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92_HB0179
LRB9202710MWcd
1 AN ACT concerning townships.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing
5 Section 5-55 as follows:
6 (60 ILCS 1/5-55)
7 Sec. 5-55. Duplicate township names. If the Secretary of
8 State, on comparing the abstracts of the reports from the
9 several counties, finds that any 2 or more townships are
10 named alike, he or she shall so inform the clerk of the
11 county that which last adopted the name. The county board of
12 that county shall, at its next meeting, adopt for the
13 township some different name. When the name is adopted, the
14 county clerk shall inform the Secretary of State as provided
15 in Section 5-50.
16 (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)