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90_HB0480eng
60 ILCS 1/25-5
Amends the Township Code. Requires a county board to
submit the question of whether to discontinue township
organization to the voters if 10% or more of the voters in
each township (now, of the county) petition the board.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Township Code by changing Section
2 25-5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing
6 Section 25-5 as follows:
7 (60 ILCS 1/25-5)
8 Sec. 25-5. Petition and referendum to discontinue
9 township organization. Upon the petition of at least 10% of
10 the registered legal voters of each township of a any county,
11 as determined on the date registration closed before the
12 regular election next preceding the last day on which the
13 petition may be is filed, that has adopted township
14 organization, the county board shall certify and cause to be
15 submitted to the voters of the county, at the next general
16 election, the question of the continuance of township
17 organization. A signature on a petition shall not be valid
18 or counted in considering the petition unless the form
19 requirements are complied with and the date of each signature
20 is less than 90 days before the last day for filing the
21 petition. The statement of the person who circulates the
22 petition must include an attestation (i) indicating the dates
23 on which that sheet was circulated, (ii) indicating the first
24 and last date on which that sheet was circulated, or (iii)
25 certifying that none of the signatures on the sheet was
26 signed more than 90 days before the last day for filing the
27 petition. The proposition shall be substantially in the
28 form:
29 Shall township organization be continued in (name of
30 county)?
31 The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
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1 The petition shall be treated and the proposition
2 certified in the manner provided by the general election law.
3 After the proposition has once been submitted to the
4 electorate, the proposition shall not be resubmitted for 4
5 years.
6 (Source: P.A. 88-62; 89-235, eff. 8-4-95.)