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90_HB1521
70 ILCS 3305/2b from Ch. 121, par. 356b
Amends the Street Light District Act. Allows the owners
of record of any area of land consisting of one or more
tracts lying within the boundaries of any street lighting
district to disconnect the land from the district if that
land (1) is subdivided into residential lots and blocks; (2)
is located in a subdivision other than the subdivision that
the district primarily serves; (3) does not receive services
from the district; and (4) if disconnected it will not result
in the isolation of any part of the street lighting district
from the remainder of the district.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Street Light District Act by changing
2 Section 2b.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Street Light District Act is amended by
6 changing Section 2b as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 3305/2b) (from Ch. 121, par. 356b)
8 Sec. 2b. The owner or owners of record of any area of
9 land that consists consisting of one or more tracts lying
10 within the boundaries of any street lighting district and (A)
11 that which (1) is not contiguous in whole or in part to any
12 other street lighting district; (2) contains 20 or more
13 acres; (3) is not subdivided into residential lots and
14 blocks; (4) is located on the border of the street lighting
15 district; and (5) which, if disconnected, will not result in
16 the isolation of any part of the street lighting district
17 from the remainder of the street lighting district or (B)
18 that (1) is subdivided into residential lots and blocks; (2)
19 is located in a subdivision other than the subdivision that
20 the district primarily serves; (3) does not receive services
21 from the district; and (4) if disconnected, will not result
22 in the isolation of any part of the street lighting district
23 from the remainder of the district, may have the area
24 disconnected as follows:
25 The owner or owners of record of any such area of land
26 shall file a petition in the circuit court of the county
27 where the land is situated alleging facts in support of the
28 disconnection. The street lighting district from which
29 disconnection is sought shall be made a defendant and it or
30 any taxpayer residing in that street lighting district, may
31 appear and defend against the petition. If the court finds
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1 that the allegations of the petition are true and that the
2 area of land is entitled to disconnection, it shall order the
3 specified land disconnected from the designated street
4 lighting district.
5 The area of land or any part thereof disconnected from a
6 street lighting district under the provisions of this section
7 shall not be annexed or added to a street lighting district
8 or included in any petition seeking annexation or addition to
9 any street lighting district, for a period of 2 years from
10 the date of such disconnection.
11 The disconnection of any such area of land shall not
12 exempt it from taxation for the purpose of paying any
13 indebtedness contracted by the corporate authorities of the
14 street lighting district prior to the filing of the petition
15 for disconnection. On the contrary, the territory designated
16 shall be assessed and taxed to pay such indebtedness until
17 this indebtedness is completely paid the same as though the
18 territory had not been disconnected.
19 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 4046.)