(70 ILCS 1832/172)
Sec. 172.
Disconnection.
The registered voters of a county included in
the
District may petition the State Board of Elections requesting the submission of
the
question of whether the county should be disconnected from the District to the
electors of the county. The
petition
shall be circulated in the manner required by Section 28-3 of the Election Code
and
objections thereto and the manner of their disposition shall be in accordance
with Section
28-4 of the Election Code. If a petition is filed with the State Board of
Elections, signed
by not less than 5% of the registered voters of the county, requesting that the
question of
disconnection be submitted to the electors of the county, the State Board of
Elections
must certify the question to the proper election authority, which must submit
the question
at a regular election held at least 78 days after the petition is filed in
accordance with the
Election Code.
The question must be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall (name of county) be disconnected from the | ||
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The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote in the affirmative,
the
county shall be disconnected from the District.
(Source: P.A. 91-566, eff. 8-14-99.)
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