(65 ILCS 5/7-5-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-5-1)
Sec. 7-5-1.
Whenever a municipality incorporated under any general or
special law is in danger of losing all or the greater portion of the land
within its corporate limits by reason of the washing away of the bank of
any river, or whenever the inhabitants of any limited territory who, as
inhabitants of that territory, have land within this State held as a common
by virtue of a grant by any person or government having power to make that
grant, are in danger of losing all or the greater portion of the territory
by reason of the washing away of the bank of any river, that municipality
or those inhabitants may acquire by gift or purchase suitable real estate
to which the site of that municipality, or of the residence of those
inhabitants may be removed. However, this real estate shall be within 3
miles of the former nearest limit of that municipality or territory and
shall not be more than is reasonably necessary for the purposes of a new
site.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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