(70 ILCS 920/1) (from Ch. 23, par. 1701)
Sec. 1.
Any area of contiguous territory lying wholly within one
county may be incorporated as a
tuberculosis sanitarium district in the following manner, to wit:
Any 100 legal voters residing within the limits of such proposed
district may petition the circuit court for the county in which such
proposed district lies, to cause the question to be submitted to the
legal voters of such proposed district whether or not it shall be
organized as a tuberculosis sanitarium district under this Act. Such
petition shall be addressed to the court and shall contain a definite
description of the territory intended to be embraced in such district,
and the name of such district. Upon the filing of such petition in the office
of the clerk of the court of the county in which such territory is situated,
it shall be the duty of such court to fix a day and hour for the public
consideration thereof, which shall not be less than 15 days after the filing
of such petition. Such court shall cause a notice of the time and place
of such public consideration to be published 3 successive days in some newspaper
having a general circulation in the territory proposed to be placed in such
district. The date of the last publication of such notice shall not be less
than 5 days prior to the time set for such public hearing. At the time
and place fixed for such
public hearing the court shall sit and hear any resident or person owning property
in such proposed district who desires to be heard, and if the court
finds that all of the provisions of this Act have been complied with, it
shall cause to be entered of record, an order
fixing and defining
the boundaries and the name of such proposed district in accordance with
the prayer of the petition. In the event that any other petition or
petitions for the organization of a tuberculosis sanitarium district or
districts in the same county shall be filed under this Act before the
time fixed for the public hearing of the first petition, the court shall
postpone the public consideration of the first petition so that the
hearing of all said petitions shall be set for the same day and hour.
Should 2 or more petitions be filed under this Act and come on for
hearing at the same time and it shall be found by the court that any of
the territory embraced in any one of said petitions is included in or
contiguous with the territory embraced in any other petition or
petitions, the court may include all of the territory described in such
petitions in one district and shall fix the name proposed in the
petition first filed as the name for said district. After the entry of
the order fixing and defining the boundaries and the name of such
proposed district, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court
to certify the order and the proposition to the proper election officials,
who shall submit the proposition to the voters at an election in accordance
with the general election law. In addition to the requirements of the general
election law, the notice of the referendum shall contain a definite description
of the territory intended to be embraced in such district, and the name
of such district.
(Source: P.A. 102-587, eff. 1-1-22.)
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