(65 ILCS 5/Art. 7 Div. 5 heading) DIVISION 5.
CHANGE OF SITE
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(65 ILCS 5/7-5-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-5-1)
Sec. 7-5-1.
Whenever a municipality incorporated under any general or
special law is in danger of losing all or the greater portion of the land
within its corporate limits by reason of the washing away of the bank of
any river, or whenever the inhabitants of any limited territory who, as
inhabitants of that territory, have land within this State held as a common
by virtue of a grant by any person or government having power to make that
grant, are in danger of losing all or the greater portion of the territory
by reason of the washing away of the bank of any river, that municipality
or those inhabitants may acquire by gift or purchase suitable real estate
to which the site of that municipality, or of the residence of those
inhabitants may be removed. However, this real estate shall be within 3
miles of the former nearest limit of that municipality or territory and
shall not be more than is reasonably necessary for the purposes of a new
site.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/7-5-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-5-2)
Sec. 7-5-2.
Whenever a municipality or territory is endangered as specified
in Section 7-5-1, upon written petition, describing the property sought to
be acquired, and signed by not less than three-fourths of the electors of
that municipality or territory, and by the owners in fee simple of not less
than one-half in value of the remaining territory within the limits of that
municipality or territory, the corporate authorities of that municipality,
or the trustees of the lands held as a common, by ordinance, may authorize
acquisition of the title to the real estate described in the petition.
Upon the passage of the ordinance, that municipality or the inhabitants
of that territory may acquire the title to the real estate described in the
petition and ordinance, either by gift or by purchase. A deed of conveyance
to the municipality by its corporate name, or to the trustees of the land
held as a common, shall vest the title to this real estate for the purposes
of this article.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/7-5-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-5-3)
Sec. 7-5-3.
A copy of the ordinance specified in Section 7-5-2 and an
accurate map of the property shall be certified by the mayor or president
of the municipality, as the case may be, or by the trustees of the land
held as a common, and shall be filed with the recorder in the
county where the acquired real estate is situated. When this ordinance and
map are so certified and filed, the acquired real estate, whether actually
adjoining the former site or territory or not, shall be a part of that
municipality or territory, and the inhabitants of the acquired real estate
shall be entitled to all the corporate rights, powers, annuities, commons,
benefits, and franchises, which the inhabitants of that municipality or
territory originally possessed, or to which they were entitled.
(Source: P.A. 83-358.)
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