(65 ILCS 40/1) (from Ch. 24, par. 808d.13)
Sec. 1.
Whenever the legal voters of any territory have, for at least 20 years
preceding the effective date of this Act, elected town officers, who have
levied taxes and have performed the functions of and acted as the corporate
authorities of an incorporated town, and the court records of the
incorporation of such territory as an incorporated town have been destroyed
and the records in the office of the Secretary of State are missing or are
incomplete, such territory is declared to be validly organized and
incorporated as an incorporated town and all acts taken in reliance upon
such organization, including any annexations to such an incorporated town
from the date of organization to the effective date of this Act, are
validated.
(Source: P.A. 77-349.)
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