(70 ILCS 3710/11) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 222.1)
Sec. 11.
Any adjoining territory may be annexed to such water district in
the following manner: A written petition requesting such annexation and
signed by a majority in numbers and in area owned of the owners of record
of land in such adjoining territory shall be filed with the court in which
such district was created. A public hearing shall be had upon such petition
after giving such notice by publication or posting, as the court may
direct. At such hearing, any interested person shall be given an
opportunity to be heard. If the court finds that the said petition has been
signed by the required number of landowners and there is no valid objection
to such annexation, it shall enter an order annexing such territory.
Any territory within any such water district which is upon the border
thereof and which contains not less than twenty acres and which, if
disconnected, will not result in the isolation of any part of such district
from the remainder thereof may be disconnected in the following manner: A
written petition requesting such disconnection and signed by all the owners
of record of land in such territory shall be filed with the court in which
such district was created. The water district from which disconnection is
sought shall be made a defendant and it or any taxpayer residing therein
may appear and defend against said petition. If the court finds that the
allegations of the petition are true and that the area of land is entitled
to disconnection, it shall order the same disconnected. The disconnection
of any such land shall not exempt it from taxation for the purpose of
paying any indebtedness contracted by the district prior to the filing of
the petition.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3984.)
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