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605 ILCS 5/6-307

(605 ILCS 5/6-307) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-307)

Sec. 6-307.

If the highway commissioner, or upon appeal from his decision,
the county superintendent of highways, shall enter a preliminary order for
the laying out, widening, alteration or vacation of a township or district
road, the highway commissioner or county superintendent of highways, as the
case may be, shall cause a survey and plat of such township or district
road to be made by a competent surveyor who shall report such survey and
plat to the highway commissioner or county superintendent, as the case may
be, giving the courses and distances and specifying the land over which
such road is to pass; in which he may make such changes between the termini
of the road described in the petition, as the convenience and interest of
the public in his judgment may require. Upon the petition of 12 land owners
residing in the district where the road is situated, it shall be the duty
of the highway commissioner or county superintendent, as the case may be,
within a reasonable time to employ a competent surveyor and have any road
designated in such petition to be once resurveyed.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)