town, however, may be
divided unless the proposition has been certified to the appropriate election
authorities, the referendum is held in accordance with the general election
law, and consent to the division is given by a majority of all the electors in
the incorporated town voting on the proposition.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
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