(70 ILCS 1205/3-1) (from Ch. 105, par. 3-1)
Sec. 3-1.
Annexation by petition.
Any territory adjoining a park
district, or separated therefrom only by
a river, stream or other body of water, street, alley, roadway, highway,
toll road, or railroad, may become a part of the district
if a majority of the legal voters residing in and a majority of the
property owners of record within the territory proposed to be annexed to
the district petition the board of the
district to be annexed. The board may, in its
discretion, by ordinance, annex the
territory to the district, and the territory
shall then become and be a
part of the district the same as though originally included in
the
district. No tract of land, however, exceeding
20 acres in area
shall be included in an annexation petition without the written consent
of the owner of record unless the tract is (1) subdivided into lots or
blocks or (2) bounded on at least 3 sides by lands subdivided into
lots or blocks. A certified copy of the annexing ordinance shall be filed
in the offices of the county clerk and Recorder of each county in which
the annexation takes place. The new boundary shall
extend to the far
side of any adjacent highway and shall include all of every highway within
the area annexed. These highways shall be considered to be annexed even
though not included in the legal description set forth in the annexation
ordinance.
(Source: P.A. 89-458, eff. 5-24-96; 89-536, eff. 7-19-96.)
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