(620 ILCS 5/60) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 22.60)
Sec. 60.
Order
without prior hearing.
The Department may issue an order granting or denying a certificate of
approval of an airport or a restricted landing area, or the alteration or
the extension thereof, without a hearing in the first instance, provided
the Department shall have served upon the applicant, and any other persons,
municipalities or other political sub-divisions affected, at least fifteen
days before the entry of such proposed order, notice of the Department's
intention to enter such order, which notice shall state in reasonable
detail the nature and terms of such proposed order and shall extend
opportunity, on the part of those notified, to submit, within such fifteen
days, objections to or comments upon the subject matter of such proposed
order; written notice shall be given to the applicant, and written notice
or in the alternative notice by publication in a newspaper published in the
county in which the airport or restricted landing area sought to be
established, altered or extended is, or is proposed to be located, shall be
given to any other persons, municipalities or other political subdivisions
affected; and after the entry of any such order, a copy thereof shall be
served upon the applicant, those who, within the above specified 15 day
period, object to or comment upon the subject matter of the proposed order
and those who have entered their appearance in writing in the matter.
Notice of the entry of the order shall be given to any other persons,
municipalities, or other political sub-divisions affected thereby by
serving a copy thereof upon them or in the alternative by publication in a
newspaper published in the county in which the airport or restricted
landing area sought to be established, altered or extended is, or is
proposed to be located. If the applicant or any other person, municipality
or other political sub-division which may be affected thereby, makes a
written request for a hearing as to the validity or reasonableness of said
order within fifteen days after the service or publication thereof, the
Department shall prescribe a hearing thereon, which shall be held in the
municipality or other political subdivision applying for a certificate of
approval or, in case the application was made by a person other than a
municipality or other political subdivision, at the county seat of the
county in which the airport or restricted landing area sought to be
established, altered or extended is, or is proposed to be situated. If no
hearing is requested, as herein provided, such order shall take effect and
become operative at the same time and in the same manner as in the case of
an order entered after hearing, as provided in Section 57. No notice
shall be necessary prior to the entry of an order approving the elimination
of one or more runways or landing strips or approving a change in
classification of a facility from that of an airport to that of a
restricted landing area unless the application therefor shall indicate that
there is an addition, extension or reorientation involved as will result in
a change in the flight patterns theretofore obtaining. If any persons,
corporations, or municipalities may be affected by any such change in the
flight pattern from the pattern which shall have existed prior to any such
addition, extension or reorientation, notice shall be given as provided in
the first paragraph of this section.
(Source: Laws 1957, p. 2491.)
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