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(70 ILCS 1605/15)
Sec. 15. Creation of District; referendum.
(a) The governing body of a county may, by resolution, elect to create the
Metro-East
Park and Recreation District. The Metro-East District shall be established at
a referendum on the
question of the formation of the District that is submitted to the electors of
a county at
a regular election and approved by a majority of the electors voting on the
question. The
governing body must certify the question to the proper election authority,
which must
submit the question at an election in accordance with the Election Code.
The question must be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the Metro-East Park and Recreation District be |
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The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No"
In the proposed Metro-East District that consists of only one county, if a
majority of
the electors in that county voting on the question vote in the affirmative, the
Metro-East
District may be organized. In the proposed Metro-East District that consists
of
more than
one county, if a majority of the electors in any county proposed for inclusion
in
the District
voting on the question vote in the affirmative, the Metro-East District may be
organized
and that county may be included in the District.
(b) After the Metro-East District has been created, any county eligible for
inclusion in
the Metro-East District may join the District after the county submits the
question of
joining the District to the electors of the county at a regular election.
The county board
must
submit the question to the proper election authority, which must submit the
question at an
election in accordance with the Election Code.
The question must be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall (name of county) join the Metro-East Park and
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| Recreation District with the authority to impose a Metro-East Park and Recreation District Retailers' Occupation Tax at a rate of one-tenth of 1% upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property at retail in the district on gross receipts on the sales made in the course of their business, with 50% of the revenue going to the Metro-East Park and Recreation District and 50% of the revenue returned to the county from which the tax was collected?
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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 included in the District.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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